Secret Door in Western Skyrim

RSram

Just returned to ESO after six months due to the release of the Greymoore DLC. As usual, I like to explore the inactive areas around zone. Today, I found an easy way to travel to the inactive areas of the Western Skyrim zone that anyone can do. Just follow the instructions in the video.

Disclaimer: This is not an exploit as you do not gain any advantage in the game or extra loot, etc. This is just a way to gain access to parts of the zone that you otherwise would not have access to. I have been doing this since ESO’s release and I have never been punished or ban from the game for publishing these access locations. Usually, the developers just plug this access point to the inactive zone in the next patch update.

So, enjoy the new adventure before the developer lock the door forever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfrrklNh4IA

DarkPicture

It looks like we will not get "the reach" only whiterun and frozen graves might be some city or delve/ public dung. There were also datamined mount from whiterun.

Unless its prepared place for future years

Nestor

Awesome stuff!!

Elsonso

"Don't ask me how I know that."

DTStormfox

Awesome

ArchangelIsraphel

Thats really cool! It's kinda neat to see these weird little ghost town areas no one else really knows about!

Nord_Raseri

Just went to a spot between peaks and the name "Dan" is written in the snow

xXMeowMeowXx

@RSram nice one 😊

Nord_Raseri

And now I'm in Chess land

Nord_Raseri

What path did you take to get to the town? Your video cuts tim between spots

Faulgor

Not entirely sure what the marking above Frozen Graves says. O-Icon...? O-IceN...?
Interesting symbol though.



I wouldn't read too much into Frozen Graves, though. The existence of a separate Solitude should show that these areas have little relation to actual content. Wasn't an area in Hjaalmarch called Frozen Graves or something like that anyway?

Beavisaur13

If you wanted ppl to see this, you should have just posted this in the eso reddit. Now your more than likely gonna get this spot rekt, it would have existed for long time, not just a single patch update.

SickleCider

That was fascinating, thank you.

Elsonso

Faulgor wrote: »

Not entirely sure what the marking above Frozen Graves says. O-Icon...? O-IceN...?
Interesting symbol though.



I wouldn't read too much into Frozen Graves, though. The existence of a separate Solitude should show that these areas have little relation to actual content. Wasn't an area in Hjaalmarch called Frozen Graves or something like that anyway?

We would have to ask "Dan" what Frozen Graves means. It is not part of Lore, that I can find.

However, as for Solitude, it was interesting to see where they placed it in the zone. It had to be some place outside, and it makes sense that it was hidden in the same zone as the rest of Western Skyrim.

Beavisaur13 wrote: »

If you wanted ppl to see this, you should have just posted this in the eso reddit. Now your more than likely gonna get this spot rekt, it would have existed for long time, not just a single patch update.

This might already be fixed on PTS. There is a house entrance adjacent to that place, so they have been fiddling in that area, already.

Faulgor

If you travel all the way through the south to the west, you can actually make it to the gate to the Reach on the other side. Fun!



And no, you can't open it lol.

DarkPicture

Faulgor wrote: »

Not entirely sure what the marking above Frozen Graves says. O-Icon...? O-IceN...?
Interesting symbol though.



I wouldn't read too much into Frozen Graves, though. The existence of a separate Solitude should show that these areas have little relation to actual content. Wasn't an area in Hjaalmarch called Frozen Graves or something like that anyway?

im 99% its mage collage symbole, just modern version.

Faulgor

Browart wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

Not entirely sure what the marking above Frozen Graves says. O-Icon...? O-IceN...?
Interesting symbol though.



I wouldn't read too much into Frozen Graves, though. The existence of a separate Solitude should show that these areas have little relation to actual content. Wasn't an area in Hjaalmarch called Frozen Graves or something like that anyway?

im 99% its mage collage symbole, just modern version.

I thought about that too, but it's basically just the normal Skyrim-esque quest marker with an eye above it ..

The_Drop_Bear

Browart wrote: »

It looks like we will not get "the reach" only whiterun and frozen graves might be some city or delve/ public dung. There were also datamined mount from whiterun.

Unless its prepared place for future years

We are almost certainly getting the reach, the devs basically said it in the livestream, and there are so many mentions of markarth

WeerW3ir

RSram wrote: »

Just returned to ESO after six months due to the release of the Greymoore DLC. As usual, I like to explore the inactive areas around zone. Today, I found an easy way to travel to the inactive areas of the Western Skyrim zone that anyone can do. Just follow the instructions in the video.

