I would also like the ability to turn off sound effects and visual effects from some of the in game mounts and actions.

It isn't too bad when you can be far away from them, but when they go off right next to your ear, after a quiet stretch, it can be a jumpscare, because you arent' expecting it. And since it is in close proximity to you, it is of course much louder.

Unfortunately, just turning down the volume doesn't work, because it turns down *all* the volume, and so now I can't hear what people are saying, or the environmental tells that something is going to attack me.

While I would far prefer an individual 'shut this action up', I would understand if it had t obe a blanket 'hear all actions or none'. There are some musical instruments that I would love to shut up, though I don't know which ones they are (just heard them at a WB during an event, but couldn't find the person playing them to identify them)

I see ESO sliding slowly towards a Fortnite type of style, where anything goes as long as it can sell in the store. I don't think it takes it's own setting seriously anymore.

It's a major reason why I rarely log in for very long anymore (that, plus the random lag), and when I do I spend the time in my house decorating.

zaria wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Players that prefer a more realistic atmosphere, such as ESO used to have, should not have to accept being constantly assaulted in towns by loud and exploding bright flashes of light every time someone mounts up or ports out. What we prefer should be given equal consideration.

These effects should be muted in towns, and/or a toggle provided for the player to turn these effects off or way down, so everyone can enjoy the game how they prefer.

Except it was not an option as some people like them.
Note that the endeavors makes them much more common.

What was not an option? To have a more realistic world like ESO used to be?

If other players like a bright and loud cartoony experience then that is fine for them. But many of us don't and we shouldn't have our experience ruined over it. Our preferences are just as important as others but we aren't being given any options to play in the world as we once knew it, and as we prefer.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all,

Wanted to follow up here. The goal is always to provided a balance of more grounded yet cool items and more fun/ fantastical items as well.

We have taken note and shared feedback when some items may push that balance a bit far, like our 4-sword horse friend. (I find this mount fun, but totally understand it can be super jarring.)

However, the item selections are meant to give you the player tools to be creative and have fun. Sometimes player choice will lead to a dancing Molag Bal, as jarring as that can be. But between the Crown Store items, in-game items and in-game event items, there are plenty of choices to make a more grounded experience for yourself and for others if they so choose. Some may go down the route of Sheogorath for a more maddening experience, but they should have the option to do so as well.

All that being said, happy to take any additional feedback to the team for their consideration. Is there a style or kind of cosmetic we have made in the past that you would like us to lean more into?

Thanks for any feedback give here. And please be mindful when submitting feedback that you remember community guidelines.

It's perhaps a slightly different take on the thread, which is focusing solely on the crown store, but I find that many player effects are completely out of place. Actually, they're completely out of *world*. If you look at the arcanist, for example, many of those effects are more akin to a 2d icon than an in-game effect. If I slam my staff down and create a wall of fire, I see real fire cracking through the ground. If an arcanist does..... literally anything... it displays solid color geometric shapes on my HUD. This is closer to a HarvestMap indicator than an in-world effect. I have noticed this trend over the past couple years whereby the effects are somehow so far removed from the game that they are no longer real things happening in Tamriel, they are GUIs on my computer screen. That's a crazy amount of immersion breaking. Though every single piece of the arcanist fits this description of being totally out of game (Venom-inspired tentacles?), this complaint is not limited to just the arcanist. It's any visual that is not part of the game world.

Beyond that, the shear amount of effects on the screen make even 4-man dungeons impossible to see what's going on. I don't find that enjoyable, I find it tedious (and dungeons are already an unpleasant, even dreadful (as in, unwanted) experience due to raging tanks and sprinters). This is beyond polymorphs and mounts, this is just basic gameplay. I hate it. Completely.

This coincides with the UI redesign from the last update. The flat look of the UI is completely out of place in a lore-heavy RPG. It's as uninspiring as the 2d arcanist effects that I keep harping on (it's a common class, so they're everywhere, and they are sooooooo jarrrring....... hands down the worst artwork in the entire game), and it makes me feel like I'm using an "idiot-mode" user interface instead of the immersive sophsitication more typical of a TES game. Just to take one random example, in the pre-46 UI, the menu icon for the journal was a weathered book with subtle signs of wear, dimension, and history, capturing the weight of my adventures past and present. The present icon is........... an icon in a HUD. Sigh. I hate it. I hate everything about the new post-46 UI.

