Snowball fights, ice sledding, other New Life ideas.

Eiagra

I may just be creating one more on a pile of posts talking about this, but I would like to see some new life breathed into the New Life festival.

Sure, new motifs are great and all, as are new gizmos and whatchamacallits -- and they take less dev-time to craft than whole new activities. But that doesn't really stop me from hoping to see more fun things to do around the winter holidays.

Snowball fights, for example. The memento is fun, but how about gamifying it further? A special Battlegrounds where we can build snowforts, stockpile snow, and throw snowballs could be fun -- no bloodshed needed! Perhaps, like with Werewolf, the bar could swap to a special skillset specifically designed for snowball battles. Basically, some kinda take on yukigassen.

Some kind of race (mounted or not) could also be fun. Ice physics, if possible, could make things more challenging. Like the above, perhaps lock the player to a special skill bar to keep things on a fairly even footing. (Maybe each race gets a specially-themed snowball/ice-racing ultimate? Special skills to use during the race to boost self/create obstacles for others?)

Combining the two (competition + ice physics), maybe some take on ice hockey could be given an Elder Scrolls kind of spin. What would Nords and Orcs in frozen and cold areas do for competitive sport on the ice?

Ice fishing could be a thing too, since we already have fishing mechanics...

Just some ideas. What other ideas have we got? Maybe we'll see something new to do next year.

Nemesis7884

i would love some more activities to do in the game outside of fishing...like horse races, jumping puzzles, maybe some sort of cool battle royale pvp mode where you can only use very few abilities...etc. etc.

I think it would be smart for eso to introduce pvp modes that attract non pvp players...as pvp is more game time per development time spent - i am not a classical pvper but in gw2 i played several of the pvp modes... if you have pvp modes that have a very low skill ceiling it evens the playfield and is more attractive for non pvpers

for example why not a pvp battle royal snow ball fight... easy to implement, sounds like fun

Hotdog_23

Love the snowball fight idea for BG's. Instead of skill or weapons just snowballs. Each hit does 10% damage to the person health, Ultimate would be a massive snow ball meteor that does like 50% health damage. Cover each BG in snow. You could even keep the same objectives as the regular BG's. Maybe add an icicle that we could also throw for more damage but with a 1 second cast time. Shield skill could be a small blizzard around you. Heal skill would be fire or warmth skill to warm the cold player up. CC skill would a ice skid or a frozen affect for 2-3 seconds unless broken.

wild_kmacdb16_ESO

Snowboarding minigame. mage teleports you to the top of the highest snow covered mountain and you just go down trying to get down as fast as possible. maybe you can throw snowballs at other people to trip them up?

MaleAmazon

Honsetly I like the snowball idea. Don´t have it kill people, just disable them a bit and maybe autoteleport back. Might get ppl interested in PvP if you can PvP without dying all the time, also it would be more balanced if everyone had the same attack.

Nemesis7884

MaleAmazon wrote: »

Honsetly I like the snowball idea. Don´t have it kill people, just disable them a bit and maybe autoteleport back. Might get ppl interested in PvP if you can PvP without dying all the time, also it would be more balanced if everyone had the same attack.

exactly - i think a lot of people that are not overly into pvp would be attracted to some sort of casual low skill ceiling pvp

idk

Sledding could be a good idea if Zos could find a way to make it interesting.

However we already have a mud ball and fishing quest so it would not make sense to add snow balls and ice fishing as they would essentially be duplicative.

FierceSam

The informal snowball fight is already possible, only ZOS have chosen to gate it not just behind the Crown Store, but within the gambling butthole that is the crates/gems system. So not only do you have to pay for it, but there’s no way to accurately measure what it costs (aside from a lot).

It would have been a genuinely fun, silly thing to introduce as a memento, but they’ve gone the money route instead.

Happy New Life.