ESO Live - Ask Us Anything!

OmniDevil

Guild Customization/Options

I would love to be able to give the ability for all ranks to at least see what's in the bank, without having to give everyone access to withdraw.

Provisioning

A filter to narrow down just green, blue or purple recipes, to recipes that make health/stam food or health/magicka. I hate having a ton of provisioning mats, which then requires me having to scroll through a long list of recipes of food I can make, 95% of which I'm not trying to make.

Forestd16b14_ESO

Will you guys be sending out qustionars or something like that after the events of PTS to get feed back or can we just summit feed back anytime. Love to make some suggestions.

Darlgon

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Will you guys be sending out qustionars or something like that after the events of PTS to get feed back or can we just summit feed back anytime. Love to make some suggestions.

@ZoS_JessicaFolsom has like 10 threads in the PTS secion of forums TO GIVE FEEDBACK on certain sections. Head there and sound off.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/categories/pts

Even tho we WOULD like them stickied to the top Jess.....so people can actually find them without going three or four pages back in the dev tracker..

Zanefold

Do we know when the next eso live will be?

Also text chat for consoles please!!

Rjthakid

Seeing as the vast majority of serious PC players use add-ons, will Zenimax be creating an alternative for console players? 'Console' doesn't mean 'casual'. Zenimax has largely dismissed this as a design choice but it's a design choice that affects console players and not PC players.

Bleakraven

mrskinskull wrote: »

And the lions share of casual console players are already having an awesome time, they are the ones who my ACTUALLY wander off if they are being assaulted with cluttered ui.

I play on the console. I'm having an okay time, but it would be better with text chat so I can make friends more easily, understand people better, group up and sell stuff faster. It just feels lonely right now. I really want optional text chat so I can chat with multiple guilds at once and do all the things I mentioned before.

Uncle_Voodoo

Bleakraven wrote: »

mrskinskull wrote: »

And the lions share of casual console players are already having an awesome time, they are the ones who my ACTUALLY wander off if they are being assaulted with cluttered ui.

I play on the console. I'm having an okay time, but it would be better with text chat so I can make friends more easily, understand people better, group up and sell stuff faster. It just feels lonely right now. I really want optional text chat so I can chat with multiple guilds at once and do all the things I mentioned before.

I agree with this. TESOTU is awesome but now that I am vr14, it would be nice to have a text chat as a tool to find guilds and group for content. I played DCUO since Jan 2011 and came here because that game became too casual. One thing that console players raved about on DCUO was the implement of LFG world wide chat. It made grouping for content so much easier than just using the "group finder" queue.

Zanefold

So I love how they tried to justify not having text chat on console on a previous eso live (Episode 16) and from watching them you can't help but believe that they almost believe that its a bad idea not to have it as well lol

It starts at 1 hr 5 min and 42 seconds

https://youtu.be/5N17KZ_ZCK0?t=1h5m42s

AshTal

Questions

1) Is the bonus we can see to Argonian racials on the PTS in 2.1 the limit of the rebalancing or can we expect to get something actually useful such as increased bonus health, natural damage resistance or something useful that doesn't require constant consumption of potions to be used?

2) With the changes to PTS it is obvious the sorcery is meant to be a pet control class which is cool. However the AI of pets is just soooo stupid. In PvP they move ahead of the caster or chase down enemies going into the enemy battle lines. Pets last seconds because while everyone is holding back in their lines the pets are the only things which can be hit and killed. Is there any plan to make pets actually viable in PvP?

3) What are the plans to make Cadwell Gold and Silver more fun/engaging to play through. Is there a plan to update them so they actually play as if the events in cold Harbour have happened?

AaronLannister

Zanefold wrote: »

So I love how they tried to justify not having text chat on console on a previous eso live (Episode 16) and from watching them you can't help but believe that they almost believe that its a bad idea not to have it as well lol

It starts at 1 hr 5 min and 42 seconds

https://youtu.be/5N17KZ_ZCK0?t=1h5m42s

look at him stutter. he probably understands how stupid ESO's social system is.

