Did the stream give us a live date for update 48?

Punches_Below_Belt · September 12

I was looking for it in the crawl during the stream and thought I just must have missed but going back and rewatching some of the stream I still haven’t found a release date.

Soarora · September 12

Not that I recall but PTS is Monday so add like 5 weeks to that.

Punches_Below_Belt · September 12

That’s kind of why I was asking because it seems like there is going to be writhing wall and vengeance going on and then witches festival.

tomofhyrule · September 12

The Q4 DLC tends to drop during Witches, but the Wall is adding a new wrinkle.

Considering the patch will have to drop during the wall event (phases 1 and 2 are on Live, but phase 3 is in U48) and the fact they keep playing up a ‘friendly server competition’ to bring down the wall, I wonder if they’ll want to release U48 simultaneously on all platforms, which would mean delaying the PC patch for console’s acceptance.

With standard cadence, it should drop for PC on October 20, but I really am expecting they’ll hold the PC release for consoles, which makes me think sometime around Nov 5-ish

licenturion · September 12

tomofhyrule wrote: »

The Q4 DLC tends to drop during Witches, but the Wall is adding a new wrinkle.

Considering the patch will have to drop during the wall event (phases 1 and 2 are on Live, but phase 3 is in U48) and the fact they keep playing up a ‘friendly server competition’ to bring down the wall, I wonder if they’ll want to release U48 simultaneously on all platforms, which would mean delaying the PC patch for console’s acceptance.

With standard cadence, it should drop for PC on October 20, but I really am expecting they’ll hold the PC release for consoles, which makes me think sometime around Nov 5-ish

I would assume they release the east zone with the writhing wall event?

Otherwise if the community goes into overdrive to tear down the wall quickly, they have to wait days or a week for a patch and the west zone unlock. That would be totally anti-climactic if it is press E on NPC to remove the wall days after we got to the targets. I assume all this will transpire as a live server event a la Fortnite. At least that is what they hyped it up to be.

Or they could fumble with the progression numbers behind the scenes so we don't get far enough before the content patch drops.

It is pretty wild that we got a livestream about the second part of the zone and the wall event, but don't know the specifics. Maybe @ZOS_Kevin can shine a light on this when the east zone opens and if there is a 'wait period' after a server breaks the wall.

lillybit · September 12

They said the event will give access to the zone. It'll be a different time and/or date for each server depending on when each reach the target.

The wall won't come down til you do the main zone quest be the event will give you free access to the zone

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO · September 12

Will most likely be October 28th for PC and November 11th for Console with Vengeance 4 test occurring 2nd(?)-16th December (split into 2 parts, first week being vengeance only, second week being Vengeance + Grey Host).

Ishtarknows · September 12

Doesn't seem fair for console players to have to wait in limbo for the next part. Especially since we can all access the wall event at the same time and one of the console servers could even drop the wall first. (It's not my first zone celebration so I know the meter will probably have no scale and we'll reach the target at the appointed time etc, but it will be jarring if all the console servers conveniently take 2 weeks longer than PC to reach the target)

Elvenheart · September 13

It’s been said in another thread that the event will run simultaneously on PC and consoles so each will have the same opportunity to breach the wall first and gain access to eastern Solstice.

Nemesis7884 · September 13

Historically the dlc released in the first week of november....I would assume they centered their expectation how fast the wall breaches around that, end of october, beginning of november, based on past community event statistics...

Honestly regardless of what zos claims, I would be REALLY surprised if they take 0 active involvement how fast or slow the walls breach...

Syldras · September 13

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Honestly regardless of what zos claims, I would be REALLY surprised if they take 0 active involvement how fast or slow the walls breach...

I thought the same, but this time, it seems they'll actually not only announce the progress on their website (as it had been during other community events), but directly on the map - unless that's just a dev thing, because I only saw it during that Twitch stream so far, of course:

(Putting it in a spoiler box because it's a screenshot of the whole Solstice map)

Gabriel_H · September 14

Here's a crazy idea about the release date: When it's been checked for bugs

Elvenheart · 1:08AM

Syldras wrote: »

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Honestly regardless of what zos claims, I would be REALLY surprised if they take 0 active involvement how fast or slow the walls breach...

I thought the same, but this time, it seems they'll actually not only announce the progress on their website (as it had been during other community events), but directly on the map - unless that's just a dev thing, because I only saw it during that Twitch stream so far, of course:

(Putting it in a spoiler box because it's a screenshot of the whole Solstice map)

It was so nice to see that shot of the full map, thank you!