There are a lot of long-requested community asks here! Thank you so much!

What if we don't want the extra mounts and collectibles added to our account with the auto-claim?

I have no desire to own almost any of the mounts that are designed for this game, and yet they get infinitely piled up in the collections menu. Does this take up server database space? If so, it's unfortunate that the system automatically adds unnecessary strain for something that some people do not want and will never utilize.

An option to convert collectibles into some form of currency would be nice.

"Roll-Over Cap

As the end of a Season transitions to the start of a new one, a maximum of 2,000 Tome Points roll over to the next Tamriel Tome. These Tome Points are available immediately and provide a head start into the new Season."

I was under the impression that, unlike the event tickets that had a limit of 12 tickets, this new currency did not have a limit. But now we hear only 2000 points carry forward to the next season... that items will be auto-purchased with anything beyond that 2000 point limit, regardless if we want them or not.

Why can't I hold on to the points until I see something I want if nothing for that season fits?

Greetings! The Combat Refresh team would like to give a quick update on what to expect for the Werewolf refresh coming to the PTS next week. We’ve been hard at work making sure it’s up to snuff and we’re very excited to let you sink your teeth into all the new stuff that’s been updated! To recap, here is what to expect with the Werewolf refresh that we’ve already brought up through previous developer streams and reveals:

• Two new Werewolf models, one male and one female. Female characters will automatically use the new female model.
• New animations, visual effects, and sound effects for almost every Werewolf action including but not limited to:
  • Locomotion (movement, jumping, etc)
  • Core combat mechanics (Block, Roll Dodge, etc)
  • Abilities
• A new ability tied to your Ultimate to cast while in Werewolf form, which lets you unleash the beast for a duration and grants a handful of stark power bonuses
• A completely overhauled way to manage and sustain Werewolf form, now using Ultimate to both activate and sustain the form. Ultimate is now enabled and heavily awarded through certain Werewolf actions and overall you will find it significantly easier to maintain Werewolf form in most cases.
• And two new mechanics we’ve added, named “Prowl” and “Slaughter” - which we’ll touch loosely on, but we want you to go on the hunt and sniff them out yourself!
  • Slaughter is a synergy-based ability, operating similarly to things like Blade of Woe or Vampire’s Feed
  • Prowl is a mechanic override for Crouch, which is designed to help utilize Slaughter more regularly, as well as a tool to help you hunt those who would prefer to remain hidden. Your nose knows! While this is not ‘true’ Crouch or Stealth, we hope that Werewolves appreciate the chance to be a bit more sneaky.

When we first showed off the updated model for the Werewolf, we saw a lot of positive feedback with some reservations that largely boiled down to three core criticisms: the size and bulk of the model, the mangy appearance of the model, and the methods of sustaining Werewolf form. Based on that feedback, we’ve made some notable adjustments to try and improve the Werewolf refresh. Some of the most noteworthy adjustments are:

• Increased the size of the model by roughly 20%, making it substantially larger. This will ensure that you loom over normal player characters and humanoid enemies.
• Adjusted and added more fur to the model based on feedback that noted how the previous iteration felt like it was mottled and bare.
  • There is more fur coverage overall along the back, shoulders, and forehead.
  • The tail is now bigger, floofier, and blends better into the fur on the Werewolf’s back.
  • The fur along the spine now covers more area, helping to add some extra size and aura.
  • There are performance constraints that we had to work within in regards to adding more fur to the model. While we know that some of you really wanted to see a model completely covered in fur, we cannot match the fur coverage from the Werewolf’s cinematic design due to run-time limitations.
• The color of the skin now more closely matches the color of the fur and the fur now blends more seamlessly into the remaining areas where there is exposed skin.
• While we didn’t go into all the details of sustaining Werewolf form in any of our reveals, we did see a lot of discussion around the cost out of combat. After pawing with the idea for a while, we’ve made the cost of sustaining Werewolf out of combat a nonfactor (it is now completely free instead of being reduced by 75%).
  • The cost was originally part of an intentional gameplay design that tried to enforce the need to constantly be on the hunt. Hircine will not be entertained unless the chase continues, after all. This pressure helped lean into the fantasy that Werewolves are fast, aggressive creatures that need combat to maintain their form – but ultimately the reality of gameplay clashed with this, creating more experiences of frustration than highlighting the positive sensations we wanted.

Lastly, on the note of another larger topic we’ve seen for Werewolves, crouch and stealth. This is something we’re not adding to the Werewolf in the traditional sense, as there’s a lot more than meets the eye with getting those systems to function and be supported between content interaction, blending every unique animation (and having those animations be loaded in Cyrodiil, which cuts into how many unique animations we can make for other classes), and a handful of other things. It’s also something that we’re not keen on enabling for balance or identity’s sake – we want to keep Werewolves direct, imposing, and terrifying as they rip apart their foes – which means we need to keep messaging clear and readable for PvP while focusing on the big and loud. Prowl is our compromise to this difference of desire and intent, as it lets you get some sneak-adjacent benefits by making you harder to detect by monsters, which was mainly done to ensure you can actively use the new Slaughter synergy.

