By Craig Pearson on February 8th, 2012 at 12:05 pm.
Alongside the Skyrim Creation Kit and the HD Texture Pack that was officially released last night, Valve added their own little addition to Skyrim: Fall of The Space Corp, Vol. 1 adds Portal 2′s jittery little Space Core to the Nord world, voiced by the man that holds the patent on all gaming voiceovers, Nolan North. It’s both proof that clicking things in Skyrim’s Steam Workshop works just like they said it would, and that Valve’s punmasters are missed a trick by not calling him Nolan Nord. When you add the mod to the game, you need to find him. Here’s a video I made that shows you how.
He’s west of Whiterun, just a little bit to the north of tower where you fight the dragon. Walk along that road and you’ll hear a large crack of thunder and the core will plummet into a burned out house nearby. He’s not a companion, he just sits in your inventory and chats in space gibber whenever you click him.
Does this mean Portal 2 is now part of Skyrim’s canon?
08/02/2012 at 12:07 caddyB says:
IMMERSION
08/02/2012 at 12:09 SanguineAngel says:
HEATER
08/02/2012 at 14:01 xrabohrok says:
SPAAAACCEE
08/02/2012 at 16:18 DerShcraa says:
Somehow “Spaaaaaaaace” in the title made me read “crack” instead of “pack” below it.
Odd.
09/02/2012 at 04:57 Zaboomafoozarg says:
Dad, are you space?
09/02/2012 at 12:58 DerShcraa says:
Nah, dude…err..son.
Just crackin’ me some Skyrim.
08/02/2012 at 12:14 SophieH says:
The cake is an arrow to the knee!
08/02/2012 at 12:17 4026 says:
Don’t cross the memes!
08/02/2012 at 12:23 Spliter says:
The knee is a lie.
08/02/2012 at 12:32 Joshua says:
Reading jokes about knees and cakes almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
08/02/2012 at 12:37 Sarlix says:
Cake jokes are like a nuclear winter to the knee.
08/02/2012 at 12:44 Jerricho says:
The arrow is a lie.
08/02/2012 at 13:11 povu says:
I never asked for Spacecake.
08/02/2012 at 13:17 Lars Westergren says:
*sigh* I’m sworn to carry your Space Cores!
08/02/2012 at 13:25 diamondmx says:
All your cakes are belong to my spaaaaaace knee
08/02/2012 at 13:27 brulleks says:
If only you could talk to the arrow to the sweetcakes.
08/02/2012 at 13:38 Adriaan says:
It was a good meme. What a rotten way to die.
I’m only kidding ofcourse, this is awesome.
08/02/2012 at 14:03 Tyrone Slothrop. says:
YOU’RE TEARING ME APART MEMES!
08/02/2012 at 14:32 Blackcompany says:
I used to make jokes on the internet, but then I took a space core to the meme.
08/02/2012 at 14:54 Suits says:
This custom content took a space cake to the arrow
08/02/2012 at 15:41 bsplines says:
I never asked for this.
08/02/2012 at 15:50 Tacroy says:
There’s something in the space cake?
08/02/2012 at 15:58 MuscleHorse says:
He treats Space Orbs like inventory items, man.
08/02/2012 at 16:01 Dariath says:
What do you think this is, Fallout 3?
08/02/2012 at 17:23 Capt. Eduardo del Mango says:
I’m here to eat cake and put arrows in knees, and I’m all out of arrows in knees. Oh, and I didn’t space knee arrow core purple monkey dishwasher ask for this.
08/02/2012 at 23:13 Turkey says:
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for an arrow to the knee.
08/02/2012 at 23:17 Turkey says:
I saw a mudcake the other day. Horrible lies!
08/02/2012 at 12:15 GetUpKidAK says:
Can’t you craft him into a helmet or something?
08/02/2012 at 13:25 Tuskin38 says:
You can, gotta use that thing beneath the Winterhold College
08/02/2012 at 12:15 JenSeven says:
I used to be a SPAAAAACE man like you, but then I took a cake to the knee.
08/02/2012 at 12:19 TomSmizzle says:
ALL SKYRIM MODS ARE CANON.
Especially Macho Man dragon.
08/02/2012 at 12:21 Dana says:
Skyrim is part of Portals canon.
08/02/2012 at 17:16 Gnoupi says:
HL3 will be a mod for Skyrim.
