Dawnguard is now on Steam, $20, installed here.
No Skeleton Butler = No Buy.Bethesda has revealed the next major downloadable content for Skyrim, called Hearthfire. Unlike the vampire-hunting focus of the last add-on, Dawnguard, Hearthfire doesn't seem to do much to enhance combat. Instead, with Hearthfire, you'll be able to purchase a piece of land in Skyrim and build your own house.
Within the custom living space, you'll be able build kitchens, greenhouses, libraries, alchemy labs, and trophy rooms to show off your accomplishments. Outside, it sounds like you'll be able to set up gardens, fish hatcheries, and beehives to make resource collection a little more convenient. You can also hire a steward to help out with household tasks.
Hearthfire will also allow you to adopt children and take care of them while they live at your home. Bethesda has set the price of Hearthfire at 400 Microsoft Points, and plans to release it on September 4 on Xbox Live.
Falkreath would be a cool spot for a new stronghold, but how awesome would it be to rebuild Helgen? Judging by some of the disgruntled bitching over on the official Bethesda boards, you'd think they just raped an orphanage full of puppies, or something.With Skyrim's newest game add-on, Hearthfire, you can purchase land and build your own home from the ground up – from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with an armory, alchemy laboratory, stable, garden, and more. Use all-new tools like the drafting table and carpenter’s workbench to transform quarried stone, clay, and sawn logs into structures and furnishings. Even transform your house into a home by adopting children.
• Choose Your Land - Choose from property in the salt marshes of Hjaalmarch, the forests of Falkreath, or the vast tundra of The Pale. For the more ambitious landowner, purchase multiple plots and start building a real estate empire.
• Customize Your Home – Expand your home with a variety of room combinations, including an armory, alchemy tower, kitchen, trophy room and more. Grow plants in your new greenhouse, cultivate slaughterfish in the fish hatchery, house your Arcane Enchanter in the enchanting tower, or display your latest conquest in the trophy room. Add additional features like stables, mills, smelters, gardens, and more.
• New Objectives and Interactions – Guard your home from unwanted visitors like marauding kidnappers, armed bandits, and Skeever infestations. Turn almost any follower into your personal steward to improve and protect your home. Or if you require more help, hire a personal bard or carriage driver to ease the burdens of home-ownership.
• Adoption – Transform your house into a home with Hearthfire's all-new adoption system. Adopt children, and discover new ways to interact with your family. Play games with the kids, allow them to have pets, and gain new bonuses from having a family.
• Choose Your Land - Choose from property in the salt marshes of Hjaalmarch
Listen, lad. I've built this kingdom up from nothing. When
I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was
daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same,
just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one.
That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down,
fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up.
An' that's what your gonna get, lad -- the strongest castle in these
islands.
• Adoption – Transform your house into a home with Hearthfire's all-new adoption system. Adopt children, and discover new ways to interact with your family.
One day, lad, all this will be yours!
What, the curtains?
No, not the curtains, lad. All that you can see! Stretched
out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your kingdom,
lad!
Oops.Originally Posted by joshEH /t/306737/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/270#post_3965849
It might be making it to Sony's platform after all -- now that the hybrid v1.6/v1.7 update is out on the PS3, it's finally looking likelier.
That sucks. I buy games pretty much exclusivly on the 360 just because all my friends have a 360 so for the multiplayer aspect it makes sense. But for Skyrim, I was strongly considering getting it for the PS3. I just can't understand why Bethesda can't get this worked out. It is so fucked, but I wouldn't write them off just yet. I can't imagine all the millions who own Skyrim for the PS3 will be left out in the cold.Russell G said:I've played every Elder Scrolls game since Arena. If this is the case with PS3 DLC for Skyrim then they can go fuck themselves. I'll never buy another Bethesda product. It's a shame since Skyrim is an amazing game, even the buggy PS3 version. That knowingly released a bugged game, can't get it fixed and are now ready to bail completely? Fuck 'em.
Yeah, I suspected this was going to be the case, it still pisses me off to no end. :f
Originally Posted by Bryan^H /t/306737/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/270#post_3969646
That sucks. I buy games pretty much exclusivly on the 360 just because all my friends have a 360 so for the multiplayer aspect it makes sense. But for Skyrim, I was strongly considering getting it for the PS3. I just can't understand why Bethesda can't get this worked out. It is so fucked, but I wouldn't write them off just yet. I can't imagine all the millions who own Skyrim for the PS3 will be left out in the cold.
"Squee," indeed.We're all about updates on OXM today, apparently. You've probably tasted the chunky goodness of Minecraft Xbox 360 update 1.8.2 by now, and you may have sampled the sleek wonderment of the new Xbox 360 dashboard, too. Now, ready your bodies for the ultimate trial (cue music), the final assault on the verdant expanses of your recreational hours -- Skyrim's "Dragonborn" DLC.
The usual enterprising Skyrim PC players have uncovered the usual array of telltale filenames ("DLC2", "Dragonborn") in Skyrim's most recent update, hinting at a DLC pack which allows players to mount dragons. Just imagine -- 300 tonnes of rampaging, ice-breathing salamander between your thighs. Might want to wear two pairs of underpants.
As if that wasn't enough, there's also evidence that Dragonborn will take us back to Morrowind, setting for The Elder Scrolls III, and the former home of the Dunmer. There were whisperings to this effect last year -- Lake Solstheim and Vvardenfell are modelled just off the existing Skyrim world map.
Quest markers for Solstheim, Telvanni, Castle Karstaag, Raven Rock and Miraak Temple have been discovered, alongside entries for what appear to be four new armour varieties -- Bonemold, Chitin, Nordic, and Stalhrim. Finally, there are files for the aforesaid dragon-riding animations. Looks like you'll be casting spells from dragon-back, too. Squee.
Bethesda parent Zenimax trademarked "Dragonborn" for use in reference to downloadable games software earlier this year. Where there's smoke, there's dragonfire.