I know there are different ways to play the game and can understand how first person can promote the immersion to ESO world, but, at the same time, I think it is an indisputable fact that third person is a far better view point when it comes to PvE or PvP effectiveness.

Plus, while I greatly enjoyed first person view in previous Elder Scrolls games, I actually prefer third person because I simply like to look at my character third person, knowing that I spent my time and effort to dress him up with costumes and dyes.

Haters gona' hate

During PvP and dungeons third person and while questing and exploring first person

Sometimes I like to go 1st person in cities... Unfortunately combat isn't viable in1st person due to scaling... I cant just get the camera settings right to give it a Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind feel during combat. Only time I can is when I'm fighting something small, like a scamp or wolf.

But yeah, I like to see things in 1st person in cities and indoors.

SirAndy wrote: »

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

@SirAndy, how do you get 3D to work well with ESO? Are you using the fix from helixmod site or something else? I have a 4K 2D monitor now that I mainly use but still have my 1080p 3D Vision monitor to play around with 3D from time to time. But, I read on helixmod site that the Homestead patch broke their fix. I tried ESO early on in 3D but at the time the fix only supported DX9 and there were various issues with the DX9 version of the game.

@JasonSilverSpring
I have the ASUS 3D monitor with the IR emitter build-in, 27" 1080p at 120Hz.

There are a few things that don't work perfectly when running ESO in 3D. Some of the light/shadows is post-processed and actually rendered as a 2D overlay (Same as in Skyrim) but the effect isn't too distracting.
There are some artifacts on water surfaces when you have reflections enabled.

The biggest part was to remove the cross-hair as it is also rendered as a 2D UI overlay and has no depth.
I use the "Combat Reticle" AddOn for that.
esoui.com/downloads/info660-CombatReticle.html

No other 3D related mods ...

@SirAndy, are you playing in true 3D or the Nvidia compatibility mode? I also have an ASUS 3D monitor, though mine is 23 or 24 inches (forget which).

Games with the crosshair at screen depth was the most frustrating thing for me for sure. Is it hard to play without the crosshair? How do you know when you are in stealth?

I play 3rd. If I accidentally hit V and switch to first it's ok for stealing but not for anything else

I don't PvP at all, and I mostly do solo quests. So I play exclusively in first person. I find it more immersive.

First is terrible for an MMO like this. My opinion.

Third person, can you imagine trying to avoid the cheapy crappy laggy one shots in this game in first person....

RIP

I prefer the look of 1st, but have to use 3rd because I get "motion sickness" if I play in 1st for more than 10 minutes. That sucks, as it looks so much more "real" in 1st.

Sometimes while questing I swap to 1st person to feel more immersed but as soon as a battle starts I need 3rd person view.

I 1vX 12 saber cats in first person! I rock!

I'm going to break the trend a bit.

Started playing last October, and now CP 200. ESO is my first MMO. Before that, played mostly single player
ES games and FPSes. Playing as a dps magsorc with reasonable survivability.

I've been playing 100% in first person since and it has been awesome discovering the world this way for greater immersion. I think ZOS did a great job with the first person implementation.

I only play solo. The day I play in a group, I will switch to third person as it is the most efficient way.
Still it is possible to be reasonably efficient in first person. I can solo public dungeon (easy), some world bosses (only tried recently), Craglorn public delves, group quests (bare a few) and group areas. Craglorn especially is a lot of fun to solo.

I would probably never have tried ESO had it been limited to third person only.