Shivering Isles 2022 (Outdated)

MaisonNaevius

Yes. On the PTS.

Uesp has updated the map.

Sylvermynx

Hmm. Well, I don't do PTS as I don't have the data to burn. And actually, I kind of don't appreciate people posting spoilers like this....

I like to have new content as new - so people really need to put spoilers in the spoiler tags....

MaisonNaevius

I haven't had the PTS for many months. I collect all the information on the uesp and the forum.

On a topic dealing with the next coming regions, you should expect to be spoiled. Concrete information always comes straight from the PTS.

Sylvermynx

MaisonNaevius wrote: »

I haven't had the PTS for many months. I collect all the information on the uesp and the forum.

On a topic dealing with the next coming regions, you should expect to be spoiled. Concrete information always comes straight from the PTS.

Nope. I want spoiler tags around stuff because I spend a fair amount of time here trying to help people who ask questions. It's VERY annoying when people who access PTS throw spoilers out as if they're candy.

MaisonNaevius

Regardless, this image is indeed a map from the game when Deadlands is released. Subject to change until then.

Topics dealing with the unofficial future should have the -spoiler- tag in the title.

Sylvermynx

MaisonNaevius wrote: »

Regardless, this image is indeed a map from the game when Deadlands is released. Subject to change until then.

Topics dealing with the unofficial future should have the -spoiler- tag in the title.

Of course - but the OP here is sort of a law unto himself. And until the Aurbis spoiler was posted, all of the previous content was sheer speculation - air dreaming....

Guess I'll take myself off - I don't see why it's so hard for people to use spoiler tags when it's something on PTS.... which the original thread was NOT.

luen79rwb17_ESO

Next year's event ticket pet and skin are a very direct reference to akatosh. This is IMO the best evidence of what next year's long story could be. Imperial chapter probably?

LittlePinkDot

Akavir!

TelvanniWizard

I would preffer a Pyandonea chapter with Hermaeus Mora! Plenty of oportunities!

Lapin_Logic

adriant1978 wrote: »

If they do this then we'd need to see more of Sheogorath's dark side. You can't make a whole DLC out of cheese gags.

I LOVE Uncle Sheo, he is our only Daedric friend (I am his "favorite mortal" after all 😉)

I envistion a storyline where Sheo is afflicted with an illness, kind of like Vivec was in Morrowind chapter, and we have been summined to find him a cure, this leads neatly into a 12 man trial in the tortured dreams of Sheo where we fight a Dire Cheese wheel as the final boss over a lake of Fondu with giant Skeever base pop.

Lucjan

If they are smart to maximise the financial aspect of it, they will do Skyrim again. While it might not be all that exciting for many here, the Skyrim nostalgia is very strong. Put Whiterun all over the marketing effort and it will sell itself.

Vindold

Lucjan wrote: »

If they are smart to maximise the financial aspect of it, they will do Skyrim again. While it might not be all that exciting for many here, the Skyrim nostalgia is very strong. Put Whiterun all over the marketing effort and it will sell itself.

Such decision, most certainly, will hurt their reputation...a bit proper move is to introduce several maps which will include 1 nostalgic map, like whiterun, but chapter shouldn't be focused on Skyrim...if so, I prefer Skingrad \ Solstheim \ SI, actually. I'm tired of Skyrim + Skyrim chapter feels like it's been just yesterday.

Vindold

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Apparently the code name for the next chapter is "Dune," as mentioned in the Notes on the following page:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Chapters

I'm not going to speculate on what that might mean, but I doubt it's as obvious as "Volcano" was for the Morrowind chapter. And Summerset's code name was "Glacier," whatever that meant-- a reference to the frosty cold attitudes of Summerset's High Elves, perhaps?

Edit: Added spoiler tags.

Or they called it "Glacier" because of High Elves white\cold Architecture?:)

Chaos2088

JJOtterBear wrote: »

Red_Feather wrote: »

If the game is exploring daedric realms more that would be cool. I saw a map of tamriel in new dlc and there is room for a dozen maps on it. 😲

where are people seeing this map? the PTS? because its not in the live game

That is the PTS map yes.

Janus_Cruenti

I really hope the next chapter will give us something different then the usual "Daedric prince wants to destroy/conquer/influence Nirn" again. They have definitely their place in ESO - but we just got sooo many of these plots already. If every major plot is about some evil with divine power, then the more mortal issues and lore of the world appears almost meaningless. I personally would love to see something like Orsinium or Gold coast again, where the player is not an (obvious, immortal) Hero.

MaisonNaevius

Colovia may offer a similar plot to Orsinium. A politico-religious story that does not require any direct Daedric intervention in the main plot.
In this case, Vestige may fail to dethrone the count of Skingrad (if he is a threat).

A cool trick for Hammerfell would be the involvement of a cult dating back to Yokuda that controls Crowns philosophy with an iron fist.
We could also have a mixed victory. Since Fahara'jad always seemed like a joke to me. A radical Crowns / Forebears division.