ShadowAvenger45

Is PTS only for pc?

NewBlacksmurf

Console text chat box Comprise idea: @ZOS_GinaBruno

Instead of adding a text chat box (this I'm not in favor of and from the comments it seems that "text chat" is assumed as such by those who want the feature)....

can we all agree on adding text chat bubble typing of 20-50 chars every 10 secs or so on screen like the radial emotes and a text chat box within the social menu?

-I'm also not for a text zone chat but could fully support text chat bubbles (with item linking)

Another idea is:
On console only:
Open up text chat (not in a text box on the normal UI screen while playing but within a social menu)
-this would function, look and work just like the PC version of text chat with one exception. It's in the social menu

Please comment, etc.
trying to compromise my opinions and hopefully at least get you all for text chat another official response from ZOS on the next ESo Live

Please oh Please @ZOS_GinaBruno ask someone to comment
Big thnx and loving the console version!

Edit with link to thread: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/199830/console-should-text-chat-be-implemented-with-the-ic-patch#latest

AaronLannister

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Instead of adding a text chat box (this I'm not in favor of and from the comments it seems that "text chat" is assumed as such by those who want the feature)....

Terrible idea in general for many reasons.

can we all agree on adding text chat bubble typing of 20-50 chars every 10 secs or so on screen like the radial emotes and a text chat box within the social menu?

No.

-I'm also not for a text zone chat but could fully support text chat bubbles (with item linking)

Still a bad idea.

mrskinskull

Bleakraven wrote: »

mrskinskull wrote: »

And the lions share of casual console players are already having an awesome time, they are the ones who my ACTUALLY wander off if they are being assaulted with cluttered ui.

I play on the console. I'm having an okay time, but it would be better with text chat so I can make friends more easily, understand people better, group up and sell stuff faster. It just feels lonely right now. I really want optional text chat so I can chat with multiple guilds at once and do all the things I mentioned before.

PS 4?

Let's play. There's tons of people to laugh and joke with while pvping or doing dungeons.

I'm in a massive trading guild and a giant PvP guild. Mics are your friend, lol.

mrskinskull

AaronLannister wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Instead of adding a text chat box (this I'm not in favor of and from the comments it seems that "text chat" is assumed as such by those who want the feature)....

Terrible idea in general for many reasons.

can we all agree on adding text chat bubble typing of 20-50 chars every 10 secs or so on screen like the radial emotes and a text chat box within the social menu?

No.

-I'm also not for a text zone chat but could fully support text chat bubbles (with item linking)

Still a bad idea.

No worse than cluttering my screen with sheets of THiS.


Imagine forum know it alls constantly typing to you in every corner of tamriel.

Political arguments, racist comments, rambling conversations from 100 wpm typers.

No thanks.

Zos can we ever have one v one PvP?

Duragon_Darko

Text chat please. And stop saying "ask anything" when you refuse to address the issue, dodge the question and physically try to delete all the questions people ask you during Live about text chat. "Ask you anything" feels more like Metallica "you can do whatever you want, so long it's done how I say". ADDRESS US.

MissBizz

Is VR16 armor needing 10x the mats of VR15 to be crafted intended?

zardenurghanb14_ESO

ZOS its ok to admit you guys messed up by not adding text chat to consoles. Wit that said could you please let your fans/player base know if you'll ever add it. Ive see alot of feedback on this and it seems the majority want it and judging from the ESO Live 16 you guys also seem to be forcing yourselves to not say how bad it was to not include text chat.

Duragon_Darko

zardenurghanb14_ESO wrote: »

ZOS its ok to admit you guys messed up by not adding text chat to consoles. Wit that said could you please let your fans/player base know if you'll ever add it. Ive see alot of feedback on this and it seems the majority want it and judging from the ESO Live 16 you guys also seem to be forcing yourselves to not say how bad it was to not include text chat.

