The Gold Road Chapter – which includes the Scribing system – and Update 42 is now available to test on the PTS! You can read the latest patch notes here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/656454/
Maintenance for the week of May 6:
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• PC/Mac: NA and EU megaservers for patch maintenance – May 6, 4:00AM EDT (8:00 UTC) - 9:00AM EDT (13:00 UTC)
• Xbox: NA and EU megaservers for maintenance – May 8, 6:00AM EDT (10:00 UTC) - 9:00AM EDT (13:00 UTC)
• PlayStation®: NA and EU megaservers for maintenance – May 8, 6:00AM EDT (10:00 UTC) - 9:00AM EDT (13:00 UTC)
So Console Players do you love your text chat?
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✭✭Anybody on XB1 having trouble with ChatPad try just using the SmartGlass app - works like a dream on my Surface 3.0 -
Brrrofski✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Yes I love it should have been in from the begining!I didn't think I'd end up using it.
I really like it though. I can be in one guild cat channel and still talk to someone in another if need be, people trading a lot in zone chat, letting people in pvp know which wall is getting sieged, how many are sieging etc.
I really like it.0 -
Amorpho✭✭✭✭Yes I love it should have been in from the begining!Is there a way to have a text-chat box up on screen all the time without having to go into the menu all the time? It seems there is but I don't know how to set it upThe Gaming Rev
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JakelDK✭✭✭Yes I love it should have been in from the begining!in order to make the orange and green keys correspond with what is actually displayed on your chatpad you will need to change the language settings on your chatpad (only this not you general language or location) to english USA. it took me a while to figure out and i couldn't find anything about it online. hope it helps those in other countries like me:)0 -
Bonzodog01✭✭✭✭✭Is there a way to have a text-chat box up on screen all the time without having to go into the menu all the time? It seems there is but I don't know how to set it up
Go to Options > social > Text Chat switch to display on HUD. That will display a smallish text chat box on the right hand side of your screen which will fade if no-one says anything.Xbox One - EU - EP/DCTrying and failing to hold the walls of his Templar house up since 20150 -
nick_dean14✭✭✭I REALLY wish there was a way you could filter the text chat. It seems to be an incredibly helpful feature, but if I was able to just show whispers, or just show messages sent to a particular guild it would be so much more useful. Trying to have a conversation with a group of guild mates is really annoying when there are another 15 random people shouting about the fact they've got a maelstrom weapon.
You can choose to only hear a guild voice chat rather than the area chat, so why is it not the same with text chat?Guildmaster of Tamriel Trials Team. A PvE focused dungeons and trials guild on the PS4 EU server.
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AnviOfVai✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes I love it should have been in from the begining!The chat is a great feature! I really like it, for guilds and groups! but i used it for the first time yesterday in open chat I just wrote "ah so you hit enter to get the chat up" and then suddenly everyone was replying with...you don't wanna know what they wrote. It was pretty eye roll worthy. hahaha!"I appear at my lord's behest, or perhaps I was always here, and you merely lacked the ability to see me."
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✭Averya_Teira wrote: »FortheloveofKrist wrote: »Yesterday night, after the first ten minutes, I would have said it is a nice addition.
Then I realized it's just going to be endless trade spam. So it'll probably stay off. Like someone else said, it just clutters the screen anyways.
As someone used to PC MMOs, I don't even see it when not looking at it lol. Certainly doesn't clutter the screen ...
As someone who played PC MMOs, I disagree. It clutters the screen.
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Uriel_Nocturne✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No I am not a fan.
It's all personal preference.Averya_Teira wrote: »Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »I voted "No", but only because there wasn't a "I don't really care, I don't/won't ever use the Text Chat function when I can just talk through my headset" option.
Text Chat coming to consoles means nothing to me. It does nothing for my game, and there is the nighest of probabilities that I will never turn the Chat Window to "On".
If people were (for some reason) excited for this, then I hope they like it.
I've played MMO's since forever, and I've always hated having to pause what I''m doing to type in some little damn window. Annoying as hell IMO.
Can't voice zone chat though.... And guild voice chat is just a cluster *** honestly....
As I said in my post, even in the MMO's on my PC (where I spend most of my gaming time), I despise text chat windows. I have since they were introduced (what seems like) ages ago, and I like them no more in 2016 than I did way back when.
As for your two talking points: Area Chat is the voice version of Zone chat. It just has a proximity filter that keeps me from hearing people across the Province screaming about whose mom/sister/dog they just "pwned". As far as Guild Chat, I've never had a single issue with it. I don't mind switching amongst different Guild Channels if necessary, which it usually isnt necessary since each channel holds quite a few people.
So again; IMO, I don't like it, and I see it as an unnecessary addition to the game. If other people like it, that's fine with me. They can use it until their fingers fall off.
But ever since third-party voice chat options/apps/programs/services were added to the internet, I have used those to talk to guildmates rather than constantly pause what I'm doing and try to rip out a text message before some creature slaughters me.
