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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
  • giant enemy crab FTW

  • YES. YES. TO ALL OF THIS, YES. I JUST ORGASMED. AAHHHHHHHH SO EXCITED, SPECIALLY FOR THE NEW KILLCAMS.

  • the werewolf and vampire additions would be so cool it would actually make them worth using. It's worth it to be a werewolf cause it raises some of your skills. But being a vampire does nothin for you but make it easier to sneak which really isn't worth the hassel of feeding could be done like in the middle of a battle it would actually make it worth it for archery based guys cause who wouldn't think its nice to sneak easier when your first beginning with an archery based character (It's hard if you never tried it)

  • that...was...totally...EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    SKYRIM AND BETHESDA FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Build your own home, yes! I hope they do this!

  • Werebear, Ice and fire arrows, water flow, goblins, flying vampires, the giant mudcrab, and the dragon mounts were amazing. Especially the dragon mounts.

  • I want more capes and that flying Vampire Lord. I really want all of it in at some point.

  • That is awesome.  I'm hoping they add more stuff like that to Skyrim or future Elder Scrolls games.

  • So many of these would make the game so much freaking better!  And that's saying something!

  • Dragon mounts..... YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • God please let this be DLC

  • this is awsome espeacially the GIANT MUD-CRAB. id never leave my xbox.

  • this is awsome espeacially the GIANT MUD-CRAB. id never leave my xbox.

  • skyrim is epic! i hate how people complain about small *** like bugs. i got this on xbox 360 and love it. i think people are inpaciant... if er get killed "oh my GOD this game sucks!!!" if er die get stuck loose er stuff menu dosent work loading some how gone well its er fault. cmon people its a game and its not going to be perfect. all the hate talk makes me feel bad...... :( please gaint mud crabs :3
  • FINALLY i can be a flying vampire lord

  • I want that giant mudcrab and mounted combat. And a lot of other things...

  • DAMN i want Skyrim!

  • Man i noticed the ball n chain too now that would be amazing. And more slomo kills...and an unarmed combat tree.

  • Certain things like mounted combat, set favourite for followers, kill cams for magic and ranged combat and spell combinations are things that should have been in the game already, especially mounted combat; it's so annoying having to get off your horse everytime to fight. Most of the other graphical enhancements and actual new content would certainly make good editions in future DLC (vampire lord looks great).  

  • man, i cant wait, this is gonna be awesome. thats if it is definitive