Today, ZAM.com released their Elder Scrolls Online Hands-On Preview releasing exciting news on ESO features and overall gameplay. Most notedly ZAM has confirmed First-Person view in ESO that creates a feeling very close to that of Skyrim. They’ve also confirmed a few new features that we’ve listed below:
- Strategic Attacks – Players will have the option to dodge, interrupt, block and go for the kill by pressing certain buttons and are awarded by a finesse system if performed correctly. The finesse system rewards players with a certain percentage XP bonus.
- Ultimate Abilities – These are abilities unlocked as you level you character and are based on finesse instead of magic and endurance.
- Stealth – Stealth has already been confirmed but players wearing heavy clunky armor will have a hard time sneaking up on characters due to the noises the armor makes.
- 6 Slot hotbar – Players will have a limited hotbar (6 slots) that are filled with abilities based on the current weapon being wielded. The more you use a particular weapon the more advanced these skills will become.
- Morphs – Morphs are specialized tress you can unlock after leveling a weapon skill to a certain point. You can pick 1 of the 2 available Morph Trees.
- Players will have access to everything in terms of weapons and armor. Classes will not be restricted to Heavy, Medium and Light armor types.
- Bleakrock in Skyrim is a confirmed starting zone.
- The NPC Characters are fully voiced and interact with each other through-out town.
- Quest Givers are fully voiced and has extra dialogue options to allow the player to learn more about each character’s backstory – similar to all previous Elder Scrolls titles.
- Quests give you alternative options – players can choose to have a town flee or stay and fight in some cases.
- You can steal from NPCs homes.