That about wraps up the coverage of what we’ve directly changed based on your feedback we heard between our reveal for the Werewolf and what’s coming in PTS 1. There’s still plenty more to discover that we haven’t discussed, but we want to make sure we leave some meat on the bone for you when PTS rolls around. As always, we’ll continue to monitor your feedback as you get to experience it firsthandpaw throughout the PTS and launch. Thank you as always for your time, passion, and support in making Elder Scrolls together. See you in Tamriel!

Standing behind a wall should also stop arrows from homing in on you and phasing through stone to guarantee an impact.

Erickson9610 wrote: »

There's no need to worry about players writing ... obscene things

Players got creative with the finger thing.

Wow this is quite the original idea, a classless system. I cannot believe nobody on the forums has thought of this.

In development, we discussed other ways to strike this balance of wide paths for progression and encouraging future Season play, such as implementing a hard cap on Tome Points that you can carry at any given time, but we believed that would feel considerably worse. We were already removing this for Event Tickets (now Trade Bars!) and thought it would reduce the fun of picking out the rewards you like most on a Tome.

It feels like way too much focus is being put on engagement incentives. If the content is fun, if the content is rewarding, people will do it. If you have to rely on pressure systems, then something's ultimately not as fun as it should be. It's a game, it should be fun.

And if you're so worried about engagement, then make the rewards more worthwhile. Pull from the vast inventory of crown crates and timed deals, put some of that in the tomes. Reduce things like crown poisons and other undesirables that many people don't want.

Now, to be fair, we did have some good rewards. My point is there's ways to encourage engagement that don't involve micromanaging people's income.

We've seen the sentiment and feedback on this, and we agree that we can make this better. We're planning to make a change to this in Update 50 before Season Zero ends, where Tome Points in excess of the roll-over cap are automatically converted to gold after the reward auto-claimer is complete. We believe this helps provide value to excess Tome Points in the transition to a new Season. We are still working to determine this ratio and will update you when we do.

I'm glad you guys are trying to make this better. I'm glad you're listening to the feedback. I truly am.

But I really feel like you guys are over complicating this whole thing. All you have to do is let them carryover. That's it. It's pretty bewildering that you guys are going through a whole development effort to make an auto-claimer and gold conversion system, instead of just having a more generous rollover. Has anyone over there entertained just increasing the rollover cap? What about having 4000 Tome Points carry over? That seems like a reasonable compromise.

FWIW, I think gold's better than just auto-buying a bunch of stuff I may not want. But it begs another question: what do you guys think I should be able to do with that gold? Point is, there's limited options for gold-bought items. And what's there is relatively expensive, outside of furnishings. Gold's trivial for many of long term players, so small gold endowments aren't worthwhile. If we can't get something truly worthwhile with that gold (mounts, houses), then it feels insulting to our efforts. Then you as a studio have to decide between living with a resented system or spending dev cycles improving the system yet again.

With sharp eyes, you may have noticed that some non-English in-game help articles mentioned that you can reroll Weekly Challenges for gold.

We shouldn't need sharp eyes or a help menu to understanding basic UI functionality.

With a shift as big as Seasons and the new Tamriel Tomes system, we expect some things won’t land perfectly right away. We've already moved quickly on improvements driven by your feedback, while giving other changes time to settle and breathe as we refine them. You'll see much of what we talked about here roll out for testing within Update 50's PTS cycle. We’re excited to shape this together with all of you to make it the best it can be. Thank you, and we’ll see you in Tamriel!

Quite frankly there seems to be a conflict between what looks good as a game developer and what feels good as the gamer and consumer. It seems like the focus is on managing engagement and purchasing incentives at the expense of having a streamlined, player-friendly system.

Now you need numerous articles and infographics to explain this whole Tomes system. Then you need CMs to circle back and explain them. Then people misunderstood the system or didn't read the communications, and encountered issues. Then they need support tickets to shore up those issues. Now you're adding to that complexity with more information, more steps, more gotchas, more things to track. Systems shouldn't require this much effort to understand.

It's exhausting.

fizzybeef wrote: »

While the population keeps shrinking on some servers, specially the european console servers, it has been too quiet for a while about this topic lately.
I am wondering if ZOS is still working on it, the playerbase did not forget it anyway.
Can we please get an update about how the working on crossplay is going? The progress?
Thanks in advance!

They have been mentioning it almost like every stream.

They recently said on stream that this is 2027 at the earliest because it is very complex.

ESO isn't Soulslike, so no.