Update 48 Livestream live reaction

spartaxoxo · September 11

I'll try to post bullet points about the current stream! Come discuss

spartaxoxo · September 11

Right now they're just discussing the leadership changes.

spartaxoxo · September 11

Oct 13th is the writhing wall event. There will be a dedicated live stream in the next few weeks going into more detail. It will be a server wide event and goes at the server's pace. 3 phases with unique rewards and a golden pursuit.

spartaxoxo · September 11

Pts on Monday.

spartaxoxo · September 11

Jason doesn't like mint and chocolate together. So, cleary, we're dealing with a design director with terrible taste in ice cream flavors!

spartaxoxo · September 11

Jason and Finn explained how they're heading up content alongside Slavisek and how they want to try new things and improve communication.

spartaxoxo · September 11

Eastern Solstice is being previewed now. There will be this cool fortress thing that we have to do stuff in to break down the writhing wall. There's a giant monster to fight and other fun surprises. Not a lot of handholding, we'll have to figure out how to bring it down ourselves.

spartaxoxo · September 11

Savior of Solstice achievement will award a cool mount. It looks like a coldharbour themed death hound. There's a house that will be discussed later. Eastern Solstice is in more dire straits than Western Solstice. To do the main story, you'll need to do Western Solstice as it's one continuous zone and story. We'll do stuff with the Stone Nest Argoanians. Some areas look like some type of "reverse planemeld." We'll meet some returning characters from Coldharbor. Ending will be a bit different than stuff we've seen in the past.

spartaxoxo · September 11

There will be a lot of callbacks and the outcomes of quests can be altered based on previous content done. There will even be multiple endings.

spartaxoxo · September 11

More variety of types of gameplay involved with quests including an infiltration mission!

Tornaad · September 11

Some quests (I believe side quests) will have a failure chance to them, as well as different endings. They are trying to give the feel of actually making a difference.

spartaxoxo · September 11

PTS will start on Phase 3 of the writhing wall event. So, you'll be able to see the Writhing Fortress and Eastern Solstice.

spartaxoxo · September 11

There will be a server tracker showing the progress. They have internal bets on who finishes first. General consensus is PC EU, so you've been called out PC-NA LOL

spartaxoxo · September 11

Druid Spring Conservatory (high isle) and Cradle of the Worm Colossus (eastern solstice) will be the new crown houses. One looks very cold harbor type. The other has greenhouses and plants.

Sept 18 -Undaunted Event
Mid-October (starting on the 13th)

Battle for the Writhing Wall

Late October
Witches Festival

Late November
Daedric War Celebration

Mid-December
New Life Festival

spartaxoxo · September 11

Brian Wheeler now combat & PVP Director. Promotion!

A lot of what he's done before. Wants to explore outside of Cyrodiil soon. More "final" calls than he used to do but a lot of what he's been doing too. Will still be a collaborative and creative environment.

spartaxoxo · September 11

Potions, foods, and drink can now be used while channeling or casting abilities

Some buffs to abilities like Whirlwind and Steel Tornado are getting execute damage

Anthelmir's construct is getting a change made to help reduce its burst potential, will proc on dealing damage with a heavy attack instead of full charged heavy attack completion

Fix for Werewolf Berserker's AOE heavy attack where it previously gained 2750 flat damage that was unlisted in tooltip. (eta: will be buffed to compensate for this fix).

Class Mastery will no longer generate ult out of combat

restoration staff light attacks fix where it could be treated as healing in some cases

swimming now properly removes all effects of crouch and invisibility

monomyth reforged now properly works while sprinting and no longer dismounts your character if you enter combat while mounted

Doing some things with pet cap limit

spartaxoxo · September 11

They're doing some fixes to help get more people on leaderboard pvp.

Another Vengeance PVP Test coming soon

Adding mages, fighters, and armor skill lines (all in one line). Meatbags will be on. Achievements titles and allowed collectibles will be on this time.

Surveys being sent out after each test and also surveys about other stuff (forgot to mention that earlier). So keep eyes on your mail.

Sky will be green for all tests to hard signal this is a test mode.

New systems called Loadouts and Perks

Loadouts will be a suite of stats and some preset abilities. You'll be able to change out abilities so you'll have skills slotted right away but you can swap while you're in the base with a small CD.

Perks

Are passives that are lightweight on the server. Will be small passive buffs such as reduce all costs by 5% or increase your max health by 3%.

Week 2 they will be turning things off and off to test things.

New inventory tab for vengeance items to make it easier to see those items.

Quests will be back on as well.

Dec 3 - Dec 8 will be Vengeance. Afterwards, there will be both Vengeance and Gray Host will be on at the same time.

Leaderboards will be back on as well.

spartaxoxo · September 11

In 2026, there will be a test for damage and healing abilities to get better balance for them in Vengeance.

spartaxoxo · September 11

This was all about multiple playtests for vengeance. So it's not all at once. They've also been doing some things on the back end to make normal Cyrodiil more performant. However, the skills being less complicated has made vengeance performance a lot better.

spartaxoxo · September 11

Update 48 will be a bit lighter on changes but that's because of all the stuff coming next year. Next year will have cool stuff.

QuietPanda_22 · September 11

Thank you for this! I missed most of the stream.

LunaFlora · September 11

nice post! useful ^_^

Finedaible · September 11

Thank you for the summary.

"swimming now properly removes all effects of crouch and invisibility" Why? I thought that change to stealthy swimming WAS a QoL improvement. Now they removed it? Disappointing.

Elvenheart · September 11

Finedaible wrote: »

Thank you for the summary.

"swimming now properly removes all effects of crouch and invisibility" Why? I thought that change to stealthy swimming WAS a QoL improvement. Now they removed it? Disappointing.

I guess it’s hard to be invisible or stealthy if you’re splashing around in water 😁💦

Finedaible · September 11

Elvenheart wrote: »

Finedaible wrote: »

Thank you for the summary.

"swimming now properly removes all effects of crouch and invisibility" Why? I thought that change to stealthy swimming WAS a QoL improvement. Now they removed it? Disappointing.

I guess it’s hard to be invisible or stealthy if you’re splashing around in water 😁💦

It was as close as you can get to underwater swimming though.

Punches_Below_Belt · September 11

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Update 48 will be a bit lighter on changes but that's because of all the stuff coming next year. Next year will have cool stuff.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twelve years running, …Seriously, there is cool stuff every year, just really disappointed at a price hike and a big reduction in cool stuff this year.

Sleep724 · September 11

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Update 48 will be a bit lighter on changes but that's because of all the stuff coming next year. Next year will have cool stuff.

So six months of light on changes? What’s the combat team doing for six months I wonder.

Æthërnüm · September 11

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Brian Wheeler now combat & PVP Director. Promotion!

A lot of what he's done before. Wants to explore outside of Cyrodiil soon. More "final" calls than he used to do but a lot of what he's been doing too. Will still be a collaborative and creative environment.

that sounds quite awful

j3z3b3l · September 11

I like it but it seems we get light vs dark a lot now lately. It makes me kinda miss the Elsweyr chapter. There was some definitely cool stuff. Stoked about the houses but it’s a shame in your Livestreams now you just show a screenshot. That’s a money maker no? I miss the walkthrough on those except Skingrad Castle.
I’ll wait til it comes out. There was a magnificent shot from one of the delves. Real nice job there.

Finedaible · September 11

Wait.. was there even any new grimoires or class sets announced?

spartaxoxo · September 11

Finedaible wrote: »

Wait.. was there even any new grimoires or class sets announced?

Not that I saw but I was a bit distracted at points so if someone else saw something that I didn't include, please feel free to add it!