Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-30996952-20190811020949

"Nothing like a good adventure or romance to lose yourself in."

- Saffir

A belated happy Book Lovers Day! In this edition of the weekly update, there's quite a bit in the Wikia section as compared to last week.

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Mobile

 * In news:
 * Patch 2.12 made the game on Android laggy, and the animations seemed slower so the 2.12.1 hotfix was rolled out. Card drawing and Wax/Wane animations should now be faster, the deck builder is now more responsive, and gameplay bugs for Skilled Blacksmith and Blackwood Distiller have been fixed.
 * The Consume mechanic is the topic of discussion for this Developer Diary entry. Here, Paulo Vitor talks about how the mechanic began as something called 'Soulbound', and how its evolution was inspired by a necromantic skill in ESO which involves consuming corpses.

Online

 * The Orsinium Celebration Event began on the 8th and will run until next Monday 10:00AM EDT. For this event, the DLC game pack is 60% off, you can earn bonus rewards while adventuring in Wrothgar and Maelstrom Arena as well as Event Tickets for completing Wrothgar Delve and World Boss dailies. More information can be found in this article.
 * is releasing for PC on August 12. It includes two new dungeons, one of which is the Lair of Maarselok on the eastern borders of Grahtwood. I quite like this summary from the preview: "Maarselok exudes corruption. It seeps into everything he touches, from the ground to the trees and plants and then to the animals," explains Mike Finnigan, ESO's Dungeon Lead. "Needless to say, a society built on respecting nature is at odds with this type of corruption. It threatens their entire reason for existing."
 * The soundtrack for is now available on Spotify, ITunes, Amazon and Google Play! Here, the album can be previewed and you can read composer Brad Derrick's insight on creating the music.
 * ESO Plus Free Trial is live right now, up until August 13 10:00AM EDT, which is the same time as the Orsinium Celebration Event so you can partake for free. This is also a good opportunity to try out the DLC. To see the full list of what ESO Plus benefits you can access during this, as well as how to get started, see this article.

TES Wiki

 * The Summer Raffle 2019 ended last week, and the two winners were RainyDragon and Vainyth. Congratulations!
 * Some of this week's noteworthy additions come from:
 * The Cat Master – articles
 * DaBarkspawn – location images
 * GreyFox06 – location images
 * Shockstorm – various articles
 * Thifike – book images

Wikia

 * A couple of technical updates have come to the Discussions and search feature recently:
 * August 6, 2019: Some Search and Discussion changes – the 'go-search' feature should now be fixed for logged-in users, as well as polls, spacing and other issues.
 * August 7, 2019: @mentions in Discussions and search improvements! – cross-wiki search is now an option when you search for an article, and users can now be pinged on Discussions posts by writing @theirusername.
 * August 12, 2019 - Search improvements and a Discussions tweak – you can now search for an exact phrase with "search term" and exclude words from the search results with search -term. The upvote icon on the Discussions has been switched to a heart icon.
 * And some blog posts:
 * Introducing the Wiki Analytics Admin Dashboard – this new feature for admins allows them to view statistics like top viewed pages, number of edits per day, desktop vs mobile sessions and others.
 * Main Pages for Fandom – this blog post breaks down what makes a well-designed main page visually and practically.
 * Introducing UnderMine, our first published game – this will be released into Steam Early Access on August 20. The blog post goes a little bit into what the game will involve, and why Fandom are publishing a game.

That concludes this update. Hope you have a great week, and happy editing!

– Poisoned apples (talk) 02:09, August 11, 2019 (UTC) 