What are these for?

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

Before you get to the images you're about to see, if you're a part of ZOS, please don't make all zones have a return barrier like the one in Cyrodiil. There's no harm in it, since you gain absolutely no in game benefit. It's just nice to explore the vast area that isn't normally playable. That being said, I've decided to put my trust in you by releasing these images. These are two markings I found out of bounds in Elsweyr. They're blips with nametags attached to them. One says "Skyshard" and the other says "Crafting". I know that the crafting logo is the one used for set stations, but the skyshard logo is not only weird, it has red spots on it. Aside from that, unless I'm mistaken, these makeshift icons don't appear anywhere else in the game. What are they for? Why are they way in the corner of the map?

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(Edit: Sorry I couldn't get a better look at the markings, there wasn't a whole lot of nearby high ground to look at them from.)

kitsune_beth · June 2019

Maybe the aliens are coming from Fallout, it's so they can see them from their spaceships.

Kuramas9tails · June 2019

I love seeing these.

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

I love seeing these.

@Kuramas9tails You've seen other posts about random stuff outside the map?

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

Bump

Alowishus · June 2019

Sim Crop circles?

Ackwalan · June 2019

Since they can only be seen from above.....Ancient Aliens.

Loralai_907 · June 2019

I believe this would be an as of yet not released area, with markers indicating where they are planning on putting various things. And yes, there are other areas where a variety of oddities have been found, that are not in the game in the way we as players typically see it.

realboi · June 2019

My favorite outside of Elsweyr map are the 2D trees

D0PAMINE · June 2019

They're placeholders for future/canceled content. Also out of bounds can overlap into the next zone. They could also be just markers.

SidraWillowsky · June 2019

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

I love seeing these.

@Kuramas9tails You've seen other posts about random stuff outside the map?

Not Kuramas but yet, there are a lot of interesting posts and videos of people falling through the map:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/261366/in-memory-of-the-best-glitch-in-eso-sadly-the-get-out-of-map-glitch-in-the-rift-has-been-patched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzNBnJF4Pk

I unfortunately cannot find a post that had a ton of cool pics as well... will keep digging.

Blinkin8r · June 2019

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

I love seeing these.

@Kuramas9tails You've seen other posts about random stuff outside the map?

Not Kuramas but yet, there are a lot of interesting posts and videos of people falling through the map:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/261366/in-memory-of-the-best-glitch-in-eso-sadly-the-get-out-of-map-glitch-in-the-rift-has-been-patched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzNBnJF4Pk

I unfortunately cannot find a post that had a ton of cool pics as well... will keep digging.

Outside the map IC is pretty cool. Always kinda unnerving being outside the map tho. Especially when you fall through the ground.

freespirit · June 2019

This thread might interest you @Greg11jkalfa ……..

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/310288/exploring-the-unexplored-venturing-beyond-the-map/p1

It's fairly old but pretty interesting, there was another one in the last couple of months but atm can't find it.

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

At least now I know other players are active in getting out of the maps. I felt alone since I never hear about it from anyone else.

Browiseth · June 2019

it could be leftovers from extremely early map designs. the 'skyshard' label could be a marking for where to place a skyshard, etc.

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

So @D0PAMINE had said:

D0PAMINE wrote: »

They could also be just markers.

And that appears to be the most logical thing. I'm sure what they do is before they lay out the main textures, they print these all over the zone to mark where the content will end up. I assume the reason these are there is for copy pasta reasons, and they never removed it. It was nice to have a mystery of my own for a small time at least.

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

Browiseth wrote: »

it could be leftovers from extremely early map designs. the 'skyshard' label could be a marking for where to place a skyshard, etc.

@Browiseth You are correct sir.

Noblis01 · June 2019

Ackwalan wrote: »

Since they can only be seen from above.....Ancient Aliens.

I was thinking the same thing.

realboi · June 2019

I actively go outside the map but I don't say anything about it. I don't want that exclusive playground taken away from me!

SirAndy · June 2019

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

unless I'm mistaken, these makeshift icons don't appear anywhere else in the game. What are they for? Why are they way in the corner of the map?

There's plenty of text and icons mapped to the terrain when you get out of bounds in other zones.

Even in Cyrodiil, since you can still get around the instagib barriers there ...

Apherius · June 2019

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

I love seeing these.

@Kuramas9tails You've seen other posts about random stuff outside the map?