Text Chat Windows are possibly the single most annoying feature in modern and older MMO's in my opinion. I much prefer hearing the voices of my Guildmates anyway. And we can discuss more topics in a far shorter amount of time with voice chatting (without misreading intent, because voice inflections and tone reveal so much about a person's messages) than we ever will with text chat windows.
So no, I'm not ever going to be a fan of Text Chat Windows. Being able to talk freely with my Guildies, hearing their actual voices... that's what makes an MMO feel so much more immersive to me.
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BalticBlues✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Yes I love it should have been in from the begining!
No problem, you do not lose your voice chat at all with text chat.Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »Being able to talk freely with my Guildies, hearing their actual voices... that's what makes an MMO feel so much more immersive to me.
However, with guild voice chat you only can speak to ONE guild.
With text chat you finally can chat with ALL guilds at once.
If one of your mates in 5 guilds is looking for help, you will now see this. Superb.
The PC version can do this; There you can select the channels you want.nick_dean14 wrote: »I REALLY wish there was a way you could filter the text chat. It seems to be an incredibly helpful feature, but if I was able to just show whispers, or just show messages sent to a particular guild it would be so much more useful.
The PC version also allows setting custom text chat colors.
The console version cannot do this.
ZOS probably sees this as too complicated for console players...
However, a simple selection of 8 radio buttons right under the input box for activating channels could help, such as:
ALL (default) AREA GROUP GUILD1 GUILD2 GUILD3 GUILD4 GUILD5
Edited by BalticBlues on August 18, 2016 3:55PM0 -
NewBlacksmurf✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No I am not a fan.BalticBlues wrote: »
No problem, you do not lose your voice chat at all with text chat.Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »Being able to talk freely with my Guildies, hearing their actual voices... that's what makes an MMO feel so much more immersive to me.
However, with guild voice chat you only can speak to ONE guild.
With text chat you finally can chat with ALL guilds at once.
If one of your mates in 5 guilds is looking for help, you will now see this. Superb.
The PC version can do this; There you can select the channels you want.nick_dean14 wrote: »I REALLY wish there was a way you could filter the text chat. It seems to be an incredibly helpful feature, but if I was able to just show whispers, or just show messages sent to a particular guild it would be so much more useful.
The PC version also allows setting custom text chat colors.
The console version cannot do this.
ZOS probably sees this as too complicated for console players...
However, a simple selection of 8 radio buttons right under the input box for activating channels could help, such as:
ALL (default) AREA GROUP GUILD1 GUILD2 GUILD3 GUILD4 GUILD5
There are literally no more options that can be added without removing others.
For me I very often used the emotes but now they've been removed in place of text chat so I have to manually go through the menus vs a 2-3 quick button press
I don't see value in forcing ppl to use something.
The game needs a lot more on/off and button assignments for consoles because for each person, what we do and how we do those things will differ.
I enjoy a Xbox one controller that offer a lot of customization but I'm still at a lost in this game due to even more poor design decisions with this update.-PC (PTS)/Xbox One: NewBlacksmurf
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bryanhaas✭✭✭✭Yes I love it should have been in from the begining!All the chat trolling.
It
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Awesome!PS4 NA AD GM formerly known as GM of "The Children of the Void"
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Uriel_Nocturne✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No I am not a fan.
Of course. I understand that none of my voice chat options are being taken away; but as I said earlier, there is the highest of probabilities that I will never turn it to "On".BalticBlues wrote: »
No problem, you do not lose your voice chat at all with text chat.Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »Being able to talk freely with my Guildies, hearing their actual voices... that's what makes an MMO feel so much more immersive to me.
However, with guild voice chat you only can speak to ONE guild.
With text chat you finally can chat with ALL guilds at once.
If one of your mates in 5 guilds is looking for help, you will now see this. Superb.
Text Chat boxes just aren't my thing.
But there are people who are very, very excited for this. Even though I don't see the point in those annoying boxes, even though I wish that they had never been introduced into MMO's, other people are still very excited for it.
People are excited again (for a short while at least) about a game that I love (or at least this one feature). That only helps to lengthen the lifespan of the game, even if it is lengthened by only an infinitesimal amount.
That means a game I love will be around for that much longer. For that fact alone, I am happy for this update, even if I will never use "the Devil's Talk Box" (all in good fun, just humor me with a small chuckle
) myself.
So, yeah; I'm still not a fan of it.
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waterfairy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No I am not a fan.Leeroy Jenkins doesn't need text chat and neither do I
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EZgoin76✭✭✭✭Yes I love it should have been in from the begining!Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »
Of course. I understand that none of my voice chat options are being taken away; but as I said earlier, there is the highest of probabilities that I will never turn it to "On".BalticBlues wrote: »
No problem, you do not lose your voice chat at all with text chat.Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »Being able to talk freely with my Guildies, hearing their actual voices... that's what makes an MMO feel so much more immersive to me.
