For the very first time, new Elder Scrolls On-line updates are shifting the MMO’s timeline past the occasions of the bottom sport.
Beginning in 2025, Zenimax On-line ditched ESO’s long-running replace construction of dropping one huge annual enlargement in the midst of themed years, adopting a seasonal launch cadence instead. Effectively, the primary main replace of the Seasons of the Worm Cult saga is out now on PC, and it is the primary replace in ESO historical past to place a lid on the story advised within the base sport.
“For the primary time in ESO’s historical past, that I am conscious of, we’re shifting the timeline ahead. The story itself is advancing,” mentioned zone lead Jason Barnes in a current preview attended by GamesRadar+. “We’re principally saying, ‘the occasions of the bottom sport, which is Molag Bal’s Planemeld, have already occurred. Molag Bal is defeated, the Planemeld is ended, and the world is recovering.'”
Barnes was fast to emphasize that this development of the timeline in Seasons of the Worm Cult will not lock you out of any present content material. You’ll be able to nonetheless play Seasons of the Worm Cult updates after which return and play the bottom sport, and the bottom sport story will nonetheless be playable as ever. It is simply that on the planet of Seasons of the Worm Cult, the whole lot that went down within the base sport is previously.
