Information released at QuakeCon

J2JMC · July 2015

Here's some basic information I picked up from the Quakecon panel. I will also link the video for anyone interested in receiving information from the primary source.

Imperial City Prison/White Gold Tower:
4 Player Group Pve Instances.
Normal and Veteran Modes.
Undaunted Dailies.

Imperial City:
Designed to be for small pvp in confined spaces.
Sewers are a Public Dungeon with 3 levels and Open PvP.
Six City districts that have their own Story.
Access to the city is open to all alliances. Three entrances that take players to the safe location of their corresponding alliance.
Tv stones drop from all above world PvE encounters, daily quests in the city, and from other players.
12 Sweeper bosses move around the Imperial City district.
Xivkyn battles in the sewers.
Collect "things" in the city to open Treasure Vaults and collect gear.
Treasure Scamps randomly spawn. Killing one gives crafting materials or Telvar Stones. Limited time to kill.

Gear and Rewards:
Dropped Imperial City items will now have the same stats as crafted items of the same level.
Twelve(12) Sets dropped from the new dungeons. Six(6) per dungeon.
Six(6) sets bought eith Tel Var Stones.
Two(2) New Monster Masks. Lord Warden Mask gives chance of reducing damage you and all allies take. Other mask not mentioned.
Three(3) new crafted sets.
New vr 15-16 crafting materials. Drop In IC and can be received through deconstruction. TV stones can be used to purchase materials
Updated PvP sets that come from Rewards for the Worthy system.

Cool New Toys(They said it not me):
Soul-Shriven Skin changes skin color.
Portal Stone lets you teleport to your faction's safe area.
Prismatic enchantment gives all 3 resource bonuses (health, magicka, and stamina) to armor at once.

Everything after this should be taken with a grain of Soon™

Other DLC:
Orisinium coming in the 4th quarter of this year.
Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood coming Next year. Two separate dlcs

Quality of Life Updates:
LFG tool will search for members from other alliances when grouping for a dungeon.
Subtitles being added.
Controller support for Pc.
Veteran Rank removal can be expected after orisinium. Champion Points will remain.

Other:
Imperial City Coming to PTS Next Week(No exact date)
Access to the City being tested
Stone loss percentage being tested
On Pc August 31st. On Xbox and Ps4 September 15th and 16th respectively.
Devs apparently lurk on the forums.
Anyone who attended the live event received free crowns.
Quarterly(Every 12 weeks~) DLC packs.

twitch.tv/bethesda/v/8441837

Rebeccas04nub18_ESO · July 2015

Thank you for the crowns! ( to the lurkers) it sounded like LFG would take a while to start including all alliances but it's great news.

Pirhana7_ESO · July 2015

Thanks for the info

Prismatic enchantmenst... probablu similiar to how purple food works and will give a total of all 3 combined stats higher than the single stats. This might help spread out stats for alot of people but the 1 stats builds will still go the way they do now.
If it does work like that I almost wish there was the 2 stat ones like Blue food because i would rather go higher with 2 stats.

Reeko · July 2015

Pirhana7_ESO wrote: »

Thanks for the info

Prismatic enchantmenst... probablu similiar to how purple food works and will give a total of all 3 combined stats higher than the single stats. This might help spread out stats for alot of people but the 1 stats builds will still go the way they do now.
If it does work like that I almost wish there was the 2 stat ones like Blue food because i would rather go higher with 2 stats.

Yeah they should add a duo stat glyph if they are going to do a trio version. Makes sense.

zharthasb16_ESO · July 2015

Thx for the informations

Akavir_Sentinel · July 2015

The Twitch stream was hilarious. I think Matt Firor needed another pot of coffee or maybe some anxiety pills.

J2JMC · July 2015

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

The Twitch stream was hilarious. I think Matt Firor needed another pot of coffee or maybe some anxiety pills.

Eh can't blame them. They're used to working behind closed doors.

Zlater · July 2015

He also said they intend to expand cross faction play beyond dungeons, but progressively.

zharthasb16_ESO · July 2015

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

The Twitch stream was hilarious. I think Matt Firor needed another pot of coffee or maybe some anxiety pills.

