It was announced last year that Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Online would be getting an Xbox Series X and S version at some point in 2021, and now we know that it'll officially arrive on the consoles on June 8.
This version of the game will be available as a free upgrade (via Smart Delivery) for current Xbox One owners of the game and Xbox Game Pass players, and feature a whole bunch of improved visual features including upgraded shadows, textures, draw distance, antialiasing, reflections, depth of field and more.
Additionally a "Performance Mode" will allow the game to run at 60 FPS on both consoles.
"We’ll share more about ESO: Console Enhanced in the future, including information about the Performance and Fidelity Modes and how you can get it when it launches on June 8."
This year's major chapter release for The Elder Scrolls Online entitled "Blackwood" will also arrive alongside the update on June 8, bringing 30 hours of new story content to the game. Additionally, if you haven't tried the game yet and you're not an Xbox Game Pass member, it's currently part of a multi-week Xbox Free Play Days event until April 13.
Excited to check out The Elder Scrolls Online on Xbox Series X or S? Let us know below.
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Wooot! Nice been waiting impatiently for this one. Sorry witcher 3. Now it's square and sega's turn for ffxiv and pso2 gen.
As promised, this update is also coming to PS5. 😏
Now just make XBox and PC cross-play, please.
Can you solo this game, or is it required to party up with people?
@blinx01 I played dozens of hours all alone. Partying can help but not required
I'm really curious to see what is omitted on the performance mode. My PC already runs the game maxed on a 580 8GB and get a solid 60fps.
So I am going to be really impressed and disappointed if the Series X, that runs circles around my PC, has to sacrifice things for 60fps.
@SegataSanshiro The PC version does - not- support ray tracing. You can get ray tracing by way of installing a custom DLL called reshade. But this is a modification that you can use on multiple games.
There is not a snowball's chance in hell that well see ESO receive a raytracing update on Xbox.
ESO's performance is CPU heavy My RX 580 8GB runs ESO at 4K60 with all things maxed save for particles which are left at default. This is because I'm running a 4690K over locked to 4.5GHZ.
So one again, I just have to iterate, if the Series X doesn't have 4K60 with all sliders maxed, there is an issue they're not telling us about.
Cross play/ cross save would be nice.
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