ESO engine isn't built for that kind of gameplay.

Horse to Boat Simulator.

I want a pirate dlc and some dlc to explore under the ocean

Vanthras79 wrote: »

red_emu wrote: »

ESO engine isn't built for that kind of gameplay.

The devs just have to decide to code for it. They talked about it early on in an ESO live back in 2014 or was it 2015? Time is a fickle substance.

Time is "wibbly-wobbly"

They have about half the land map still to do. I can't see sailing a ship to be exciting at all. It would basically be a completely different game which could be fine in theory, but would be a ton of work and a huge gamble to see if ESO and Elder Scrolls players in general even care enough about it to make it worth the investment. My guess is no.

I would love to hunt down some evil Sload necromancers or learn more about the Dreugh. The fight against the Maormer sea serpent was fun and I'd love to stir up some trouble for them too. Or get some background on Nerieds. Maybe see some new sea monsters or Daedric sharks or something...

Didn't Black Desert Online add some kind of ocean / ship / diving feature? Try that.

...Assassin's Creed Black Flag??

Why, yes. Yes, I would like to see that in ESO. Especially the sea shanties. "What shall we do with a drunken Bosmer" is bound to be a great hit.

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Seriously, any major change in or addition to existing gameplay is going to run into the finance problem. I.e. to do it, you need to invest a lot of resources, i.e. people, who need to be paid (that's how IT project budgets generally work, in terms of employees and time allocated). What return on this investment, pray tell, can ZOS expect? Will they get 50k brand new subs because they've now added a maritime component to the game? Will the existing subs spend 20% more in the crown store? I mean, what? How do you justify this to a) your direct managers, who have to worry about the money side of things, and b) the finance guys who own the whole company and, most of them, probably haven't ever even played video games outside of Candy Crush on their phones?

So yes, lots of things I'd like to see in the game, but realistically, I would not advise holding one's breath.

Mh Tamriel "unlimited" could include the oceans too, but must not.

Would be interesting like underwater-swimming (as in Skyrim), but I think they told in one of the ESO-Live Shows, that it's hard to realise.

Summerset Isles archipelago as a chapter; Followed with a QoL update (akin homestead) which adds sailing to the summerset isles, the main game AND a now explorable through sailing Dagon Fel for Morrowind.

I'd be a bit wary of asking the devs to do a seriously major thing like that to the game engine, considering they need months (years?) to fix things like damage calculation for certain bugged skills.

I really miss diving from original games.

Anyway, I would rather prefer them to add at least all those zones which were already released in previous games, but are still missing here. Adding diving alongside it in already available zones would be cool tho.

Not particularly.

I want to see the rest of Tamriel before moving further afield. Might be nice to be able to ride small boats in the way you can in Assassin's Creed Origins though!

Probably not open-world enough to do this that well though :-(.

Please not underwater, no mmo has ever tried to do underwater zones and not had it be a total disaster with garbage gameplay... it won’t work, the horse has been flogged and is currently pushing up daisies