Yeah the maps you get from crafting writs provide a boon of materials. I love that little addition, getting out and exploring the world to find that cache.
As an aside, anyone in an active guild? I am still the guild founder/owner of the guild formed for Octopus Overlords, but sadly I am the only one who has come to playing it seems.
Gil102
3144
One of the biggest reasons I stopped playing not long after launch was that by level 15 or so, I started noticing how underpowered I was and felt like I had to grind in order to get to level 20 just to try out a couple new skills…all of which turned out to be far less useful than the description led me to believe they would be. So I kind of felt like each new skill was a bait-and-switch and then I had to equip it in order to level it up to get the Morph I wanted in the hopes that with the Morph, it MIGHT be as useful as I felt I was led to believe.
Do you still have to equip a skill or power in order to get experience with it so you can level it up and morph it? I have a hard time playing a game where the payoff for getting to the next level is a sub-par skill that I THEN have to level to make as useful as the skill I had to replace it with.
That’s still essentially how the system works but it feels tuned much better. I remember feeling kind of squishy and underpowered back at launch and now I barely break a sweat.
Redfive
3146
I’ve been back, just haven’t seen you on yet.
Oghier
3147
With the switch to f2p, I reinstalled this today. I liked it a lot at launch but just kind of spun down after completing the story. Eager to see what the game has to offer with one of my lower level characters.
milspec
3149
I enjoy the game the most with the Full Immersion add on that dynamically hides the cursor and most pop-ups and allows you to toggle on and off the map and compass with a single key. The world design is good - you pay attention where to go and everything feels very natural. Stumbling across quests is a pleasure - and the compass markers are just a button away, if needed.
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info48-WykkydsFullImmersion.html
What’s the bot population like these days?
They seem to have cracked down pretty well on that, and I haven’t noticed any the past couple of weeks. That will probably change with the transition to B2P, but they seem pretty well set up to deal with them now.
KevinC
3152
Coming as someone who had major complaints about the bot issue at ESO’s release, I haven’t run into a single one yet in my ~2 weeks back playing the game. Not to say they’re not out there, but I haven’t run into any. That’s a far cry from the 20+ bots I found camping every delve in every zone.
Teiman
3153
I made the mistake to download the wrong continent, so now seems that I had to redownload the whole thing again (just changing region have this effect).
Anyway, I created a character in the american megaserver to see the game before I can enter the european one.
Some first impressions:
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They have made some changes in the first part of the game (the tutorial area), I can’t say these changes make it worse, some seems changes for change sake, a few feel like improvement-ish, but overal, they changed what needed not change there.
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Once in the actual game, I am surprised how little the game has changed. It don’t seems a overall new game, but the same game with a few subsystems.
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They have now a cool system where you can be thief. This is ridiculous cool and seems well dressed… thiefs have their own zones away from the guards where they can sell what the steal, theres a hot system similar to a GTA game, if a guard finds you, will ask you to pay a fine. I like this thing. The skill tree you gain with this seems to be all passives, but is still kinda cool.
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They have added breadcrumb quest to the crafting things (and certificate things) so its like they have smoothed the early parts of the game to be easier to understand for newbies.
I still love this game, and now that is free, I have no reason to stop playing again. But I still have to see the state of my main in the european server. Hope is well and alive.
- It seems the game will have a PS4 version. This is hella cool, I will love to play with people on PS4.
KevinC
3154
What MMO is a “new game” a year into release? As you mention, they’ve added the Justice system, the Champion system, and have refined and retooled much of the existing systems.
I’m confused. The new “Tamriel Unlimited” edition of the game (the only version available for sale on GMG and other digital outlets now) says that you don’t pay a monthly subscription fee anymore. Pay $60, play forever.
If I have an unused key or purchase a key for the previous version of the game, do I still need a subscription, or is it basically free for everyone now? And is it really free, or is it F2P with locked content purchasing like LORTO?
It’s like Guild Wars 2 in that you buy it and then you can play whenever. If you have an older “version” of the game it will be the latest version by the time you finish pulling all the patches/updates down, there aren’t two SKU’s running around out there in the wild. ESO is just ESO, fancy subtitle or not. It’s sort of like when FFXIV became A Realm Reborn, it isn’t like you could log into the old version of it any longer.
The purchasable content (using Crowns, which you get with real money) buys aesthetic stuff, some mounts, packs of consumables (like health potions) that you don’t need (that I’ve seen). Stuff like that - it’s not at all egregious.
It looks like they do plan to sell content down the road, probably along the lines of TSW’s issue packs. The game that currently exists is all included with past or present purchase of the client.
Awesome, thank you. So if I can find an “old” key floating around for sale cheap someplace, I’d be golden. I’d been wanting to try ESO since release, but swore off subscription-based MMOGs entirely since I don’t ever have the time to get my money’s worth out of monthly fees. Since the changeover to “buy once play forever” they’ve gone back to $60, which I completely understand, but is a price point that’s too expensive for my level of curiosity about the game.
stusser
3159
Kinguin will sell you a code for $43, that’s the cheapest I can find it now. Was much cheaper last month obviously, saw it around $30 then.
Wanted to get back into this, but it freezes completely every time I log in.
Oh well, I guess I’m going to file it under the “10% of all your games will fail to work at any given time” clause of PC gaming…
There are still loads of copies of the original release for bargain prices in UK supermarkets. I picked up a copy at Tesco for £10. Seen it at Asda too.
Razgon
3162
I’m sure if someone see’s a cheap copy, you can get them to pick it up for you and email you the key for a paypal transfer as well. I’ll keep an eye out myself :-)
