The Elder Scrolls Online
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I tried 1st person last night for an extended period of time. Since I don't know how combat in 1st person felt before collision detection went in, I don't have a baseline to compare it to.
I can say I noticed obvious camera shakes when my character got hit in combat. One time I apparently missed a block and my screen moved quickly side to side as I was knocked to the ground and stunned. I use dual wield daggers on my NB and when I do light or heavy attacks, the collision detection appears to kick in when they hit my targets body. Blood splashes where the daggers visibly hit.
I did notice some lag when I inflicted a killing blow. I have the FTC addon that shows scrolling text which includes how much EXP you get when the mob dies. On a few occasions I would see the EXP message pop up and the mob would freeze in place for about a second and then fall to the ground and become lootable.
Mob difficulty does appear to have been increased some. For the first time in a long time I had to ask for help on a quest that required me to kill a mini boss and two adds, one of which was a healer. Everything respawned if you died. All the mobs were two levels lower than me which in the past meant I might lose half my health before beating them all. I died 6-7 times trying to beat this encounter before giving up and asking for help. NB survivability got slightly nerfed in the last patch so that probably had something to do with my problems as well.
I tried 1st person last night for an extended period of time. Since I don't know how combat in 1st person felt before collision detection went in, I don't have a baseline to compare it to.
I can say I noticed obvious camera shakes when my character got hit in combat. One time I apparently missed a block and my screen moved quickly side to side as I was knocked to the ground and stunned. I use dual wield daggers on my NB and when I do light or heavy attacks, the collision detection appears to kick in when they hit my targets body. Blood splashes where the daggers visibly hit.
I did notice some lag when I inflicted a killing blow. I have the FTC addon that shows scrolling text which includes how much EXP you get when the mob dies. On a few occasions I would see the EXP message pop up and the mob would freeze in place for about a second and then fall to the ground and become lootable.
Mob difficulty does appear to have been increased some. For the first time in a long time I had to ask for help on a quest that required me to kill a mini boss and two adds, one of which was a healer. Everything respawned if you died. All the mobs were two levels lower than me which in the past meant I might lose half my health before beating them all. I died 6-7 times trying to beat this encounter before giving up and asking for help. NB survivability got slightly nerfed in the last patch so that probably had something to do with my problems as well.
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I already said many times that I was getting this game. Like i said Im a whore when it comes to new mmorpgs. Last weekend beta I was expecting this joke of a game, because most people were so negative on it. But this was far from the truth. High production value, it ran great, looked great, what can I say, i was sold. Lots to see and explore...etc...
That being said, I do not like the quest based leveling, but this is pretty much the norm in mmos right now, its not this games problem, it is more of a genre problem. I thought the quests were well done in this game.
The combat? Well it definitely could be better, but it could be way worse. How the negative people speak about it is really over the top. They tried to keep it as close to being Elder Scrollish and I think they succeeded. It is far and away better than any stock Elder Scrolls game I have played. But thats not really saying much is it?
Even so, Its not that bad. It feels pretty responsive but people are dead on in saying it needs more impact, more weight behind it. Also animation could use some more work.
I have not seen more than what the wekend beta dudes had acess too, so Im not sure of the end game, whether 20+ shit is finished.
That being said, I do not like the quest based leveling, but this is pretty much the norm in mmos right now, its not this games problem, it is more of a genre problem. I thought the quests were well done in this game.
The combat? Well it definitely could be better, but it could be way worse. How the negative people speak about it is really over the top. They tried to keep it as close to being Elder Scrollish and I think they succeeded. It is far and away better than any stock Elder Scrolls game I have played. But thats not really saying much is it?
Even so, Its not that bad. It feels pretty responsive but people are dead on in saying it needs more impact, more weight behind it. Also animation could use some more work.
I have not seen more than what the wekend beta dudes had acess too, so Im not sure of the end game, whether 20+ shit is finished.
Can anyone with any decent game experience go over a primer of what people are doing with different builds? What's op? What's fun? What are some of the trends you are seeing? I love different types of class systems and ESO, for all of it's warts, has a really cool class system and I'm curious what people are doing with it.
I am on 11 hours on my new NB and have only hit level 9. And that is with the increased XP gain at low levels...
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Huh? It definitely did not take me that long last beta weekend. Since I pretty much played 8 hours total and got to Lv12. And some of that time was spent just running around and exploring, trying crafting...etc...
I echo Mkopec's post, except I've become pickier. I liked FF14, but not enough to buy it yet.
I wish the world was more sandbox, but it's not exactly boxing anyone in or going from quest hub to quest hub.
I love the class design, but I believe we'll see wholesale changes and I also dislike the fact the game will be balanced around PVP. I just hope it's based on group PVP and we don't see the game kneejerk around a ton of nerfs.
Leveling in this game is fairly quick. I played one weekend and got 2 characters above level 10, one to 15. If anything, it seems it might be too fast to me.
Skipping the newbie isle may have had something to do with my long leveling time. I started leveling in Auridon (Which was just rebalanced in the last patch) after the tutorial. I also played with woodworking to become familiar with the crafting system. Still 11 hours is kind of steep for level 9!
I actually wrote off the game off a long time ago and was not planning on playing it even though PRX is. However, I was so bored this weekend that I decided to give it another try.
They were posted on reddit as well. My guess is that Zenimax isn't too worried about the NDA much anymore.
Aye, I've only done weekend betas though.
I got one key last Nov. Was able to play in Jan. without a new one. They sent me a new one in Feb., but I didn't enter it and was still able to play in Feb. I think anyone whose account is flagged for beta access is good.
Current trend: stack whatever resource your skills favor while leveling. At 50 respec all those points into HP. There should be like 20 posts about this like 5 pages back, LOL.
They were posted on Tamriel Foundry too but the thread got deleted, heh.
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I would like another beta as well. I'm probably going to pre-order but I want one more go around and would like to see if GMG comes out with another coupon better than 20%.
I'd be curious about this, too. I keep reading Templar + 2H + Resto seems to be really strong.
I get the feeling OP builds for leveling and OP builds for endgame will be pretty distinct. I'm still going Mage most likely, but I'm intrigued by the healing Nightshade build someone mentioned.
YouTube guy gives his opinions on changes made in the latest PTS patch.
Edit: TBH best part of this video is him getting 2-shot by an elite bear mob.
Edit: TBH best part of this video is him getting 2-shot by an elite bear mob.
I just read that they are going to allow players to skip newbie isle, don't know if that is on replay 2nd character or how it will work.
Elder Scrolls Online will give option to bypass starter island | Massively
Little disclaimer here, if someone already posted about skipping isle, I did not go back pages and read to check, this thread moves to fast so heads up if this happened to me.
Elder Scrolls Online will give option to bypass starter island | Massively
Little disclaimer here, if someone already posted about skipping isle, I did not go back pages and read to check, this thread moves to fast so heads up if this happened to me.
