ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM ET (16:00 UTC)—Player Experience Special!

ZOS_Kevin · January 12

This is the official discussion thread for, "ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM EST (16:00 UTC) —Player Experience Special!"

"Join us live on Twitch.tv/Bethesda as we dive deeper into the first wave of player-experience improvements coming in 2026!"

Destai · January 12

Cool. I'm excited to ask why horse training wasn't made purchasable in one setting.

The rest looks really amazing though!

shadoza · January 12

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for, "ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM EST (16:00 UTC) —Player Experience Special!"

"Join us live on Twitch.tv/Bethesda as we dive deeper into the first wave of player-experience improvements coming in 2026!"

I want to know when the PTS server will be back up.
Not sure why I should go to twitch, which I don't like, to watch someone talk about the experience when I could experience it first hand.

ZOS_Kevin · January 12

shadoza wrote: »

I want to know when the PTS server will be back up.
Not sure why I should go to twitch, which I don't like, to watch someone talk about the experience when I could experience it first hand.

PTS is under maintenance right now and will not be up before the livestream is over.

ZOS_Kevin · January 12

Destai wrote: »

Cool. I'm excited to ask why horse training wasn't made purchasable in one setting.

The rest looks really amazing though!

That stream is the place to ask! If you don't get an answer there, ping me and I can ask around internally.

zenonuk · January 12

It all looks pretty decent for a first drop of QoL updates... would like to see ability to hide "flaps" and "pads" on chest pieces, rather than the full chest piece... would make some of the armour more usable with other leg styles. Maybe this can come in another later update?

Also... would be good to add a note to the crown store tooltips when items are available in game for gold - this way we don't waste our crowns by accident.

Going forward, is there any chance that maybe we could have a list of future/potential updates, and have a chance to maybe vote of what we feel are the priorities for development/release?

Destai · January 12

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

Cool. I'm excited to ask why horse training wasn't made purchasable in one setting.

The rest looks really amazing though!

That stream is the place to ask! If you don't get an answer there, ping me and I can ask around internally.

Thanks Kevin, I appreciate it. Yeah, I didn't get an answer, must've gotten lost in the fray, no worries.

Also, can you please chase down on an answer on the French translation issues? I saw that asked (and removed) by quite a few folks during the stream, seems like a hot topic.

And Kira's awesome. Really like her communication style!

ZOS_Kevin · January 12

Destai wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

Cool. I'm excited to ask why horse training wasn't made purchasable in one setting.

The rest looks really amazing though!

That stream is the place to ask! If you don't get an answer there, ping me and I can ask around internally.

Thanks Kevin, I appreciate it. Yeah, I didn't get an answer, must've gotten lost in the fray, no worries.

Also, can you please chase down on an answer on the French translation issues? I saw that asked (and removed) by quite a few folks during the stream, seems like a hot topic.

We did provide an answer to the French Translation question last week. We will also have a note on it in the Patch Notes. This is what we posted last week and will be in the patch notes today.

"Voiceover support for Updates 47, 48 and 49 and some voice lines for Pass Content 2025 are not available in French. For the best experience, we recommend enabling subtitles in the game. We look forward to bringing back French voice over as soon as possible and appreciate your understanding."

shadoza · January 12

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

shadoza wrote: »

I want to know when the PTS server will be back up.
Not sure why I should go to twitch, which I don't like, to watch someone talk about the experience when I could experience it first hand.

PTS is under maintenance right now and will not be up before the livestream is over.

Okay, then I am off to play something else until after lunch.

allochthons · January 12

There was a lot of confusion in the Stream Chat about accountwide outfit slots.

There will be 10 total? Or there will be 10 additional to what we had by default?

So if I have 20 characters, and I've bought 5 total slots across those 20, what will I have after U49?

It really seemed like we'll have 10 slots total, so if I have 20 characters, I'll have to share them. Or will every character have 10 slots?

Clarification, please!

ETA: 90% of these QOL improvements are amazing. The other 10%, I'm mostly just confused about.

EETA: The improvement in communication is great! Streams with Devs are especially appreciated!

zenonuk · January 12

allochthons wrote: »

There was a lot of confusion in the Stream Chat about accountwide outfit slots.

There will be 10 total? Or there will be 10 additional to what we had by default?

So if I have 20 characters, and I've bought 5 total slots across those 20, what will I have after U49?

It really seemed like we'll have 10 slots total, so if I have 20 characters, I'll have to share them. Or will every character have 10 slots?

Clarification, please!

ETA: 90% of these QOL improvements are amazing. The other 10%, I'm mostly just confused about.

My understanding is that you get 10 total account wide, and each character can get up to 10 slots - what you put in those slots is character specific. So in your example... if you have 20 characters, and bought five, I think every character would end up getting 6 (the base 1, plus the 5 you bought which are account wide).

I of course could be wrong, so it would be good to get clarity on this point.

[EDIT: They did say that if you end up with greater than 10 - let's say you bought 5 slots on 4 different characters, so you've paid for 20 - they are looking at whether the difference can/should be refunded... but no decision has been made.]

metheglyn · January 12

I really enjoyed this stream. They delivered a lot of information in a very clear manner, and I really like the format for this style of stream, which I believe they called "dev chat." Kira did a great job!

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 12

metheglyn wrote: »

I really enjoyed this stream. They delivered a lot of information in a very clear manner, and I really like the format for this style of stream, which I believe they called "dev chat." Kira did a great job!

Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely considering more streams like this in the future

Darkmage1337 · January 12

Another great stream, and looking forward to more! Keep up the positive momentum, team!

