Have you played your own Hardcore/One Life mode?

WhiteCoatSyndrome

No

When I want that kind of gameplay experience I play Don’t Starve instead.

emilyhyoyeon

No

No but I play in kind of a similar way when I'm rping/questing where I try to not let my characters die or do things that would for example break all 200 something of their bones like jumping off cliffs that they survive with 1% hp.

Grizzbeorn

No, I'm not able to do that.

I get attached to all of my characters in a very short time. It's like I can't help it.
But that's probably because I put significant time into deciding what their personality and other attributes will be before I create them.
During that process they become more than just "characters," they become partners.
I don't formally RP, but all of my characters have at least a rudimentary backstory before they land in-game for the first time.
And if I don't get something right, I know it within a short few levels/time playing, and will delete and re-create until I do.

My two Khajiit characters (one male, one female) are good examples. It has taken me years to get a Khajiit character right (to my liking), and I just recently accomplished it. It's a double win, in the sense that my male cat is the first male character (of any race) that I've been happy with.

Maitsukas

Good luck getting a trifecta in trials that way.

Varana

No

I don't even understand the appeal of this in other games that offer the option natively.
Part of a hard fight in a video game is the cycle of failing - adapting - failing - adapting - [ ... ] - succeeding.
Can't really do that with permadeath.

ghastley

No

All that does is add the grind of building the character to every death, instead of just learning from the mistake and repeating the task where you failed.

I suspect this only appeals to those who can’t learn.

Artim_X

No

Sounds like a waste of time for a game that isn't designed to be a rougelike especially with the variety of ways one can die in this game (bugged out mechanic, slaughter fish, fall damage, vet content, etc.).

If someone deleted their character every time they died, I doubt they would be able to reach the content that sparks joy for them before inevitably quitting.

Blood_again

No

Not in this game.

Challenges like no-death run for arenas, dungeons and trials are cool. But it would be too much time consuming for nodeath the whole character lifetime.

Also there is too much random or group related things in ESO to have real fun of perma-death mode.
Imagine a group of perma-death players who try to farm some trial gear. Who wants to be the most hatred tank or healer in the history of ESO? I guess that level of blaming would be unimaginable

freespirit

No

As a person who frequently does stupid things..... like go make a cup of tea having just killed something, only to return to find a pile of ash where I was standig.

I think I would rarely last more than a day!! 🤣

MJallday

No

Who’s going to tell the OP that you start off dead…

Necrotech_Master

No

it really depends on the game lol

like i enjoy quick action rogue likes, but those can get boring/frustrating if they are too hard to progress, or too difficult to make it that far

for this kind of game, definitely not, though i still try to avoid dying

Reverb

Obligatory Other

I personally haven’t but during Covid lockdown I watched my wife to a permadeath RP character. She started with regular clothes and a dagger and did the local Auridon quests the way the thought a townie would. No magic or class skills or anything like that.

She had rules around equipping gear and stuff but I don’t remember them. She made it to level 30 something before she died and deleted.

Danikat

No

I've done it in other games, and thought about it in ESO but I haven't attempted it yet.

If I ever do I think I'll add some additional rules, otherwise I'd be tempted to take the safe but boring path and level mainly/entirely through safe things like crafting and event quests which don't involve combat, which doesn't really feel like it's in the spirit of the challenge.

At the same time I'd want to keep group activities to a minimum because I wouldn't want to cause problems for the rest of the group by having to be overly cautious (or have some troll try to get me killed).

freespirit wrote: »

As a person who frequently does stupid things..... like go make a cup of tea having just killed something, only to return to find a pile of ash where I was standig.

I think I would rarely last more than a day!! 🤣

That's part of what makes it fun for me when I've done it in other games, it's very different to how I normally play and forces me to think about things in a new way.

Anifaas

No

I'd love this mode but ESO is not stable enough for my liking to engage in such. Hardcore WoW on the other hand is amazing.

