Will ZOS Take Advantage of TES VI Speculation & Indulge in More Hammerfell DLC, or is it off limits?

EJRose83 · June 2018

I think it's fairly obvious that TES VI will take place in Hammerfell (hopefully with some Highrock locales thrown in!). Considering how excited pretty much every TES fan is about this forthcoming entry, it would make sense, from a marketing perspective, for ZOS to take advantage of the situation and indulge in Hammerfell-centric DLC sometime in the near future. That, and the only major underdeveloped areas of the map are Hammerfell, Skyrim, Elsweyr & Black Marsh, it would make sense for them to focus on Hammerfell sense Skyrim has already been done in TES V and I can't image fans are too eager to run around in a swamp themed landmass (I'll still play the *eff out of Murkmire though!).

Note - If they're going for originality, I would have zero complaints if they fleshed out Elsweyr. Who doesn't love Khajiits!? That being said, after Murkmire, I think the next chapter would have to be based in either Hammerfell or Elsweyr.

Aliyavana · June 2018

EJRose83 wrote: »

I think it's fairly obvious that TES VI will take place in Hammerfell (hopefully with some Highrock locales thrown in!). Considering how excited pretty much every TES fan is about this forthcoming entry, it would make sense, from a marketing perspective, for ZOS to take advantage of the situation and indulge in Hammerfell-centric DLC sometime in the near future. That, and the only major underdeveloped areas of the map are Hammerfell, Skyrim, Elsweyr & Black Marsh, it would make sense for them to focus on Hammerfell sense Skyrim has already been done in TES V and I can't image fans are too eager to run around in a swamp themed landmass (I'll still play the *eff out of Murkmire though!).

Note - If they're going for originality, I would have zero complaints if they fleshed out Elsweyr. Who doesn't love Khajiits!? That being said, after Murkmire, I think the next chapter would have to be based in either Hammerfell or Elsweyr.

Imagine sealing an ancient evil in a hammerfell dlc and it reappearing as a threat in the 4th era

Ankael07 · June 2018

How is anything obvious when they havent even started developing the game?

SilverIce58 · June 2018

Aliyavana wrote: »

EJRose83 wrote: »

I think it's fairly obvious that TES VI will take place in Hammerfell (hopefully with some Highrock locales thrown in!). Considering how excited pretty much every TES fan is about this forthcoming entry, it would make sense, from a marketing perspective, for ZOS to take advantage of the situation and indulge in Hammerfell-centric DLC sometime in the near future. That, and the only major underdeveloped areas of the map are Hammerfell, Skyrim, Elsweyr & Black Marsh, it would make sense for them to focus on Hammerfell sense Skyrim has already been done in TES V and I can't image fans are too eager to run around in a swamp themed landmass (I'll still play the *eff out of Murkmire though!).

Note - If they're going for originality, I would have zero complaints if they fleshed out Elsweyr. Who doesn't love Khajiits!? That being said, after Murkmire, I think the next chapter would have to be based in either Hammerfell or Elsweyr.

Imagine a sealing a vampire threat in a hammerfell dlc and him reappearing as a threat in the 4th era

I'd rather have us seal up a redguard litch instead. I think it'd be a very interesting plotline that could have a great storyline in both the 2nd and 4th era.

Samadhi · June 2018

EJRose83 wrote: »

I think it's fairly obvious that TES VI will take place in Hammerfell (hopefully with some Highrock locales thrown in!). ...

It would be nice to revisit Hammerfell and High Rock after TES II took place in the Iliac Bay area
well, revisit in a more engaging capacity than ESO has facilitated thus far at least
on what basis is it "obvious" that we are returning there rather than some place like Elsweyr, which has been conspicuously absent from ESO and ESO DLC plans since launch?

idk · June 2018

I think it is irrelevant. Zos will do with this game what they feel is best. As for the next TES game it will have it's own story that does not rely on ESO. It will also be a long time for that next game to hit the stores.

Gorgoneus · June 2018

Hope TES6 wont be online or semi-online like Fallout 76.

Tyrobag · June 2018

I'd guess that ZoS will just stick to their already planned release schedule. They wont want to go out of their way to show more of Hammerfell. It is still a mostly unexplored area, ZoS showing more in ESO will just lock in whatever was added, which will limit how much Bethesda can create for themselves (and I certainly don't want TES VI to be just walking around areas we've already seen in ESO).

Gorgoneus wrote: »

Hope TES6 wont be online or semi-online like Fallout 76.

It wont, and why the heck would you want it too? You're playing ESO now, we don't need another.

Smasherx74 · June 2018

Okay I'm really sick and tired of this false assumption.

ES6 trailer we saw WAS NOT BASED IN HAMMERFELL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDA5mxldNX0

bloodthirstyvampire · June 2018

Aliyavana wrote: »

EJRose83 wrote: »

I think it's fairly obvious that TES VI will take place in Hammerfell (hopefully with some Highrock locales thrown in!). Considering how excited pretty much every TES fan is about this forthcoming entry, it would make sense, from a marketing perspective, for ZOS to take advantage of the situation and indulge in Hammerfell-centric DLC sometime in the near future. That, and the only major underdeveloped areas of the map are Hammerfell, Skyrim, Elsweyr & Black Marsh, it would make sense for them to focus on Hammerfell sense Skyrim has already been done in TES V and I can't image fans are too eager to run around in a swamp themed landmass (I'll still play the *eff out of Murkmire though!).

