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Stuff That Might Be Added To Skyrim

After the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shipped, the team at Bethesda took a week to do whatever they wanted and create content they could add to the game in the future.

As revealed during Todd Howard's keynote speech at DICE, the team designed all kinds of content, including dragon mounts, house building, and spears! Howard prefaced this reveal by saying none of this content is confirmed, and that it may or may not ever come out for public consumption.

The video shown during the keynote can be seen archived on GameSpot. Check it out below. It begins at around the 41:00 minute mark. Here is the list of features that could be added down the road:

  • Spears
  • Seasonal Foliage
  • Flow-based Water Shader
  • Kill Cams for Magic and Ranged Combat
  • Stealth enhancements such as water arose and Assassin's Vision
  • Guards can re-light darkened areas
  • Paralysis Runes
  • Dungeon enhancements like hanging structures and moving platforms
  • Water currents in dungeons
  • Dark dungeons
  • New follower commands for combat style, training, distance, equipment, etc.
  • Set favorites for followers
  • Adoption
  • Build you own home…complete with skeleton butler!
  • Spell combinations! Flame + Raise Zombie = Conjure Flame Atronach, Fear + Healing = Drain Health
  • Goblins
  • High Level Draugr
  • Waygate fast-travel
  • Epic new mounts
  • Mounted combat
  • Dragon Mounts
  • Soulbug Familiar
  • Kinect Shouts
  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
  • Enhanced Underwater Visuals
  • Snow Footprints
  • Verlet surfaces for non-rigid objects…like the Fat Giant
  • Ice & Fire Arrows
  • Werebear!
  • Lycanthropy Perk Tree
  • Vampire Feeding
  • Become a flying Vampire Lord
  • Vampire imp minions
  • Mudcrab animation tweaks

Comments
  • I just wished they took out the Mudcrabs altogether. Those things are CREEPY!
  • Finally, I can (hopefully) scream FOS RO DAH into my kinect and have it recognize it. Dream come true...
  • They're out of their minds if they think people should be charged for any of this stuff. Most of this can easily be added for free via mods.
  • videos private...
  • Man I hope they let you go to other provinces at some point.
  • all of this stuff sounds awesome
  • FINALLY! Man, those Mudcrab animations were driving me BONKERS!!

    This list is impressive... most impressive.

  • Some of this stuff is pretty cool. Others not so much (I'm looking at you Kinect shouts).
  • I would love some new spell combos. How about Fireball+Zombie=Exploding Suicide Zombie! Or Wall of Frost+Icy Spear=Frost Barrier (as in creates huge wall of ice spikes to impale/keep enemies away).

  • Before we add more awesome stuff to the game, how about we finish "patching it"?
  • I don't own a Kinect but Shouts through Kinect could be really awesome if it functions properly.
  • SO MUCH WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Awesome! Just what I've been waiting for! Mudcrab animation tweaks!

  • I'm always game for new content.  Spears?  Let me stab that guy in the face.  Spell combinations?  Well...

  • DRAGON MOUNTS! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BETHESDA, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
  • Dragon mounts sounds like the coolest thing ever, but Bethesda can't even get horses right...
  • Would the Soulbug Familiar essentially be a Navi look-a-like?  And if it is, will they program it to be able to speak and give you much need advice about things you already know?  Because that would be AWESOME.

  • It says, the video's private?!

  • Want....several....please

  • God I wish I had time to play this game! It will take me week just to finish the darkness. Ill never have time for this.

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