New | Furniture | House - PTS Update 34 - The High Isle

Futerko

New house Highhallow hold
https://youtu.be/dGsYgWwVwq8








more screenshots https://imgur.com/a/mTEuIKD

New furnitures, recipe list, object scale
https://youtu.be/mAoFRKMdVHg

NotaDaedraWorshipper

It's like looking at Leyawiin 2.0.

katanagirl1

Interesting architecture, a combination of Tudor style with tiled roof and crenellated parapets. It looks freaking huge, though.

Thanks for sharing!

Futerko

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

It's like looking at Leyawiin 2.0.

I agree

Futerko

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Interesting architecture, a combination of Tudor style with tiled roof and crenellated parapets. It looks freaking huge, though.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for comment and yes the hoouse its huuge especially inside, the numbers of doors and rooms make me lost sometimes

Hotdog_23

As a console player with no access to PTS, many thanks for the posting this

alberichtano

Still no utility stuff. I want pickaxes and shovels and pitchforks and ladders and such. My poor miners have nothing to work with.

K9002

The squid and tide motifs are excessive, especially coming right after Leyawiin kit. It's not at all what I expected from an updated Breton set - filthy rich edition. So far I liked the cushioned stool, wall mirror and the hanging herb rack.

carly

I love the new furniture but there isn't a lot of it and so many things I saw last night that we should have! Like new dishes, bowls, various new pots and other kitchen items. Tomatoes growing on vines in a garden, cabbages in a garden, baskets of carrots, sunflower in a pot, etc. And I haven't even explored a lot yet so I'm sure there is much more!

And for goodness sake, can we please get the baskets with laundry and the washtub with scrub board! They've been in game since Elsweyr and every subsequent release and still nada!

kaisernick

carly wrote: »

I love the new furniture but there isn't a lot of it and so many things I saw last night that we should have! Like new dishes, bowls, various new pots and other kitchen items. Tomatoes growing on vines in a garden, cabbages in a garden, baskets of carrots, sunflower in a pot, etc. And I haven't even explored a lot yet so I'm sure there is much more!

And for goodness sake, can we please get the baskets with laundry and the washtub with scrub board! They've been in game since Elsweyr and every subsequent release and still nada!

hay ive been begging for a large path of grass for years

kind_hero

Can't say I am excited after I visited the house on the PTS (and several other buildings).

High Isle isn't bad, but could have been much better. It's like the devs don't have an eye on what happens on the market.

I can't understand how ZOS releases so few furnishings with this chapter. And even those are very similar to Leyawiin, using the same 3D mesh or having some small alterations. True, a chair is a chair, but there is nothing lavish about the new epic designs. Compare these with the epic Redguard furniture from the base game. The Leyawiin ones are more detailed and interesting.

I can't feel anything for this house. A major turn off for me is the moldy-looking walls, and how dull is the interior. This should be a noble's house. Compare this to the interiors from Leyawiin. I really wish the devs will address the walls. To me the house lacks polish, it's like a rough proof of concept. The interior should have much more lighting. We have all these new window designs that can create amazing atmosphere, yet the interior is dark and gives a dull feeling overall. The Mages Guild has an amazing new spiral staircase tower. Why the devs haven't included this staircase in the new house is beyond me. The Mages Guild building has a better layout than Highhallow Hold. An other thing I dislike is how the courtyard (which looks amazing) is at the back of the house.

The furnishings lack polish, even the rich ones. I imagine the Bretons living on this island to have a lavish lifestyle. However, the furniture looks coarse and rather cheap. The textures should be improved and the fabric for chairs should be silky or velvety. The amount of seafood furnishings is repetitive. We got a lot of these in Leyawiin, even in Solitude we had some.

ZOS. Where are the weapon rack furnishings? We see that you created new models, but you still don't want to release these as furnishings despite our continued requests. Why is that? Same for armor mannequins. You have the asset in game since Morrowind. With Hew's Bane you added fashion mannequins. Still nothing for us to use. Where is the vegetation, such as planters and vines? There should be everywhere.

The two new carpets are nice. TWO carpets, that's all. Even the vampires from Blackreach living underground had more models. This island is a resort for aristocrats. There should be at least five models and three color variants for each. Aristocrats are flamboyant, do you imagine they would have the same carpet like their rival house?