08/02/2012 at 20:51 Davie says:
Oh god…oh god it all makes sense…
08/02/2012 at 12:30 WhatKateDoes says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9H8jo1XKDI&t=1m5s
“Oooh I knowIknowIknow.. Lets go to space.. space is the best.. no dragons.. just space.”
XD I love the little guy :)
08/02/2012 at 12:31 Noxy says:
Off topic but, one can certainly get used to seeing Craig Pearson posting around these parts more often!
08/02/2012 at 15:06 siegarettes says:
Indeed. There seem to be a larger variety of writers coming around RPS these days.
08/02/2012 at 12:37 TheGroovyMule says:
I’d download this mod, but I don’t think I have the ‘space’ for it…
That was terrible…
08/02/2012 at 12:42 Untruth says:
Sky’m really excited about it.
09/02/2012 at 02:14 Treebard says:
Your joke tickled me to the core.
08/02/2012 at 12:46 pmanpman says:
no keyword search yet
08/02/2012 at 12:49 faelnor says:
I love how you press tab before remembering that inventory is another key, and then proceed to scroll tediously through your inventory. And they say Skyrim’s UI is not a problem.
08/02/2012 at 12:50 kastanok says:
There has just got to be a thu’um included with this download. What’s Dragon for ‘SPAAAAAACE’? And the effect, what might that be? Launch the target in the air with a force increasing with the number of ‘A’s?
08/02/2012 at 13:03 amorpheous says:
A void appears at target and sucks them in.
08/02/2012 at 12:51 Asskicker says:
Amazing, but I wish he was a companion and would float behind you :(
08/02/2012 at 12:52 Kdansky says:
Weight: Pi
Value: 2^8
Well played.
08/02/2012 at 13:13 Milky1985 says:
If you find it please tell me, there was already 13 pages of them last night and its getting too much to “browse” through if your actually looking for something :/
08/02/2012 at 13:21 Tei says:
Looks to me like a dwemer artifact…
08/02/2012 at 13:28 Matt-R says:
I’m guessing I’m the only grumpy one that wonders if there could be something I’d like less in Skyrim? (hyperbole of course but y’know).
08/02/2012 at 13:33 Unaco says:
Thank you for sharing this with us Matt-R. I don’t know how I could have gotten through the rest of the day if I hadn’t known your feelings on this (obviously light hearted & entirely optional) crossover between two major gaming franchises whose developers have recently got together to embark on a shared venture, and a new way of distributing mods. Well, obviously I would have made it through the day (hyperbole, but y’know)… but it really wouldn’t have been the same. Shallow, empty, hollow somehow.
08/02/2012 at 13:59 Matt-R says:
I’m glad to see my error in thinking this was all serious business and mandatory has been corrected! (of course I never said anything to that effect at all)
Infact you’re attributing a lot to me that I never said, so thanks for that!
08/02/2012 at 14:03 Unaco says:
You’re welcome!
08/02/2012 at 18:09 Nick says:
Oh look, a douche fight.
08/02/2012 at 13:43 wererogue says:
Games companies should mod each others’ games more often.
08/02/2012 at 15:04 vivlo says:
maybe Valve modding Bethesda explains why Skyrim got HD and such ?..
08/02/2012 at 18:36 Quasar says:
Next, Bethesda have a go at redesigning the Steam UI. Nobody ever plays a PC game again.
Just kidding, Beth. Stay classy.
08/02/2012 at 13:48 wodin says:
I liked the way it came from out of space…a good effect, however what is the point of it does the robot do anything at all?
The effect has me thinking of some kind of Alien mod….or The Thing…
08/02/2012 at 14:30 DrMelon says:
You can hollow it out and wear it as a helmet if you go to the weird altar thing underneath the College of Winterhold.
08/02/2012 at 13:56 CaspianRoach says:
So that’s where it ended up after being sucked out in space! There should be a certain other core that should be nearby as well then
08/02/2012 at 14:31 Vagrant says:
You know what would be even cooler? Adventure Sphere. Although I guess it doesn’t matter since it’s not a companion.
08/02/2012 at 14:34 Blackcompany says:
Please do let us know if you spot one. The lack of a search feature is, frankly, baffling. I really do not relish the idea of mustarding up the patience for a Google search just to find mods from Steam Workshop. Hot dog, would that be annoying.
