The Gold Road Chapter – which includes the Scribing system – and Update 42 is now available to test on the PTS! You can read the latest patch notes here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/656454/
I went on an archaeology expedition on my hard drive and found the long-lost, oft-demanded true UI!
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Sure did take a lot of digging... but with manual frame-stepping and analysis, I finally have recovered the long-lost and fully-functional Elder Scrolls Online user interface that somehow became lost in space-time for the last two and a half years...
When will we get this back in-game!? The UI we have now is so much worse
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Nameplates!! AND A MINIMAP with multi-quest tracking options!!!! And it looks great! All of it was toggleable, and minimalistic/concise!
A real backpack/inventory with category filters while showing vendor values of items, names, icons, and not being limited to 6-7 items on-screen at one time...!
The map window, with quest tracking options, more detail and color to the terrain, and quest descriptions/journal entries!
Numbers on the resource bars! You could actually know that you were hit for a given amount of health, rather than guessing and pixel-counting without addons...
. You could even see your remaining magicka and stamina!
The skills window.. much more concise tooltips, bullet-point lists of effects and costs, unlock ranks at a glance, and the full skill line without needing to scroll up and down...!
Can we please get these options re-implemented?
When will we get this back in-game!? The UI we have now is so much worse
...Nameplates!! AND A MINIMAP with multi-quest tracking options!!!! And it looks great! All of it was toggleable, and minimalistic/concise!
A real backpack/inventory with category filters while showing vendor values of items, names, icons, and not being limited to 6-7 items on-screen at one time...!
The map window, with quest tracking options, more detail and color to the terrain, and quest descriptions/journal entries!
Numbers on the resource bars! You could actually know that you were hit for a given amount of health, rather than guessing and pixel-counting without addons...
. You could even see your remaining magicka and stamina!The skills window.. much more concise tooltips, bullet-point lists of effects and costs, unlock ranks at a glance, and the full skill line without needing to scroll up and down...!
Can we please get these options re-implemented?
-First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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-In-game mains abound with "Nerf" in their name. As I am asked occasionally, I do not play on anything but the PC NA Megaserver at this time.
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Smiteye✭✭✭Whoa... why isn't this in NOW!?
Bad picture quality but i guess that's what happens w/ time travel?25 -
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✭✭✭besides the map those features were awesome.
y u remove?
All of it was also able to be turned on and off in the settings window... why the options and choice was removed in a game that's supposed to be all about choice, I have no idea... but I want it back 
. The big map, for example, had an option to take off the quest journal/list border from it to make it not take up as much of the screen. Minimap could be enabled or disabled/hidden, as could the resource bar text, and nameplates by type of enemy or player (allies, guildmates, npc's, enemy players). Edited by Attorneyatlawl on June 22, 2015 3:39AM-First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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✭✭Attorneyatlawl wrote: »besides the map those features were awesome.
y u remove?
All of it was also able to be turned on and off in the settings window... why the options and choice was removed in a game that's supposed to be all about choice, I have no idea... but I want it back . The big map, for example, had an option to take off the quest journal/list border from it to make it not take up as much of the screen. Minimap could be enabled or disabled/hidden, as could the resource bar text, and nameplates by type of enemy or player (allies, guildmates, npc's, enemy players).
the map was awesome just to bright for my tastesPLEASE REPLY TO ME WITH @dsalter otherwise i'm likely to miss the reply if its not my own thread
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✭✭✭Attorneyatlawl wrote: »besides the map those features were awesome.
y u remove?
All of it was also able to be turned on and off in the settings window... why the options and choice was removed in a game that's supposed to be all about choice, I have no idea... but I want it back . The big map, for example, had an option to take off the quest journal/list border from it to make it not take up as much of the screen. Minimap could be enabled or disabled/hidden, as could the resource bar text, and nameplates by type of enemy or player (allies, guildmates, npc's, enemy players).
the map was awesome just to bright for my tastes
Ahhh
. -First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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✭✭✭✭✭Kind of reminds me of the videos of Duke Nukem Forever that showed full weapon bar.What ESO really needs is an Auction Horse.
