14 DAY TRIAL // Bethesda has released a few more details about its upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim title, once again highlighting that the downloadable content that will appear for it is going to be more substantial, and confirming that a day-one patch will be released alongside the game.
Skyrim has been awaited by legions of gamers for quite some time, so Bethesda doesn't want to disappoint anyone who's already explored the massive worlds of previous titles like TES III: Morrowind or TES IV: Oblivion, while impressing those that are new to the series.
In order to fix some of the issues found after the game was sent to manufacturing, the studio revealed that a day-one patch will be released alongside the game. As such, on November 11, 2011 expect Skyrim to be updated to version 1.1, alhtough concrete details about its contents haven't been revealed.
Besides this rather witty update timing, Bethesda's Todd Howard, the director and producer of Skyrim, told Wired that add-ons for the game will be more substantial in scope, similar to the Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas DLCs, and not like the ones for Oblivion, which received an infamous Horse Armor add-on.
“Very quick DLC might sell well, but that’s not our priority,” he said. “We’re not going to be doing a lot of it. Our high-level thinking is that there’ll be not as many [pieces of DLC], but they’ll be bigger and more substantial. The goal overall is not necessarily to put out more content, but to make the game better.”
No word yet on just what this DLC might include, either new adventures or gameplay modes, but Howard revealed that the first decisions will be taken after feedback is gathered from players who go through the game after its release.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is out on Friday around the world, for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.