Flames of Ambition
March 8, 2021 - PC/Mac/Stadia, Consoles - Patch Notes
Flames of Ambition introduces us to the Gates of Oblivion year-long story arc. With the two new dungeons The Cauldron and Black Drake Villa we return to the world of the Daedra, or those which seek to use their power.
Update 29 brings about a number of significant changes and new features. The entire Champion Point system has been reworked and got a new UI, as well as an all-new star to choose for your character. Equipped Armor pieces also now passively augment a character's effectiveness, and players can view additional combat stats in an Advanced Stats UI.
Housing fans will be excited to utilize a new feature to decide whether to fast travel inside or outside their own home, with several improvements when previewing furnishings and houseguests, with a lot of new furnishings as well.
Since there was an issue with Update 28 where some of the players ran into the issue where the Soul Trap or the Werewolf Ultimate skill had unmorphed, but the skill points hadn't been returned, each attempt to refund missing skill points remained unsuccessful. So, with Update 29, all skills were reset, additionally to all CP points due to the new Champion Point system.
New Features & Updates
Flames of Ambition DLC
- New Dungeons, The Cauldron and Black Drake Villa, with the latter having optional side bosses to boost the group and hardmodes for each boss
- New Item Sets, Collectibles, Outfit Styles & Dyes, Achievements & Titles, Furnishings
Base Game
- Champion Point System Update, where the entire Champion Point system was revamped with an updated UI and all new stars to choose from. With this update players were able to build a more variable character, replacing active perks without completely respeccing. It was also more possible to specialize in certain aspects of gameplay, so that characters didn't feel the same and had more obvious perks for specializing
- Armor Changes. Equipped armor pieces now passively augment a character's effectiveness at a baseline, in addition to their purchasable passives. Their effects are now denoted in the Armor section of the Skills screen and are unlocked immediately upon unlocking the Skill Line itself.
- Advanced Stats. Additional Combat Stats were now visible by selecting Advanced Stats within the Character menu.
- Fast Travel Outside of Homes. When a player traveled to their home they could choose whether they wanted to go inside or outside of their home.
- Furnishing & Houseguest Preview Improvements. Players were now able to preview furnishing plans and preview voice lines of Houseguests from the Crown Store.
- New Furnishings
- New Antiquities
- New Battleground Collectibles
- System Mail Deletion & Organization Changes. System Mails would now no longer be in the inbox forever until the player deleted them, but would only be in the mail box for a limited amount of time, after which they would be deleted.
- In Cyrodiil, item set procs were first disabled in February 2021 to test how much impact it had on the game’s performance.