That's right... Horse.
Click HERE to discuss.
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✭✭✭Kind of reminds me of the videos of Duke Nukem Forever that showed full weapon bar.
I never ended up playing Duke Nukem Forever, after waiting forever... I lost interest after the first couple of years' worth of delays and chuckled at articles the decade after
. -First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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The mini-map would have been ridiculously helpful. While it isn't particularly difficult, I do hate having to stop and pull up my map to double check my direction and where I'm going. It may be my bad sense of direction, but I do get off track or miss roads I meant to turn on way too often.
Although perhaps it makes it a little more realistic to the game not to have a built-in GPS available. 8 -
Talcon✭✭✭Holy ***..... wtf, the UI you posted is amazing, the in-game one is trash. Give me this mini map, the numbers, name plates, all of it. This compass *** is *** useless compared to a mini-map.10 -
this is never going to happen even though the maps and the mini map look well better :-(Meh!5 -
bertenburnyb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭haven't u heard of 'Immersionz' yet?
Zos people need the Immersionz-talk againHaze Ramoran Dunmer Dragonknight Tank/Dps – Smoked-Da-Herb Saxheel Templar Tank/Healer
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GaldorP✭✭✭✭✭Wow, that interface looks really nice It's rather close to the one I currently use: FTC without custom unit frames, but with numbers on resource bars + minimap addon.
I remember one of those coloured maps that made it into the final game and could be accessed near Smokefrost Peaks in The Rift months after release I thought it looked really nice and functional (shows you very clearly where you cannot go because there is unsurmountable terrain).
I wish all the maps in ESO would have Contour Lines and clearly marked bridges. That would be soo helpful!Edited by GaldorP on June 22, 2015 8:30AM8 -
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✭Didnt got the old ui a Function called Screenshoot?#makemagickadkgreataigan
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Me too... speaking of which... any chance we could get an update on that @ZOS_JessicaFolsomname plates is what i need most ! Would be sooo awesome to be able to toggle them on?
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/1268496/#Comment_1268496
(Sep 2014)ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »Attorneyatlawl wrote: »Would love to see one.
They're still on the table as a possibility, and something we're looking at. They always have been. But we don't have any new info to share
Unfortunately so, even though options by definition are... optional. So anyone who didn't want them on their screen could have simply toggled them. I hope we will see these preference settings return this year... -First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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Smiteye✭✭✭That this was removed made me.................................
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✭✭✭✭Wow.... all the things I seek addons for ... in a nice package.Tenesi Faryon of Telvanni - Dunmer Sorceress who deliberately sought sacrifice into Cold Harbor to rescue her beloved.
Hisa Ni Caemaire - Altmer Sorceress, member of the Order Draconis and Adept of the House of Dibella.
Broken Branch Toothmaul - goblin (for my goblin characters, I use either orsimer or bosmer templates) Templar, member of the Order Draconis and persistently unskilled pickpocket
Mol gro Durga - Orsimer Socerer/Battlemage who died the first time when the Nibenay Valley chapterhouse of the Order Draconis was destroyed, then went back to Cold Harbor to rescue his second/partner who was still captive. He overestimated his resistance to the hopelessness of Oblivion, about to give up, and looked up to see the golden glow of atherius surrounding a beautiful young woman who extended her hand to him and said "I can help you". He carried Fianna Kingsley out of Cold Harbor on his shoulder. He carried Alvard Stower under one arm. He also irritated the Prophet who had intended the portal for only Mol and Lyris.***Order Draconis - well c'mon there has to be some explanation for all those dragon tattoos.
House of Dibella - If you have ever seen or read "Memoirs of a Geisha" that's just the beginning...
Nibenay Valley Chapterhouse - Where now stands only desolate ground and a dolmen there once was a thriving community supporting one of the major chapterhouses of the Order Draconis6 -
bertenburnyb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭johan.danielsson1994b16_ESO wrote: »What the... Why did they scrap this? ugh!
"Welcome hero, have u heard of the wonderfull world of Immersionz.....
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✭I heard that ESO had a way better UI back in early beta, but hadn't actually seen it.
