[Megathread] Elder Scrolls Online

[Lane]

Here's another. Probably will be fixed by release, but amused me nonetheless. :P

[Tabbycat]

Meh.

While I'm happy that NDA is finally gone, I will now have to be carefull. I don't want spoilers regarding story or any interesting quest stuff like how to get vampire or something like that. I have nearly spoiled stuff for myself since people already have talked about these (i think) earlier in this thread. I want to encounter these things myself and not know what happens. Maybe I should stop coming to read this thread and just look at stuff like ShoddyCast who appear to care about lore and not spoil stuff.

NDA is only lifted for level 1-17 content. Those who've experienced a longer beta can only give vague impressions about later content including VR.

That's because 1. it's unfair to media who don't have access to everything and 2. no spoilers.

I am allowed to say that Coldharbour (the actual zone, not the tutorial) is awesome and my favorite zone in the game.

[Shiny212]

I find them better than Skyrim's Orcs, Skin tones range from light green to dark brown in the creation screen. Though i admit they should have a more heavily muscular frame. Also the 'Swift' racial is kinda mind boggling to me, Orcs are generally not known as an agile race.

Nope..there's not a SINGLE green option, it is all GREY. And believe me..I checked, and obsessed, alot about this. And you're of course free to think what you want, but I want my orcs more brutal and less docile and humie looking. But green, ESO's orcs, are not:S

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Here's another. Probably will be fixed by release, but amused me nonetheless. :P

Well, he clearly needed a beter view.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

And you don't need a damage meter to tell that.

No but it is helpful. What you are afraid of has nothing to do with addons.

[Greevir]

Nope..there's not a SINGLE green option, it is all GREY. And believe me..I checked, and obsessed, alot about this. And you're of course free to think what you want, but I want my orcs more brutal and less docile and humie looking. But green, ESO's orcs, are not:S

Take a female Orc in ESO, remove the tusks and give them pointy ears and you have a Dunmer.

[Graeham]

Their current musculature doesn't seem out of place with how they've been presented in previous ES games, and is one of the highest in the game. They look fine, IMO.

Yeah. I'm thankful that they're not ridiculously huge compared to most of the other races in the setting. It's quite refreshing and I'm glad Skyrim and ESO chose realism over the awful mentality of 'xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ME ORC SO STRONK BEST RACE CUZ SO HUGE LOL!!!!' that seriously put me off the Horde at times back in WoW. It didn't stop there either - I actually saw people saying orcs were 'weak' in WoW because the tauren were larger. Yawn.

[Tankitbetter]

Just a heads up, the game was a huge pile of crap last weekend when I played it. If you're considering it, I present to you the TLDR version of ESO:

"Wow, this was better in Skyrim."

[Graeham]

Just a heads up, the game was a huge pile of crap last weekend when I played it. If you're considering it, I present to you the TLDR version of ESO:

"Wow, this was better in Skyrim."

It was a stress test beta weekend, not an early access period. The purpose was to deliberately strain and break things in order to see what needed to be smoothed out and fixed.

[-aiko-]

"Wow, this was better in Skyrim."

Expecting Skyrim was your first mistake.

[Deleted]

Mount pricing:


The 17200 gold horse is the standard horse, starts with 15% speed and 0 stamina, 0 carrying capacity
Every 20 hours you're able to upgrade your horse at a stable for 250 gold, to either increase the speed by 1% or the stamina or the capacity

the 42700 gold ones are the second tier, they start at 25% speed (Light), have more stamina (Gaited) or can carry more stuff (Draft)
I don't know if they can be upgraded further thant the standard horse, or if they're just pre-upgraded.



(the textures are horrible...)

[puppypizza]

Nope..there's not a SINGLE green option, it is all GREY. And believe me..I checked, and obsessed, alot about this. And you're of course free to think what you want, but I want my orcs more brutal and less docile and humie looking. But green, ESO's orcs, are not:S

Speaking of color, was I the only one having trouble making a dark-skinned Redguard? The best I could get was a sort of beach tanned version.

[Tabbycat]

Just a heads up, the game was a huge pile of crap last weekend when I played it. If you're considering it, I present to you the TLDR version of ESO:

"Wow, this was better in Skyrim."

Well, since the NDA is lifted, you can tell us exactly what was wrong with it instead of a vague "this is crap".

[Champagne Supernova]

Just a heads up, the game was a huge pile of crap last weekend when I played it. If you're considering it, I present to you the TLDR version of ESO:

"Wow, this was better in Skyrim."

Opinions and all that, Your opinion of ESO being a pile of crap is my opinion of WoW.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Opinions and all that, Your opinion of ESO being a pile of crap is my opinion of WoW.

It's not much of an opinion tbh

[Adam552]

I was picked for 2 betas for this..

All I can say is, after I played the first beta test, I gave my key to the 2nd beta test away because I found it so boring and offputting.

I created a character, first thing that happened was I couldn't leave the prison at the start.. after spending ages creating a character I really liked the look of. I tried relogging several times and was stuck wondering, am I suppose to find something in this prison? I looked around for ages before realising it was bugged... luckily, this is beta and they can fix that though.

I made a new character and it worked perfectly, but couldn't be bothered changing the appearance of it after what happened last time. I ran around killing stuff for the quests, but I found the combat exceptionally boring and after progressing a little and completing some quests, I got my last quest and said to myself, I can't be arsed with this anymore. This happened with at least 3 other friends I knew playing it - I don't know any of my friends who enjoyed it.

Basically my opinion on this game is... it's not like Skyrim or other Elder Scrolls games, it's more like any other MMO, which has had Skyrim character customization implanted into it and a crap combat system. When people say "it's like Skyrim but online", it's really... really not. This is what people are expecting it to be like... and they are going to be surprised :P

This game needs to get people to want to progress their character through it, for it to be successful. I don't really see this happening, I think most people can't be arsed either.

We'll see anyway, hope they make something of this opportunity because at the moment it was a disappointment to me.

[Edge-]

Is that what the horse looks like on high graphics settings?...

[wombinator04]

Is that what the horse looks like on high graphics settings?...

I hope not, if so then It would be pretty sad if a 10 year old game(WoW) had better mount textures then you did.

[Greevir]

Is that what the horse looks like on high graphics settings?...

Looks like it. Textures are kinda shit. But then again, textures have never been an Elder Scrolls strong point.

[Deleted]

Is that what the horse looks like on high graphics settings?...

yes, everything on max.
But this is as far zoomed in as possible.