This is a slight tangent, but.... I cannot stress enough that the worst part about the large amount of bad cosmetics is that if I ever find a good one I might want, it's either locked behind gambling (which is *horrible*), or it's on a timer, which makes me refuse to purchase based on *principle*. I have 170,000 crowns that I won't spend because of this. The only thing that should ever be time limited is a sale. It's a digital store, you don't have to play toxic mental games with your customer base to trick them into buying things because of an artifical timer. That's disingenuous at best and predatory at worst. And before you or anyone else at ZOS censors this post, I have emails *from ZOS* explaining that you do the fake time limits exactly to coerce people to spend more crowns.

Anyway, as far as art direction goes, my overall impression (that I suppose I should have started with, because nobody will read this far) is that the art at the start of the game was cohesive, intentional, and part of the Tamriel world building. While it was somewhat simplisitic even by 2014 standards, it was REAL. Somewhere along the line, likely coinciding with what I assume were staffing changes, it fell into a disarray of over the top, out of place, out of game, random nonsense.

[Note also that I previously made similar comments about other non-art-specific areas of the game, so I think this is a general trend whereby artistic direction of core content is largely unfocused. This was in relation to feedback about a video that ZOS made for the release of I think High Isle, and you asked for feedback about it.]

salander7 wrote: »

Don't expect WW sneak ever, it doesn't make that much sense, they're a >2m roaring mass of muscles.

Why are there werewolves sneaking in the world of Tamriel, then? Why does Hildegard say she is sneaky in her werewolf form?


Why were werewolves able to sneak in TES III, but in their next appearance in TES V (which ESO heavily derives from) that functionality was forgotten?

Why are there already sneaking animations that are made specifically for players to use in werewolf form? Why is such a basic, fundamental gameplay mechanic disabled for werewolves, but allowed even for other transformation types which are far larger than them?

Make it make sense. Werewolves do sneak/prowl in the world of The Elder Scrolls. The player could do so in previous titles, and NPCs do so in this very game.

Also, re the mounts thing.

I would LOOOVE more horse mounts, varied coat colors (There are SO many different coat colors in real life), with basic tack (so many of the mounts have tack that covers them nearly entirely, or other aspects that make them less appealing to me). I would also love it if these were put in game for in game gold.

Give each region its own mount that can be bought for gold, maybe even two or three! (since they would really just need to be recolors of each other, instead of new meshes/skeletons). Show off what each region prizes in mounts. Skryim mounts could be more hardy pony like breeds, Vvardenfall could have nix oxes, Alik'r could have camels or lighter more endurance oriented mounts.

Maybe High Isle and the bretons favor more heavy set breeds like drafts. What would Altmer mounts look like. Bosmer?

Also, get creative with tack! (though I would like the mounts bought for gold to have more simple tack to show off the actual colors of the steed and markings)

Basically, give us more lore friendly looks at what each region and each people prize in a mount and how they would decorate the tack.

shadoza wrote: »

"ESO_player123 wrote:

Leads are one of the ways to entice long term players to revisit old content. Where do you propose to put them instead?

Yes, we want to keep old content fresh.
After leaving a dungeon, I found a lead sparkling on the ground. There were many of these sparkling leads in High Isles. Perhaps more of that.

Just...on the...ground? Look, maybe in rare circumstances, but that sounds so incredibly boring to me. I know there are some people who have no interest in challenge but this is a game, and for a lot of people, most people I believe, a game requires motivation. Leads are a form of motivation. Leaving them on the ground is completely removing one of their primary purposes for existing.

haynes.jgrkpreub18_ESO wrote: »

You must not been around at launch. This game barely felt like an Elder Scrolls game at all.

I was around at launch and before, as I also played in the Beta.

I never expected ESO to play like the single player Elder Scrolls games because ESO is a multiplayer game. I expect it to play like ESO though, and it is moving away from that direction in too many ways.