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Has anyone checked out this game? Has an "RvR" component very similar to DAOC (actually think it's being made by someone from DAOC team). Take a look! Actually you can sign up now for their beta.
http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/
http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/game-guide/the-alliance-war
If you are having issues getting your beta to go through they know that there is something happening and they have been working on it. Also, if you sign up and have not yet received your conformation you signed up they are looking in to that a well. Welcome to the Official (and temporary) Elder Scrolls Online forums http://forums.bethsoft.com/forum/189-the-elder-scrolls-online/ Here is another website for more information about Elder Scrolls Online Good luck everyone who sign's up with beta. :)
You are behind in the times :P If you check down the forum, there is an Elder Scrolls Online section as well as if you check the Active threads, there is a few in that list too ;)
The guy who was team lead for the creation of daocs rvr is executive producer for eso. He recruited his old team from mythic to build esos rvr
I can answer that since Fog has mentioned it elsewhere: It all depends on how their guild and alliance system works, in the hope it helps Fog's brain not explode :P
I am very much looking forward to it now that I know DAOC's team leader is making this. I thought PVE in DAOC was lackluster but the PVP was top notch. Nothing better has come out since. GW2 also has terrible PVE, but I'm still not loving GW2 WvW for some reason. I haven't seen good, immersive, and challenging PVE since Everquest. I know it's a pipedream but maybe ESO will have both. They will at least have good PVP, and maybe the PVE will be good since it is Elder Scrolls afterall. Really hoping this game will original, not another WoW clone, and have great PVP and PVE. I wouldn't even mind paying a subscription for that. Hope we can all play together in the beta and get a sneak peek! For the time being I am playing Eve online. Fun game.
Anyone have any idea when they will be selecting the beta players? My chances were rated as excellent when I signed up and my fingers are crossed that they let me in.
I got about 4 hours of PvE time in while I was out at ZeniMax and I can tell you that if you like PvE you'll love this game. One of the coolest concepts i've seen in a game is the way that the PvE zones change based on the player in the world. It might get really confusing depending on how it all works out but I thought it was neat that it was dark, gloomy, raining and dead folk were wandering around this cave. I had to fight my way into the cave and slay a necromancer. After I killed him I exited the cave and it was sunny and the undead were once again dead on the ground. There was even some NPC's lurking wondering what happened. Now I ran across another fellow who just happened to be sitting right next to me. He hadn't slayed the necromancer yet. On his screen it was dark, gloomy, and undead were wandering around. ON my screen it was bright sunny and the dead were dead. Now when I joined his party the dead became undead, the clouds came out and it began to rain. I went in and killed the necromancer again. Then both of us saw it sunny. I also go the chance to explore one instanced dungeon and one open dungeon. The instanced dungeon was all story based kinda like Guild Wars 2 dungeons. The Open Dungeons were like mini-zones. The further out from the start point you got the tougher the enemies. We formed up a 10 man group to see how far we could get in and killed some bosses but in the end there was no way we were getting through the deepest areas. Not even close. The deeper you go the more people you need to complete it. The enemies work together against you. They flank you, they decoy you, they will run in front of their wounded to shield them from incoming attacks while they heal. They will give each other abilities by combining attacks. Combat wise it was slower than GW2 but not like RIFT. I'd say it was somewhere in between. You don't have cooldowns but you do have stamina. Each time you block an attack you have the chance to counter it. You can retaliate with a heavy attack. However blocking an attack takes a bit of stamina. Overall I had quite a bit of fun with the PvE world. What I can tell you is that if your tasked to save 9 npcs.... go save 9 npcs. I just said screw that and went on without. I got to the end of the area and I had to stand off against an army. If I would have saved those 9 people there would be 10 of us facing off with this foe (about 30 npcs). However my adhd butt decided to go without and had to go 1 on 30. Every little detail will change the future of you experience. This is the closest thing to having a single player game embeded into a multiplayer game seamlessly. It really innovates the whole "Personal Story" idea.
Sounds like phasing on a massive scale. They said you can manipulate items in the world too(I thought that was very awesome), I imagine all of that is phased as well.
Yep as stated above i havn`t had fun immersive , challenging pve since Everquest , all the games after are dumbed down to pull in the subs at the cost of gameplay . don`t think i`ve seen a game since EQ have real open dungeons which is sad really open world dungeons while frusating at times were a great feature in EQ. I made a lot of friends in open world dungeons from fighting in it to helping people clear to there corpse to rezing people that got trained . if they are gona have open dung that alone is worth playing it all else is a bonus .
Fog, you actually visited the studio and played it? Very cool. Did you meet anyone from the PVP team and ask them how the RvR or whatever will work?
I would assume Fog was one of the people invited when they invited podcasters and people from the top guilds. If you watch the Shoddy Cast YouTube of 21 reasons to be interested in Elder Scrolls Online it is mentioned there at the start. He mentions that people were invited for a behind the scenes look and there was a room of computers with the Alpha for some to test on. From memory, I think the Shoddy Cast mentions that not everyone was able to get on and play.
