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During Wednesdays ESO Live we got a preview of Update 43 and what it adds to the game. U43 is a free base-game patch that brings new quality of life features, improvements, Home Tours and Infinite Archive updates to ESO.
U43 releases on August 19th for PC/Mac and September 4th for consoles. Players will be able to test and give feedback on the update on the PTS next week.
Read everything we learned about the update during the ESO Live!
New Feature: Home Tours
You will find a new entry for Home Tours in the Group & Activity Finder. You can list all of your houses in the directory and other players will be able to visit them.
- Home Tours has four tabs: Recommended, Browse Homes, Favorite Homes and My listings.
- You can choose up to three tags to describe your house.
- There is no limit to how many houses you can list.
- Two Default Visitor Access rights to choose from: Visitor and Limited Visitor
- The nickname you have given your home in the collections menu, will show up in the listing unless you change it.
- You are able to recommend a home while visiting. This will populate the “Recommended” Tab in home tours, based on most recommended houses while adding some newer homes as well.
- You can search for a specific user or via tags
- You can favourite other peoples homes and they will show up in the “Favorite Homes” tab under Home Tours.
In addition to showcasing the Home Tours, Senior System Designer Cullen Lee showcased two new features that have never been seen in ESO. Seabloom Villa (a medium house) in Auridon will have flowers/vines which the player can toggle on and off. The Haven of the Five Companions house in West Weald will come with an interactable Companion Table that will show you a vision of the five original Companions.
Quality of Life Improvements in U43
- You can preview mount animations like walk, run and rear up.
- Luminous Ink has a chance of dropping from chests and heavy sacks.
- 6 new skill styles from in-game sources. Also available for archival fortunes, when they rotate to the IA vendor. 3 from Fragment chases: Silver Bolts (Yellow), Roar (Green), Annulment (Yellow) and 3 from Undaunted Keys: Twin Slashes (Lilac Purple), Momentum (Yellow) Elemental Storm (Purple)
- The game will remember which guilds bank/store you last used and will remember it during your session.
- Curated Item set drop improvements. Imperial City vendors, Trial Weekly Rewards, Purple Monster Shoulder bags (renamed to curated) now drop gear that you haven’t collected yet.
Infinite Archive updates in U43
- Two new arena types; Fire and Ice based Arenas with environmental hazards
- A New daily quest: Kill either a marauder or specific monster types
- Filer Brax, new vendor which stocks class item sets.
- 10 new bosses. For example: Risen Ruins from Moongrave Fane, Dranos Velador from Cradle of Shadows andYandir the Butcher from Kyne’s Aegis.
- 8 new verses, Including a new undead avatar.
- 10 new vision, like Quickened Tinctures that reduces potion cooldown.
- 2 new marauders. Werewolf Behemoth & Minotaur.
- New Fabled Monsters.
- New consumable bought with Archival Fortunes, which allows you to turn into a random avatar without requiring visions, once per run.
- 7 new class sets
All new Update 43 Class sets in ESO
- Arcanist: Spattering Disjunction
- Dragonknight: Pyrebrand
- Necromancer: Corpseburster
- Nightblade: Umbral Edge
- Sorcerer: Beacon of Oblivion
- Templar: Aetheric Lancer
- Warden: Aerie's Cry
ESO player reception to the new Home Tours feature
The big Housing Feature which has been hyped by ZOS throughout the year left many players disappointed at the Home Tours feature.
Players on Social Media, the Elders Scrolls Online official forums and subreddit generally seem to like the new addition, but have mentioned expecting something more based on the amount of hype there was. It is known that PC players have had access to a similar feature through the Essential Housing Tools addon and it is great that console players will get to experience this as well.
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