Bethesda Game Studios director and Skyrim mastermind, Todd Howard, has revealed a list of mini projects that Bethesda employees began working on the week following the game\u2019s release.<\/p>\n
The mini projects were showcased during a keynote presentation at DICE yesterday, and although they are currently all little more than concepts, they could eventually turn in\u00a0 patches, mods or even DLC. Of course, they could also never see the light of day.<\/p>\n
These are the mini projects which Howard confirmed were under development at some point.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Seasonal foliage<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Flow-based water shader<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Spears<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kills-cams for magic and ranged combat<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Stealth enhancements including water arrows<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Paralyse runes<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Hanging structures<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Water currents in dungeons<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dark dungeons, new follower commands<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Favourites for followers<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Adoption<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Build your own home<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Spell combos<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Goblins<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Waygate fast travel<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Epic new mounts (flaming horse)<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mounted combat<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dragon mounts<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kinect shouts<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Screen space ambient occlusion<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Enhanced underwater visuals<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Snow footprints<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Verlet surfaces for non-rigid objects<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ice and fire arrows<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Werebear<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Lycanthropy perk tree<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Vampire feeding<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Become a flying vampire lord<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Vampire imp minions<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mudcrab animation tweaks<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Giant mudcrab<\/p>\n
Even getting half of these would be awesome.<\/p>\n
\u201c[These are] all experiments that we did in a week. How much of this stuff sees the light of day, to be determined,\u201d Howard said. \u201cCould it be in a future DLC? We don’t know. Could various parts of it just be released for free? We don’t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kinect shouts are very similar to the microphone shouts that have been toyed with by the PC modding community.<\/p>\n
There are definitely some ideas with massive potential being played with that would be wonderful to see implemented.<\/p>\n