Wednesday, June 11, 2014

ESO E3 Trailer "Live another Life."

ZOS released a new trailer for E3 (Electroinc Entertainment Expo), an amalgam of game play videos showing all the neat stuff there is to do in Tamriel. It's pretty cool, even if it's stuff you've already seen. Check it out below. Bring back any memories?


Monday, June 9, 2014

Road Ahead Recap

ZOS released another “Road Ahead” last week.  Among the obligatory assurances of bug-fixes and continuous improvements were some important takeaways. 

Update 2 will be released on June 23 and will include a new features: a slider that changes your ‘field of view,’ more access to items in game, and—of course—more bug fixes.  Update 3 will follow in July and will have long-awaited guild tabards, armor dying, and a rework of the ‘delves,’ (smaller dungeons) which will be expanded. Finally, some quests will get fixes to prevent lingering phasing problems.

Balance issues are being implemented incrementally. Nightblades will finally get a buff to bring their abilities ‘in line with other classes,’ while Dragon Knights will have their abilities nerfed to bring their survivability ‘in line with other classes. ’Implementation of these changes will be slow, to prevent balance from ‘swinging wildly.’ Ultimate spamming in PvP will also be addressed.

I was pleased to see ZOS acknowledge some of the problems that the game still has.  The post did a good job of describing how ZOS plans to improve the game.  I will be interested to see how these changes pan out over the next few months, though I am a little bummed that my DK will no longer be as badass as he is now.

See you in Tamriel!

-Phaz