Dawnguard, the first and highly anticipated piece of downloadable content for Bethesda’s Skyrim, is now available for the PC. The news was revealed at QuakeCon 2012, and ends weeks of questions in regards to the expansion’s PC release.
Players will now be able to choose a side in the war between the vampire lords and the titular Dawnguard, a group of vampire hunters bequeathed with a special set of skills and weapons. Our own Brian Sipple gave Dawnguard quite a favorable review, and the amount of content packaged in with the DLC, while not as substantial as Oblivion‘s Shivering Isles expansion, is staggering.
Along with a simple proclamation of availability, Bethesda also revealed that the DLC would be available in several languages including French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
Now that Dawnguard is finally available for the PC, it’s only a matter of time before players begin to dive headfirst into modding the game’s new skills and abilities. And that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter mod we told you about earlier will finally have some vampires to hunt.
We’re not making any promises, but hopefully an upcoming edition of Rebuilding Skyrim will feature some of the cooler Dawnguard mods when they start rolling in. It’s once again an exciting time for Skyrim, that is if you aren’t playing it on the PS3.
As we learned when Skyrim launched back in November, the game doesn’t seem to like to play nice with Sony’s PlayStation 3. Not only was it nigh impossible to play Skyrim for extended periods of time, players began reporting entire save files being wiped. Needless to say, it wasn’t good.
Those same problems, while fixed for the main game, now seem to have proliferated into Dawnguard. Bethesda is reporting that they are not happy with the state of the PS3 version of the DLC as it stands now, but are working diligently to rectify those problems. The exact quote from Bethesda’s Blog says that they “aren’t going to release it for PS3 knowing that people’s experience in Skyrim will be worse.” An odd choice of phrasing considering the numerous headaches brought on by the PS3 version of Skyrim.
We’ll, of course, keep gamers posted on any developments with the PS3 version of Dawnguard, but for now both Xbox 360 and PC players can enjoy the new quests.
What will be the first thing you do when you load up the PC version of Skyrim‘s Dawnguard? Should Bethesda release the DLC now and patch things later or wait until its perfect?
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This sucks. Why can’t Bethesda just figure out their PS3 problems? Every other developer seems to be doing fine with the PS3 in terms of not having major problems like Bethesda has had with Skyrim and Dawnguard. I hope Bethesda resolves its issues and releases it soon.
Actually many developers have problems coping with the PS3 hardware, because of this many games run worse on it than xbox, even though it has a more powerful cpu.
But yeah this is a bit embarassing.
Yes, but look at the games desgined for ps3 and then ported to other consoles, i personally thought that the graphics for the 2010 release of Moh looked great on my ps3, but many people complained. And the exclusives rock, i agree with yo ur statement, but I think that it is misleading, there need to be more ps3 desgined games, that are ported to other consoles. hope there wont be this many problems with Dishonored.
What are you talking about? Skyrim runs great on the Xbox i have both systems and use to have Skyrim on the PS3 but then i got it for Xbox because im tired of Sonys crap i might have even got rid of my PS3 if it had not been for Uncharted 3.
I don’t think you understood his comment. He was saying that a lot of third party games on PS3 tend to be more glitchy and problematic than the games on 360.
runs great? skyrim actuilly runs perfectly (minus the gradual lag that ive personally have been seeing on my copy) on the 360 but that is because skyrim was coded with the 360 in mind while it doesnt work well with the ps3s hardware doesnt make its sonys fault the ps3 is actuilly the most powerful console right now with double the cpu of the xbox (estimated) this could cause issuse with games if not calculated for properly a port would have to be outfitted to match the standerds making it more difficult on the devs. this being said oftain times games that are designed for the designated console preform better on that console and if ported could cause a multitude of issues. all that set aside games coded for the PC and ported to other platforms worked alot better because dialing down is alot easyer then trying to make it use more then it was designed for.
Cue “jwalka” seeing this post and making some snide comment about Bethesda…NOW
ha. He is too busy bashing Rockstar and the GTA series on the Sleeping Dogs trailer.
Lmao to both comments! So true.
I’m glad I’m not the only one tired of his crap ^.^
jwalka isn’t just making “snide” comments about bethesda just cause. it’s cause they aren’t as amazing as everyone seems to think. if they were as great as everyone says they wouldn’t release a game with so many bugs, glitchs and issues like skyrim. a game where most every main quest chain can get bugged and be impossible to complete.
it seems like they release construction kits not so modders can go wild but so modders can fix what bethesda can’t. just about every “improvement” i’ve seen in skyrim was originally a mod for oblivion or even morrowind.
jwalka is that you
Doesn’t matter if it’s this jwalka or not, dude speaks the truth.
Just moved from PS3 to PC, but I’m not picking up for a month or longer. Need some time for the modders to fix everything. Then wait another month for Bethesda to release patch that fixes three things and breaks 20 more. I love Skyrim, but this is getting ridiculous.
I have had the game for 360 since 11-11-11, and I still play it regularly, and I’ve never had a game breaking glitch before. The worst I’ve had is some framerate issues here and there, but that fixed when I deleted old saves.
Well im on ps3 & i browse the web & cannot find any new info from other ps3 owners who purchased dawnguard.. kinda feels like censorship.. I downloaded 1.8 & dragonborn & dawnguard & the textures are whack & my frame rate is so choppy i cant even enjoy a fight with a mudcrab (No Joke!) Pete Hines that smiley little puppet never mentioned this before release.. im truly going to be one of those guys that just never looks back.. im embarresed by bethesda but ill never be fooled again