The Bretons are a magical race. There are no magical knick knacks, no hints of their affinity to magic. Instead Fargrave had a lot of those.

So much more could be said.

To me it's like you don't love this game anymore, I really can't get it otherwise. High Isle is such an great opportunity to create amazing things in all aspects of the game, not only furnishings, and yet every opportunity feels like a missed one, I am sorry to say this. I really want to like this expansion. My main char is Breton, I started playing TES with Daggerfall, more than 20 years ago, so I have this nostalgia over the Bretons. I was excited when you announced this theme. But to me, the game doesn't live to its standards it set years ago with Morrowind, Summerset or Elsweyr.

K9002

kind_hero wrote: »

The amount of seafood furnishings is repetitive. We got a lot of these in Leyawiin, even in Solitude we had some.

It just occurred to me that after all these expansions we still don't have any sweets outside of vanilla sweetrolls, pie dish and jubilee cakes. Not even ported Skyrim models for sweets such as honey nut treat, boiled creme treat or the various crostatas and dumplings. Bretons used to be world famous for their chefs and confectioners. But yeah, instead we get platter after platter of whole, often uncooked seafoods.

katanagirl1

Part of me is disappointed to hear there aren’t many furnishings in the new chapter, and the other part is relieved.

If the drop rate is like the last chapter, maybe I’ll be able to get them all since there aren’t as many. I am still trying to farm or buy the purple plans from Blackwood and the Deadlands. Prices on traders are so high.

Has anyone on PTS checked out whether here are any decent farming locations in High Isle? Are there some good ones or is it like the limited places in Blackwood and Fargrave, or even worse?

Mascen

kind_hero wrote: »

Can't say I am excited after I visited the house on the PTS (and several other buildings).

High Isle isn't bad, but could have been much better. It's like the devs don't have an eye on what happens on the market.

I can't understand how ZOS releases so few furnishings with this chapter. And even those are very similar to Leyawiin, using the same 3D mesh or having some small alterations. True, a chair is a chair, but there is nothing lavish about the new epic designs. Compare these with the epic Redguard furniture from the base game. The Leyawiin ones are more detailed and interesting.

I can't feel anything for this house. A major turn off for me is the moldy-looking walls, and how dull is the interior. This should be a noble's house. Compare this to the interiors from Leyawiin. I really wish the devs will address the walls. To me the house lacks polish, it's like a rough proof of concept. The interior should have much more lighting. We have all these new window designs that can create amazing atmosphere, yet the interior is dark and gives a dull feeling overall. The Mages Guild has an amazing new spiral staircase tower. Why the devs haven't included this staircase in the new house is beyond me. The Mages Guild building has a better layout than Highhallow Hold. An other thing I dislike is how the courtyard (which looks amazing) is at the back of the house.

The furnishings lack polish, even the rich ones. I imagine the Bretons living on this island to have a lavish lifestyle. However, the furniture looks coarse and rather cheap. The textures should be improved and the fabric for chairs should be silky or velvety. The amount of seafood furnishings is repetitive. We got a lot of these in Leyawiin, even in Solitude we had some.

The two new carpets are nice. TWO carpets, that's all. Even the vampires from Blackreach living underground had more models.

Well put. I'm more disappointed than anything. The rugs are probably the best items in the video and even theyre mediocre to the point i'd pass on them. Oh well, at least I'll be able to make a killing farming/selling the motifs at launch.

Lugaldu

The new bookcases are nice, but aren't they a little short on books? Don't the Breton nobility read that much?

chrisfeng

Why is the interior wall so dirty at HigeHallow Hold?

Vuskuldein

This feels like a huge step backwards after Leyawiin furniture's clean and detailed textures - it's like a poverty version of Leyawiin.
- This house and the furniture look dilapidated and moldy. House's layout felt confusing and at least for me, didn't make much sense.
- Asides from that blue padded one, the little table/stools look like so many other tables we already have, in fact that feels like the case for most of this furniture.
- The rugs look miserable and worn which is a shame because one thing I'd like to see in the furnishings is more boldly coloured and clean rugs/carpets.
- And like @Lugaldu said, a fully stocked bookcase would have been nice.