However, with guild voice chat you only can speak to ONE guild.
With text chat you finally can chat with ALL guilds at once.
If one of your mates in 5 guilds is looking for help, you will now see this. Superb.
Text Chat boxes just aren't my thing.
But there are people who are very, very excited for this. Even though I don't see the point in those annoying boxes, even though I wish that they had never been introduced into MMO's, other people are still very excited for it.
People are excited again (for a short while at least) about a game that I love (or at least this one feature). That only helps to lengthen the lifespan of the game, even if it is lengthened by only an infinitesimal amount.
That means a game I love will be around for that much longer. For that fact alone, I am happy for this update, even if I will never use "the Devil's Talk Box" (all in good fun, just humor me with a small chuckle) myself.
So, yeah; I'm still not a fan of it.
There's a lot of people who feel the exact same way about voice chat and will never turn it on.
Me. I prefer having both, seeing as how it gives us all options. Voice chat has its limitations that text makes up for and vice versa.
I still hate area chat and now that we have text chat I will probably never use area chat again. I'll save talking to people for guild and group dungeons.I want to change the world. I'm just to lazy to do it.1 -
Uriel_Nocturne✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No I am not a fan.
Awesome.Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »
Of course. I understand that none of my voice chat options are being taken away; but as I said earlier, there is the highest of probabilities that I will never turn it to "On".BalticBlues wrote: »
No problem, you do not lose your voice chat at all with text chat.Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »Being able to talk freely with my Guildies, hearing their actual voices... that's what makes an MMO feel so much more immersive to me.
However, with guild voice chat you only can speak to ONE guild.
With text chat you finally can chat with ALL guilds at once.
If one of your mates in 5 guilds is looking for help, you will now see this. Superb.
Text Chat boxes just aren't my thing.
But there are people who are very, very excited for this. Even though I don't see the point in those annoying boxes, even though I wish that they had never been introduced into MMO's, other people are still very excited for it.
People are excited again (for a short while at least) about a game that I love (or at least this one feature). That only helps to lengthen the lifespan of the game, even if it is lengthened by only an infinitesimal amount.
That means a game I love will be around for that much longer. For that fact alone, I am happy for this update, even if I will never use "the Devil's Talk Box" (all in good fun, just humor me with a small chuckle) myself.
So, yeah; I'm still not a fan of it.
There's a lot of people who feel the exact same way about voice chat and will never turn it on.
Me. I prefer having both, seeing as how it gives us all options. Voice chat has its limitations that text makes up for and vice versa.
I still hate area chat and now that we have text chat I will probably never use area chat again. I'll save talking to people for guild and group dungeons.
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Jimboo84✭✭✭UltimaJoe777 wrote: »I'll provide some screenies from PS4 for those that need a sneak peek:Screenshot of the text chat box non-full screen with small text (used /played to fill it in)
Screenshot of the text chat box in full screen with a linked item and me displaying what it looks like to view it
Screenshot of the text chat box HUD turned on but hidden due to no new comments
Weird place.
I'm happy with the PC version, I can move this chat box to another location.Jimerio / Magicka Sorcerer / PvP & PvE / Master Crafter(Woodworking, Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Provisioning, Enchanting, Clothing) / DD & Heal / CP560+ / Aldmeri Dominion / PC / EU0 -
Ourorboros✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Stupid placement for a text chat window, why on earth would it be on the middle right of the screen? Who knows? But I'll take it.
Where is the LootDrop display? Could be the chat placement had something to do with that. On PC, in GamePad mode, the LootDrop is behind the text chat, both in lower left bottom. In normal PC UI, the LootDrop is on the opposite side of text, lower right bottom. I have to either turn LootDrop off, or just ignore it, since it's very hard to see behind the chat window.PC/NA/DCBreton Sorcerer Maester.White - BB meets GoT >Master Crafter< { 9 Traits completed 4/23/15 }
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Karivaa✭✭✭✭✭I like the possibilities of it in PVP, but it is also a new way for people to trash talk other.0
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Defilted✭✭✭✭✭
✭No I am not a fan.Played on X1 last night. Never turned chat on. Game was fine.XBOX NA
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BlackguardBob✭✭✭No I am not a fan.I had it switched on my XB1 last night for 2 hours and nobody said a word. Then when someone did, he was trying to sell stuff highlighted in purple text over and over again. There didn't seem to be much interest.
Tbh, if I want to chat I'll get on the blower. I don't need to chat in a chat box with anybody while playing a game that is so intense as ESO is. That is so immersive breaking seeing the box on my screen and on the right hand side too!
I am glad for everybody that has asked for this over some long time and now can finally do their thing but this is just not for me at all and I will leave it at the default off so I am mercifully relieved that I can do that.
Edited by BlackguardBob on August 18, 2016 8:47PM0