08/02/2012 at 14:42 Crescend says:
I guess its up to the modders to make these personality cores into companions :)
08/02/2012 at 14:42 DocSeuss says:
I really feel that they’re trying too hard to make this into a meme, and it’s not working nearly as well as the companion cube. I feel like that kind of sums up a lot of Portal 2, actually, which is a huge part of the reason I had a harder time enjoying it than the first. It felt like they expected you to react to Portal 2 the way you reacted to Portal 1, but it also felt like a less earnest, more commercial endeavor in every way. The puzzles also felt dumbed down (only one comes to mind as being truly puzzling) and mostly reliant on finding the distant portalable surface–as if it were designed more for a mass audience. Couple that with the larger, more television-friendly interface, fewer graphical options, and a reduction in puzzles reliant on aiming while moving (particularly when flying through the air), and I get the distinct impression that Portal 2 was made as a more commercial endeavor for the… well, the console crowd.
One of Kim Swift’s interviews on the subject of her leaving Valve kinda says as much. The small-team, independent ethos died. :
Also, it seems odd that, after Harry Partridge called Skyrim the adventure of his life, that we got the space core and not Rick the Adventure Sphere.
08/02/2012 at 20:39 Interrobangin says:
They’re not.
08/02/2012 at 15:21 MythArcana says:
*Watches 4 million kiddies and their fearless leader ruin a normally excellent game and turn it into a shitbird Source project.
08/02/2012 at 15:26 HothMonster says:
OH noes other people are enjoying mods I don’t approve of. Someone get my senator on the line.
25/04/2012 at 01:17 monkeybiscuit says:
Oh noes, a person on the internet who doesn’t like the same thing as me and has the nerve to voice his opinion. Someone call a mod and censor his comment because it offends my sensibilities!
08/02/2012 at 15:42 Man Raised by Puffins says:
Indeed. These mods will ruin Skyrim precisely as much as the innumerable prehensile penis and methane-filled mammary mods ruined Oblivion, i.e. they won’t (unless you decide to install them all in a fit of apoplectic masochism, obv.).
25/04/2012 at 01:19 monkeybiscuit says:
It isn’t much of consolation to say “if u dont like it dont download it……..” when the damage has already been done. Realization has been instilled into us that 99.9% of the modders out there are sexually frustrated transvestite monkeys. It’s a terribly depressing thought to realize that these people will be our world leaders some day.
08/02/2012 at 15:45 Unaco says:
Awww… Someone’s grumpy. Can’t you turn that frown upside down MythArcana? You realise that mods are totally optional, right? You don’t have to install any, don’t have to change YOUR Skyrim at all… You can keep it just as it is (a place of grimaces and scowls, where never a friendly word is said no doubt), and no one will judge you. At the same time, other people can and will change their game, and make THEIR Skyrim what they want it to be. How is that a bad thing?
And what’s wrong with ‘kiddies’ getting creative? Getting stuck into the mod tools, doing something productive etc. Sure, there’ll be some terrible mods… there’ll be some mods that will make me angry and question the faith I have in video gaming… there’ll be mods I’ll think are stupid, unnecessary, ridiculous… But I don’t have to use them, they don’t have to change my game. And some people are going to have fun (I presume you know what this is, yes?) making them, and playing them, and discussing them.
So really what is so terrible about this MythArcana? Care to elaborate?
25/04/2012 at 01:25 monkeybiscuit says:
Maybe he just doesn’t like the mod. What’s wrong with that?
08/02/2012 at 20:40 Interrobangin says:
Give MythArcana a break. He has OCD, and if he doesn’t install every mod on the Steam workshop, he’ll fillet his wife.
08/02/2012 at 15:25 AbyssUK says:
Portal gun in Skyrim, modders on your marks get set… GO!
08/02/2012 at 15:44 Necroqubus says:
FRUS ROH SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEEEEE
08/02/2012 at 15:56 Jupiah says:
I always wondered why that house was burned down before!
08/02/2012 at 16:10 tequibo says:
Without this mod: interesting, well-written characters in Skyrim: 0.
With this mod: interesting, well-written characters in Skyrim: 1.
08/02/2012 at 16:46 Ultra-Humanite says:
Hyperbole is an excellent way to encourage people to ignore you.
08/02/2012 at 17:20 McCool says:
That was rather self-defeating, wasn’t it, Ultra-Humanite? Still though, I agree with you. Boo to hyperbole!
