After fooling the community with a carefully chosen Dishonored game screenshot, along with today’s release of the Kinect voice update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda promised that they’d share official details on its first DLC/expansion pack.
In March, Bethesda was spotted trademarking the name “Dawnguard,” sparking DLC rumors and speculation. Today, that speculation is justified as Skyrim’s first batch of added content is in fact, Dawnguard.
In a somewhat underwhelming unveiling, Bethesda added an image to their official blog today with little context or additional information. It’s a beautiful piece of artwork featuring Skyrim’s Nord protagonist sporting the game’s iconic horned helm, staring with glowing eyes and sporting a quiver of arrows on his back. The full image (shown below) came attached only with the text “Coming this summer to Xbox 360. More details at E3.”
Note that the announcement only references the Xbox 360 version and not the mod-boosted PC version or the plagued-with-lag-at-first PS3 version. This is due to the exclusivity deal Bethesda signed with Microsoft and announced last year at E3 where the first two Skyrim DLC packs will arrive on the Xbox 360 first with a 30-day headstart.
While the image isn’t too revealing, what we can say is that Dawnguard will be more than the standard DLC fare. It’s been emphasized all along by game director Todd Howard that the DLC for Skyrim would be “substantial” and more like full expansions as opposed to smaller, piecemeal additions.
What we also know is that Dawnguard is only the first of several content additions to the game. If it’s taking this long to get Dawnguard out (half a year), how long until further expansions? More details will be unveiled at E3 and it’ll likely be a part of the Xbox 360 presentation thanks to the exclusivity, but we wonder if additional DLC will be teased as well since Dawnguard releases in the summer.
As for what Dawnguard is about, leaked info pointed towards it including Snow Elves and bringing back Crossbows, and its title could be referring to the Mythic Dawn cult faction featured heavily in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The Mythic Dawn follow Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric prince of destruction and such a storyline could potentially see players return to the lands of Cyrodiil, which we know are hidden away in the background of Skyrim since it’s a neighboring province of Tamriel.
What do you want Dawnguard to add to Skyrim?
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I just want more smithing recipies with different look weapons or armour and to craft high end arrows. Like ebony arrows or daedra arrows. OR ANY ARROWS.
And some more benefits for being a werewolf/vampire would be good too. Like a skill tree or something.
i want a race of stone people like conscience golems native to the wrothgarian mountains like the orcs,and a new weapon class gauntlets used like unarmed combat, the werebear and skill trees for the werewolves and vampires…
I’m hoping for a war against the elves with the imperials or the stormcloaks. It would make an interesting DLC.
Manbearpig!
Spell creation like the one on oblivion.
bring dwarves into skyrim. also a dog like species like the khajit which are cat like. also i agree that there should be arrow crafting and new weapons armor and skill trees
I want to see the arena again from oblivion, that would be awesome!
I don’t think it would have anything to do with the Mystic Dawn, mainly because there is already a quest in Dawnstar (where the museum guy) that follows quite a little bit of the Mythic Dawn history. Also you can already do the quest to get a dagger by killing Silus or siding with Silus for coin. I can’t really imagine this scenario, but there it too little info to now.
A battle with Falmer is more likely. If you have been in a ruin and faced one a Dwarven sphere, then know that at long distances the spheres actually use a crossbow like weapon at long distances. With the Dwemer disappearing I would imagine that they are gonna try to explain what happened to the Dwemer and that it may even be the main plot for an add on or something else. These are just my speculations after clocking in so many hours playing the game.
It should include the Empire sending reinforcements to bring the breakaway province of Skyrim back into the Empire.
Especially with the Emperor dead and all. They come to deal with that and they are convinced by Ulric that the real enemy of skyrim and the empire is the thalmor. Then the stormcloaks and the empire join to face the Dominion.
God dammit! The empire never owned skyrim! they just said they did! get your facts strait!
Definitely another race or two, would love to play as a falmer or maybe a hidden clan of surviving snow elves or dwemer?
And it needs a map expansion. anywhere would do aha
It has been confirmed that there will be Vampires and new vampire abilities along with mounted combat possibly new armor and weapons along with crossbows and a new faction called the dawngaurd. It is supposed to add 8 to 10 hours of gameplay.
they should put morrowind and elswere,blackmarsh and hammerfell