Kinda sad how they opted to destroy a perfectly good UI for the garbage we have now.
At least we can get back almost all of that with addons (other than the nameplates).12 -
Moonscythe✭✭✭✭✭hollamears wrote: »The mini-map would have been ridiculously helpful. While it isn't particularly difficult, I do hate having to stop and pull up my map to double check my direction and where I'm going. It may be my bad sense of direction, but I do get off track or miss roads I meant to turn on way too often.
Although perhaps it makes it a little more realistic to the game not to have a built-in GPS available.
I'm with you on getting lost. I need good maps or I end up going backwards. Even Morrowind's mini-map couldn't always save me from myself. My son laughs at me for being so directionally challenged.Scura di Notte - Altmer Nightblade (gear)
Lalin del Sombra - Bosmer Sorcerer (alchemy/enchanting)
Angevin Sarkany - Bosmer Dragonknight
Alkemene Velothi - Dunmer Warden (Morrowind)
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✭bump for the sadness of immersion-fascists...
so sad they skipped all the quality of live options for that *** they call an UIspelling and grammar errors are free to be abused
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You saw these things gradually removed. Did they ever explain why? Or did they just silently take them out?2 -
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✭✭Thank you, I never saw the original UI.
Wow what I wouldn't give to have some of these features and dump my addons.
Esp nameplates. That's been one of my biggest gripes in this game. They say they want it to be social but you have NO clue whether a guildie is standing right next to you in Rawhl. In guild chat, you see the @name but in groups or zone you see the character name. Unless you know every character everyone has, you never know who the heck you're talking to. Least guild cohesion I've seen in an mmo.
ZOS has spent too much effort trying to please everyone from the social aspects to the UI to dumbing down the difficulty of the game in general and ended up castrating the whole thing.Lag is ruinin' my 'mershun!
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Unfortunately no, explanations were not provided even on the closed beta forums. The only topics they did respond to were api changes regarding buff information towards launch when a lot of pre ordering people were without having played the game, demanding that addons be disallowed from showing even game info about your own character. When the minimap was removed, it was asked about frequently but never responded to. An addon was able to make it show back up as it had only been disabled but not removed. Eventually it was fully removed and a few weeks of thread bumping later by other closed beta testers only yielded a response saying they did not plan to bring it back, as they did not want to commit the development resources to update it.This is so depressing.
You saw these things gradually removed. Did they ever explain why? Or did they just silently take them out?
I really still hope they end up bringing all of these options back. I have tried to bring attention to these issues for a long time now but little has been said about them by ZOS, sadly.
-First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent.
Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!
-Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
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Attorneyatlawl wrote: »
Unfortunately no, explanations were not provided even on the closed beta forums. The only topics they did respond to were api changes regarding buff information towards launch when a lot of pre ordering people were without having played the game, demanding that addons be disallowed from showing even game info about your own character. When the minimap was removed, it was asked about frequently but never responded to. An addon was able to make it show back up as it had only been disabled but not removed. Eventually it was fully removed and a few weeks of thread bumping later by other closed beta testers only yielded a response saying they did not plan to bring it back, as they did not want to commit the development resources to update it.This is so depressing.
You saw these things gradually removed. Did they ever explain why? Or did they just silently take them out?
I really still hope they end up bringing all of these options back. I have tried to bring attention to these issues for a long time now but little has been said about them by ZOS, sadly.
Was this when they were usingthe hero engine or after they built their own?You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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✭✭✭✭✭To be honest - I don't like nameplates
I DO like the mini map and numbers on my bar tooo!
But guess what, if nameplates were abled to be toggled OFF, I wouldn't care! Choice! Wonderful people who want nameplates can have them.. and people like me who don't.. can turn them off! Sounds amazing!
I'd also turn off the minimap while questing - as I already do. You know what, that's the great part of options!
I really need to lighten up on the add-ons.. by having some of them already in game! (*cough* lootdrop *cough* advanced inventory filters *cough*)Lone Wolf HelpFor the solo players who know, sometimes you just need a hand.PC | NA | AD-DC-EP | Discord7
