New setting related to quest journal

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

When you accept a new quest, your active quest doesn't change to the new quest. I'm not sure if that's intended or not, but I didn't see any mention of it in the patch notes. On the plus side, you don't have to pull up your journal and reselect the quest that was previously your active quest. On the minus side, you might need to pull up your journal just to be sure that the new quest got added to it.

ArchangelIsraphel · June 2023

I noticed this and found it pretty inconvenient when quickly grabbing dailies, and needing to check that I actually picked them up.

In addition to this, the auditory cues for picking up quests seem to be missing as well. The sound it makes when picking up a quest from a quest giver to let you know you received the quest while you are still in the dialogue is gone. The sound writ boards make when receiving quests is also gone. All audio related to receiving quests is missing (I have all of my sounds including music on, nothing muted)

It all kinds of adds up to needing to double check the journal constantly, which is something I didn't have to do before.

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

I'm thinking it MIGHT be a bug, since there were other changes to the Journal UI-- namely, the repeatable quests now have a blue quest pointer by them, and the names of quests are now in yellow text rather than gray(?), with the active quest in white.

Edit: In other words, I'm wondering if the auto-selecting of new quests somehow got messed up when those other changes were made.

kringled_1 · June 2023

I definitely noticed both of these things this morning. It was quite odd not having the cues I am used to.

Katlefiya · June 2023

Wasn't this auto-selection of new quests not added only some time ago? It appears they accidently reverted the functionality back to the previous implementation.

AzuraFan · June 2023

I actually don't like that it automatically changes to the new quest, so I'd prefer that it not be a bug. But if it is, it is.

(maybe they can add an option for this.)

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

Katlefiya wrote: »

Wasn't this auto-selection of new quests not added only some time ago? It appears they accidently reverted the functionality back to the previous implementation.

No, as far as I can remember it's always been the case (since ESO:Morrowind, anyway) that grabbing a new quest changed your currently-active quest to the new quest.

For instance, when you went to a crafting writs bulletin board and grabbed all of the writs from it, your active quest afterward would be the last writ you'd just picked up, not whichever quest in your journal had been active before you picked up the writs.

If it was an intended change, it does have a potential plus side, because sometimes I did want my old quest to remain active. But if it isn't a bug, it will definitely take some getting used to, because I think most of the time you'd want the new quest to be your active quest, such as when you go up to a daily questgiver and accept whatever job is on offer that day, or even if you're just questing through a zone and accept a new side quest.

Taggund · June 2023

Noticed this morning, and massively annoying as doing dailies I immediately open journal and use map to know where to port for the quest. Hope they fix.

Maddjuju · June 2023

New setting. Go to Settings > Interface and in the first section, click On for Automatic Quest Tracking to go back to having the new quest set as active.

freespirit · June 2023

Maddjuju wrote: »

New setting. Go to Settings > Interface and in the first section, click On for Automatic Quest Tracking to go back to having the new quest set as active.

Was just about to say this!

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

Thank you, thank you!

AzuraFan · June 2023

AzuraFan wrote: »

I actually don't like that it automatically changes to the new quest, so I'd prefer that it not be a bug. But if it is, it is.

(maybe they can add an option for this.)

Ha ha looks like they did!

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

Yeah, I just didn't see anything mentioned in the patch notes about it, and didn't check under settings. I'm going to update the title of this thread accordingly.

Taggund · June 2023

Maddjuju wrote: »

New setting. Go to Settings > Interface and in the first section, click On for Automatic Quest Tracking to go back to having the new quest set as active.

Thanks for posting. Setting changed now.

shadyjane62 · June 2023

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

When you accept a new quest, your active quest doesn't change to the new quest. I'm not sure if that's intended or not, but I didn't see any mention of it in the patch notes. On the plus side, you don't have to pull up your journal and reselect the quest that was previously your active quest. On the minus side, you might need to pull up your journal just to be sure that the new quest got added to it.

Noticed this too. Quite annoying and confusing. You have to manually cycle thru to find your quest. Several times I found myself following the wrong direction, and had to look for what i was supposed to be doing.

Monte_Cristo · June 2023

Wish settings could be set for all characters at once, not just by going through them one at a time.

Jestir · June 2023

Monte_Cristo wrote: »

Wish settings could be set for all characters at once, not just by going through them one at a time.

There is an addon for that, just make sure to get the one that is still supported

There is also an addon for account wide keybindings if that tickles your fancy

Reverb · June 2023

As people noted, this is in a new setting for Automatic Quest Tracking.

If, like me, you have the Quest Tracker off, you’ll need to reenable that to turn on the Auto Quest Tracking, then you can disable the Quest Tracker again, and it will continue to activate your most recent quest like it did before the patch.

Rejoice everyone who keeps getting the 3-Towns quest in Cyrodiil.

Katlefiya · June 2023

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Katlefiya wrote: »

Wasn't this auto-selection of new quests not added only some time ago? It appears they accidently reverted the functionality back to the previous implementation.

No, as far as I can remember it's always been the case (since ESO:Morrowind, anyway) that grabbing a new quest changed your currently-active quest to the new quest.

