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The Elder Scrolls Online Reveals Details For Update 43

Bethesda Softworks recently held a livestream for The Elder Scrolls Online, giving players info about Update 43 as it hit the test server.



Article Summary

  • Explore player-designed homes with the new Home Tours feature in Update 43.
  • The Infinite Archive expands with new maps, enemies, and class item sets.
  • Enjoy new quality-of-life updates like improved item curation and mount previews.
  • Plan ahead for the PC release on August 19 and console update on September 4.

Bethesda Softworks held a recent livestream for The Elder Scrolls Online on Twitch, as they showed off more of the content to come in Update 43. The team went over a number of topics and showed off the content, as this update will have a ton of quality-of-life updates. The content is now live on the Public Test Servers and will be released for PC on August 19, with the console update happening on September 4. We have more dev notes from their website for you below.

The Elder Scrolls Online Reveals Details For Update 43
Credit: Bethesda Softworks

The Elder Scrolls Online – Update 43

Home Tours

One of the year's most anticipated new features for Tamriel's housing enthusiasts is Home Tours, a new entry in the Activity Finder that shares and showcases listed player homes. With Home Tours, you can search for homes owned and decorated by another player you know by searching for their UserID. You can also filter through other criteria like owner-applied labels for themes, such as "Libraries" or "Strongholds." Of course, the creativity of many players defies such simple categorization, so if you're interested in seeing all sorts of homes or in viewing the most popular creations, you can browse the top player homes in the Recommended tab of Home Tours. Whatever way you search, friends and guildmates will be specially tagged in the feed for easy recognition.

When you find a home that really impresses you, you can recommend it to others, as well as favorite it for yourself to visit later. You can even favorite homes you visit through other means, regardless of whether they are listed for Home Tours. There's a weekly limit on how many homes you can recommend but no limit on how many you can visit and enjoy. Your own home may be featured as a recommended home in the Activity Finder if it becomes popular enough!

Infinite Archive Update

The Elder Scrolls Online Update 43 also adds more depth to the Infinite Archive in the form of new maps, enemies, Verses and Visions, and updated loot, including new class item sets! This includes new hazard stages where the Archive itself presents a danger and a wider pool of foes to battle in maligraphic form. Helping you tackle these new challenges are eight additional Verses and ten additional Visions. For example, you can use the new Phalanx verse to call on ghostly soldiers to form a wall of defenders, collect the new Necrotic Vision set to unlock an Undead Avatar transformation that allows you to empower yourself with each defeated enemy, and more. You can also earn potent new consumable items that unlock a guaranteed transformation verse like the Undead Avatar, but getting them will not be easy!

Once you return to the Index with your hard-won Archival Fortunes, you can spend them on new rewards, whether as part of Filer Ool's rotating stock or purchased from new arrival Filer Brax, who stocks all gear from the class item sets. Filer Brax's inventory isn't limited to the existing seven sets from the Archive's launch but also includes new sets like the gruesome Corpseburster set for Necromancers that detonates corpses your skills consume. As before, each of these sets is themed around a specific class skill line.

Quality-Of-Life Improvements

The above new features and additions aren't the only focus of Update 43. Several smaller improvements included in Update 43 are aimed at making your time in Tamriel easier and more enjoyable. For example, item curation, the system that prevents duplicate item drops within a set while you are still filling it out in Collections, expands to cover new sources. These include weekly Trial rewards, offerings from Imperial City vendors, and the Dungeon-specific reward chests for monster sets available for Undaunted Keys from Glirion the Redbeard, Maj-al Ragath, and Urgarlag Chief-bane at the Undaunted Enclaves.

The update also includes improvements to mount previews in the Crown Store, allowing you to preview and replay animations such as summoning or rearing up without needing to purchase a mount. Finally, many further smaller changes and bug fixes are included in Update 43. For example, Guild Trader and Guild Bank interfaces remember the last player Guild you interacted with in a play session.


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