Looks like the next DLC will be named Dragonborn, and is set in Solstheim. The 1.8 patch has things in it such as bonemold, chitin, stahlrim, and nordic armor in it. There are new mapmarkers, and locations such as Raven Rock, Castle Karstagg, and more. Plus there a record for an .esm named Dragonborn. Flying on a dragon also seems in the works.

I am a little surprised they would be taking us back there, given that Solstheim was already in an expansion for Morrowind. But it does sound a lot more interesting than Dawnguard, and a lot more meaty than Hearthfire. It should be a good-sized land-mass for us to explore. That is guaranteed to be fun and give us lots more hours of play. Much like Point Lookout was for FO3, only without the mutant inbred Jeds and having part of our brain carved out and put in a jar.

I am also looking forward to seeing those armors in Skyrim. They are my favorites from Morrowind. Especially the bonemold. Seeing them back in hi-res (at least when the modding community remakes the textures that Bethesda releases! ) will be excellent.

That sounds very neat. As I've never played Morrowind, it will be the first time I get to see Solstheim.

Oooh, I can't wait!!... ...

Oh, hang on...No...I'll probably have to... ...

...

Nah, sounds cool...Should be fun...

*Applauds heartily*...

I see this out before Christmas. Hopefully PS3 users will get to enjoy this one as well.

Hardcore mode? Hardcore? Mode?

I need to get over it. Beth is never going to make my Hardcore Mode. What were some of the key features in the Morrowind version? Other than expanded land mass? The two things I've been wanting in Skyrim are...well you already know the first one, and I also want an Arena. HOw about that? Is an Arena a possibility? What do you all think?

EDIT: I just read some of what Solstheim is about. Wow, it looks so delicious.

Werebears. Spears. "New" land. Daedric Realm. That is all.



SPEARS!!!!

Are you trolling? Spears? Another Realm? Tell me!!

No. New leaked ingame data leak many things.

Location Markers.

Map Marker Labels.

Spear info:


New entries:



Ok, I try it. Everything which follows is of course unconfirmed, and hence hypothetic

Gameplay Additions :

Heheh....everyone has been asking for spears so long! That's gonna be fun, having an entirely new class of weapons

Solstheim!! And lots more Nordly goodness, it seems. I’m pretty excited about the prospect of Hearthfire and the new DLC for my PS3 characters (if they survive the next patch). I’ll be skipping Dawnguard, though. I’ve had enough of The Vampire Game on the Xbox.

Arena-wise, I would not really like to see an open air Cyrodiil-style coliseum with teams and shiny uniforms. I would much prefer a gritty, underground network of pit fights and cage matches like you find in some bandit forts. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to fight for honor and glory in Skyrim. I would love to see some more filthy reasons. Throw in some options to cheat (in-game character cheating, not player exploits) and I’d be delighted.

Even though it's titled "Dragonborn", I hope you don't have to play the main quest to go there. I'm tired of all this dragon nonsense. I don't want to be forced to play as a cliche hero just to visit the island where the biggest hunts of all time took place once.

Oh wait, new Daedric realm? Could it be the Harrowing of the Hunting Grounds?!?!?!

Woo hoo! OK, now I'm really excited.

Doubt it, since the new files points to Haemaeus Mora and tentacles and Apocrypha as the new realm.

The Harrowing of the Hunting Grounds would do good in an expansion instead of a simple "dlc,". Werebears would be added, of course, considering they are native to Skyrim and the first time we truly saw them in lore(other than being rumors) was in the official novel, Infernal City, and they were no other than buffed up Nords wielding spears in the Hunting Grounds.

Geographically, it would be a huge woodland with no underbrush, an african-style savannah, a red sun, bloody rivers, and large canyons and tributaries. The Realm itself is beautiful but deadly. In other words, it would be a wild Safari with werecreatures for all eternity.

I don't think we will visit there. But in this Solshteim DLC, we get to visit a Telvanni Tower, and there is a file called H2H which hints Hand To Hand might make a return! Good for monkish type characters. I suppose Divayth Fyr might show up since he likes to travel Oblivion realms and he's a popular character in Morrowind, not to mentioned a Telvanni. I suppose we meet him in the game to deal with Mora and go to Apocrypha.

