All this talk about ESO and seeing beautiful screenshots made me download ESO as well. Actually it's still downloading and it probably won't be finished before tomorrow morning.

I've never played an MMO before so I'm a total n00b when it comes to that, but I read that you can 'reset' your character, I mean skills and similar stuff, even if you screw something up.

I have two questions, though.

1) There are three factions / alliances you can join but does that mean you can't visit countries featured in another alliance?

2) I read that you can meet other players in Cyrodiil only, is that true, or can you meet other players elsewhere as long as they're in the same alliance?

I do have a shot of Buffy's basic ESO look. I'm sure she will be recreated several times and her look may evolve a bit but I'm pleased that even my first attempt does a fair job of capturing her essence. Given the massive time jumping to get into ESO land, I'm tentatively viewing her presence there as a completely different incarnation of Buffy + Acadian - one of their many previous lives as they travel back to the future?

Anyway, here she is sporting the magnificent gear gifted by dear mALX: Screenshot

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Lopov - I'm a No0b too so can't help you much. Yes, it is a big download. I've found the UESPwiki helpful for quest/geography/skillz info. I'll let someone smarter than me answer your questions because I'm not positive on the answers.

Lopov, that’s great, I’m excited for you!

1. You will be able to travel throughout all of Tamriel with one character regardless of your alliance, but in the early levels you will be questing in your home faction area. I’ve heard that traveling across areas will be even easier once they do the next big update.

2. I am not sure how meeting players from other factions works right now as far as intentionally grouping up with friends, but I’m told that with the next update you will be able to group with friends regardless of what faction they are in. You are safe from other players unless you travel to Cyrodiil to the Player vs Player areas, meaning that the players you meet while you’re adventuring are in your own faction. The players you meet in the DLC areas such as the Gold Coast and Wrothgar/Orsinium cannot attack you.

So for example if you want to spend time early on questing with a friend in your home faction area, you would want to choose their faction.

It’s true you can respect your attributes and skills any time for either game gold or a scroll you can buy for real money (Crowns), so don’t worry about making mistakes or trying new things. The only thing you can’t change is faction and class, and you get enough character slots to try a bunch of different combinations. And you can delete characters that don’t work out and try again.

Yay, have fun! I look forward to hearing about your adventures!

Ninja’d!

Acadian, Buffy is gorgeous!!! That gear is perfect for her. Thank you so much for the picture, even though it is subject to change at will!

Jerric and I have not settled on how his ESO adventures will “work” in his big picture. Lil and Darnand see only the things that fit in their late Third Era world, but Jerric makes too many connections to fool. I’m sure that in time he will make sense of it, and for now we’re just enjoying the ride.

Acadian, Buffy is gorgeous! It's hard to imagine her looking even better. She looks mature and very determined. I like her outfit too, it reminds me of the Tribal outfit from FO3 DLC Point Lookout.

Grits, thanks for your help. Are updates that'll be released, payable or does the game update automatically? While waiting for the game to install, I see there's some DLCs that can be purchased like Shadows of the Hist coming up or is that the same update you had in mind?

I don't have any long-term characters like your or Acadian, so I don't have any ideas yet about my first (and also test) character. I'll probably go with a Redguard or a Breton, though.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 13 2016, 03:15 PM

The update will be to the base game and not something you have to pay for.

The DLCs like Shadows of the Hist you can pay for, or you can subscribe to ESO Plus for a certain fee every month to gain access to all of the DLC content while you are subscribed. I wouldn’t bother with that right away, just get your feet wet and see how you like it.

Argh, I’m going to be away from my laptop for a while, I hope this helped get you started!

Good luck with your first character! I suggest going back to make sure you've chosen the class and faction that you want before you exit character creation. It's easier than you'd think to have those change accidentally.

Thanks, you've been very helpful.

The game's been downloaded, now the patch is being applied which is taking a long time too, and judging from the percentage completion of the installation there's more stuff to be installed after the patch. I probably won't play it before tomorrow, because I'll be away from home as well. It's fortunate that the installation runs by itself without us needing to click something from time to time.

EDIT: Looks like I was wrong. Now the installer jumped from 33% to 73% so maybe I'll play it today after all.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 13 2016, 03:59 PM

That definitely looks like our Buffy! Her outfit is perfect for her!

ESO Buffy looks great!

