Update 43 for The Elder Scrolls Online team has a preview of the new content coming for the Infinite Archive. The update is on the Public Test Server on PC and Mac.
The Infinite Archive is based upon change, since the experience is supposed to always offer a new possibility and challenge. The intentional variance of experiences within the instance matters, since as Mike Finnigan, the encounters lead, says, “It was built from the ground up to be able to be augmented, changed, and added to”. In this update, they're adding even more variety, including new methods of dispatching the enemies, new enemies, and even new environments and new challenges to figure out.
There are two new Arena types to discover. A community request they kept getting was to diversify the look of the settings inside the archive, so while the original Apocrypha setting is more green, these new types feature blue and red, with fire and ice elements, with elements from the archive as a whole.
The new preview gives us a hint at some of the strategies you might need to figure out. in the new arenas, you might want to keep moving, and in the ice one, staying still and taking advantages when you can might be a better option.
To help you out, there are eight new Verses and 10 new Visions in the update that you can choose from. There are seven new class sets added to the Infinite Archive’s unique offerings, along with new consumable rewards, “including a new consumable that allows you to transform into a random avatar without the need for the requisite Visions”, and new collectibles.
The base game update will be out on August 19th on PC and Mac and on September 4th on Xbox and PlayStation.