Yea, I agree. And I hope that dragons can also be avoided altogether once we're in Solstheim, the way all my games currently are in Skyrim.

We're getting spears, a chance to return to a previously visited land and see what the passage of time has wrought, as well as a new Daedric Realm to explore? What more could we get?

OH HELL YEAH MOTHER-FETCHERS! IT'S TIME TO MAKE AIR SUPREMACY A MECHANIC OF THE ELDER SCROLLS AGAIN!!

I missed Levitation in Oblivion (Hello Supreme Magicka, how truly darling you really are). I miss it in Skyrim. If this Dragon Mount scripting reference means I turn Odahviing into the most magnificent mount in the game, I can't wait until I can use for some Civil War Quests.


I will finally become This Man.

I might buy it since I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of content provided withing Dawnguard. The only thing I wished they'd done was taken us someplace without so much snow...I guess it was just easier with all of their pre-existing textures. Oh well at least there seems to be tons of new stuff to enjoy.

If it is super similar to Solthseim in MW it will be trippy to go back there with good graphics. I'd like to see Thirsk, the Skaal village, and Fort Frostmoth revisited and revamped but something tells me that the landscape will have changed greatly since our last visit.

And here it is!

Trailer

Several new details have popped up online today in regards to the upcoming Dragonborn DLC for the multiplatform title, “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” The latest information takes a look at the expansion’s achievements, length of the story in addition to a bunch of new contents (characters, equipment, locations and more).



WOOOT! I csn't wait to go to Frostmoon Crag! The Companions can go suck it! These are my new family!

Can't wait til Tuesday. Even though (at the rate I'm going) I probably won't even get to Solstheim until January. I'm trying very hard not to look at spoilers.

Man, I'm getting majorly nostalgic for Solstheim now; can't wait to see this!

I'm wondering when it will be out for PC.

That's a good question. Also, the PS3 player-base surely should have this one, shouldn't they?

They don't even have Dawnguard yet do they?

No. But there's some sort of new content coming out for PS3 players, and Beth aint saying what it is, yet. I forget the date; I wanna say it's coming out on December 4th, but that's probably wrong. I'm too busy to research this ATM.

That is crazy talk! The world would end if Bethesda ever released anything for the PS3!

Hell would sooner freeze over.

And if we get exclusive content, I doubt it would make up for the epicness of Dawnguard or Dragonborn.

Good news everyone! A post from the Bethesda blog has said the following:

So it looks like PS3 players will be able to play Dragonborn. Even if Hearthfire and Dawnguard are still looking problematic, that's some good news, at least.

What is also of note is this, also taken from the blog:

More DLC, do you think? I'm hoping so.

Thank goodness! that's good news for sure.

OMG! DREMORA BUTLERS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

Suddenly, Colonel's fanfiction story of nice Dremora's makes sense!

See? The Colonel is always right. Though you make it sound as if that's all that it's about. He just appears in one chapter...

Also, it'll be nice to have another NPC that I can relentlessly boss around and bully. He can keep Lydia company in that role.

Does this mean if you become Thane of Raven Rock you will have a Dremora sitting in your bedroom eating bread and watching you while you sleep?

No, I know that's not what it's all about, but I was pleasently surprised nonetheless since Dremoras from the past games until now seemed like violent warrior clan-like demons wanting their enemies to burst open or die.



One cannot become Thane of Raven Rock, since it's owned and run by the Dunmer, who abide by Dunmeri culture. They even make comments about the player being an outlander and etc.

But you can summon Dremora butler and a black market Dremora merchant who likes being a "pack mule."

See the video here. I linked to the specific part of the video where the Dremora's are shown, since from the start to end, the user loves to make comments about sexual organs

That book looks neat, with the flowing words and all. Might be bit tough to actually read though...

A Dremora merchant? I thought we already had one: Belethor.

I do love the Dremora butler's lines. So nice and sarcastic. Where Lydia's sarcasm is annoying, his is funny.

