The antiquities minigame is oddly similar to the fossil hunting minigame in Parkasaurus, a park-building dinosaur game. The aesthetic is different, but the mechanics seem close.

relentless_turnip wrote: »

It all looks cool, except antiquities mini games. I think that looks a little cheap, like a mobile game.

Vampire looks really cool and actually more of a specialised build choice.
Are we losing the recovery passive though? I have vamp on a lot of characters just for this passive.
That said I don;t have a problem with it, I like that it feels more like a choice than a must have.

Does this mean I can also stay at stage 1 and use mist form all i like? lol...

Also FIX THE GAME!!! I want to preorder this, but I won't until I feel confident I can play it.

My same thoughts except the perorder stuuf since PS4 still can't preorder. The Mini games graphics does not inspire much. I have vamp on 17 characters, looks like some are getting cured for sure.

I will say I am unimpressed with ZOS' new Antiquities System. Any further comments I would make about it would not be appreciated by ZOS and my comment would most likely be removed. So in closing, it is a feature that I will not be wasting my time with.

Looks nice then I remember the overall combat balance and remember why I don’t play this game

OldManJim wrote: »

That antiquities system looks horrid.

I don't want to play ESO: Minesweeper.

Yeah even WoW's Archeology which was introduced 10 years ago looks way better than Antiquities. It looks as bad as we've expected right after the announcement.

Greymoor is the first Chapter I haven't pre-purchased and right now I don't even consider buying it at all. Next year with Crowns I might get it but compared to Morrowind, Elsweyr and even Summerset, Greymoor looks bad. Don't get me wrong, Skyrim is beautiful, but I need more than just a nice zone to be hooked.

And the new Vampire system brings NOTHING to the table for Stamina players. Nothing, zero, zilch. I hope they are going to offer free Vamp cures for some of my characters.

Ashtaris wrote: »

And the new Vampire system brings NOTHING to the table for Stamina players. Nothing, zero, zilch. I hope they are going to offer free Vamp cures for some of my characters.

I do think they want to have Vampires be Viable more for Magicka and Werewolves more Viable with stamina by the looks of it.

I am massively disappointed by the Antiquities system, I expected something you actually had to do with your character. Some people said something like Indiana Jones comes to ESO, so I hoped for delves in which you had to dodge, sprint and jump to avoid traps. Instead we get a mini-game that looks like it doesnt belong in ESO. At least make it look like the CP system so it doenst look like a mobile P2W game.

All I will say about the Antiquities System after watching that is, I hope the mythic items are bind on equip, I will be buying them on guild traders instead of bothering with those mini games over and over in the hopes of getting something useful.


I do congratulate ZOS for creating a new system for the game that already makes me want to avoid it completely, not every developer can manage that when creating new content for their games.


Vampire changes look interesting, hope the vampire lord transformation looks more like the promotional art work, than what they have shown though.


As for more Skyrim probably the only reason I am leaning towards getting this chapter and as it is I will most likely be waiting for the chapter to go on sale, since the Vampire changes will be in the base game and the Antiquities System as it has been shown to be implemented holds no interest for me.

FierceSam wrote: »

eso_lags wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

eso_lags wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

eso_lags wrote: »

Is this on the pts?

Not yet. Certain content creators debuted previews today. The chapter is probably two weeks away from hitting the PTS.

Oh thats nice. They want to use us to be their testing team for updates, for free, but want to give special people early access to test chapters. Fantastic. Either way thanks for letting me know, I guess videos will have to do for now.

Start streaming your own ESO content, @eso_lags ...

... so that you, too, can become "special" and get early access.

Fantastic idea, especially now when the game is working so good 👌. Unless I want to stream erp in riften. And that would just make me part of the problem, no one should get special treatment for testing content based on random silly bs.

If it were class reps it would make some sense at least, and I know some class reps are content creators. But to just give people early access to testing a chapter, at random, because that person makes videos or streams, is stupid. The vast majority of feedback on the PTS comes from regular players who are not content creators, obviously. So its just stupid to hold it back from everyone for 2 weeks for what, views and hype I guess?

Either way its not a big deal its just annoying. And its nothing new, zos always makes strange choices. I dont recall them doing this for the last couple chapters either so that makes it more strange.

Except that being a class rep (or a really great player) might make you very well informed, but it doesn’t mean you are any good at making videos.

ZOS clearly don’t want to create promo game materials themselves or feel it’s more honest/open to enable content creators to do this in their stead. However, they’re going to want to provide this material to people who they are confident can use it in an effective and timely manner. And who have an actual audience that might see it.

Whatever your opinion on Dottz (and others) is, there is no doubt that he can put together a good looking clip with informed and considered opinion that is worth watching.

2 weeks out from possible PTS launch might sound like a weird moment to release content like this, until you realise that in a different time this would be E3 week, and one of the major publicity points in the game’s annual calendar.

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