Elder Scrolls Online Devs Discuss Update 40’s Endless Archive Infinite Dungeon-like Experience and Its Future

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While The Elder Scrolls VI is still at least three-plus years away, Elder Scrolls Online continues to entertain franchise fans thanks to the continuous updates and expansions developed by ZeniMax Online Studios.

Over nine years after the original launch on PC, the game is about to receive its 40th update, which is poised to be particularly meaningful. To begin with, the update includes a new group finder tool that allows players to make a listing for virtually any kind of Elder Scrolls Online activity to find like-minded adventurers. This addition should be particularly useful for players who'd like to set up Trial groups without being in a large guild.

Update 40 also makes experience points and gold rewards consistent across the game's many quests. Crafters should be pretty happy, too: jewelry crafting and upgrading will finally be cheaper and more expensive than it has been since jewelry was introduced with the Summerset Chapter. Moreover, the new Grand Master Crafting Stations allow Grand Master Crafters to consolidate all of their attuned crafting stations in a single furnishing item, greatly improving the number of housing slots available for decorations.

However, the star of the show of this update is the Endless Archive. Earlier this year, ZeniMax Online Studios boss Matt Firor revealed that Elder Scrolls Online would move away from the usual quarterly DLC release format, choosing to swap the previous zone DLC scheduled for Q4 with a new system that could benefit the whole game.

The Endless Archive is the first example of this new development philosophy. It is a limitless dungeon-like activity where up to two players will be challenged to go as far as they can through Stages. The encounters will be randomly generated,