It could use a facelift to the environment but I'd rather them leave characters alone.

I'm 3D game graphic designer actually.

I feel that old environment art model of the non DLC area needs upgrade.
10 years changes basis of polygon amount and texturing technique very much.

And personally, I really hate mount horse model from 2014.
That extremely ugly horse model very needs re-sculpt working.

A visual update would be nice (not characters, though!), but I'd prefer they focus on new stuff and higher priority (for me) QoL updates.

Animations would be nice, but is probably pure fantasy.

A texture upgrade is much more likely, as even running all files through an AI upscaler would improve things a lot. This new texture setting could also easily be entirely optional for those who wish to stick with the oldschool look.

A DX12 upgrade would also be great, though I don't know how feasible.

No. WoW was wrecked by it. Race/sex specific animations gone, characters look way different. