Locations from the RPG classic Oblivion will help make up a new expansion for The Elder Scrolls Online later this year. Named Gold Road, the DLC is set in West Weald, which borders Cyrodill, the Gold Coast, and Valenwood, and sees the return of capital city Skingrad. The expansion is up for pre-order now on the PS Store for £32.99 / $39.99, set for a PS5, PS4 release on 3rd June 2024. Check out the announcement trailer above.
Gold Road will introduce "30 hours of new main quest content" as it continues last year's storyline set up in Necrom. "In Gold Road players must investigate Ithelia, a Daedric Prince never seen before in the Elder Scrolls series and it’s up to players to uncover the schemes of her most devoted followers," a press release explains. "Adventurers will encounter opportunistic Wood Elves, and protect the people of West Weald from the chaos of the Forgotten Prince’s return."
There'll be two new zones to explore, more enemies to face, and a new gameplay system that allows you to collect and customise a new suite of skills. Called Scribing, you can edit your primary, secondary, and tertiary effect to make for a more unique playstyle.
Before all that new content arrives, current TESO players can look forward to a smaller DLC in March that adds a new dungeon. Scions of Ithelia adds two and four-player dungeons to the MMO, both of which build up the story leading into Gold Road. It's out on 11th March 2024 and you can access it either through an ESO Plus subscription or by buying it from the in-game Crown Store.
Are you a seasoned TESO player, or someone looking to try it for the first time? Let us know in the comments below.
[source elderscrollsonline.com]
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Starfield disappointed me profoundly. I will distance myself from everything Bethesda until ES6.
I've still got plenty of stuff to do in ESO, even after over 420 hours of playtime, but I'll still be buying this day one.
@Triumph741 Don't build your hopes up for ES6, remember everyone thought Starfield was going the ultimate open world game aswell...
Still waiting for that fallout 4 next gen update
Ah come on honour the offline gamers with a new dlc content geez.
@BeerMonster starfield was a mess from the start I learned nouns and vowels at school not that nonsense.
@Triumph741 ES6 might be just as bad dude
@Triumph741 "I don't trust this dev because their last release was awful. I won't buy their titles until the next title they release. That'll teach em!"
That thinking is what allows them to keep releasing underwhelming titles.
@Bentleyma Same here! Honestly, when the base game costs about a fiver, I can't understand why more people aren't playing this!
I will be playing on the PS4 Pro as it seems to be the only way to play it with the DS4 giving the correct rumble feedback when picking locks.
As a ESO player for over 3 years, I decided to move on to something else last year. Yes, it is a ton of fun. But, to really get into the game you need to purchase the Annual ESO Pass which here in the US is $130.00 annually. More if you purchase it by the month. The bottomless craft bag is a real necessity if you don't want to be dumping everything you pick up along the way. Then you have annual expansions that run $40 per year ($50 if you want the unique mount, etc.) So to really play ESO every year it costs between $170.00 to $180.00 annually. The game is good... but frankly as a veteran of the game, not "that" good. I figured that $180 U.S. can buy a heck of a lot of other games instead of ESO. So that is the road I am going down now. Last year rather than ESO I bought Baldur's Gate 3, God of War Ragnarok, and HFW complete edition. Not a bad haul of gaming for one year of ESO.
Of course your mileage may vary.....
With hindsight I guess Oblivion is where everything started to go badly.
Even tho I didnt realize it back then, outside of the stupid level scaling, where at the end of the game even basic bandits had daedric weapons.
@sanderson72 Yo, whaaaaaa? I've only played on PS5 for the past year and a bit, and always wondered why the rumble doesn't kick in when you're getting close to the right point. Just assumed it was a bad design choice until now, didn't realise that's exactly how it is on the PS4 version lol
@DrClayman Yep, I've tried on PS5 with the PS5 version and the PS4 version, using the DS5 and the DS4 (on the PS4 version) and it just makes weird nonsensical buzzing noises and vibrates constantly.
Methinks something is badly emulated for the DS4 rumble on The Tub o' Lard as it works absolutely perfectly on the ever-quiet SSD Pro.
My son noticed the same effect when playing one of his PS4 F1 games; PS5 = no rumble going over the strips at the edge of the track, PS4 = rumbles to a lesser or greater amount depending on how much you're going over them.
After selling out, fallout 76, and the mess of Starfield; this company has lost all credibility.
I hope they meticulously design skingrad in the same style and structures in Oblivion, because it's a beautiful city with realistic castles
@Triumph741 do you even realize that Bethesda never worked on ESO?
Damn they don't half knock out their expansion quickly! Twice as fast as WoW.
Despite the critics, I actually think TESO/Zenimax Online Studios has better stories than single player mainline Bethesda RPG's.
They knock out annual expansions that are better than Starfield from the story/quest side of things.
Waaaaayyyyy better than WoW's storylines too.
Had a great time with eso long ago. The best single player mmo to date I believe. Then...lvl scaling came along. Killed the game for me. Glad others are still enjoying it though.
I play ESO more than any other game. Been doing so for 10 years now. I’m really looking forward to this!
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