The Elder Scrolls Online Update 44 completely overhauled the PvP mode Battlegrounds, swapping the 4v4v4 mode added with the Morrowind chapter in 2017 for 4v4 and 8v8 modes.
That's not the only big change, either. In Team Deathmatch, every death now reduces your team's lives counter until you run out and the round ends. However, ZeniMax toyed with introducing a permadeath version of the mechanic closer to something like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: you die, that's it.
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"We looked at other competitive games that have a life system, but they're kind of like a one and done," lead combat and PvP designer Brian Wheeler tells TheGamer. "We thought about doing that for some of our Deathmatch modes. We thought abut doing one life, and we found that it's a cool idea, but with our combat — with how fast things can go — one life could be really, really difficult.
"So we looked at three lives, we looked at five lives. But the flip side is that we found when you were dead, if you were...
