Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20161030035013

"Now, my champion, rest well tonight, for tomorrow you sail for the kingdom of Daggerfall."

- Uriel Septim VII

Hi all, Atvelonis here. As everyone can probably guess, there is a lot to talk about this week! As such I've made sure that the update is completely on time. Let's get to it!

TES news

 * Literally every one of you know this already but I'll say it anyway. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition has officially been released on PC, Xbox One, and PS4! I've given a quick description of the changes I personally noticed on a Discussions post which you can view here.
 * In essence, things like lighting, fog, water, snow, fire, clouds, and so on have been dramatically improved. However, textures remain identical and the game is as buggy as ever. Many users have reported that even high-end PCs cannot run the game properly, although I have personally only experienced some crashes and no framerate issues.
 * Nvidia has since released new drivers for supported GPUs (graphics cards) and specifically mentioned performance optimizations for the Special Edition, among other games. AMD has so far not released new drivers for their supported GPUs, but I expect they will in the (near-ish) future. This should alleviate at least some of the performance issues.
 * The game is locked at 60fps, which I found pretty disappointing. Furthermore, the audio received a significant quality downgrade, as it was compressed into the .xwm format instead of the uncompressed .wav format. You can read about this more here.
 * Bethesda employee Matt Grandstaff stated on reddit that a fix for the compressed audio files would be out by next week.


 * An official Skyrim-themed game of Monopoly is set to be released in March 2017. You can currently pre-order it from Merchoid for $47.99. Look here for more information.

Wiki news

 * Discussions has gotten a minor upgrade: small icons now appear next to the avatars of staff members, which differentiate them from normal users. This should prevent confusion between users as to which users are actually forum moderators,  administrators , and Wikia Staff.
 * Additionally, blocked Discussions users now receive a message explaining that they are blocked, and you now have the option to turn off email notifications for Discussions in the app's settings.
 * Both the Android and iOS versions of the wiki's mobile app received a much-needed app icon upgrade. Instead of simply saying "For fans of Elder Scrolls" in front of plain green text, it now displays an image of the Last Dragonborn behind the text. Wikia's new name is also written in very small text in the corner of the app icon.
 * Also, when you go back to the Discussions feed after viewing a post, you are now transported to the general spot you left off instead of the top of the feed. This has been a greatly-desired feature for many users.


 * The scrollbar issue in the Chat has finally been resolved. Long lines of uninterrupted text such as very long links will now be split across multiple lines instead of creating a scrollbar.

Moot
As a reminder, the next moot will happen on November 5th at 4:00pm Eastern Time. If you have anything at all related to the policy, article formatting, or the wiki in general that you would like to bring up, please come to the meeting. Everyone should at least try to be there so that we can have a worthwhile discussion about the topics at hand.

That's about all I have for this week, folks. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend, and as always, happy editing! ―Atvelonis (talk) 03:50, October 30, 2016 (UTC) 