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"The Gates of Adamant" & "Soul Shriven in Coldharbour" coding update please

Ashnarug
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When you leave the "Gates of Adamant" and you elect to go to your starter island there should have been a coding change in "Soul Shriven in Coldharbour" - the coding exist already in the "Imperial City DLC".

Once you complete "Soul Shriven in Coldharbour" you end-up again on your starter island (Bleakrock Isle, Stros M'Kai & Khenarthi's Roost). Why ? They are already done. You should end up where you where (Davon's Watch, Glenumbra or Vulkhel Guard) when you met your alleged benefactor. Like I said the coding already exist, it should be feasible to implement it.
Edited by Ashnarug on June 11, 2021 6:33PM
During the afternoon of Loredas, 6 Sun’s Dawn 2e578 a big piece of Aetherius fell to Nirn. It was the first major piece of Aetherius to fall on Nirn in more than five hundred years. It scattered around the world as millions of shards. It was rapidly documented by Lady Cinnabar of Taneth in her pamphlet Aetherial Fragments that "... when three shards meet, they re-form into a silvery prism by unknown process and confer the power unlocked by the merger to a nearby being." The Order of the Black Worm, commonly known as the Worm Cult, reappeared in Tamriel shortly thereafter and some of its members are avidly searching said shards.
In the last week of First Seed 2e579, an arcane explosion occurred in the Imperial City — a night of storms, and trembling terrain. They named it the "Soulburst". That day Emperor Varen Aquilarios disappeared without a trace. His wife, Clivia Tharn, ascended to the Ruby Throne as Empress Regent under the guidance of the Necromancer Mannimarco. Ushering a time of increased instability within the Empire of Cyrodiil which finally grew into “The Three Banners War”.
  • Wolf_Eye
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    Ashnarug wrote: »
    When you leave the "Gates of Adamant" and you elect to go to your starter island there should have been a coding change in "Soul Shriven in Coldharbour" - the coding exist already in the "Imperial City DLC".

    Once you complete "Soul Shriven in Coldharbour" you end-up again on your starter island (Bleakrock Isle, Stros M'Kai & Khenarthi's Roost). Why ? They are already done. You should end up where you where (Davon's Watch, Glenumbra or Vulkhel Guard) when you met your alleged benefactor. Like I said the coding already exist, it should be feasible to implement it.

    The reason you end up on the starter island is because the starter islands are supposed to happen chronologically AFTER the escape from Coldharbour. In particular, the Daggerfall starter islands make no sense unless you did Coldharbour first because part of the plot requires you to have no soul (which doesn't happen until after you lose your soul in Coldharbour)
  • tomofhyrule
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    I'd honestly rather the tutorial take you to the starter city instead of the starter islands.

    Some of the starter island stories (most notably Betnikh) reference the fact that you're already a Vestige, which may or may not be the case depending on where you g. If the proper storytelling order is important, the tutorial should take you to something like Daggerfall first, and then the Hooded Figure spawns right there and you can do Coldharbour then go to Stros, rather than starting in Stros, fighting through Betnikh (and the story not making sense), then getting to Daggerfall and the Hooded Figure and being sent back to Stros.
  • Ashnarug
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    I'd honestly rather the tutorial take you to the starter city instead of the starter islands.

    That would be the best solution.

    Once you reach the Keywright's Gallery instead of having the starter island as possible destinations you have the option to go to any of the Chapters starting "tutorials" as their new first mission of their storyline or to the original starter cities in order to be met right away by the Hooded Figure.
    During the afternoon of Loredas, 6 Sun’s Dawn 2e578 a big piece of Aetherius fell to Nirn. It was the first major piece of Aetherius to fall on Nirn in more than five hundred years. It scattered around the world as millions of shards. It was rapidly documented by Lady Cinnabar of Taneth in her pamphlet Aetherial Fragments that "... when three shards meet, they re-form into a silvery prism by unknown process and confer the power unlocked by the merger to a nearby being." The Order of the Black Worm, commonly known as the Worm Cult, reappeared in Tamriel shortly thereafter and some of its members are avidly searching said shards.
    In the last week of First Seed 2e579, an arcane explosion occurred in the Imperial City — a night of storms, and trembling terrain. They named it the "Soulburst". That day Emperor Varen Aquilarios disappeared without a trace. His wife, Clivia Tharn, ascended to the Ruby Throne as Empress Regent under the guidance of the Necromancer Mannimarco. Ushering a time of increased instability within the Empire of Cyrodiil which finally grew into “The Three Banners War”.
  • redlink1979
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    Wolf_Eye wrote: »
    The reason you end up on the starter island is because the starter islands are supposed to happen chronologically AFTER the escape from Coldharbour.(....)
    Agree. Wailing Prison > Alliance's starter island > Alliance's 1st zone
    (...) If the proper storytelling order is important, the tutorial should take you to something like Daggerfall first, and then the Hooded Figure spawns right there and you can do Coldharbour then go to Stros, rather than starting in Stros, fighting through Betnikh (and the story not making sense), then getting to Daggerfall and the Hooded Figure and being sent back to Stros.
    If the timeline is important you should run it like it was designed originally, the way it really makes sense. In the original design, after the cinematic intro you would wake up in the Wailing Prison. (Wailing Prison > Alliance's starter island > Alliance's 1st zone)

    By changing starter point chapter after chapter being released, I think ZOS just made a big confusing mess out of this. Regardless of which expansion you have or not, you should always keep starting from the exact same place you did start on Tamriel Unlimited: Souless at the Wailing Prison.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt9WvAv5RvY
    Edited by redlink1979 on June 12, 2021 12:21PM
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