Agreed. They forcibly hold their tongue and are very conspicuous in their attempt at ignoring the text chat conversation, but seem themselves knowledgeable to the fact that for communication in an MMO, text chat option is necessary. If you know it to be true, come out and say it already and just add the option. The console community deserves a response at the very least.

mrskinskull

Duragon_Darko wrote: »

zardenurghanb14_ESO wrote: »

ZOS its ok to admit you guys messed up by not adding text chat to consoles. Wit that said could you please let your fans/player base know if you'll ever add it. Ive see alot of feedback on this and it seems the majority want it and judging from the ESO Live 16 you guys also seem to be forcing yourselves to not say how bad it was to not include text chat.

Agreed. They forcibly hold their tongue and are very conspicuous in their attempt at ignoring the text chat conversation, but seem themselves knowledgeable to the fact that for communication in an MMO, text chat option is necessary. If you know it to be true, come out and say it already and just add the option. The console community deserves a response at the very least.

They already explained this at console launch.

Zos will there be any new armor sets?

What kind of abilities might they include.

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dday3six

Live 23 Rich mentioned an updated more informative UI. Is that going to be just for PC/Mac or available on consoles as well? Also he hinted at other parts they weren't ready to share yet, is one of those parts text chat for console?

I've been watching several streams of pts. With the 33% cost increase, the cooldown seems to around 6 seconds. I'm going over that CD and comparing it to fights I've had recently and with no stamina regen while blocking there seems to be an overly long period of no viable defensive options for Stamina based characters, particularly Nightblades. Any chance that might be adjusted to 3 seconds?

mrskinskull

Duragon_Darko wrote: »

mrskinskull wrote: »

Duragon_Darko wrote: »

zardenurghanb14_ESO wrote: »

ZOS its ok to admit you guys messed up by not adding text chat to consoles. Wit that said could you please let your fans/player base know if you'll ever add it. Ive see alot of feedback on this and it seems the majority want it and judging from the ESO Live 16 you guys also seem to be forcing yourselves to not say how bad it was to not include text chat.

Agreed. They forcibly hold their tongue and are very conspicuous in their attempt at ignoring the text chat conversation, but seem themselves knowledgeable to the fact that for communication in an MMO, text chat option is necessary. If you know it to be true, come out and say it already and just add the option. The console community deserves a response at the very least.

They already explained this at console launch.

Zos will there be any new armor sets?

What kind of abilities might they include.

Not a niche pet issue, the entire console community has polls on this, and regardless what was said at launch, for the health and success of the game, they need to revisit. Thanks for the unnecessarily negative and condescending reply.

I want more stable gameplay and new dlc over redundant communication systems.

I have suggested a second screen experience as a way to keep text clutter off the HUD.

This is really the only way I can see zos being able to balance the simple starter gameplay that invited new players in and still allows the hard core players to communicate.

We all paid 60 dollars and had access to beta gameplay and gameplay live streams. We knew well before hand what console gameplay was like.

I for one thought and continue to think its awesome.

Why should a tiny fraction of the community get to dictate money out of the budget for an unnessesary feature?

I want dragons.

More people probably want dragons over text clutter.

I have mentioned it on the forums and let it go.

On behalf of the entire community, I ask the people campaignimg for text chat to please be respectful of people who disagree with you.

While I'm here, zos can I haz dragons?

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CptPho

Veteran daily pledge won't reset.

J2JMC

ZOS why can't I customize my controller to suit my needs? You're initial reasoning was there were a lot of things that required multiple button presses. First, I wasn't aware 2 constituted as "a lot". Second, what the heck does that have to do with me mapping actions to where they are most comfortable to me. Your one other configuration on the ps4 is actually more useless than the initial one. If you're not going to let me customize my controller, please set an option to switch the map and weapon swap buttons. The ability to open my map in motion is beyond useless since we can't move with it open anyway.

MarauderWarlord

On the Imperial City Q & A, Eric Wrobel said that they were changing werewolves and vampires to where they need to have abilities slotted in order to take advantage of the passives. Does the Bat Swarm ultimate in the vampire skill line count towards this? Also, is there any way you could change Drain Essence to be actually usable? I'm fine with the restriction on it where you can only use it once on an enemy in a certain period of time, but as it is now you can't use it AT ALL a vast majority of the time (target is immune). It can't be used on bosses or just about any other mob that's stunned/knocked down/whatever. Maybe you could remove the stun component on the ability? Or just make bosses/enemies immune to the stun but not the drain effect?


