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Zenimax:

Zenimax Media is now officially a part of Microsoft
 
Bethesda “Here’s to the Journey” Video
"This is about delivering great exclusive games for [Xbox players] that ship on platforms where Game Pass exists."
Pylawn - I personally don’t think this will include TES, Starfield and Fallout, but games from a lot of the smaller studios and the big franchises will be multiplatform
They will only be available for “subscription” on GamePass though I bet (no Stadia or Luna is my guess)

I suspect we’ll talk about this one a lot so let’s go over everything (the good, the bad, the ugly)

ESO:

Elder Scrolls Online added 3 million more players in 2020 alone

Accounts totaling over 18 million over the 7 year life of ESO.
Holy balls that’s a lot
“We're one of the most successful, virtual-world fantasy games - period. Over 18 million users logging in from all over the world, 3 million new residents of Tamriel in just 2020 alone."
“Aaron Greenberg, General Manager of Xbox Games Marketing, also talked about the success of The Elder Scrolls Online, stating that in the 7 years since it launched, it has become the "number one, multi-plat online roleplaying game in the world."
Flames of Ambition out on PC/Mac/Stadia
Tune in next week for a deeper dive on the dungeons and story that we learn about
CP update is out
DPS is reduced but everything still feels completely viable
Teleporting outside a house is the biggest QOL ever lol
Pylawn is going to start farming Medusa lol
Bugs are… pretty pretty minimal to be honest
We’ll see what happens on Console this week!

Flames of Ambition and Update 29 Community Guides Article released:
Lots of really helpful guides on new builds and the new CP system and levelling crafting fast and easy...definitely worth checking out if you’re curious:  
STONE EAGLE AERIE IS FOR SALE
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Heroes Reforged Mini Event

Free Vale Fawn pet
Free Respecs of basically everything
Crown store showcase

STICK GUAR
For all you Bear lovers out there(Baratron =D) Don’t forget that if you want the Nightmare Bear Cub pet, you need to pre-order Blackwood BEFORE March 17th
Update 29 for PC/Mac/Stadia is Monday March 8
Remember your Mail will start the countdown to deletion Once the servers are live again
New Flames of Ambition DLCs
Avron and I will be doing a lore run of them in a couple of weeks on stream.
Cyrodiil Testing is over for now
Due to overwhelming feedback they have decided to keep Proc sets disabled even though there wasn’t much of a performance difference
There will be 19 sets still fully functioning in Cyro until Q3 2021***
THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE WE WROTE THE NOTES

“We still plan to leave proc sets disabled in Cyrodiil and will instead reduce the duration of this change until Update 30. With the Update 30 launch, we will then re-enable all item set bonuses in Cyrodiil alongside some additional planned proc set work (we'll provide details in the Update 30 Combat Preview). In Update 31, we still plan to add more flexibility and customizable campaign rulesets as it relates to item sets, and we will be able to fine tune which proc sets we turn on and off.”
The full list of Sets which are not affected by this test are as follows:
Amber Plasm
Armor of the Trainee
Beekeeper’s Gear
Crafty Alfiq
Draugr Hulk
Endurance
Fortified Brass
Grace of the Ancients
Hunding’s Rage
Impregnable Armor
Law of Julianos
Leviathan
Mother’s Sorrow
Plague Doctor
Shacklebreaker
Spinner’s Garments
Spriggan’s Thorns
Willpower / Agility

Legends:

Gauntlet of Champions

Blades:


Call to Arms:


Other:


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Scholarly Pursuits
I will ask our guests what they have been working on in the world of TES! This can be game play, wiki work, discord things, anything relevant to UESP/TES that you’ve been working on the past couple weeks / when you were last on the show.

Pylawn
Made it to 810 after the patch! Going to keep pushing!
Tried both new dungeons
No spoilers but BDV is probably the best dungeon ever.
There’s lots of secrets so try to go in blind
Rebuilding a LOT of my characters. They’re a lot more efficient than before
Playing a lot of Valheim… don’t judge me
Attempted vKA with Matygon
Got to the final boss but didn’t clear it in time
Ran nHoF with Alienware!
Probably the smoothest mostly PUG HoF I’ve ever done
Lots more tribunal celebration
Got all the new style pages, pets and skins, so now just grinding through event tickets
Kinda burnt out on it towards the end but that’s fine. 
I treated myself to retail therapy and bought myself a new keyboard kit to build lol (GMMK TKL, Kailh Box Brown Switches, DROP Skylight PBT Keycaps)
Pylawn has an unhealthy problem buying keyboards

Doc
It’s been a good couple of eso weeks for Doc:
FINALLY--got my Inferno staff!!! And not only that, but got my PERFECTED Maelstrom Arena Inferno Staff on my FIRST vMA clear ever!!! What what! 
I FINALLY bought Stone Eagle Aerie and have been working on ideas of how to decorate it! (I will totally post pics of finished product on my IG and Twitter)
Did a bunch of the Tribunal Celebration, including making loads of money doing vHoF with triple drops, but I completely forgot to buy my fabricant dinosaur pet. :’( 
Pylawn asks if you can buy the fragments or get them from a guildie?
Been levelling Antiquities on my other main (Stamcro) so I can have “glowy chests”
Now that I have my inferno staff I’ve been working on parsing with my MagCro...it’s been a struggle bus since I’m used to Stam builds...but I know I’ll get it-excited for the Heroes Reforged Event to really play around with this build!
VERY excited for Update 29 and FoA DLC coming out for us console peeps! 

Ark
Finally got The Shield
New CP means new purpose so been doing random dungeons/battlegrounds daily, 500 transmutes for the first time
PvE build works in battlegrounds somehow
*No judging on valheim here cause I’ve been the same lol*
Ran new dungeons on normal, very pleased. Will see how the HM are tomorrow