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New PlayStation Updates!

YAY! Lots of new and helpful updates coming to PlayStation in the 5.0 update. Sadly, no word yet on being able to change our PSN IDs, but here's a quick glance.

BETTER PARENTAL CONTROL.

Not only will you be able to have multiple adults on your system, but can designate another adult to have parental controls. Also, gone are the days of parental settings affecting everyone on your console. You can set each profile to have different settings, making it much easier to enjoy your Until Dawn and GTA without worrying about forgetting to reset game ratings to children only games when your kiddos want to play. You can set your teens profiles to allow Teen rated games while only letting your younger kids play appropriately aged games for them. I think this is a HUGE win for parents.

FRIEND LIST MANAGENT

No more inviting people to the wrong games, or looking at their games list to figure out what games they have in common. You can now have an ESO raid group, a PvP group, a Destiny group, etc. Or set a group for family. Whatever your friends list organizational needs are, you can soon make a group for it.

BETTER TWITCH STREAMING

Sadly only available for PS4 Pro, members lucky enough to have this beast of a console will be able to stream 1080p 60fps. I'm thinking it's time for an upgrade!

VIDEO NOTIFICATIONS SETTINGS

We won't need to go turn off our notifications to enjoy a movie, and have to remember to turn them back on when it's time to game. We will soon have an option to turn off notifications when playing a video, leaving our game settings untouched. It's important to note that the standard setting is off, so you will need to go into your settings to activate this feature.

MORE NOTIFICATION UPDATES

We will no longer need to close down our game to check on downloads, notifications, or party invites (and it looks like messages, as well) as they will be readily available via the quick menu. Also, activating the quick menu will bring up a clock to help us keep tabs on the time (perfect for pre-raiding farming). The quick menu will also give us access to leaving a party, without having to exit our game.

We will now be able to choose between black and white pop-ups when receiving a notification.

We will have the option to hide our friends name and message when they send us a message, opting instead for a generic "You received a message" notification, which as an occasional streamer makes me VERY happy. I'll probably stream more when I no longer have to choose between streaming or keeping my messages private.

NEW SYSTEM LANGUAGES AND MORE

Coming soon (aka the 5.0 patch) system languages will also include Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Romanian, Thai, and Vietnamese.

I'll admit, I'm not excited about ALL of the changes. I don't hate the rest, I'm just not over the moon about them, so I only really wrote about what excited me. To read for yourself about the features I discussed here, and read about the rest of the features included in the 5.0 patch you can visit the PlayStation blog HERE

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How to add color and pictures to your ESO guild member notes and message of the day

Thanks to Praeficere on the ESO forums I was finally able to change my member note colors.  

Go to google and find the hexcode of a color

Copy ' |c#######text here|r ' into your note/MotD

Paste your 6 character hexcode over the #s

Change 'text here' to your own text

Though Praeficere says to Google hex code colors, I'll help you skip that step.  I found a great site for color codes HERE.

You can also add images to your member notes.  I've edited out the download as I play on PS4 which sadly does not allow add-ons.

Find an image HERE

Copy ' |tX:Y:imagelocation|t ' into your note/MotD

Replace X with your horizontal size and Y with your vertical size

Paste your image location over 'imagelocation'

I shared the info itself in this post, but you can view the original thread HERE.