ESO 2014 BETA PICTURES!!! WARNING... CONTAINS PARTIAL NUDITY...

Shadzilla

Was cleaning out my old laptop and came across some old skewl beta screenshots. They gave me a good laugh, figured I would post them and hope whoever else out there has some good screenshots from beta to share!

ArchMikem

Nudity everywhere..

FloppyTouch

First thing I remember when I first got to the starter city was 100s of white horses jumping around. Looked like popcorn lol

zaria

That I remember most is the pets around in the starting zone.

In dialogue, players was hidden but the pets was visible.

Jurand80

looks like it was a fun game back then

dsalter

stop making me sad, game got so dumbed down since beta, i loved the feel of it, combat challenged you, animation cancelling wasnt really a requirement to compete (hardest content was world bosses and man they hurt!) and no sets that pushed your stats so high... soft caps and hard caps are one of the big things i miss most.

those caps being removed really put the power creep into the game and made many sets or builds pathetic

Johngo0036

Jurand80 wrote: »

looks like it was a fun game back then

and it still is,
just depends on how you want to play,

Back then everything was WOOOOOOOOOW,
and noobs were everywhere,

Now its all a rush and not sooo many noobs..

I still love some of the areas, they are sooooo beautiful.

Banana

Less prudes in the good old days

Loralai_907

Unfortunately, the crappy laptop I played on back then has died. Screenshots from beta have been lost forever.

theroyalestpythonnub18_ESO

ProfessorKittyhawk

zaria wrote: »

That I remember most is the pets around in the starting zone.

In dialogue, players was hidden but the pets was visible.

Sometimes my pets still end up in the shot when I open a dialogue with npc's.

Titansteele

Ahhh the memories.

Remember when the main story quest was a challenge? So sad they dumbed it down.

ProfessorKittyhawk

I remember when Doshia and a certain Doppleganger were challenging. And Molag Bal. And when each mount was limited to each character. And the only mounts we had were horses. And when you hit level 50 and became vr1 you had to do EVERYTHING in Silver and Gold zones to gain VR levels. And the Veteran zones were actually difficult then.

SirCritical

ProfessorKittyhawk wrote: »

And when you hit level 50 and became vr1 you had to do EVERYTHING in Silver and Gold zones to gain VR levels. And the Veteran zones were actually difficult then.

Still appearing in my nightmares

Kammakazi

Still the same UI after all these years hmm

Tib

ProfessorKittyhawk wrote: »

I remember when Doshia and a certain Doppleganger were challenging. And Molag Bal. And when each mount was limited to each character. And the only mounts we had were horses. And when you hit level 50 and became vr1 you had to do EVERYTHING in Silver and Gold zones to gain VR levels. And the Veteran zones were actually difficult then.

^
Doshia... *shivers* I remember I was super proud when I defeated her rofl

hamgatan

Shadzilla wrote: »

Was cleaning out my old laptop and came across some old skewl beta screenshots. They gave me a good laugh, figured I would post them and hope whoever else out there has some good screenshots from beta to share!

I believe we referred to this back then as 'Missing' textures..

tinythinker

Need to get a new image host since the one I've been using is a problem. But I think a have a few shots.

zaria

ProfessorKittyhawk wrote: »

I remember when Doshia and a certain Doppleganger were challenging. And Molag Bal. And when each mount was limited to each character. And the only mounts we had were horses. And when you hit level 50 and became vr1 you had to do EVERYTHING in Silver and Gold zones to gain VR levels. And the Veteran zones were actually difficult then.

Remember the clanfear in the mage guild quest. Was able to beat it as it dropped down in an hole at the side of the stairs
Doshia was hard because of players did not have much AoE at so low levels AoE was also far weaker in the start.
Lack of player skills is still thing one guy beat her with an restoration staff and no ablilites on bar, just LA, HA, bash and interrupt.

SlinkySlack

I remember that high level mudcrabs could easily kill you when you to low level for that zone...

GCVDJ11T

VR12 and the days when purge hit everyone... lol....

GCVDJ11T

zaria wrote: »

ProfessorKittyhawk wrote: »

I remember when Doshia and a certain Doppleganger were challenging. And Molag Bal. And when each mount was limited to each character. And the only mounts we had were horses. And when you hit level 50 and became vr1 you had to do EVERYTHING in Silver and Gold zones to gain VR levels. And the Veteran zones were actually difficult then.

Remember the clanfear in the mage guild quest. Was able to beat it as it dropped down in an hole at the side of the stairs
Doshia was hard because of players did not have much AoE at so low levels AoE was also far weaker in the start.
Lack of player skills is still thing one guy beat her with an restoration staff and no ablilites on bar, just LA, HA, bash and interrupt.

Bash back then was OP... I remember shield bashing everything to death... lol

Ulfgarde

Yeah I have a few saved on Steam. My old hard drive was wiped ^^.

Old Aleswell


Massive Pact Zerg


Remember when everyone only used Imperial Horse?.png


Back when there were like 500+ on screen at once...


Old, crappy Templar (remember when jesus beam didn't exist?) + the "LFG Balreth"


Black Boot/Bloodmayne Glitch (Still in the game to this day )

zaria

SlinkySlack wrote: »

I remember that high level mudcrabs could easily kill you when you to low level for that zone...

First thing I saw after exiting the starting fort at Khenarthi's Roost was an player pulling an group of mudcrabs, found it too hard so he tried to run and got killed.

Killed me too but that was because I was fighting three bandits so I used AoE who also hit some mudcrabs so I was overwhelmed.

Teridaxus

*shudders from the memories of the red zergs as dc*

Elsonso

Final Beta Weekend party in Stonefalls... Yeah, the lag was pretty bad, and they kept merging the instances. In the end, the number of people there was uncountable.

Ulfgarde wrote: »

Back when there were like 500+ on screen at once...

I did not grab a screen, but I saw a stream of a couple hundred blueberries running towards an EP keep during the last beta weekend. If Cyrodiil back then was like Cyrodiil today, I wouldn't even be here. It was seeing that stream of players running past me that closed the sale for me on the game. I don't even PVP anymore in this game.

SantieClaws

The quality it is not good no but this one she had her studio team record the very first 15 minutes of life in Tamriel all those moons ago.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws


https://youtu.be/FrGkRr6GU7c

stabbykitteh

End of Beta party in Elden Root. So much fun

agegarton

Man, I miss people running around in their underwear!

gpreid81

Right before servers went down every one getting naked in arruis keep fun times

hamgatan

..back when 'IM NOT PAYING $15 A MONTH FOR THIS!' was 95% of the comments on Zone Chat..

rabble rabble rabble rabble..