![]() However, a new group dubbed the Ascendant Order has wreaked havoc with the plans for those talks, set up by Lady Arabelle Davaux and the Society of the Steadfast, causing the ship carrying VIPs to disappear. The expansion’s story focuses on an attempted peace conference between Tamriel’s three major factions, all vying to claim dominion over Tamriel (in a time period roughly 1,000 years before Skyrim and 800 years before Morrowind and Oblivion). Meanwhile, Amenos has effectively devolved to a prison island, although I can’t speak further to Amenos since I didn’t get to spend any time there during the preview period. There are plenty of underground caverns and ruins to explore, most of which come about as part of quests. It has very much a medieval European feel to it, with temperate to Mediterranean scenery, including castles and druid villages. High Isle is home to the most of the nobles around the Systres Archipelago. ![]() High Isle focuses largely on two major islands: High Isle and Amenos. Though regular enemies are easy to swipe down, boss fights are still appropriately challenging and will force players to have a plan and react to the bosses’ abilities. Stealth can help gain the upper hand, though once a fight does break out, it is a largely chaotic affair. Players can fight in first- or third-person - first-person is easier to aim though more difficult to judge any surrounding threats - as they face off against foes and do a mixture of attacks, blocks, or dodges as required, using other skills that draw on magic or stamina. High Isle has a strong medieval western Europe feel to it.Īnyone familiar with recent The Elder Scrolls titles will know exactly what they’re getting with the game’s combat. It doesn’t have the series’ more playful trappings of messing with NPCs or messing with physics and the vast array of incidental items, but during the exploration and virtually all of the content I was able to check out during the preview, it very much feels right at home as a very single-player-friendly experience. General enemies in The Elder Scrolls Online are pushovers on their own, though this feels more like an underscore that exploration is the primary appeal of the series. There’s still a sense of achievement in levelling up, even if it might not impact how tough foes are. Despite removing one of the RPG facades with this, The Elder Scrolls Online manages to keep a sense of the player growing in power thanks to how they unlock and power-up abilities and spells, with higher level equipment also marked as being more powerful. As players level up, the boost received reduces until the point where it is removed entirely. To allow this, the game includes its own scaling system, though rather than adapting enemies to the player’s level, it boosts players’ power to level 50, which may provide some surprises when newcomer see their level one attributes. ![]() Once players have chosen an initial destination, they are free to tackle the story quests and locations they have access to in whatever order, allowing them to flip back and forth mid-way through if they wish. The area of portals lets players pick where they wish to start, whether it be the base game or one of its expansions. New players will have access to all of this content from the start with the $59.99 Collection bundle, and since June 2021, the game has had a single unified tutorial that leads them to the Keywright’s Gallery. ![]() Rather than having a single connected storyline, the game is largely divided into independent major chapters associated with the base game and each of its subsequent expansions. RPGamer was able to get access to a preview build of High Isle, taking it on from the perspective of an The Elder Scrolls Online newcomer.įor newcomers, it’s worth detailing The Elder Scrolls Online’s approach to its storylines and balancing. 2022’s Legacy of the Bretons content focuses on the Systres Archipelago, with its biggest release coming in the High Isle expansion. MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online is still going strong eight years afters its initial launch, and ZeniMax Online Studios has found an effective annual cycle to release new content, devoting updates to a particular storyline and locale. For those curious about leaping into Tamriel, the release of High Isle feels like a good time to do so. ![]()
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