If the team ever wants to do a "So you're coming back to ESO after a break..." style guide, a road map like this for past and future updates might be a good way for returning players to quickly catch up on major features that have been added to the game with each Update.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@VaranisArano We might be cooking something up for this very purpose...

Brilliant!

I always feel bad for players who are like "So I left years ago. What's changed?"

And I'm like, "Uh...lots."

So something like that sounds great!

Let's get the option to play the whole game in Hard Core mode, so many people have been asking for that. Imagine, running through Auridon fighting a world boss that now might just need 10 people to kill ahahaha.
And the Dragons in elsywere will be like fighting vet hard mode trial boss lol.
People love the insane challenge. And u can give them unique titles for beating all this stuff again on Hard Core mode. It would give the vet community and new players a lot to handle.
Elden Ring is a super massive smash hit for a reason.

(Before I begin, let me clarify with the pro account wide achievements people that I was not against AwA in theory, I'm only against this current implementation which guts character individuality and breaks immersion in the game world)

I would have been excited for this if I knew this update brought an intact and coherent game world for my alts. No acknowledgement of broken quests except for the Museum ones, NPC reactions and dialogue trees being wrong and out of order for alts, and inability to track which delves and world bosses were killed on an alt without addons is a mess I will be avoiding. I'm not going to play this train wreck coming because ZOS refused to acknowledge and address bugs that will make the game a playground for Sheogorath with our alts because the game will now break the 4th wall and treat all alts as if they are simply extensions of the player and not individual people in Tamriel.

There will be no more immersion for new alts when NPCs recognize them as heroes because those reactions are tied to global achievements and were not decoupled and moved to the hidden quest journal end stage. Even a level 3 alt who has never done a single quest will be hailed a hero, or treated as if the NPCs already knew them in some instances. While these NPC bugs might not be everywhere, the instances where they happen will break immersion for people who are either role playing in their head as they quest, or simply enjoying the story on a new alt. All instances of NPC reactions and dialogue NEEDS to be decoupled from achievements and moved to quest stage completion! Achievement quests locked out of alts need to be added to the quest database so alts can access them (Taking Up The Mantle in Markarth is an example of a broken quest, alts will never again be able to talk to Count Ravenwatch for his epilogue if one character already got the achievement.) Fix your game and I might have something to look forward to. Until then, I'll be taking my sub money (sub expired two days ago so this is not a threat, it's already done), and trying other games.

All you had to do was communicate with us, acknowledge the bugs, tell us they would be addressed, and most of us would have trucked along with the changes as long as the game world was intact for our alts. As it is, the lack of communication (Q&A was a step, but did not address the bugs and concerns many of us had, and you stopped communication there and didn't dialogue with us after the fact) and the unwillingness to postpone this mess with account wide achievements until the broken things could be fixed, or even a simple acknowledgement of knowing about the bugs and statement they will be fixed in later patches would have helped us to weather this. The fact that you won't acknowledge these bugs makes us fear this is working as intended, and that you are OK with ESO going forward without immersion and coherence for our alts.

For many of us the game will now be irreparably broken. You've taken a beautiful game world and dumbed it down so that it breaks the 4th wall and makes the game no longer see our alts as individual people, but as avatars conglomerated into one character that wears different faces and is nothing more than a pixel representation of the player. The game is seeing our alts as the player, and not as individual people in Tamriel. That is breaking the 4th wall in terms of game play. This is unacceptable! Many of your long time TES fans do not play the game this way. We are used to immersing ourselves in an Elder Scrolls world, in both the single player games and for 8 years in ESO, and as such ESO WAS a role playing game. ESO will not be an immersive role playing game anymore with this update. This is not the Elder Scrolls experience I came here for. This mess does not belong in an Elder Scrolls game.


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majulook wrote: »

So the Deconstruction Assistant is base game?

Does this mean it can some how be gotten for free, and not just purchased in the Crown Store?

No, that just means you don't need to own the DLC to purchase it.

Hymzir wrote: »

The most egregious thing in this whole debacle is the silence of ZOS. Not a peep on the issue, not a single comment about all these problems we have reported. No word on anything, except of course regarding anything that would bork up the Clown Store The spice must flow after all...

Silence is an answer. This info graphic says it loud and clear.

"Zos don't care, they heard players are shouting they don't want their character's histories taken away like this, but they'll do it anyway."

One of the worst decisions of their tenure. Lasting reputational damage.

I should also add, I would always recommend the game because of individual achievements and character creation, and that excited my friends (= potential customers), now with this change, they won't be joining the game.

If multiple characters have an achievement, it will show only the one who got it first as "Earned By". All other information will be irrevocably deleted.
Every character sees the same achievements (with very few exceptions). They are bound to your account now, not any particular character.
And yes - if you've gotten the achievement once on any character, you will never see it pop up again. Ever.

No, it doesn't make sense. It's ZOS.