Alright, Dragonborn has surpassed my expectations by a wide margin. Now, Brothers and Sisters of Knowledge, the gates to Apocrypha have opened on ward to The Index!

I watched The Girl’s character arrive in Solstheim yesterday. She plays like a squirrel on crack. The Boy and I gave ourselves headaches with all of the face palming. But still what I’ve seen so far looks amazing! I’m really looking forward to this!

Bethesda trolled some of the fans. Hard.

Non-usable spears? Werebears that aren't playable? Easily the most wanted features since the game's release and even before.

Todd Howard, I see you laughing!

Didn't you know. It is impossible to implement spears in Skyrim. The engine simply cannot do it. Todd said so himself.

Pfft. Todd Howard= This.

Weren't there spears in Morrowind?! He's a liar!

Wow, WTF man?? I'm still psyched for new content, new places to explore but that is a let down. I was looking forward to an entirely new class of weapons.

Dangit.

I was too. One of the ways I build my characters is around their weapon of choice. Once they pick a type of weapon, they never change from it. So one might be a mace and shield person, another might use battle-axes, another bows, etc... It is part of what makes them distinct from one another. So being able to make a spear and shield character would have been one more way to make my characters unique. Plus I am reserving the name Morrigan just for a spear-wielder.

Okay Xbox players DO NOT install the latest update.

I installed both this update and Dragonborn. Start gaming as usual. Then I notice my crusader can no longer cast the following spells: Candlelight, Fast Healing, Calm, and any magical flesh spells. This, obviously, is game breaking for me.

Tried moving Dragonborn off my hard drive, the problem persists. Tried deleting the update, re-installed the entire game from disc back onto the hard drive, re-downloading the latest update, but kept Dragonborn off out of the hard-drive. Problem still persists. I am thinking it's the update, then. Gotta be.

Is that version 1.8? I have been running it on the PC with no problems.

Some searching on the Internets found someone with a similar problem. He fixed it by putting a different spell in both hands and dual-casting it. You might try that. Or try equipping a weapon in each hand and attacking with both. The thought is that perhaps your character has gotten "stuck" between equipping spells and equipping weapons, and this is a way to break out of that.

Also, does it do this with all of LHM's saves? Or with any other characters? It might just be one bad save file.

EDIT: I figured it out. I still think it has something to do with the patch, but I figured it out. Okay.

My Xbox is not hooked up to the Internet, unless I manually put a cable on it. So that's what I did last night, and I downloaded update 1.8 and Dragonborn. Apparently, the way we actually cast spells on Xbox is now different. I feel like a klutz as I admit this, and there's probably information out there that EVERYONE knows but me...but just in case some of you all get stuck with this one...

To cast spells before 1.8, I had to hold down the button, let it go briefly, but then tap it quickly just after letting it go. After 1.8 the "tap" is no longer required. All I gotta do is hold down the spell and then let it go. Spell works.

*facepalm*

That glitch isn't as annoying as the missing cell glitch. One room in my house is completely blue and weird. I can apparently walk through walls and fall through floors.

Doh!

Do not feel bad. I can see where this would confound anyone. If they did the same thing on the PC, I would have had the same problem.

King of Beasts: it's not a glitch, Bethesda deliberately changed the way we cast spells on Xbox. They probably announced they were doing so, but I just never read up on this. I typically don't "read ahead" much, mostly because I don't want to come across spoilers. I like discovering things (mostly) spontaneously.

In effect, spellcasting is now easier than it was. I was just trying to do things the old way the other night.

SubRosa: Yea, and I suppose this little process I went thru the other other nite is good practice. I know when I get a PC, the challenge is going to be 10X then anything I've ever experienced on consoles!

I would have been so messed up if I had to cast spells like that.

Occasionally while I'm playing, spells that are normally held down for a continuous effect, or charged, get stuck and continue going after I've released the key. I wonder if this is anything like that?

Dunno....that never happens on Xbox, so it must be some weird PC thing.

It's funny. I bought Solstheim and installed it, and I'm probably not even going there for months! The way my characters tend to crawl and slowly progress, who knows when it'll happen.