![]() ![]() Valenwood and Elsweyr have forged an alliance of their own with Summerset, while Black Marsh, Morrowind, and Skyrim have formed a third, uneasy pact. High Rock, Sentinel, and Orsinium stand as one, united under the rule of the High King in Wayrest. In the midst of this chaos, three alliances vie for control of the Imperial City and the White-Gold Tower. His Dark Anchors, vortexes of evil magic, weaken the barrier between worlds, threatening to merge Nirn and Oblivion into a single, nightmarish hellscape. ![]() So began the grand scheme of Molag Bal, Daedric Prince of domination and enslavement. The constellation of the Serpent grew so large that it dominated the night sky. Supernatural abominations from the plane of Oblivion, the Daedra, appeared in greater numbers than ever before. Mystics are plagued by nightmares and portents of doom.įour years ago, in 2E 578, an arcane explosion of energy in the Imperial City set off mystical aftershocks that swept across Nirn. ![]() Armies of revenants and dark spirits manifest in every corner of Tamriel. For the trophy hunter like me, there is that large hurdle of transitioning and leaving something behind that will eat at me, but like I said, I really hope it’s something Zenimax/Bethesda looks into and patches.ħ.It is a time of strife and unrest. With the great buzz going around for Blackwood I especially recommend this ESO edition for the absolute newcomer. If you don’t care much about trophies, or at least the trophies you have previously earned with this game then jumping into this “Console Enhanced” edition is a no-brainer, it’s a great package that will help keep this game going for many more years to come. It really comes down to what will bring you back to the world of Tamriel – all the new quality-of-life upgrades that next gen consoles have to offer or in a nice convenient collection of all previous expansions to catch up on (or both!). I believe this needs to be remedied with a future patch, because it isn’t easy collecting trophies for ESO, and in some cases would be very difficult to backtrack and redo tasks to unlock said trophy. So, for longtime players on previous generation consoles that are proud of your hard-earned trophies, seeing none of those accomplishments being carried over to the new hardware can make this a tough sell to upgrade. This misstep hurts me internally, because many other games that have come out with PS5 enhanced versions have given the player the ability to not only transfer their save, but will automatically pop all previously gained trophies once again. There is however one major issue, it may not be an issue to some, but to all the trophy hunters out there, I regret to say that all of your previous earned trophies on PS4 do NOT carry over when continuing your play on this version. With the 60 FPS and these way more digestible load times it would be safe to say that going back to the previous generation would be out of the question once playing this one. At the very least, they’re easily half as long. I didn’t whip out my stopwatch, but the new load times seem exceptionally minimal in comparison. There is another perk to playing ESO on a new generation console, everyone’s favorite quality-of-life enhancement, MUCH shorter loading times. I recall on the last gen consoles the loading times were very daunting to get through, but back then that was the norm and we persevered through the waits. What I supposedly lost in resolution I certainly gained in frames, playing at a very clean 60FPS. It does play in 4K at 30 FPS, but when turning on Performance Mode, I felt I didn’t lose that much resolution. While I’m happy they are there, Fidelity Mode isn’t the quantum leap people may suspect from the PS4 version. While the game does look quite beautiful in places, I didn’t find the upgraded graphics/textures extremely noticeable. The PlayStation 5 upgrade gives you the options of “Performance Mode” and “Fidelity Mode.” I played the game for a quite a bit on both modes and I think the Performance Mode is the much better way to experience ESO. That being said, I’ve heard nothing but great things about Blackwood, and with this next-gen upgrade I couldn’t resist to take a peek. I’ve dabbled in the world of Tamriel previously here and there, but while I find the game to be quite fun, perhaps in my adult life, I just don’t have the time to invest in a MMORPG. ![]()
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