How big the map will satisfy you? (for next chapter)

Lyserus

Personally I feel like just elsewhyr is not gonna cut it if they really are working on their "most ambitious" chapter, probably elsewhyr+niben is a good line

Similarly, rest of hammerfall+colovia sounds not bad neither.

Skyrim or Blackmarsh won't be bad, but Skyrim probably should wait a bit longer to adrenaline hype again in future, and release whole blackmarsh right after muirkmire doesn't sound like a good idea, too repetitive and ppl are gonna rant "muirkmire should have been in the chapter in the first place"

And rest of the tamriel map (solthest, or telvanni territory etc) are simply too small for a chapter

So what's gonna satisfy you? Is one single province gonna cut it?

Katahdin

Depends on what they charge for it.

If they charge >$40 then I want to see something the size of Wrothgar with a comparable storyline lengthwise.

Silver_Strider

Everything from south of the Alik'r to Skingrad

Ackwalan

It's not the size of the map, it's the quality that matters.

Lyserus

Ackwalan wrote: »

It's not the size of the map, it's the quality that matters.

Of course it needs to be quality content that in the map area.

Aliyavana

I don't care for the size. If its big but has mountains blocking most of the area that you cant travel on then its wasted space

Gythral

Size of map does not matter
What matters is the hours of enjoyable content!

Beardimus

Wrothgar was the marker. And quality.

Imperial City & Wrothgar are the only two DLC to bother with as far as i care

RavenSworn

I can't be bothered with size. What I want is quality. The amount of content has to be justified for the amount you paid, not the size of the map. I don't want a cyrodil, big map that requires so much travelling time that it takes away from the questing itself.

As aa wise man once said "it's not the size of the hammer that counts, its how you wield it."

Akrasjel

It's more about what will it consist

Faulgor

Lyserus wrote: »

Personally I feel like just elsewhyr is not gonna cut it if they really are working on their "most ambitious" chapter, probably elsewhyr+niben is a good line

Says who?

I really, really doubt it's going to be larger than Vvardenfell.

eso_nya

Size of No Mans Sky xD

themaddaedra

I won't be satisfied even if they make a whole Tamriel size expansion unless there's a darn real trial in it.

red_emu

Map size doesn't matter at all. Look at Morrowind. It was mostly empty, barren landscape with a million locked doors.

But for the next chapter, if I had to guess, I would say it's gonna be the size of Bleakrock but with huge mountains covering 3/4 of the zone

notyuu

But all joking aside, map size isn't really a hot topic issue, the key issue is how much stuff is going on in said map... as in i'd rather have a tightly knit map with a ton of things happening over a few things happening across thousands of miles of jack ***

MinarasLaure

Beardimus wrote: »

Wrothgar was the marker. And quality.

Imperial City & Wrothgar are the only two DLC to bother with as far as i care

This, hundreds times this.
Hopefully Zos do remember how to make good dlcs

ezio45

personally i dont care about map size, i just care about how nice the environment is

vvardenfell.... I literally never go there havent since the day they added it

summerset may be smaller but i am there every single day without fail

Robo_Hobo

"Just" Elsweyr would definitely be enough to satisfy me. Keep in mind, both Vvardenfell and Summerset both had large parts of the landmass blocked off by mountains, so if Elsweyr itself is the chapter, and it doesn't have that much terrain blocked off, then it would still be their most ambitious and largest chapter.


Not to mention the different biomes Elsweyr offers, desert, badlands, tropical rainforest, and the wide variety of alien culture to examine, with the different forms of Khajiit - and remember, there's still Tsaesci and Kamal that still exist in the city of Rimmen right now.

Also, I'm pretty sure Leyawiin may be part of Elsweyr at this point in time, as it only turned over to Cyrodiil territory after the 5 year war in the 3rd era.

RaddlemanNumber7

I know it was mostly hyperbole, but when IT people say things like "this is our most ambitious work yet" it makes me nervous. Doubly so, given what happened to ZOS's original ambitions for this game.

essi2

"this is our most ambitious work yet" is meaningless marketing drivel.

I expect it to be Vvardenfell/Summerset sized and of a similar quality.

It is time for a Daedric chapter, they will run out of Tamriel to add fast if they do a large region of Tamriel each chapter.

Hoolielulu

Oh come on, there won't be a giant mountain in the middle of the next chapter. It will be a toxic sea you can't even fish in. See? Ambitious.

DuskMarine

i want to see something similar to the size of cyrodil with a actual storyline and subquests in substantial size. these tiny dlcs are getting to be a whats the point purchase its not giving anything to the game.

GWINDHA1R

I am not looking the how big the map is either, I just really want a good quest line. I personally liked the Summerset quest line, good story and humour. The golden knight rocks

MLGProPlayer

Katahdin wrote: »

Depends on what they charge for it.

If they charge >$40 then I want to see something the size of Wrothgar with a comparable storyline lengthwise.

Wrothgar was smaller and shorter than Morrowind and Summerset.

MLGProPlayer

Beardimus wrote: »

Wrothgar was the marker. And quality.

Imperial City & Wrothgar are the only two DLC to bother with as far as i care

I didn't like the story in Wrothgar (you had to oppose a progressive king and side with conservative elements of orc society, with absolutely no say in the matter), and the zone was smaller than Morrowind and Summerset. They've upped the ante considerably since then.

Fata1moose

I'd personally like to see more of Cyrodiil added as PvE zones along with the PvP area being updated to be more visually interesting and in line with Oblivion's version. The bridges and mile gates change is nice, but more could be done. As for what the PvE content would entail, it could be faction war stories, vampire questlines, etc. In the future I'd like to see them update vanilla zones as a chapter. People complain about the lack of Elsweyr at launch, but the quality of the zones will be better than most. The real injustice was getting all of Valenwood at launch, those zones are very bland, Valenwood has so much more potential than what we got. Imagine having a larger area that's more like Selene's Web or Mirkwood. The current Valenwood is so tame and lacks the wild feeling a large forest should have.

SilverWF

Similar sized as Coldharbour Surreal Estate would be fine.

Synnastix

essi2 wrote: »

"this is our most ambitious work yet" is meaningless marketing drivel..

Yup, could just mean they’re trying to do the same content as TG with half the staff.

Zathras

essi2 wrote: »

"this is our most ambitious work yet" is meaningless marketing drivel.

I expect it to be Vvardenfell/Summerset sized and of a similar quality.

It is time for a Daedric chapter, they will run out of Tamriel to add fast if they do a large region of Tamriel each chapter.

I found Summerset even more anemic than Vvardenfell. Even the usage of the landmass was sharply reduced. If you flash up the Harvestmap addon in both areas, you'll see what I mean. Summerset's chunks of unexplorable/unused areas are massive.

I hope they move away from the "less is more" development they seem to have latched on to. Less content, more reskins, and higher prices. Oh, and more grind to stretch out the watered down content.

If they put in the effort and focus the Crown Store gets, and aimed it at real content, there would be a lot more happy people.

Chicharron

"this is our most ambitious work yet"

What kind of ambition are we talking about? that its price will be $99.99?