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Why can't my character be left handed?
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Why can't I put the shield in the right and and weapon in the left? What if I want to be left handed?
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Slash8915✭✭✭✭✭Such quality concerns. Maybe they'll fix this glaring, game-breaking issue in 1.1VR12 Templar Tank
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✭I wanted my character to walk with a limp and have a humpback.
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PolskiBunny_ESO✭✭✭I think it would be a nice option. It's not any worse to ask for than any other character customization. It can make a player feel more connected to their character.8 -
Slash8915✭✭✭✭✭This sounds like ZoS is targeting left-handed people by not adhering to their needs. I believe a call to the ACLU is in order to make sure all of our left-handed brothers and sisters are seen as equals.VR12 Templar Tank
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PVT_Parts✭✭✭lol. To be fair, I am not left handed and your sarcastic comments are met with chuckles from me. Yes, I know this is not a big issue or anything, but it is an easy fix. Simple fix is to make shield able to be slotted like one handed weapons, fix over. It's almost like it took more work to not allow them to be slotted in the right hand. Hell, what if I want to dual wield shields? Why not, right? For that matter, why is there no unarmed skill like all the other TES games. What if I want to box all those hot shot PVPers to death while they try to mess me up with their magic and sharp pointy objects.5
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Worstluck✭✭✭✭✭We've got a war going on and the great harvester of souls is trying to enslave the world we know and you want them to start making left hand shields and weapons?!?!? The audacity!
No but seriously, that would be kind of cool. I can't remember any games that have done that, and it would require work with animations and what not.Worstluck - Breton Nightblade "Some of us refused to bow. We knew the old ways would lead us back to having a kingdom of our own."
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PVT_Parts✭✭✭We've got a war going on and the great harvester of souls is trying to enslave the world we know and you want them to start making left hand shields and weapons?!?!? The audacity!
No but seriously, that would be kind of cool. I can't remember any games that have done that, and it would require work with animations and what not.
Ah true, I didn't think about the animation. Aren't our characters essentially symmetrical though, couldn't said animation simply be mirrored on the other side instead?
Also, @ZOS_TristanK I'm wondering why this was moved as it is a feedback/suggestion for ZOS, not a general discussion post. Is it because left handed people are a conspiracy and don't actually exist? I guess technically it is a petition as well as are all threads that suggest something should be added. Or is it simply that all suggestions must be given in game to ZOS? Please help me understand where I should post suggestions for implementing things where ZOS will get the idea because a general discussion forum doesn't seem to be the place for suggestions and constructive feedback/ideas.1 -
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✭✭For all intents and purposes, the general forum is the feedback forum. Because there is no dedicated feedback forum. The customer support forum is really more for technical issues and bug reporting.
To the issue at hand, (no pun), I imagine even if your character was left handed, they would still hold the shield with their left. Think about it. When facing off against an opponent, don't you want your large flat blocking surface on their weapon side? It'd be like Rocky II where Micky changed his fighting style from southpaw.Main: Drio Azul ~ DC, Redguard, Healer/Magicka Templar ~ NA-PC
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PVT_Parts✭✭✭BrassRazoo wrote: »Because in some cultures being left handed is evil!
Isn't it thought? I want my character to be the spawn of Satan, so thus it must be left handed.1 -
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I think it's because we're inherently evil. Muahahahahaha :PIs it because left handed people are a conspiracy and don't actually exist?
Would be neat if a developer included a lefty option at some point. It would be another roleplay option.
If it requires double the animations for all weapon types (except possibly dual wielding) in first and third person though, I could understand why it hasn't been done.1 -
frwinters_ESO✭✭✭✭If your left handed then that means you worship Daedra, which means your an imperial and an enemy to the state.2 -
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There were similar issues in SWTOR, it had something to do with combat animations, and having to redo them for lefthandedness (can't simply invert them apparently)Why can't I put the shield in the right and and weapon in the left? What if I want to be left handed?
I know that the latin for lerfthanded is Sinister, but it's a different word (even if spelled and pronounced the same) from Sinister(evil).BrassRazoo wrote: »Because in some cultures being left handed is evil!
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esoone✭✭✭Why can't all races be gingers? We all know that gingers have no souls and that our character is the soulless one.Since some races can't be gingers it is therefore impossible to RP properly .
You can actualy make a pale red haired toon pick body with freckles and get bit by a vampire.0 -
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Only on some races. The redguards can't be gingers for a race that has red in its name that doesn't make any sense.Why can't all races be gingers? We all know that gingers have no souls and that our character is the soulless one.Since some races can't be gingers it is therefore impossible to RP properly .
You can actualy make a pale red haired toon pick body with freckles and get bit by a vampire.
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✭✭✭✭✭I'm left handed and wouldn't mind this as an option. I just don't see this anywhere near the top of the list of things i want ZOS to work on ...
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ErykGrimm✭✭✭I haven't read of a left handed hero in the lore. Perhaps lefties don't exist in the elder scrolls universe. I am curious as to why.0