And @SidraWillowsky

You can check the links in my signature in case you are interested about stuff outside the map. ( or click on my name, and search my thread in the « Thread tab »)

I managed to explore the outside of:
- All tamriel zones ( including IC districts and sewers)
- All base game dungeons except vault and madness and spindleclutch
- A few dlc dungeon ( Wgt, Icp, CoS, RoM, FH, SP, FL, DoM)
- A few outlaw refuge
- Some public dungeons
- Some caves ( those in dlc zone and chapter)
- All houses
- Vmol (*4), Vaa, Vhof (*2 ) Vas, Vcr

Ofc I take the time to report every single things I find that may be « exploited » in the wrong hands ... then I check if they fixed the issue, otherwise I send a private message to a CM ... ( just wanted to be clear about it)

I also found Direfrost keep II and arx corinium II out of the map, they will never be Released ... these are the pearls of my collection ...

Enjoy the « cool pics » and excuse my bad english .... one last thing: there is like 150 screens in one of my thread, you may need to « refresh the page » a few time. 😎.

Edit: Feel free to AHEMnecroAHEMHEM, my threads.

Tasear · June 2019

mommadani907 wrote: »

I believe this would be an as of yet not released area, with markers indicating where they are planning on putting various things. And yes, there are other areas where a variety of oddities have been found, that are not in the game in the way we as players typically see it.

Maybe dragonhold 🤔

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

SirAndy wrote: »

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

unless I'm mistaken, these makeshift icons don't appear anywhere else in the game. What are they for? Why are they way in the corner of the map?

There's plenty of text and icons mapped to the terrain when you get out of bounds in other zones.

Even in Cyrodiil, since you can still get around the instagib barriers there ...

@SirAndy Whaaaat???

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SirAndy · June 2019

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

unless I'm mistaken, these makeshift icons don't appear anywhere else in the game. What are they for? Why are they way in the corner of the map?

There's plenty of text and icons mapped to the terrain when you get out of bounds in other zones.
Even in Cyrodiil, since you can still get around the instagib barriers there ...

@SirAndy Whaaaat???

There's a bunch of words and icons mapped to the terrain out of bounds in the west ...

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

@SirAndy And getting out there still works to this day? I always thought without cheating, or a bug/glitch it was impossible by now...

SirAndy · June 2019

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

@SirAndy And getting out there still works to this day? I always thought without cheating, or a bug/glitch it was impossible by now...

Yepp, still works ...

preevious · June 2019

There was also a gigantic OoB somewhere in riften, I don't quite remember where, and I don't know if it's still present, since it was years ago. I remember ending up in a phantom version of stonefalls, with building you couldn't get in, and no npc or mobs ..a cold, barren, eerie and desolated place.

The vast expense between riften and ghost-stonefall was some kind of gigantic red chess-board. Was quite unnerving, when thinking back about it.

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

preevious wrote: »

There was also a gigantic OoB somewhere in riften, I don't quite remember where, and I don't know if it's still present, since it was years ago. I remember ending up in a phantom version of stonefalls, with building you couldn't get in, and no npc or mobs ..a cold, barren, eerie and desolated place.

The vast expense between riften and ghost-stonefall was some kind of gigantic red chess-board. Was quite unnerving, when thinking back about it.

@preevious Give me a minute (:

Beardimus · June 2019

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

At least now I know other players are active in getting out of the maps. I felt alone since I never hear about it from anyone else.

There have been a few over the years i think its cool, someone got into all the vMA arenas some how that was pretty wild!!

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

Beardimus wrote: »

Greg11jkalfa wrote: »

At least now I know other players are active in getting out of the maps. I felt alone since I never hear about it from anyone else.

There have been a few over the years i think its cool, someone got into all the vMA arenas some how that was pretty wild!!

@Beardimus Sounds like something I should look into

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

preevious wrote: »

There was also a gigantic OoB somewhere in riften, I don't quite remember where, and I don't know if it's still present, since it was years ago. I remember ending up in a phantom version of stonefalls, with building you couldn't get in, and no npc or mobs ..a cold, barren, eerie and desolated place.

The vast expense between riften and ghost-stonefall was some kind of gigantic red chess-board. Was quite unnerving, when thinking back about it.

@preevious You mean this lovely place?

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Also found this out there, but I'm sure others know about it

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