I thought ZOS was starting to improve the furnishing texture quality, but imo this is disappointing. Idk about anyone else, but I wouldn't want to take a drink from the silverware cup, looks a bit antiquated lol.

chrisfeng

There is one thing that I do appreciate very much. HI furnishing very much seems a refined, in the same vein of, base game Breton style.

So it will fit in to existing Breton style houses very well: Daggefall overlook, Guardner house, Ravenhurst, etc.

ShinyBacon

WHY ARE THERE NO SUNFLOWER FURNISHINGS ?


after watching the reveal stream i was sure there were some sunflower furnishings to be had, at least from the home goods furnisher.

I really need sunflowers, in light of events recently, my soul needs sunflowers to plant a peacuful little garden.

seecodenotgames

I noticed on the PTS there is a plant pot with sunflowers in it. Of course they could also add a patch of sunflowers to plant in the open.

FluffWit

I'm assuming Sunflower stuff will be gold furnishing or crown gem furnishing. 😐

Molydeus

This house looks amazing! I've always wanted a home that felt like a Breton manorial estate rather than a castle. We already have a castle (Daggerfall Overlook). This feels like somewhere Breton nobles would retire to for the winter, when their castles would be too drafty to be comfortable. Instabuy from me.

Mascen

chrisfeng wrote: »

There is one thing that I do appreciate very much. HI furnishing very much seems a refined, in the same vein of, base game Breton style.

So it will fit in to existing Breton style houses very well: Daggefall overlook, Guardner house, Ravenhurst, etc.

Thats the problem though, its too much in the same vein as the original Breton furnishings. If you take a look at the differences between Alinor/High Elf, Solitude/Nord, and Vvardenfell/Dark Elf furnishings they have distinctly contrasting appearances while retaining the core aestetic elements of their respective cultures.

The High Isle furnishings, especially in regards to the wooden furniture basically feel like a light touch up with the stylistic carvings and patterns replaced with a Compass Rose or more Bretonic trefoil knots here and there.

alli_mi

kind_hero wrote: »

...To me it's like you don't love this game anymore, I really can't get it otherwise...

100% Agree

Holycannoli

A lot of haters here but I really like this house. It could use a little scrubbing in the interior but it looks realistic and very old.

I'll have to preview it myself though before I know if I want to buy it. I'm quite happy with the colossal aldmeri grotto.

carly

Holycannoli wrote: »

A lot of haters here but I really like this house. It could use a little scrubbing in the interior but it looks realistic and very old.

I'll have to preview it myself though before I know if I want to buy it. I'm quite happy with the colossal aldmeri grotto.

Wait until you visit the other homes in High Isle and then you will understand. It's not that we're haters - it's that we can't understand why we aren't able to purchase the same quality of home as those, not to mention all the cool new furniture and house items that aren't being offered to us to purchase or to craft.

In fact, I would argue it's that we 'love' what we see and are willing to buy - yet ZOS doesn't seem to want our money??!!!

Mascen

carly wrote: »

Holycannoli wrote: »

A lot of haters here but I really like this house. It could use a little scrubbing in the interior but it looks realistic and very old.

I'll have to preview it myself though before I know if I want to buy it. I'm quite happy with the colossal aldmeri grotto.

Wait until you visit the other homes in High Isle and then you will understand. It's not that we're haters - it's that we can't understand why we aren't able to purchase the same quality of home as those, not to mention all the cool new furniture and house items that aren't being offered to us to purchase or to craft.

In fact, I would argue it's that we 'love' what we see and are willing to buy - yet ZOS doesn't seem to want our money??!!!

Oh my dude don't even get me started, I would kill for a medium or large townhouse in the Gold Coast Imperial style. Benirus Manor in Anvil would've been a great throwback but ZOS decided to make the house a bank in the DB expansion. Dont get me wrong, Water's Edge in Leyawiin is nice and definitely unique but the layout is disorienting.

ob1ken0bi

Is that 5th furnishing pic another Provisioning station?

seecodenotgames

yes, there is a new provisioning station

ob1ken0bi

i wish they would make different clothing and woodworking stations - too many provisioning stations

Jaimeh

Thank you so much for putting together this post, it's great to have a preview all the new items! I really like the table with the compass etching, and the bench with the intricate back.