No. That change came with Summerset. From the patch notes back then: ""New quests will now be automatically tracked as they are picked up." "

Took them only 5 years to add a UI setting to let us players choose which behaviour we prefer ;-)

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

Well, in my defense, my memories of my first year of running around Tamriel are a big, happy blur. I remember some things that were different then, such as having to do an actual quest to kick someone out of their home before I could get it for free, as well as having to figure out what kind of water a particular fishing hole was and what kind of bait to use at it. But I don't remember ever having to pull up my quest journal to select a quest that I'd just accepted.

Nestor · June 2023

AzuraFan wrote: »

I actually don't like that it automatically changes to the new quest, so I'd prefer that it not be a bug. But if it is, it is.

(maybe they can add an option for this.)

Exactly. The way this game throws quests at you, keeping focus on one quest is preferred.

Quackery · June 2023

This is really, really, really, really annoying. I mean SERIOUSLY annoying! Taking daily quests and not having the latest one I grabbed appear is VERY annoying!

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

Quackery wrote: »

This is really, really, really, really annoying. I mean SERIOUSLY annoying! Taking daily quests and not having the latest one I grabbed appear is VERY annoying!

Are you aware that you can change a new setting so it works the previous way?

While logged in on a character,

ESC, Settings, Interface, Automatic Quest Tracking, On

Quackery · June 2023

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Quackery wrote: »

This is really, really, really, really annoying. I mean SERIOUSLY annoying! Taking daily quests and not having the latest one I grabbed appear is VERY annoying!

Are you aware that you can change a new setting so it works the previous way?

While logged in on a character,

ESC, Settings, Interface, Automatic Quest Tracking, On

Ah, cool! Thank you so much for the help!

ZOS_GinaBruno · June 2023

Hi everyone! Apologies for the confusion here - just confirming as others have stated that we did add a new UI setting that allows you to automatically track a quest when you accept it, and the default is set to "Off". If you're on a quest and accept a new one, it will keep tracking the quest you were working on unless you switch this new setting to "On". The setting can be found in the Interface Settings under "Automatic Quest Tracking". We'll also retroactively add this to the U38 patch notes so it's properly documented.

acastanza_ESO · June 2023

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hi everyone! Apologies for the confusion here - just confirming as others have stated that we did add a new UI setting that allows you to automatically track a quest when you accept it, and the default is set to "Off". If you're on a quest and accept a new one, it will keep tracking the quest you were working on unless you switch this new setting to "On". The setting can be found in the Interface Settings under "Automatic Quest Tracking". We'll also retroactively add this to the U38 patch notes so it's properly documented.

Thanks! In isolation, this is a great change, I know I'd been frustrated by my quest randomly changing just because I'd accepted a new one I'd encountered before. But I had gotten used to the old behavior and suddenly have it change was frustrating, especially when doing thigns like trying to cycle quests in Cyrodiil.

One thing I'll mention though is that having this as a child setting under the quest tracker is unfortunate. Some of us use 3rd party quest trackers and if we disable the built in one in favor of the 3rd party one, you have to first reenable the built in one, then change the automatic tracking setting, then disable the built in quest tracker, to change the setting. Considering we might want easier access to this setting, I'd suggest that it be made independent of the built-in quest tracker UI.

Tevalaur · June 2023

@ZOS_GinaBruno It would have been a lot kinder to those of us with many characters and who have been used to the old methodology to default to the old behavior.... I'm not looking forward to logging on each and every character to change this setting to the way I'm used to it operating.

Please keep that in mind for future changes, thank you.

c363b · June 2023

My issue probably is related but not quite the same. When I am working through a quest line, such as recruiting the Necrom companions, the active quest often switches spontaneously to some totally unrelated quest from my quest journal. Then the objective pointers start pointing toward that quest instead of the one I actually am pursuing. That may send me in the opposite direction until I notice the change. This typically happens when going from one stage of the quest to the next stage.

SeaGtGruff · June 2023

c363b wrote: »

My issue probably is related but not quite the same. When I am working through a quest line, such as recruiting the Necrom companions, the active quest often switches spontaneously to some totally unrelated quest from my quest journal. Then the objective pointers start pointing toward that quest instead of the one I actually am pursuing. That may send me in the opposite direction until I notice the change. This typically happens when going from one stage of the quest to the next stage.

Did you change the new setting to ON, or is it still set to OFF?

Snamyap · June 2023

Katlefiya wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Katlefiya wrote: »

Wasn't this auto-selection of new quests not added only some time ago? It appears they accidently reverted the functionality back to the previous implementation.

No, as far as I can remember it's always been the case (since ESO:Morrowind, anyway) that grabbing a new quest changed your currently-active quest to the new quest.

No. That change came with Summerset. From the patch notes back then: ""New quests will now be automatically tracked as they are picked up." "

Took them only 5 years to add a UI setting to let us players choose which behaviour we prefer ;-)

I was annoyed when they added that, and I was annoyed when it no longer did monday. Now get of my lawn!

ZOS_Icy · June 2023

Greetings,

This thread has been moved to the Quests and Exploration section, as it is better suited there.

Thank you for your understanding.