Road Ahead for September, what do you think it will be?

SG_Celerrimus

So, after looking through the homepage for the Road Ahead from August to reference it, I realised that there has yet to be a Road Ahead article for September.

When do you think it will pop up, what do you think will be in it, what do you want to see in it?

Personally, I want to see some info on Thieves guild and Dark Brotherhood this time around, and some info on when we might see the solo PvE zone from Quakecon. I also wouldn't mind an ETA on when small group arenas are coming to ESO.

If I were to guess, the Road Ahead is either tomorrow or next week.

ers101284b14_ESO

Closer to October

Arsenic_Touch

We'll get September's in October. October will be in November and January will be sometime next year.

GrimMauKin

I just want to see a shed load of bugs sorted (particularly all the ones relating to Nightblades); new content can wait.

SG_Celerrimus

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

We'll get September's in October. October will be in November and January will be sometime next year.

That doesn't seem practical.

ers101284b14_ESO

SG_Celerrimus wrote: »

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

We'll get September's in October. October will be in November and January will be sometime next year.

That doesn't seem practical.

If you think about it it does. New Content every 6 weeks. Which means new Road Aheads every 6 weeks. There are only 4 weeks in a month. Eventually its gonna overlap. 6 Weeks from August 20th would be October 1st.

Arsenic_Touch

SG_Celerrimus wrote: »

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

We'll get September's in October. October will be in November and January will be sometime next year.

That doesn't seem practical.

'cause zenimax. Every road ahead has been later and later.

serenenightmare

I just wish there was more communication besides the "Road Ahead" articles.

So much silence from one company, seems unnatural.

SG_Celerrimus

serenenightmare wrote: »

So much silence from one company, seems unnatural.

ZOS is a shady company that does some under the table stuff in Tamriel, and its all kept hidden from us. :P We are expected to just eat our sweet rolls and play the game, while some shady stuff goes on.

jelliedsoup

Hopefully fixing all the bugs from 1.4

LonePirate

I want to see a public apology for the incompetent developers and QA personnel on the ZOS team provided ZOS actually employs QA personnel which seems unlikely at this point.

I would also like the apology to cover ZOS' refusal and failure to fix bugs reported on the PTS after the previous Road Ahead letter specifically begged players to test the game on the PTS.

jelliedsoup

LonePirate wrote: »

I want to see a public apology for the incompetent developers and QA personnel on the ZOS team provided ZOS actually employs QA personnel which seems unlikely at this point.

I would also like the apology to cover ZOS' refusal and failure to fix bugs reported on the PTS after the previous Road Ahead letter specifically begged players to test the game on the PTS.

Asking consumers to test is a dangerous practice.

Lionxoft

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

SG_Celerrimus wrote: »

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

We'll get September's in October. October will be in November and January will be sometime next year.

That doesn't seem practical.

'cause zenimax. Every road ahead has been later and later.

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

We'll get September's in October. October will be in November and January will be sometime next year.

You guys/gals/guy/gal kill me

Grim13

I'd like an honest explanation of how and why their incompetence borders on negligence... and why the *** I should continue paying them when they're this categorically awful.

Smiteye

I want the ui and camera options addressed, top priority, in the road ahead letter... this game has flaws but by far the largest is the horrific ui that predates even everquest in functions , and I dont mean in a good way!

NEED:
Nameplate options
Minimap options
Combat log tab on chatbox option
Third person field of vision & height of camera + centering of camera + maximum distance options


WANT:
Imperial City information and ETA
Reward system info for pve and pvp! (currently very little time to get the best gear in the game, why bother doing the content)

Elsonso

I expect that they will stop doing the Road Ahead except for significant milestones. They will replace the routine content from Road Ahead with the Twitch stuff on alternate Fridays.

kijima

One of the things that I always thought in this game that would be great is having warfare on the high seas.

We have water everywhere, there are ship captains everywhere you turn, you can travel using ships to different islands, and there are both berthed and busted up ships all along the coastline in the areas that aren't land locked.

Seriously, HOW much fun would it be to have fights on ships. Instead of siege you could have different types of cannons and so on. And instead of taking a resource you could take the enemy faction ship, or sink it. What ever floats your boat! (sorry, bad pun intended)

Perhaps being able to by smaller boats, skiffs etc with AP that you could use to take down a big faction ship.

Of course, I don't expect that anytime soon. The road ahead has already been planned out with the Imperial city and so on, but fighting on the high seas would be awesome!

ferzalrwb17_ESO

Grim13 wrote: »

I'd like an honest explanation of how and why their incompetence borders on negligence... and why the *** I should continue paying them when they're this categorically awful.

This statement is, unfortunately, true. I've seen some buggy software but I've never seen a team this incompetent. Ever.

They have a PTS. They beg for help. They ignore it.
They can't be testing internally. They just can't.
Releasing untested code: the highest level of idiotic.

babylon

They're going to bring in Player Housing, the Dark Brotherhood, and Thieves Guild...fix all the bugs, and make trading a great experience.

http://youtu.be/lTYe9eDqxe8

Curragraigue

I'm hoping for more details and information on expected release dates for:

1) console release
2) the new zones
3) justice system

I'm expecting broad general statements about how fixes are coming and how they want to make changes in the future. Possibly some more info on the changes with the VR to champion system.

