

Players shouldn’t notice any further changes to the launcher or download process, and settings/add-ons should be untouched – though it’s certainly worth backing them up just to be safe. This shouldn’t require any additional effort afterwards the ESO launcher should begin teh download automatically once the update goes live, so just allow it to run.

So how does this affect players in the meantime? For starters, all ESO players will have to completely re-download the game once Update 25 launches.

The Elder Scrolls Online January 16, 2020 “Most notably, this change dramatically reduces the patch sizes for all future updates, and it results in a major reduction of space taken up by the client on your machine’s hard drive.” Bethesda also states that console players will feel this improvement more than others, but that PC/Mac players will still experience benefits nonetheless.Ī supernatural evil threatens the home of the Nords in The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor, part of the #DarkHeartOfSkyrim year-long adventure. “Once this update is complete, you will see major improvements to the game’s load time and the speed at which assets are loaded into the world,” their announcement states. One of the many things included in Update 25 is the Patching Overhaul, which completely reworks how the ESO game client is downloaded, patched, and stored.īethesda spoke on the benefits of this update, as well as several other features, in their most recent announcement on Steam. Update 25 will be arriving February 24th for PC/Mac, but players on PS4 and Xbox One will have to wait until March 10th. Bethesda is bringing in a sizeable update for The Elder Scrolls Online with the Update 25 base-game patch.
