Visit Riften’s Ratway and find the woman who can change your appearance, altering your face or hair. Battle new creatures including Death Hounds, Gargoyles, Armored Trolls, and all new vampires and dragons. Discover lost valleys and travel to a new realm of Oblivion, the Soul Cairn.
Choose from two new fortresses to upgrade and call home, Castle Volkihar or Fort Dawnguard. Playing as a werewolf now has its own upgradable perk system including Bestial Strength, Animal Vigor, and Savage Feeding. The Vampire Lord features its own upgradable perk system. Hover across the ground, turn yourself into bats, levitate your enemies as you drain their life, and more. Side with the vampires and become a Vampire Lord yourself. Use new weapons, armor, spells and shouts, including the Soul Tear shout – that rips the souls from your enemies and turns them into your minions. Join the Dawnguard and wield all new crossbows and craft your own arrows, bolts, and Dragonbone weapons. New Weapons, Armor, Spells and Shouts.Will you join the ancient order of the Dawnguard and stop him? Or will you become a Vampire Lord yourself? Featuring an all new faction questline and locations, the ultimate choice will be yours. By using the Elder Scrolls, he seeks to do the unthinkable - to end the sun itself. The Vampire Lord Harkon has returned to power. Check out his impressions in our Dawnguard preview.Dawnguard™ is the first official game add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim® - the 2011 Game of the Year. The expansion promises 10 to 20 hours of gameplay.īertie went hands-on with it earlier this month at E3. Vampire Hunters, on the other hand, get cool crossbows and can summon trolls to fight for them, but alas, no flying or bat transformations. The catch is that they take damage during the day.
There's still no word on a Dawnguard release date for the PC and PS3 versions of Skyrim, though we've reached Bethesda for comment and will update as we hear back.ĭawnguard will allow players to go down the path of becoming a Vampire Lord or join the Dawnguard, a band of vampire hunters.īeing a Vampire Lord comes with all sorts of nifty perks like being able to sprout wings and hover, or raise the dead. They will however get the recent version 1.6 update adding mounted combat and Kinect support today. Those with French, Italian, German and Spanish copies of the game won't receive the add-on until mid-July. ORIGINAL STORY: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim's first expansion pack Dawnguard is coming out tomorrow on Xbox 3 Microsoft Points, developer Bethesda has announced. You can queue Dawnguard for download from the website. It costs 1600 Microsoft Points and measures 581.70MB. UPDATE 1: The Dawnguard expansion for Skyrim is out now on Xbox 360. It can be reached by a small cave through the mountains." "Otherwise, if your character is below level 10 or you wish to find the Dawnguard on your own, you can seek out the Dawnguard headquarters roughly east/southeast of Riften. "You may also be approached by a courier who will give you a note about the Dawnguard. "Once Dawnguard is installed, if you're level 10 or higher you'll hear rumors about the Dawnguard from guards in major cities," Bethesda explained.
UPDATE 2: Bethesda has issued a note explaining how to access the Dawnguard content, and confirmed that player characters do not have to be level 10 or higher to enjoy it.