Probitas

I don't want to be negative Nelly, but nothing leads me to think they intend to fix the economy or much anything else. I predict a lot more things broken with each patch. It's like Z hired all the idiots from Turbine to do their coding.

Zheg

I want significant additions and tweaks made to armor sets, skills, and passives. Personally, I have plenty of content to keep me occupied for the next few months, but I'd love for there to be an actual variety of useful sets and builds to choose from. Hint hint, stop raising the vet cap ZOS - we don't need vertical progression every month since launch, we need a little bit of horizontal progression.

Give us variations on weapon skills that we earn through pvp, or difficult pve content. The new weapon skill enchants look pretty wimpy on paper, and I'm not sure I'd even want to use any of them.

I'd like to see more sets that are useful besides warlock (as an example), ones that are of the same caliber for stamina builds. I'd like to see more dropped sets have jewelry options for medium and heavy sets - currently light armor sets have more options (and the best ones like warlock) with jewelry slots. I'd like for crafters to just be able to alter the traits on dropped pieces, because even allowing for randomized traits per piece is still going to result in the vast majority having absolute junk.

I'd like to see the potential for all ultimates, or even just the fighter's guild ultimate to scale off stamina. I'd like to see weapon ultimates so we have more options.

I'd like feel as though I can go into pvp without being forced to turn my character into a vampire for the stealth passive, or access to the troll skills mist form and bats. It's just TOO good, and the alternatives aren't operating on the same level so you get the super majority playing vampires that we currently see. We don't necessarily need to nerf vamps, but you need to give us other 'good' options.

To summarize, I'd like to see far more variety for builds. I want to struggle when deciding what to use because there are so many good options and it's hard to pick; I do NOT want 1-2 cookie cutter builds that I feel obliged to use because they far outpace any other build.

Kos

It seems the game is currently at the brink of a cliff, but I believe it will soon make a big leap forward. The issues will be resolved eventually and the playerbase will be happier and happier.

Guppet

Kos wrote: »

It seems the game is currently at the brink of a cliff, but I believe it will soon make a big leap forward. The issues will be resolved eventually and the playerbase will be happier and happier.

I'm hoping this too. Perhaps the reason they seem to be doing nothing usefull, is due to how much work they have been putting in on the new champion system. Perhaps they will surprise us and announce it's practically ready. That I can see taking a huge ammount of work.

Leijona

Curragraigue wrote: »

I'm hoping for more details and information on expected release dates for:

3) justice system

This year. http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/1275463#Comment_1275463

SantieClaws

The road ahead is a bit like Journey to the West. Covered in sand and fraught with symbolic demons, tests of character strength, painful headaches and flying clouds. Also Pigsy.

I also hope somewhere, sometime for us to be able to cook fishies. I keep saying this. My Khajiit's life currently feels so empty without edible fish.

Audigy

I wouldn't expect to much tbh. The next patch might only have a stamina update and nothing else.

Justice, Champion and Spell crafting might still come in 2014 but probably not before December or November.
Thieves and DB wont come before 2015 and housing ... oh well 2016 they said I believe.

Leijona

Audigy wrote: »

I wouldn't expect to much tbh. The next patch might only have a stamina update and nothing else.

And the changes for werwolves, the chat bubbles, a new veteran dungeon, the new facial animations and a new racial style. Maybe nothing else.
Except ... if you don't mean only some patch and not the next update, but how expects big things in random patches anyways?

PharmaChief

Audigy

Leijona wrote: »

Audigy wrote: »

I wouldn't expect to much tbh. The next patch might only have a stamina update and nothing else.

And the changes for werwolves, the chat bubbles, a new veteran dungeon, the new facial animations and a new racial style. Maybe nothing else.
Except ... if you don't mean only some patch and not the next update, but how expects big things in random patches anyways?

What you mention are not really big things though.

A new dungeon, well we got a new dungeon or raid now with every update so nothing really ground breaking and most people probably wont even see that dungeon any time soon

Chat bubbles? Most players will disable them anyways, facial animations you wont see during play so its just not really a big thing that enhances the gameplay or adds actual content. Its like adding a new hair color - nothing really big so to speak even though its a very huge project for the devs, the community wont take note of it.

Just look at the amazing sound effects which they added recently, not even one thread about them. People don't even notice such tiny things and the same it will be with facial animations.

Housing, Champion System or the introduction of new guilds however are what people want to see and this wont come any time soon and I am sure several people at this forum already build castles in the sky expecting something massive with the next update and they will only be disappointed once it goes live.

As far I can tell, the next really big update is going to be the introduction of spell crafting and the justice system both are currently scheduled to come in 2014 - based on a statement by Kai Schober today, maybe it will be a Christmas gift who knows.

rophez_ESO

I hope it's a monthly thing, simply because I really like them. I wouldn't be surprised if they only do them after an update, though. That still leaves time in September!