With the mass of negative comments on the forums , it s not a surprise that he s nervous

VilhelmValhalla4 · July 2015

No news about the next phase of the Justice System?

Ley · July 2015

Good stuff, I hope they can deliver DLC every 12 weeks, that would keep me interested.

Minnesinger · July 2015

It is coming true...slowly

OnThaLoose · July 2015

The best news is controller support for PC! Yay! Although it's been announced for some times, I wish we had a date when this is going live.

Elsonso · July 2015

OnThaLoose wrote: »

The best news is controller support for PC! Yay! Although it's been announced for some times, I wish we had a date when this is going live.

Not just a controller support announcement, but also the news that it is working internally and the devs are actively using it. Unfinished, yes, but working.

Surragard · July 2015

I'm really glad to see they're creating a regular schedule for new content updates. Personally, I think having concrete time tables will reduce a lot of anxiety on the forums.

With that said, I'm pretty bummed to hear how far out Dark Brotherhood and Thieve's Guild are being pushed back. I think it might be a bad move but who knows what's going on with dev resources and how much cash the subs and crown store is bringing in.

Korozenn · July 2015

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

The Twitch stream was hilarious. I think Matt Firor needed another pot of coffee or maybe some anxiety pills.

I gotta admit. More than half the stream I was just absorbed into the comments pouring through on the Twitch stream. It was absolutely hilarious to watch everyone's reactions. Eric Wrobel looked like he was out-of-breath and just came to the stage from working out as well. Haha.

Honestly wish ZeniMax would have just contacted me to whip up a quick PowerPoint for them, though. I would have done it for free after I saw what their PPT looked like in the presentation. As a Graphic Designer, the whole length of time in the presentation I had to see everything presented in out-of-the-box Calibri when the game, website, and all its related content is in Univers, and the lack of clear hierarchies of data to get your message across in a clean, organized manner during the PPT presentation itself was enough to make me have a perpetual

face during the stream.

It literally looks like they just rushed the PPT and chose a black background as the template, slapped an image and some text on, and called that a PowerPoint worthy for QuakeCon.

Going to have to back up Matt and say that getting in front of any huge audience can be nerve-wracking as ****, and I think I speak for everyone when I say we've all been there. But I was admittedly getting motion sickness seeing Matt sway to the left and right so much, haha! I wish he had still gone into explanation over some more details for Orsinium, but, oh well. There is always ESO Live!

Averya_Teira · July 2015

J2JMC wrote: »

Quarterly(Every 12 weeks~) DLC packs.

Suuuuuuure....... Because ZOS is sooooo good with schedules....

UrQuan · July 2015

J2JMC wrote: »

Imperial City:
12 Sweeper bosses move around the Imperial City district.

I'm surprised I haven't seen more people talking about this. Depending on how powerful these bosses are, this could really have an interesting effect on the PVP within IC. I mean, picture a pitched PVP battle, and right in the middle of it, one of these sweeper bosses shows up. Suddenly everyone stops fighting each other to gang up on the boss, because otherwise they're all going to be slaughtered... Or maybe one or two players take the opportunity of the distraction to take out a couple of enemy players and then desperately run to try to get away before the boss turns its attention on them. Or maybe a lone player comes across one of the sweeper bosses and intentionally leads it towards enemy players.

Xendyn · July 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

J2JMC wrote: »

Imperial City:
12 Sweeper bosses move around the Imperial City district.

I'm surprised I haven't seen more people talking about this. Depending on how powerful these bosses are, this could really have an interesting effect on the PVP within IC. I mean, picture a pitched PVP battle, and right in the middle of it, one of these sweeper bosses shows up. Suddenly everyone stops fighting each other to gang up on the boss, because otherwise they're all going to be slaughtered... Or maybe one or two players take the opportunity of the distraction to take out a couple of enemy players and then desperately run to try to get away before the boss turns its attention on them. Or maybe a lone player comes across one of the sweeper bosses and intentionally leads it towards enemy players.

Aye, that's just one of the things that leads me to think that all the zerg fear just isn't going to happen. Add to that small spaces, tons of other npc mobs and lots of buildings/rubble to dodge behind/LOS players and it would just be too easy to piecemeal a large group down to nothing.

Speed and manueverablility are going to be the order of the day in there.