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Date for Skyrim DLC may be announced “next week”

Bethesda’s Pete Hines has said he is working on acquiring more information regarding a release date for the first round of Skyrimn DLC. He’s hoping to provide more information “maybe next week. We’ll see.” He said he is also trying to confirm a Kinect release date, so be on the look out for that as well. Via Twitter.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/04/26/date-for-skyrim-dlc-may-be-announced-next-week/

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Future Skyrim DLC could contain Falmer-centric quests, crossbows

Files dug up in the latest Skyrim patch suggest future content for the game could contain crossbows as well a questline featuring those pesky Falmer who were once a race of elves.

skyrim-falmer.jpg


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Here’s a partial list of the files courtesy of RipTen. The full list can be found on the Bethesda Forums:


  • Animations\DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueA.HKX
  • Animations\DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueB.HKX
  • Animations\DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueC.HKX
  • Animations\DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueD.HKX
  • Animations\DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueE.HKX
  • Animations\DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceFireBall.HKX
  • Animations\DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceSitIdle.HKX
  • Animations\DLC01\SnowElfPrinceAscensionBurning.HKX
  • crossbow_direction_behavior.hkx
  • Animations\CrossBow_1stP_Run.hkx
  • Animations\CrossBow_1stP_Walk.hkx
  • Animations\CrossBow_Aim.hkx
  • Animations\CrossBow_Equip.hkx
  • Animations\CrossBow_IdleDrawn.hkx
  • Animations\CrossBow_IdleHeld.hkx
  • Animations\CrossBow_Release.hkx

Those familiar with Elder Scrolls lore will know the Snow Elves lived in Skyrim centuries before the Nords came, and eventually enslaved by the Dwemer. Living underground all those years turned them into the hideous, blind Falmer you run across in Dwemer ruins in the game.

You’ll notice the files mention the Snow Elf Prince, who was the leader of the elves and led his race into battle with the first humans to enter Tamriel from Atmora. During the battle with the Nords of Nede during the second era, the prince was killed by a child at Moesring causing many of the elves to scatter.

Those found by the Nords were then slaughtered without quarter, and in order to save themselves, what remained of the race fled underground to the Dwemer. They should have just accepted death, as the Dwemer fed the elves a toxic fungi which caused their blindness and turned them into the horrid creatures they are in the game.

You can look at a depiction of what the elves looked like before becoming the Falmer in game by heading over to the Irkngthand Sanctuary. This is a Dwemer ruin you are sent to for a Thieves Guild quest, and while running about the place you will come across a large statue of an elf holding a book and staff. That, intrepid adventurers, is what the Snow Elves used to look like.

Since there have been reports around Skyrim of Falmer raids on cattle and crops it’s said that the race intends to eventually come back to the surface to regain what it has lost. The files found within the patch could indicate a possible ill-attempted try at this – or just a new questline.

Yesterday, Bethesda said we could be handed a release date for the DLC sometime next week, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/04/27/fut...-falmer-centric-quests-crossbows/#more-254300
 
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Skyrim Dawnguard teased, more details revealed at E3

Bethesda has posted a massive Skyrim tease for E3 by posting an image of DLC slated for summer on Xbox 360.

skyrim-dawnguard.jpg

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The firm had promised news on Skyrim DLC today, so it looks like the tease is all we’re going to get for now.
Once released on Xbox 360, all DLC for the game will land on PC and PS3 once the 30-day exclusivity period has expired, like with Fallout: New Vegas before it.

Last month, a trademark filed by Zenimax Media around the end of February popped up online hinting at a possible expansion plan for the RPG.

Called “Dawnguard” the trademark was filed for “computer game software for use with computers and video game consoles; downloadable computer game software offered via the internet and wireless devices.”

Various outlets, including VG247, had various theories as to what it could entail, such as a continuation of a Dawnstar quest in Skyrim called Pieces of the Past.

In it, players recreate the Mehrunes’ Razor belonging to the Daedric Prince of destruction, change, revolution, energy, and ambition, Mehrunes Dagon.

Still, at this point we don’t know what is included, at least until E3, so feel free to theorize.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/01/skyrim-dawnguard-announced-more-details-during-e3/#more-255059
 
I have never played an Elder Scrolls game before, so some pals got me Skyrim

I was almost beheaded but then a dragon attacked, then I escaped with a soldier, before splitting up and heading our separate ways. I fell down a hill into some ruins, full of slaughtered bandits, then a bush attacked and killed me. It was amazing
 
the game does have an easy mode

just make sure if you are playing on pc you dont try to enter bleak falls barrow with the console

one time i went to the e3 demo version of it and had to kill master bandits and frost trolls as a level 1 character, i was not amused when i realized i could not complete the dungeon and that it was not labeled as "e3 demo cell" for no reason. but no other cells for bleak falls barrow popped up, so i just assumed... :wacky:
 
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