Damn that's pretty awesome. So this is the actual developer of ESO, that is spending time making their game compatible with Linux?
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
26 points (93.3% liked)
Linux Gaming
15295 readers
11 users here now
Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.
This page can be subscribed to via RSS.
Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.
Resources
WWW:
Discord:
IRC:
Matrix:
Telegram:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Sounds like it — it was posted by The Elder Scrolls Online, not Valve. (Edit: Yes, of course this still means Proton.)
Not necessarily. My understanding is that you can earn a green check as long as your game feels like a native console experience, even if it's running on Proton
Wine/proton are great but not perfect. Lots of games don't work through proton. "Compatible with linux" can mean doing the work to make sure your windows build is proton friendly and will work on Linux. It doesn't have to mean Linux native.
Does it still needs eso+ subscription to be fun? I've heard without eso+ there was something shitty about tiny inventory space or something
It's not the normal inventory, that's fine, it's that if you pay for eso+ you get a separate limitless inventory for crafting, and TBH I couldn't imagine playing without it and still interacting with the crafting system.
Has it ever been 'playable'?
Have you tried it? I played the beta and didn't care for it, but a few years after release I tried it again, with a different mindset, and enjoyed it. I played it for a few months then. It's not the best MMO I've played, but it's good enough. If you want a pretty casual MMO in the Elder Scrolls world, it does the job fine enough. I personally don't think it does enough to push you to socialize (most MMOs now have moved away from this), but it's a decent single-player theme park with plenty of interesting things to do.
Game's okay.
The developers however can eat a bag of rancid pig farts.
Why? What did Zenimax do to you?
Great to hear. Im over my MMO grinding days, but ESO is still fun to hop in an for an hour and do some quests.
How is it solo?
Been considering an mmo but would want one that's possible solo. Realize that's counterintuitive but was curious.
Every modern MMO is pretty much solo with people around. I'd say this is especially true for ESO. There's essentially no reason to socialize from what I recall, but I never made it to end-game. I prefer the FFXIV design where you can play solo if you want, but there's also reasons to socialize if you want to. It's much more interesting to hang out in. In ESO, from what I remember, I never felt like hanging out and only played to complete content.
Thats the main way I play tbh.
The voice acting is nice, but I won't lie questing is a bit shallower than with Skyrim. Lots of collectables, horizontal progression. Its a nice package!
It has options for group dungeons and I quite enjoyed the PvP for when you get that multiplayer itch.
Also world chat keeps things interesting lmao.
Nice. Might give it a go.
What's your favorite class?
I like to heal and have a pet to help with soloing, so Warden is my main, but that's another thing I really really like about the progression is that all classes can tank, heal, or DPS with so many different abilities based on the weapons you use.
Obviously there's more meta picks, like a Templar was for tanking (might be out of meta by now), etc. But for real, the systems are very accomodating to build variety IMO (again people will probably disagree, but im not playing the game hardcore. Just for funzies)
Ended up getting it and playing an arcanist. Pretty fun so far, thanks for responses
How are the controls for this? I found FFXIV controls are great, not perfect but great, and was wondering how they compare. Getting a solid control scheme for an MMO isn’t easy.
ESO I think is mostly solid that way, they have a limit for how many abilities you can slot, so no button hell like WoW-like MMOs.
You could play with a controller from day one, it was built for it.
That's actually great to hear. I might have to check it in that case. Thanks.
Check out a buying guide, they have the weirdest way of presenting what you get for what you buy.