Also, there are a few different dog breeds we can get as pets on the crown store...can we get a Rottweiler? please?

kaorunandrak

Hello I just wanted to ask a question or two since most of the questions I post don't get answered as it is currently.

That said I first wanted to say thanks for the game I appreciate it a great deal, and as a recent college graduate where I got my bachelors degree in game design I understand some what, of how hard it is to create and develop a game thus I appreciate the work you guys are doing even more.

Now my first question/comment is about the new sets specifically the dropped sets in dungeons. We really don't have any information regarding them out side this imugr link where some one went dumpster diving for the code and brought them into the game to check out http://imgur.com/a/4VpOB.

Just looking for as much information as we can get, such as does the Essence thief set pictured here http://i.imgur.com/WKLHWcm.png drop in all three armor types or one specifically? Also does this set and the others include jewelry?

If they only drop in one armor type and without jewelry, have you guys considered allowing these sets to drop in multiple armor types and include jewelry for them?

Probably one of the biggest gripes with the game I and those in my guild have is the lack of support for customization with armor builds. Personally I DPS in 5 piece heavy armor because I don't like being a glass canon but there are very few sets that come in heavy armor that allow for my play style. And with the lack of jewelry crafting it is hard to fit dropped and crafted sets together especially when you are a two handed/staff/bow user.

So being able to get multiple armor type drops and jewelry at least for these non craft-able sets would at the very least allow us to craft around them to customize our builds and make use of these sets for our play styles. Do you think you guys would be willing to do this, the feature is already there for the most part with the undaunted sets could you extend them to these sets and include the jewelry at the least?

Final thought is in regard to the stamina regeneration on blocking. While I believe I understand why you guys are doing it, have you thought about instead of reducing the regen just make blocking increase the cost of ALL skills and reduce their potency? One of my largest problems with this change as a STAMINA dps is that if I block I am effectively killing my self in a solo pve or ANY pvp situation and that this change leaves Magika users alone for the most part.

To explain my position better, basically in my tests so far while in combat and smart dodging/blocking when I block stamina regen goes away and then doesn't immediately restart when the block is dropped, it is taking a few seconds to "ramp" up and when multiple mobs are attacking I'm having to "smart block" heavy attacks A LOT thus keeping my self in or close too permanent no stamina regen and in pvp you are forced into blocking other wise sorc's or other stamina users will crystal frags/wrecking blow you to death.

Now too many times in my pvp testing have I gone up against magicka users that have blocked until their stamina wore out and then relied on their massive blue bars to not only defend but also attack. Keep in mind that they are also attacking while blocking and regenerating their primary resource with no issues while I have nothing that will allow me that sort of utility or survivability from magicka as a stam user.

My personal opinion is that while blocking players should incur a 50-100% ABILITY COST INCREASE and a 25-50% ABILITY POTENCY DECREASE thus making "block casting" or "turtle casting" detrimental while still allowing for it in emergency situations. this would keep people from perma blocking and casting from safety cause they will be out of resource and their abilities will not being healing/damaging for what they should. You guys have to look at this from not just a tank or PVE side but also from a PVP and DPS/healer side cause sometimes we have to block too.

At the very least Slap a 100% reduction to magika regeneration onto it as well, so that mage's aren't perma block casting either.

Thank you for your time.
Kaoru Nan' Drak

Olympios

Please give us text chat on console so we don't have to wait 1 hour to form a party with build-in group finder.

Duragon_Darko

My question for next live session is, why would you eliminate text chat from an MMO and do you have any plans to revisit that decision in the future. That is a valid question.

Thank you.

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dday3six

In regards to the expanded UI mentioned in Live 23, any more infomation we can have on that? Perhaps an ETA?

Geemarc

Will there be any updates to the guild trader system?

For example a type and search function, trying to find items in its current state takes ages.

If this is already on the PC version will it be added to the console release?