BETHESDA/ESO @GAMESCOM 2020 - More about Q4? Next expansion?

Asdara · August 2020

We got 0 news about this here, but now you know!

TUNE IN TO OUR GAMESCOM AT HOME STREAM

"Because of the current global situation, gamescom will be a digital event this year, starting with the Opening Night Live produced by Geoff Keighley on August 27, followed by three days of English and German streams and shows. Just because things are a bit different this year, doesn’t mean we aren’t still going to spend gamescom celebrating our amazing communities and our shared passion for games. The German team will host an awesome streaming program featuring many of our titles, with the support of several developers from our studios around the world.
We will kick off the streams on Friday, August 28, at 10:30am EDT at twitch.tv/bethesda_de. Please note that some elements of the stream will be in German, while the developer interviews will be conducted in English and have German translation."
https://bethesda.net/en/article/4Kt5yMgR8TLFRW2dpyfdDs/tune-in-to-our-gamescom-at-home-stream

There's an exiting dev talk, Saturday! with @ZOS_MattFiror and @ZOS_RichLambert .
Have the schedule:

YandereGirlfriend · August 2020

Why does it seem like the developers only give interviews to German sources (kudos to those sources, btw!).

Wow · August 2020

did they ever teased about the new class after Necromancer?

Asdara · August 2020

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

Why does it seem like the developers only give interviews to German sources (kudos to those sources, btw!).

i find it really strange that even on the German eso website we don't get news about this, maybe its not that important? but we have the 2 main lead dev (even better than quakecon) yet no news about it and no event? WEIRD

Asdara · August 2020

Wow wrote: »

did they ever teased about the new class after Necromancer?

Nothing that i knew about, we got some datamine about potentate crate and cyrodiil related stuff for next expansion, but no new class so far.

Czekoludek · August 2020

Asdara wrote: »

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

Why does it seem like the developers only give interviews to German sources (kudos to those sources, btw!).

i find it really strange that even on the German eso website we don't get news about this, maybe its not that important? but we have the 2 main lead dev (even better than quakecon) yet no news about it and no event? WEIRD

They will probably say that servers are holding up well (even when they don't), Greymoor was a huge success (even when it is rated as the worst eso chapter by many players and sites) and the next dlc will be huge (and by huge they mean new zone, bunch of quests, no new system, no new trial).
TBH I'm not expecting much from them after the last year

zaria · August 2020

Asdara wrote: »

Wow wrote: »

did they ever teased about the new class after Necromancer?

Nothing that i knew about, we got some datamine about potentate crate and cyrodiil related stuff for next expansion, but no new class so far.

Yes they will not tell about new classes before tease about the next chapter.
We might get some info out of datamining before this

Chaos2088 · August 2020

More information that has been datamined here: https://cidhnamine.com/category/datamine/

NewbieOKS · August 2020

Thanks for sharing !

Syldras · August 2020

Does anyone know on which Twitch channels the streams are shown? The German language stream that just started is on Bethesda_de (which makes sense). Will the English streams be on the international/main channel or also on _de?

RemanCyrodiil_I · August 2020

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Syldras · August 2020

RemanCyrodiil_I wrote: »

During Mike's Quakecon interview the questions/answers were in English then translated by the host into German afterwards

Language is no issue for me. I'm just wondering if all Gamescom content will be on the Bethesda Germany channel? Or will some be on the international channel?

Pandorii · August 2020

I'd like to know when the Skyrim Event will be. :S

Gythral · August 2020

More of the same
(as the last 3 years)...

RemanCyrodiil_I · August 2020

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Syldras · August 2020

RemanCyrodiil_I wrote: »

The event description says that the German Bethesda team is hosting the whole event and only mentions the German channel, so it's probably on the German stream

Seems to be mixed. The stream going to start in a moment is on the official channel again, not the German one.

RemanCyrodiil_I · August 2020

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dcam86b14_ESO · August 2020

The Q4 DLC usually is previewed around mid to end of September. however due to the pandemic things were pushed back, so I'm guessing early PTS October and release for November.

Rungar · August 2020

interesting that it was the last one.

Syldras · August 2020

RemanCyrodiil_I wrote: »

Syldras wrote: »

Seems to be mixed. The stream going to start in a moment is on the official channel again, not the German one.

Maybe, but ESO Live is not part of gamescom so I'm not too sure

My mistake. I have been looking at the program list on some German gaming website instead of the table in the posting above. They somehow mixed it all.

Cinbri · August 2020

Does anyone can write a recap of news if there was any?

Syldras · August 2020

Cinbri wrote: »

Does anyone can write a recap of news if there was any?

Honestly... Unless I missed something: Nothing important so far. That stream this afternoon (my time) was actually more or less just chatting with Pete Hines. And the second one this evening was a run through Castle Thorn. No new information.