Iccotak

Lucjan wrote: »

If they are smart to maximise the financial aspect of it, they will do Skyrim again. While it might not be all that exciting for many here, the Skyrim nostalgia is very strong. Put Whiterun all over the marketing effort and it will sell itself.

The problem with that, is that it will backfire because it doesn’t play or feel like Skyrim.

It’s going to create the hope that it is ”Skyrim 2.0 Online” (much like how Fallout 76 is Fallout 4.5 online) when that isn’t the case at all for ESO.

This is the one major thing that will always hold back ESO.

(which could only be fixed if Zenimax/Microsoft Miraculously rebuilt all of ESO from the ground up into the creation engine - and even that would be controversial because of the players years of investment)

LittlePinkDot

Vindold wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Apparently the code name for the next chapter is "Dune," as mentioned in the Notes on the following page:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Chapters

I'm not going to speculate on what that might mean, but I doubt it's as obvious as "Volcano" was for the Morrowind chapter. And Summerset's code name was "Glacier," whatever that meant-- a reference to the frosty cold attitudes of Summerset's High Elves, perhaps?

Edit: Added spoiler tags.

Or they called it "Glacier" because of High Elves white\cold Architecture?:)

Somebody in another thread had said "Alikr."
Although we already have the Alikr desert on the map.

Tommy_The_Gun

LittlePinkDot wrote: »

Vindold wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Apparently the code name for the next chapter is "Dune," as mentioned in the Notes on the following page:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Chapters

I'm not going to speculate on what that might mean, but I doubt it's as obvious as "Volcano" was for the Morrowind chapter. And Summerset's code name was "Glacier," whatever that meant-- a reference to the frosty cold attitudes of Summerset's High Elves, perhaps?

Edit: Added spoiler tags.

Or they called it "Glacier" because of High Elves white\cold Architecture?:)

Somebody in another thread had said "Alikr."
Although we already have the Alikr desert on the map.

If "Dune" means some kind of desert, then it is possible that it may refer to area between Alik'r Desert & Hew's Bane:

This would kinda "fit" as this seems to be a desert area and is not in the game yet. On the other hand devs said in an interview: "But I will say that where we’re going next is a place that nobody’s expecting."

And people actually kinda expect Hammerfell, so it may be something else too...

SeaGtGruff

Hmm, looking at that map, it can only be... (Drum roll, please.)... Central Elsweyr! (Cymbal crash.)

Finedaible

This is quite the necro thread, but I say enough of the re-hashed content, they already announced version 100 of Skyrim this year ffs... This obsession with nostalgia binds writers' creativity and the scope of genuinely new content.

Explore flippin' Evergloam or Azra Nightwielder lore and expand the available shadow magic skill lines. Give players a Peryite "Afflicted" skill line akin to Lycanthropy or Vampirism, or how about Sword-Singing since it apparently only requires a simple song from the Reach to unlock :P The Spiral Skein during Summerset quest was such a beautiful location, why isn't that an actual zone? Why haven't weapon skill lines been expanded on yet? They already have an excuse since Elsweyr for magical foci (see Sereyne); that could be an excuse for another magicka line.

Why are we stuck in time and keep encountering the same NPCs where they shouldn't logically be? Tamriel is starting to feel abnormally small when you bump into the same damned person continents away...

Finedaible

Or how about Re-vamping Eyevea to have an actual use like spell-crafting? That place is an absolute ghost town with literally no excuse to go there.

MaisonNaevius

I don't know where the second Tamriel map came from ... But it's wrong.
The Hammerfell desert stretches to the western part of Craglorn. There is a "Weeping Desert" region which is completely green on your map.

Iccotak

Finedaible wrote: »

Why are we stuck in time and keep encountering the same NPCs where they shouldn't logically be? Tamriel is starting to feel abnormally small when you bump into the same damned person continents away...

This is a really good point - sure, it's nice to have a reminder of past adventures - it also creates the feeling of an evolving world BUT it puts constraints on ZOS' ability to do new things with new characters.

Like Eveli, she seemed much the same from the beginning of Orsinium which made it feel like her character arc completely gone.

oldbobdude

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Never made it through the Shivering Isles in Oblivion, and I can’t stand to listen to Sheogorath’s screechy voice. Should have added that to the post about ESO’s most annoying sounds...

Same. Avoid everything Sheo I can in ESO and couldn’t finish he dlc in oblivion. Even hated the Blue Palace quest in Skyrim. The most annoying character ever.

Sylvermynx

oldbobdude wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Never made it through the Shivering Isles in Oblivion, and I can’t stand to listen to Sheogorath’s screechy voice. Should have added that to the post about ESO’s most annoying sounds...

Same. Avoid everything Sheo I can in ESO and couldn’t finish he dlc in oblivion. Even hated the Blue Palace quest in Skyrim. The most annoying character ever.

Makes three of us. Just.... spare me.