Note - If they're going for originality, I would have zero complaints if they fleshed out Elsweyr. Who doesn't love Khajiits!? That being said, after Murkmire, I think the next chapter would have to be based in either Hammerfell or Elsweyr.

Imagine sealing an ancient evil in a hammerfell dlc and it reappearing as a threat in the 4th era

Erm hello child of lamae bal here, what lower level trash Vampire could actually be a threat.

SilverIce58 · June 2018

bloodthirstyvampire wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

EJRose83 wrote: »

I think it's fairly obvious that TES VI will take place in Hammerfell (hopefully with some Highrock locales thrown in!). Considering how excited pretty much every TES fan is about this forthcoming entry, it would make sense, from a marketing perspective, for ZOS to take advantage of the situation and indulge in Hammerfell-centric DLC sometime in the near future. That, and the only major underdeveloped areas of the map are Hammerfell, Skyrim, Elsweyr & Black Marsh, it would make sense for them to focus on Hammerfell sense Skyrim has already been done in TES V and I can't image fans are too eager to run around in a swamp themed landmass (I'll still play the *eff out of Murkmire though!).

Note - If they're going for originality, I would have zero complaints if they fleshed out Elsweyr. Who doesn't love Khajiits!? That being said, after Murkmire, I think the next chapter would have to be based in either Hammerfell or Elsweyr.

Imagine sealing an ancient evil in a hammerfell dlc and it reappearing as a threat in the 4th era

Erm hello child of lamae bal here, what lower level trash Vampire could actually be a threat.

Harkon was a pretty strong threat. We know of a few clans of the Iliac Bay, but not the clans of the Alik'r Desert. Don't count them out just yet.

SilverIce58 · June 2018

Smasherx74 wrote: »

Okay I'm really sick and tired of this false assumption.

ES6 trailer we saw WAS NOT BASED IN HAMMERFELL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDA5mxldNX0

And where @Smasherx74 would you guess it takes place? Hammerfell makes the most sense at the moment bc of the landscape.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · June 2018

Given that they've already given us ~1/2 of Hammerfell already and there's been about a thousand years of history* to shake things up, there really isn't any reason to avoid Hammerfell content going forward. Recall that we'll have had the entire Septim dynasty and the Great War layered on top of anything that happens in ESO. And the Warp in the West. And Orsinium is going to be in the vicinity of Craglorn in the future - that alone is going to change the map significantly.

I DO expect at least one sidequest that makes callbacks to events in ESO - maybe we'll re-kill the necromancer siblings from the Alik'r plot or run into Zeira's ghost or something.

That said there's nothing requiring them to go there either. Assuming a schedule comparable with this year's**, even if it takes them five years to make ES6, we're only likely to get another ten or so zones between then and now. There's still quite a lot of Tamriel unexplored:

1/2 of Hammerfell
1/2 to 2/3 of Black Marsh
Most of Elsweyr
Western Skyrim
Parts of Cyrodiil
Parts of Morrowind

All of which could be divided up into multiple DLCs if that's how they wanted to play it. And that isn't allowing for DLCs in Daedric realms, places off of Tamriel proper (Ul'vor Kus, anyone?), I suspect Blackreach would be its own Chapter/DLC if they ever went there...

*Assuming ES6 takes place during or after Skyrim
**Guaranteed Chapter and one zone DLC, with the other two DLCs being either Dungeon DLCs or something like they did with Housing where they don't add to the map.

MLGProPlayer · June 2018

That environment in the trailer looked nothing like Hammerfell.

Smasherx74 · June 2018

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Smasherx74 wrote: »

Okay I'm really sick and tired of this false assumption.

ES6 trailer we saw WAS NOT BASED IN HAMMERFELL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDA5mxldNX0

And where @Smasherx74 would you guess it takes place? Hammerfell makes the most sense at the moment bc of the landscape.

I already made a lengthy reddit and bth forums post about it.

It's set in akavir, old potential leak from a long time ago said ES6 was in dev despite bethesda saying it wasn't. They mentioned the game will expand upon Fallout4's settlement system. It takes place in akavir during the time the imperials were sending fleets over there to create imperial settlements. The trailer is showing septimia or whatever the place is called because of the coast line.

Dagoth_Rac · June 2018

I still think Todd Howard told an intern, "Just give me the Elder Scrolls VI logo floating over some random landscape."

Seraphayel · June 2018

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Smasherx74 wrote: »

Okay I'm really sick and tired of this false assumption.

ES6 trailer we saw WAS NOT BASED IN HAMMERFELL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDA5mxldNX0

And where @Smasherx74 would you guess it takes place? Hammerfell makes the most sense at the moment bc of the landscape.

We saw mountains. Mountains are everywhere. Could be Elsweyr, could be High Rock. Hammerfell would be amazing but I wouldn't be so sure about it yet.

Kuwhar · June 2018

Smasherx74 wrote: »

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Smasherx74 wrote: »

Okay I'm really sick and tired of this false assumption.

ES6 trailer we saw WAS NOT BASED IN HAMMERFELL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDA5mxldNX0

And where @Smasherx74 would you guess it takes place? Hammerfell makes the most sense at the moment bc of the landscape.

I already made a lengthy reddit and bth forums post about it.

It's set in akavir, old potential leak from a long time ago said ES6 was in dev despite bethesda saying it wasn't. They mentioned the game will expand upon Fallout4's settlement system. It takes place in akavir during the time the imperials were sending fleets over there to create imperial settlements. The trailer is showing septimia or whatever the place is called because of the coast line.

That would be cool, as long as thry do the whole continent. Im getting tired of singular "zones"