08/02/2012 at 17:18 McCool says:
There is something strangely uncanny about devs making mods for other devs games. Its like when you see the grown-ups get drunk and flirt with each-other as a kid.
08/02/2012 at 20:52 Jeroen D Stout says:
This gave my stomach a little jerk. This is exactly how it feels.
Actually, I remember being at the GDC felt like walking in on your parents having a big party.
08/02/2012 at 18:02 DickSocrates says:
I love how Valve’s smug and hilarious sense of humour is infecting all games by all companies.
I love it. I REAL REALLY LOVE IT. Portal jokes? CAN’T GET A ******* ENOUGH OF THEM! HAHAHAH!!
A catestrophic failure might make Valve a little less irritiating, but since their core fans are more like cult members than gamers, unfortunately there is little chance of Valve ever receiving the refreshing slap they desperately need.
08/02/2012 at 18:08 Unaco says:
Lol… “Core Fans”! I get it… cos it’s the space core. Well done… You’re a hoot.
08/02/2012 at 20:58 Interrobangin says:
Ah, I see you used the word “infect”, so I will assume you got a little confused and thought this mod was mandatory. Do not fear, young one, for I am here to help! I’ll take it your computer is already powered on and you are sitting in a position where you can input commands in at least a basic fashion, so I’ll skip ahead a few steps, OK little buddy?
So first, you’ll need to open Steam. Assuming you are using Windows, move your mouse cursor (you can move your mouse cursor on screen by manipulating the physical “mouse”, or a similar device. Try it out for a while until you are comfortable!) to the start button in the lower left (left is your hand that forms an “L” when you extend your thumb and index finger!) corner of your screen. Depress the primary button on the mouse—and navigate the menu that pops up, and select “Steam” (you could also enter Steam into the search field!).
Secondly, wait for Steam to load. If your pop didn’t save your credentials, you’ll need him to re-enter them. Get a parent to help you out here if a little window opens asking for your user name and password. And remember, don’t tell anybody your password!
When Steam has loaded, look at the top of the window for the word “LIBRARY”. Using what we learned before, select it by “clicking” on it. This will display your games library! Pretty cool, huh? By default, your games will be displayed on the left hand side (remember that trick I taught you earlier!). Search that list for “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim”. The list is, by default, in alphabetical order, so if you can’t find it, here is a code to help you out: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Except instead of left to right, it is top to bottom!
Once you have found “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim”, press your primary mouse button on it twice in quick succession, or use your secondary mouse button to open a menu and click “Play Game”. That second step is for advanced users, so if you are not comfortable doing it, don’t! Just keep trying the primary mouse button until you get it.
So now you just need to wait for the Skyrim launcher to load. This will usually be a window in the center of your screen. You’ll have the options: “Play” “Options” “Data files” “Tech Support” and “Exit”. Now, don’t worry too much about the other ones for now, so we can select “Data files”. Another window will open up for you. In this new window (don’t be afraid), look for “Fall of the Space Core, Vol 1″, and click it once. Now, move your eyes ever so slightly lower and locate the button to delete the mod. It should read “Delete Selected”. You’ll get a confirmation box which will help you from accidentally deleting mods. Since you want to delete this, just click on “Yes”.
Problem solved! If you have any more issues, feel free to ask, OK little buddy? :D
25/04/2012 at 01:24 monkeybiscuit says:
That was a pretty long winded way of telling someone a mod is mandatory, a fact I’m pretty sure he’s aware of. No in fact he wasn’t saying it was mandatory, he was just saying it sucks.
But like usual, we are on the internet with a young generation of Liberals who don’t seem to understand the concept of negative opinions, and ramp up into high sarcasm and insult mode whenever a negative opinion is aired.
08/02/2012 at 18:10 Christian says:
I guess it’s been asked before but it still has to be said:
Where do I find those hats? Screw companions and other mods, just give me the hats already! That’s the only thing missing in Skyrim since it’s on Steam: lotsa user-created hats! (oh, and for those with broken fun-detectors–> ;) )
But something serious for the people who know more about odding than me (so everyone): Would it be possible to mod co-op into Skyrim now?
08/02/2012 at 22:52 Demievil says:
Alot of Dialogue for this guy this one made me download it though;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etxTqdXL7EA&feature=youtu.be&t=43s