Already Confirmed are the hidden arrow traps

This is true. But as someone said, more puzzles connected to traps, as in disarming or avoiding them, would be good.

haha you know after i posted that i went on and saw a review that confirmed it but thanks for letting me know :celebration:

I'd love it if the traps were actually deadly this time around. I can't think of one instance in Oblivion where one of those "traps" killed me. Okay, there were a few times when my health was insanely low from a previous battle and some gas/spikes did me in, but I never actually feared those traps like I should have.

collapsing floor maybe into a pit pf enemies and a way out

Dang. Now I feel bad for missing Shivering Isles!

I have two hopes for Skyrim when it comes to traps
1) That the traps native to the dungeons can be reset.
2) That the character can build and set traps themselves.

I want the kind of trap that leaves you feeling dirty, hungover, and regretful in the morning.

Player set traps, now you're talking. And not just the spell type traps but physical ones too. :thumbsup:

They have to be ones that punish the ones any ree-ree decisions you make, but they cannot be something that punish you for not looking all the time, that would be too frustrating for some people and most don't like to have to repeatedly save their game to negate missing a trap.

I'd like to see the security skill be used to allow the disarming of booby traps in game, like finding access panels near traps and being able to use probes to go into a probing (lol, probing) minigame similar to the lockpick minigame. That's better than trying to run and dodge every single trap in game, and there will still be traps that you can't disarm, like a pitfall with spikes at the bottom.

The probing minigame could be like this: you have to rotate the probe until you find a latching mechanism, then you need to slightly tug on it to see if it will give way, and if it does, you press action to disable that latch. Depending on the mechanism's difficulty, you need to disable up to 5 latches to disarm the trap, and if you try to disable a latch without it being properly set, you break the probe, and if you disable a latch out of order, it will break the mechanism and you won't be able disarm the trap.

I was hoping for the same thing. Let Security skill govern your chances of discovering a trap. They could make it so if you are in proximity of one you get some visual signal similar to the eye when you're sneaking. They could do something similar for Mysticism to discover magic traps.

I like the way you think, there's too much emphasis on humaniod undead. Sounds like a good premise for a movie too, I'd go for Danny Glover in the lead role: 'I'm too old for Zombie Bears'

Trapped locks on doors and containers so failing in
lockpicking (more hard, realtime not in menu mode lockpicking thats both utilize charter and player skills)
or bashing (equipment and power sensitive)
or opening with spell (chance of failing based of alteration skill level but not more of 50% and level of lock so difficult locks need more potent spell thats require mastery level)
will activate trap on lock or trap stetted nearby around, magical traps will require additional work like fast dodging projective or additional skills in security to disable them, blocking it with well timed shield block with damaging of shield, using dispel on it where power of dispel checked versus magnitude of trap rune.

There can be alarm trap thats emit sound thats alarm actors in area and stagger character for some duration,
poison needle traps thats paralyze and poison overtime,
curse rune traps thats slowdown and decrease stats,
exploding rune or bomb thats bash and add fire damage,
Light rune or flashbang bomb thats blind character and light up area,
Acid spray trap thats do damage overtime and decrease durability of equipment
Summoning rune thats conjure hostile high level creature
Teleporting trap thats force recall player to some mark.

thats very true... i'm just afraid these puzzle/traps will become redundant with multiple playthroughs.

theyre either going to have to be somehow procedurally generated, or very complex so i dont remember exactly what i have to do each time i play a new character.

It would be totally epic if there was one like ikn Indiana jones where a huge boulder comes and you have to out run it or get smashed.

Explosive traps like in TW2; freezing, electrical, containment type where enemy is stuck in place. I've always thought 'quick sand' traps that made enemies sink part way into the earth would be cool. Maybe up to their waist, then we chop them down.

Fun times.

I want something like where you get chased by a boulder and theres a door at the end of the tunnel, after running like hell and bursting through the door, theres no floor and you fly off into a spike trap, or instead a door leading to a wall

Morrowind traps would be great.

I was thinking the same thing. I hated it in previous games when my Security (Master) thief would blunder into a tripwire because I was too stupid to see it. Security should give you a chance to spot stuff like that. Likewise, would be fine with it if a low Security skill would make the tripwires literally invisible! I don't want my dumb fighter or preoccupied mage spotting all that stuff, even if I the player am paying attention.


Mysticism is gone :'(

*Posts link to the first three indiana jones movies