*Puts glasses on and squints* ....Thats Skingrad alright.

Yaaas, here we go! very excited for this. Skingrad is finally happening! i really hope the zone is a actual forest, we haven't really had a proper big forest zone in ESO, hopefully this will change that! (and hopefully they remember blackdrake villa in the world space, the gold coast and reapers march gates)

Those Ayleid ruins are gorgeous — as is Skingrad and the surrounding forest!

xclassgaming wrote: »

Yaaas, here we go! very excited for this. Skingrad is finally happening! i really hope the zone is a actual forest, we haven't really had a proper big forest zone in ESO, hopefully this will change that! (and hopefully they remember blackdrake villa in the world space, the gold coast and reapers march gates)

I don't think the engine can support actual forests but hopefully they made it so you can actually have some dense foliage.

TaSheen wrote: »

Now the one thing I can say with perfect truth is that - it IS NOT EASY to get through that forest. In fact.... even on foot it's painful. On horseback, it's worse (because horses are HUGE compared to people - and deep forest does NOT make them calm and happy).

That might be the case with horses. My riding Vvardvark Snuppy loves forests though!

Honestly: I don't think realism will play a big role for ZOS. Traversing a desert is also not the easiest task, but walking through whole Alik'r feels like a cakewalk.

I'd be happy enough if forests at least look more or less like real forests in this game. Dense fog would be nice in the more elevated regions, it's supposed to be autumn after all. Although in reality, the fog is sometimes so dense that you can't see anything at all (what a joy driving a car in that weather...) - players probably wouldn't really like that. Although, if I think back to TES3 Bloodmoon, the snowstorms on Solstheim were quite heavy and obscured most of the view.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

They did it in the necrom trailer as well, why is that dremora roaring like an aninal, he is a dremora not a dinosaur.

He's angry that his name sounds like a Danish cookie brand.
"Torv" means "market" in Danish.

Other games have done huge, dense forests like Valenwood should be. Guild Wars 2 is probably the best comparison I know of, since it's also an MMO and released just a few years before ESO. They've got 5 maps of massive forest where you can't see the sky from the ground or the ground from the canopy (if any GW2 players are wondering the 5th is Echovald Wilds in End of Dragons, not a 5th Maguuma map), and yes at least one of those is notoriously difficult to navigate, but Valenwood is supposed to be difficult to nagivate as well.

I might be wrong but I think the 'trick' to being able to do it in that game is most of the trees aren't objects, they're terrain stretched up into pillars with a wood effect applied, so it's no more difficult to load than a canyon. I'm sure ESO could do something similar.

Although if they did that now for a zone on the outskirts of Valenwood I think it'd just make it even more disappointing that the heart of the jungle looks like beech woodland with tall trees but lots of wide open space between and beneath them.

Heart of Thorns being obnoxious to navigate is why I quit gw2 so yeah, no thanks. ESO forests are fine.

Danikat wrote: »

Other games have done huge, dense forests like Valenwood should be. Guild Wars 2 is probably the best comparison I know of, since it's also an MMO and released just a few years before ESO. They've got 5 maps of massive forest where you can't see the sky from the ground or the ground from the canopy (if any GW2 players are wondering the 5th is Echovald Wilds in End of Dragons, not a 5th Maguuma map), and yes at least one of those is notoriously difficult to navigate, but Valenwood is supposed to be difficult to nagivate as well.

I might be wrong but I think the 'trick' to being able to do it in that game is most of the trees aren't objects, they're terrain stretched up into pillars with a wood effect applied, so it's no more difficult to load than a canyon. I'm sure ESO could do something similar.

Although if they did that now for a zone on the outskirts of Valenwood I think it'd just make it even more disappointing that the heart of the jungle looks like beech woodland with tall trees but lots of wide open space between and beneath them.

GW2 where releasing those forrest maps also came with additional mobility tools to allow to traverse those places, and the physics of movement of GW2 is much better than ESO. Imagine the chaos trying to traverse tangled depths with all the bouncy terrain shenanigans ESO has, that would be nightmare xD

I know this is just a teaser of what’s to come but what I’m most excited for is this year’s selling point. Card game was rubbish arcanist was a improvement, wonder what this years is.This will be the decider for me if I carry on playing eso or move on.

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

The card game was (and still is) AWESOME! I admit, I wasn't enthusiastic about it when it was announced, because I haven't been able to wrap my brain around TES:Legends and was afraid it might be similar to that (since that's what the players who were asking for a card game were expecting). But after trying it and being able to grasp it well enough to consistently (if not always) beat the NPCs, I love it and it's become a daily fixture in my regular ESO sessions.

And so our opinions vary. I enjoy TES Legends very much, still play it regularly, but I find Tales of Tribute awfully boring. I gave it a chance, found it bland, then wanted to at least finish the questline and get the houseguest - didn't even manage that; stopped after a few weeks never to touch the cardgame again. But that's okay, people's interests vary and so ZOS can never introduce a new system everyone loves. It's just how it is. As long as they publish a wide variety of different things over the years, so there are different things for different likings, I'm fine with it.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ? Is that a stave ? are they putting magic in their trailers now ? is this the death of stamina in trailers /s

I can't wait to see the in-game version of Skingrad compared to the current 3 versions we have here:

TES IV: Oblivion


TES V: SkyOblivion - A worthy addition here


ESO: Teaser Trailer


ESO: X Chapter