We spoke with The Elder Scrolls Online's creative director, Rich Lambert, about the new Necrom Chapter, and how Bob became the Arcanist. Read the full interview here:
is gigantic, offering us ways to explore Bethesda's Tamriel with friends, meet new or returning allies and enemies, and experience new activities — all of which are canon with the mainline single-player games. Despite the vast amount of content already available, developer ZeniMax Online Studios continues to roll out yearly expansions.
"I think that the biggest thing we wanted to pull in from Skyrim was that kind of sense of nostalgia with Apocrypha. They [Bethesda Game Studio] really set the bar for what it could look like, and then we wanted to expand upon it. It's all about knowledge and cataloging and whatnot, books are a huge element, and you get to see that in at least one of the biomes we built, but we also wanted to kind of take that a step further and really put our own take on things, Lambert said.
"There's always tons of lore in-game when looking back at the previous games, even for us there were locations that we didn't get to at launch or with Morrowind that we wanted to get to. The Telvanni were one of those kinds of cultures that we really wanted to dig into, so it made a lot of sense for us to kind of go there, especially with the type of story we were trying to tell once we focused on Hermaeus Mora and being able to go to Apocrypha," Lambert said.
Lambert tells us that the Arcanist's reception has been"unbelievably positive across the board, new players and existing players alike," but it sounds like the team at ZeniMax also had a ton of fun testing the class themselves."When you're going through like what the hell does Bob mean? Like, exactly. Don't be constrained by anything. Just go in and make something really cool, try some bits and bobs out, and see what happens.
While there haven't been any major bugs introduced with the Necrom Chapter, the odd bug will have made it through, which ZeniMax will look to squash in the next couple of updates. We can also expect to see the new Endless Dungeon Runner system arrive toward the end of this year, although that remains a mystery to us.
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