It'll be nice to have a couple more ESO players around. Between mALX, Grits, and myself you have quite a large repository of ESO knowledge to help you out.

WOO HOO Lopov !!!!!!! Awesome !!!!!

You can meet other players anywhere your character is currently allowed to go to talk or hang out with or fight BESIDE as allies; but the only place there is fighting against other Player characters is in Cyrodiilll.

Acadian and I are both Noobs to MMO's too. You CAN reset your stats, but it is expensive in game. (The crown store has scrolls you can use for less I think) But you can make up to 8 characters at a time and delete 3 daily too; which means starting over is a cheap option too!





OMG, she is gorgeous! And that armor looks fantastic! I wasn't able to see it, so I'm really glad it came out so good! How are the bows, did she pick out one she likes best?

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!!!!






This post has been edited by mALX: Aug 13 2016, 07:44 PM

Gosh, thanks, folks. I'm pretty pleased with the char gen of ESO. Thanks, mALX, that armor is as gorgeous as anything I could imagine for Buffy! And all the bows were fabulous!

If I find a longbow in my inventory, I'll send it - that might increase your range. Have you read up any about the bows? I haven't in so long that I can't remember much.

The ESO official pages should have the range on them; and sometimes you can find forum threads where people may have workarounds to get better distance out of them.

No matter what I do, I can't get ESO to run. Installation worked fine, then I first got an error about application not running correctly. I fixed those by downloading some missing DLLs, then I got a message that I need DirectX 11 to run the game but I already have this DirectX. After spending entire afternoon trying to figure out what's wrong, I really don't have any ideas anymore.

EDIT: Looks like I won't be able to run ESO after all, at least not on my current laptop. I was reading minimum requirements and at first DX10 was also supported but according to the official support of TES:O with the latest update they made DX11 a requirement and my video card is too old for DX11. Well okay, at least I have the game purchased for some time in the future when I buy a new PC. Now I won't spam this thread with non-screenshot topic anymore.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 13 2016, 08:45 PM

Aw, I'm so sorry, Lopov!

Lopov, I’m sorry it doesn’t work on your laptop!

Haa-Rei poked his head into the Ruins of Mazzatun dungeon to grab a screenie. Some really cool lore behind this one, but we couldn't advance much further by ourselves.


An evening ride with our new, as yet unnamed, mount.


We also visited Bruma to check out the new Town Capture mode:
Down with The Covenant!
Blood for The Pact!

Those ruins are gorgeous, but from the sounds of the number of boss enemies inside - I'd say you would need a whole party in there, lol !!!


That Guar looks Awesome!


Oh, I would love to hear more about this "Town Capture Mode" !!! I've been to Bruma. Still wondering what their plans are for the Cloud Ruler Temple, though!


Awesome Shots !!!

Wow, that ruin looks gorgeous. Someday I will have to start talking to my Guildmates so I can check out these group adventures.

Haa-Rei’s Hist guar looks so neat! I have seen very few of those, and they always stop Jerric in his tracks. Congrats on the new guar friend!

I still have no idea how the Cyrodiil battles work, but it looks like Haa-Rei has captured/burned the Daggers’ flag and replaced one with the Pact’s? Lil has ventured in Cyrodiil a bit, but she keeps getting chased away from what she wants to see.

Thank you for sharing these, hazmick!

Town Capture, as the name suggests, allows you to capture towns. There are three towns that can be captured: Bruma, Cropsford, and Vlastarus. Within each town there are three flags, each guarded by a small, medium, or large squad of alliance guards. They work the same as lumber mills and mines next to keeps - kill the guards and capture the flag to claim the area for your alliance.

Haa-Rei was planning to take Bruma all by himself and got 2/3 flags, but then some enemy players showed up and a tactical withdrawal was in order. Really fun though!

OK, light bulb moment, the towns can be defended by NPCs?! Suddenly things make a whole lot more sense. I didn’t know that’s how resources worked, either, I thought you had to show up in a group of allies when there were a certain number of players to fight or something. D’oh! Thank you, hazmick!

Congrats on 2/3! Blood for the Pact!!




Here are a few from Jerric:

Anvil!

Ayleid ruin entry and a big chamber. I wish I could move the camera and do them justice!

Here Jerric has killed a minor daedra lord and needs to escape his collapsing pocket realm through that portal – but first, let’s see what lurks beneath this water.

Escaping the Daggerfall crowds.