Thomas Blogs

One of the other major shake-ups in the new update is the leaderboard. Previously, Battlegrounds matches had three leaderboards, one per team, which has now been streamlined into a single one. And lending to the higher-octane nature of 4v4, there's a Competitive Leaderboard too, which does far more than show off how many kills you got.

For the first time since 2018, ESO has introduced a bunch of new Battlegrounds maps. But as they now feature two teams instead of three, an overhaul to how ZeniMax approaches designing maps for the mode was needed.

I’m awful at PvP. I’m a quest-driven player who enjoys dungeons, so you’ll rarely see me holding a Chaosball.

Back in 2017, The Elder Scrolls Online introduced a new PvP mode called Battlegrounds. Three teams of four would fight one another in a frantic, no-holds-barred arena match across signature modes like Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag.