During Todd Howard's keynote speech at the DICE 2012 summit, he revealed some of the content that the team developed for Game of the Year award winner The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
While he states that the content may or may not ever be released to the public, here is a list of content Bethesda worked on, that could possibly make it into Skyrim as downloadable content. (List via GameInformer)
- Spears
- Seasonal Foliage
- Flow-based Water Shader
- Kill Cams for Magic and Ranged Combat
- Stealth enhancements such as water arose and Assassin's Vision
- Guards can re-light darkened areas
- Paralysis Runes
- Dungeon enhancements like hanging structures and moving platforms
- Water currents in dungeons
- Dark dungeons
- New follower commands for combat style, training, distance, equipment, etc.
- Set favorites for followers
- Adoption
- Build you own home…complete with skeleton butler!
- Spell combinations! Flame + Raise Zombie = Conjure Flame Atronach, Fear + Healing = Drain Health
- Goblins
- High Level Draugr
- Waygate fast-travel
- Epic new mounts
- Mounted combat
- Dragon Mounts
- Soulbug Familiar
- Kinect Shouts
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
- Enhanced Underwater Visuals
- Snow Footprints
- Verlet surfaces for non-rigid objects…like the Fat Giant
- Ice & Fire Arrows
- Werebear!
- Lycanthropy Perk Tree
- Vampire Feeding
- Become a flying Vampire Lord
- Vampire imp minions
- Mudcrab animation tweaks