SeaGtGruff

Obligatory Other

SilverBride wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

I will never understand how making things difficult for ourselves is supposed to be fun.

Playing a game in a more challenging way can be fun, but it also depends on whether the person kniws what they're doing

It has nothing to do with knowing what we're doing. I know how to do laundry but I wouldn't give up using my washer and dryer to beat my clothes on rocks in a stream just for the extra challenge.

I enjoy my strong characters feeling like strong characters.

What I meant was, if someone wants to make a game more challenging by playing it a certain way, it can be fun for them if they know what they're doing, but it can be very much un-fun if they don't actually know what they're doing. Whether their way of playing the game is fun to you, or to me, or to anyone else isn't really the point; all that matters is whether it's fun to them.

katanagirl1

No

Not my idea of fun.

GrizzlyTank

This game is too trivial outside of dungeons and world bosses to make hardcore interesting.

Also hardcore in online games just begs you to get killed by the stupidest reasons such as lag.

jtm1018

No

[Snip] even souls are not like that, sufferage for fun, hells no.

[Edited for profanity bypass]

Amottica

No

RedFireDisco wrote: »

Yes, I do this leveling to L50

If the character dies, HE DIES

Makes it a lot more fun.

I have never found it to be challenging to level a character to 50.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

No because the Vestige is canonically immortal so that would be immersion breaking.

Very good point.

Danikat

No

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

I will never understand how making things difficult for ourselves is supposed to be fun.

Playing a game in a more challenging way can be fun, but it also depends on whether the person kniws what they're doing

It has nothing to do with knowing what we're doing. I know how to do laundry but I wouldn't give up using my washer and dryer to beat my clothes on rocks in a stream just for the extra challenge.

I enjoy my strong characters feeling like strong characters.

What I meant was, if someone wants to make a game more challenging by playing it a certain way, it can be fun for them if they know what they're doing, but it can be very much un-fun if they don't actually know what they're doing. Whether their way of playing the game is fun to you, or to me, or to anyone else isn't really the point; all that matters is whether it's fun to them.

I agree with this, and one of the things I like about player-run challenges rather than official modes or achievements is it lets each person tailor it to their preferences and playstyle, but to do that you have to have a good understanding of both the game and how you like playing, to know what will work.

I like attempting no-deaths runs in another MMO because (like ESO) dying is pretty trivial so my normal playstyle is very careless. According to my guild my catchphrase should be "Oops, there was a cliff back there". But I also like playing tactical RPGs where you have to plan each encounter, so having a character where I need to think more carefully about the risks I'm taking is a fun novelty for me.

I also added a bunch of additional rules, because otherwise I could just do something like level by crafting with no risk and that wouldn't be fun or a challenge. Some are rules suggested by other people, but I get to pick and choose/invent ones which work for me.

Anumaril

No

No, but I'm definitely not against it. The issue for me would be that I only really play on one character, so making a new character like this isn't my slice of pie.

But while I'm questing on my main I do regularly keep track of when I die, thinking things like "this is the first time I've died in this zone's questline", etc.

peacenote

No

It's not my thing. I'm kind of glad I never had friends who were into MMO's that were as punishing as all that... I wouldn't have enjoyed it. But to each their own!

ElvenOverlord

No

lol

Uvi_AUT

No

No, because youre supposed to be immortal storywise.

nathamarath

Yes

Yes, but he fell from a cliff. Maybe it was better that way. I didn't try again after that.

RaddlemanNumber7

No

No, but I've played out a couple of similar character-deleting scenarios.

My first few attempts at a "no kill" character got deleted the very first time they got any kind of kill count on their achievements.

Played a narrated character with a short career story. She basically did CwC, DB and TG, then got deleted because it was the end of the story and I needed the slot to create a different character.

kojou

No

I would only do this if they gave a "hardcore" character a fully upgraded mount, and all the skill lines (kind of like a PTS character without the inventory). It would be too much of an investment to get all of this going only to lose it when you accidentally fall of a cliff in Wrothgar.