I personally would think that it would be cool but on a different note water freezing in skyrim is something I would like to see

The Volkihar clan has been around since Oblivion. Read moar lore.

they said spell reacting with the enviroment so why should it only be things burning being able to freeze water with a frost spell would be awesome

I just want a small chance that if you cast freeze on your enemy that 1-2 of his potions are frozen solid and will take 1-2 hours to THAW OUT. If you fought a powerful magic user, he would probably have tons of health potions on him to make him harder to kill, so yeah, that would be awesome. And if they are intelligent NPC's, they might also do the same to you. In that case, I am for freezing water ...

I played a 3DO game (the first video-enabled game machine, it used Cinepak which was grainy but hey, it was awesome for the time!) that was a D&D game, and you could cast "Ice Storm" and it would freeze the ground and make everything slippery. In one dungeon which had these ramps (not steps) to climb to get to each part, I cast this spell. I then nearly died from laughter as all of these cat-like looking monsters kept sliding past me, their eyes bulging out as the slid helplessly down the ramps and out the front door of the dungeon (not literally just in my imagination) and they looked all wet and soggy-eared and it was the funniest thing I ever saw in a video game, totally unscripted, just what happened when the ground became slippery and they couldn't run over to attack me.

I had to cast spells like I was duck hunting, leading the shot ahead of where they were sliding to, and I got pretty good at it. There were soggy catmen (not sure what race of monster they were now) sliding all over the place, knocking into one another, and I was unable to play the game at all because I was on the floor rolling around in hysteria that I only wish I could relive at least one more time in my lifetime.

This only came about because I could freeze the ground with my Ice Storm spell... I mean, what were they THINKING to actually be that cool in adding such a feature ? I'll never forget that day of gaming.

Cool. Yeah, it's so many possibilities

Well, one use of freezing water would be to walk over it without needing to swim. But unless Bethesda took out the water walking spell, that's really not so useful.

It would still be nice to see something like this, though, we've heard about being able to set the environment on fire in Skyrim, so I'm hoping other spells get environmental effects like that as well, we'll see about it, I suppose.



I think we can safely assume we'll see static ice sheets over some of the water in Skyrim, I mean, Bloodmoon had that too, it's really not that hard. Just create an ice sheet model, and place it above the water in some areas. Now if you could actually have ice dynamically freeze on water, that would be more impressive.

There is deformable terrain in the sense that the dragon, when it crashed in the new trailer, scraqed about the first 3 inches of topsoil away from the surface. If they can break away chunks of topsoil, revealing the soil beneath, why couldn't they dynamically generate white-colored "topsoil" that simulated ice? And then let you walk across it? The reason I ask is because there may be places in the North that freeze during the Winter but are swimmable during the Summer months ... like the Bering Straight. Or their might even be quests relating to melting a lake so you can swim under it and retrieve a lost item.... which would require you to be able to melt that topsoil layer.

Would be really cool if this was true. Wait and see, I guess.

I could be mistaken, but doesn't the dragon-fire in the trailer melt the ice? I think that's already in the game.

i would love to have the chance of falling through thin ice on lakes and also i would like to see crevasses that are sometimes hidden. there could be visual or sound clues around that if you werent paying attention......they would get you.

Yeah, that would be awesome.

I want to encounter a sabre-toothes squirrel that tries to stuff a acorn into the ice.

Well, melting ice with fire into water and freezing water into ice with frost would be awesome in my opinion.

Still, what in case of casting a frost spell while under the water?
Maybe make it a chance that you can freeze yourself and drown in case you are not careful?

It's in the Zelda games (originally?) with the frost arrows. I don't see much of problem, a frost spell just cools the air around it, it would only freeze water, you wouldn't be creating icebergs in the middle of the street.

It would be a Destruction alternative to the Alteration Water Walk.

We saw how the dragon's crash in the video got rid of snow. And how the dragon's fire melted the snow.

We know that when you have a freeze spell, you'll be able to see its effect on stuff (was written in the GI article about Better combat or technology I think).

So I'm guessing, just guessing, there could be frozen water that can melt?
It would be really awesome, but it could be pretty hard to do. Just making good water is hard. Adding some kind of static effect on top of it sounds hard.

I don't care about freezing water myself, but I sure hope there are frozen lakes.