Disclaimer: This is not an exploit as you do not gain any advantage in the game or extra loot, etc. This is just a way to gain access to parts of the zone that you otherwise would not have access to. I have been doing this since ESO’s release and I have never been punished or ban from the game for publishing these access locations. Usually, the developers just plug this access point to the inactive zone in the next patch update.

So, enjoy the new adventure before the developer lock the door forever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfrrklNh4IA

You do not get into endless loop and stuck screen if you jump down. you rather just die. trust me i know. i was exploring zones myself too back then. reaching cyro and craglorn from rift, ex elsweyr from grathwood, sentinel-glenubra-alikr etc

DarkPicture

The_Drop_Bear wrote: »

Browart wrote: »

It looks like we will not get "the reach" only whiterun and frozen graves might be some city or delve/ public dung. There were also datamined mount from whiterun.

Unless its prepared place for future years

We are almost certainly getting the reach, the devs basically said it in the livestream, and there are so many mentions of markarth

link to this livestream and what exact minute?

YstradClud

Seen it here first. The Frozen Graves. Looks like they still have lots of empty space around Skyrim to play around with.

Elsonso

Elsonso wrote: »

Beavisaur13 wrote: »

If you wanted ppl to see this, you should have just posted this in the eso reddit. Now your more than likely gonna get this spot rekt, it would have existed for long time, not just a single patch update.

This might already be fixed on PTS. There is a house entrance adjacent to that place, so they have been fiddling in that area, already.

It does appear to be fixed on PTS.

UntilValhalla13

There's also quite a few houses with hidden areas, if you have a well placed training dummy and a gap closer. XD

Pink_E_808

WeerW3ir wrote: »

You do not get into endless loop and stuck screen if you jump down. you rather just die. trust me i know. i was exploring zones myself too back then. reaching cyro and craglorn from rift, ex elsweyr from grathwood, sentinel-glenubra-alikr etc

I was too scared to jump off into one of the holes, but a guildie that was with me in N. elsweyr did a Leroy Jenkins right off one one day. I laughed so hard after asking if he was okay first, then followed suit.

XxCaLxX

Theres still quite a few places like this that’s been around for years and they haven’t patched. The one in Deshaan you can get out of player area and go through stone falls area and some of Shadowfen you can see stuff written also.

robpr

XxCaLxX wrote: »

Theres still quite a few places like this that’s been around for years and they haven’t patched. The one in Deshaan you can get out of player area and go through stone falls area and some of Shadowfen you can see stuff written also.

I'm pretty sure that one rock that can give access to Cloudrest "city" still works to this day

The_Drop_Bear

Browart wrote: »

The_Drop_Bear wrote: »

Browart wrote: »

It looks like we will not get "the reach" only whiterun and frozen graves might be some city or delve/ public dung. There were also datamined mount from whiterun.

Unless its prepared place for future years

We are almost certainly getting the reach, the devs basically said it in the livestream, and there are so many mentions of markarth

link to this livestream and what exact minute?

The announce livestream, no idea what minute

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Browart wrote: »

The_Drop_Bear wrote: »

Browart wrote: »

It looks like we will not get "the reach" only whiterun and frozen graves might be some city or delve/ public dung. There were also datamined mount from whiterun.

Unless its prepared place for future years

We are almost certainly getting the reach, the devs basically said it in the livestream, and there are so many mentions of markarth

link to this livestream and what exact minute?

Greymoor reveal live stream
They did not sy it explicitly but they did say that if we liked reachman lore we would love the q4 dlc
As for the exact minute go wach it for yourself

WeerW3ir

Pink_E_808 wrote: »

WeerW3ir wrote: »

You do not get into endless loop and stuck screen if you jump down. you rather just die. trust me i know. i was exploring zones myself too back then. reaching cyro and craglorn from rift, ex elsweyr from grathwood, sentinel-glenubra-alikr etc

I was too scared to jump off into one of the holes, but a guildie that was with me in N. elsweyr did a Leroy Jenkins right off one one day. I laughed so hard after asking if he was okay first, then followed suit.

You instadie once you step out of the map and you get placed back to the nearest ws/or main ws.
To get stuck in loading screen the game must fail to call down your x y z coordinates. which can be reached by gaining more speed than the game could build up the world.

most omnious places like that were: top of the Grahtwood great tree, Craglorn crafting station in a valley, craglorn rocks, cyrodiil rocks... etc :P but all these have been fixed.

Ravensilver

Thank you for sharing! It was fun seeing just how much potential there still is for upcoming chapters!

ArchMikem

"Door". Though I'm absurdly shocked there's such an easy way out of bounds and it took this long to go public.