Asdara · August 2020

Syldras wrote: »

Cinbri wrote: »

Does anyone can write a recap of news if there was any?

Honestly... Unless I missed something: Nothing important so far. That stream this afternoon (my time) was actually more or less just chatting with Pete Hines. And the second one this evening was a run through Castle Thorn. No new information.

i'll focus more on the stream with the devs tomorrow!

Elsonso · August 2020

Cinbri wrote: »

Does anyone can write a recap of news if there was any?

This is what I picked up from Gamescom so far...

Pete Hines says no news on what Bethesda Game Studios is doing. Starfield. Nothing to show. Nothing to market, yet. If they have nothing to show on Starfield, they won't have anything on TES 6.

The guys from id were talking about the new Doom DLC and mentioned how they make decisions that are in harmony with their community, as if the community were in the room with them during meetings. Paraphrased, of course, but it made me sad.

Saturday, Rich and Matt will have an interview where I expect that they will talk about nothing except for stuff we already know.

Mettaricana · August 2020

Crit sourcing nerfs is all we getting Q4 since they outed themselves with the elemental catalyst dev notes...

Syldras · August 2020

Asdara wrote: »

i'll focus more on the stream with the devs tomorrow!

Yep. I didn't expect new info from today's streams anyway (had them open on my laptop while doing other things), as they were (correctly) announced as "community chat" resp. dungeon run. I hope there'll be something interesting about the q4 dlc tomorrow, though.

RemanCyrodiil_I · August 2020

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cmetzger93 · August 2020

RemanCyrodiil_I wrote: »

Cinbri wrote: »

Does anyone can write a recap of news if there was any?

Here is a summary of what I found most interesting from the Matt/Rich interview:
Current ping issues are caused by a new issue relating to enemies aggroing to players

Difficult to fix as they can't replicate stress on servers on internal servers

They have identified some major problems and working on fixes

They liked the above/below ground split of Greymoor but found that some people were not aware that Blackreach existed and were missing half the zone

Next year's Q2 chapter will likely stick to above-ground, perhaps with most of the Q4 zone DLC then mostly being in a unique setting instead

ZOS is working on a next-gen client for the new consoles for next year that will allow next-gen consoles to play ESO natively - this will look/play better than most high-end PCs

They regret telling community about spell crafting as it never made the cut

Lack of overland PvE difficulty due to balancing - veteran settings for overland/public dungeons were unpopular at launch and were barely used

They are starting to do maintenance earlier to avoid opening servers in middle of EU primetime, which caused EU server to become overloaded

Dang so spellcrafting is off the table for good now, not just “shelved” anymore? That’s disappointing, I’ve been waiting for it since it was announced. Don’t really have any reason to stick around anymore especially with the performance issues

dinokstrunz · August 2020

Wasn't there mention of Group Queues coming back to Battlegrounds, if so that's a godsend.

Syldras · August 2020

Main points have already been listed; a few minor things, as I've seen these topics around the forum lately:

- Pathing system for homes will be extended. The way it's currently is, is just the beginning, just a basic implementation. I think the chances are good that emotes will be added.

- There are currently no plans for adding more character slots.

- There will be no underwater content and diving.

- Champion point system will be heavily revised (or even replaced?) next year. But I think there isn't any more detailed info about that yet?

Tommy_The_Gun · August 2020

RemanCyrodiil_I wrote: »

Cinbri wrote: »

Does anyone can write a recap of news if there was any?

Here is a summary of what I found most interesting from the Matt/Rich interview:
Current ping issues are caused by a new issue relating to enemies aggroing to players

Difficult to fix as they can't replicate stress on servers on internal servers

They have identified some major problems and working on fixes

They liked the above/below ground split of Greymoor but found that some people were not aware that Blackreach existed and were missing half the zone

Next year's Q2 chapter will likely stick to above-ground, perhaps with most of the Q4 zone DLC then mostly being in a unique setting instead

ZOS is working on a next-gen client for the new consoles for next year that will allow next-gen consoles to play ESO natively - this will look/play better than most high-end PCs

They regret telling community about spell crafting as it never made the cut

Lack of overland PvE difficulty due to balancing - veteran settings for overland/public dungeons were unpopular at launch and were barely used

They are starting to do maintenance earlier to avoid opening servers in middle of EU primetime, which caused EU server to become overloaded

They also said something interesting about Group Finder for Trials & Arenas.

They often comeback to this idea, but there are a couple of problems with it. Basically, Trials are 12 man content, and often group finder has some problems (works slow) to form a 4 man group (So issues are mostly purely technical).
Arenas though are slightly more focused on mechanics vs regular group dungeons - so it is possible, but it seems like they are worried about difficulty (but again, they are considering this).

Overall, it sounded like they will add this in the future, but it is not their priority now.