GothGamerGirl369 · January 12

*Ahem* So, uh, when can we expect the awesome new werewolf and vampire questgiver NPCs to become player companions?

Emeratis · January 12

Just wanted to also say I really enjoyed today's stream and would like to see more like this in the future.

TonyH196 · January 12

Was there for most of the stream and the drops stopped at 6%, refreshed the stream a few times and zero luck

xencthlu · January 12

Kira left a very good impression. She kept saying she was babbling, but I thought that was not a fair self-assessment. She had a lot of worthwhile insights to offer and was very well-informed about the state of the game. I'd love to hear more from her.

From the things she was saying, it sounded like improvements to notable home furnishing limits were still in the works, if not arriving with the next update. Can I get confirmation on that, or is that an uncertainty until more development is done?

Glad to hear respecs aren't going to be particularly restricted by location. The times I've most wanted to respec was during dungeons where my build turned out to be trash, and I didn't want to punish my groups for my mistakes.

As far as low hanging quality of life improvements go: this is perhaps very niche, but I'd like to direct your attention to Pledges of Mara. They're a 1k crown item on the crown store, and they're a total waste in their current form. You must buy one to "marry" one character to another. You go to a Shrine of Mara and use the pledge, and should the other character accept, you will both receive a ring that will grant a 10% experience bonus to both players when both players are wearing the ring.

The problem is, it literally takes a ring slot. A real ring slot for your real equipment. That you need for your real build.

The bonus either needs to be much more significant if it's trying to contend for a real equipment slot, or it needs to be changed so that the 10% experience bonus isn't tied to an actual equipment slot. Especially for 10 USD! If it were just a gold purchase, I guess it being bad and useless would be fine. In an ideal world, I'd like to see the marriage system expanded to be closer to the silly, crazy, amazing system FFXIV offers. Getting married could, I don't know, grant you some marriage outfits, give you a marriage house, maybe grant a wedding pet. It feels like a missed opportunity.

Maybe something like this is coming already for the new Valentine's Day event. In which case, great job.

AmazingAlice130 · January 12

I love Kira's personality and energy!
(As well as Gina's & Jessica's, always, of course!)
The three of you form an entertaining and informative trio! Hehe.
These upcoming quality of life changes are very welcoming, too.

LunaFlora · January 12

yippie! awesome stream, excited for u49

c363b · January 12

Will any of the announced changes be implemented before Update 49 is released?

laniakea_0 · January 12

in regards to the stackable treasure maps. first, will the ones from IC and IA vendors also be stackable? second, next to the general Unopened Treasure maps we saw on stream, could we please also get zone-specific Unopened Treasure maps? because you'd normally only need to keep a lot of treasure maps if you are looking for leads and those would usually all be from a single zone at a time.

TheWhiteRose328 · January 12

Just a question. I asked during stream but probably got lost in chat, but is there any potential for an outfit assistant in the future?

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 13

c363b wrote: »

Will any of the announced changes be implemented before Update 49 is released?

No, they will all be arriving with Update 49.

laniakea_0 wrote: »

in regards to the stackable treasure maps. first, will the ones from IC and IA vendors also be stackable? second, next to the general Unopened Treasure maps we saw on stream, could we please also get zone-specific Unopened Treasure maps? because you'd normally only need to keep a lot of treasure maps if you are looking for leads and those would usually all be from a single zone at a time.

Any map opened from its Runebound Tome will be stackable, including those in IC and IA. As for the zone-specific unopened treasure maps, this isn't something we're currently planning but we did put the bug in the Dev Team's ear.

Shamo_83 · January 13

Amazing

TheSherryOnTop · January 14

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

Cool. I'm excited to ask why horse training wasn't made purchasable in one setting.

The rest looks really amazing though!

That stream is the place to ask! If you don't get an answer there, ping me and I can ask around internally.

Thanks Kevin, I appreciate it. Yeah, I didn't get an answer, must've gotten lost in the fray, no worries.

Also, can you please chase down on an answer on the French translation issues? I saw that asked (and removed) by quite a few folks during the stream, seems like a hot topic.

We did provide an answer to the French Translation question last week. We will also have a note on it in the Patch Notes. This is what we posted last week and will be in the patch notes today.

"Voiceover support for Updates 47, 48 and 49 and some voice lines for Pass Content 2025 are not available in French. For the best experience, we recommend enabling subtitles in the game. We look forward to bringing back French voice over as soon as possible and appreciate your understanding."

So basically: deal with it, we're not going to bring back a French voiceover.

iGuavaTH · January 14

TheSherryOnTop wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

Cool. I'm excited to ask why horse training wasn't made purchasable in one setting.

The rest looks really amazing though!

That stream is the place to ask! If you don't get an answer there, ping me and I can ask around internally.

Thanks Kevin, I appreciate it. Yeah, I didn't get an answer, must've gotten lost in the fray, no worries.

Also, can you please chase down on an answer on the French translation issues? I saw that asked (and removed) by quite a few folks during the stream, seems like a hot topic.

We did provide an answer to the French Translation question last week. We will also have a note on it in the Patch Notes. This is what we posted last week and will be in the patch notes today.

"Voiceover support for Updates 47, 48 and 49 and some voice lines for Pass Content 2025 are not available in French. For the best experience, we recommend enabling subtitles in the game. We look forward to bringing back French voice over as soon as possible and appreciate your understanding."

So basically: deal with it, we're not going to bring back a French voiceover.

I don't speak french, so I am not really a party to the problem, but what I don't understand is why can't you just tell the French community what the problem is?

I mean, there must be a reason for the absence of the voice over. Just tell them what that reason is.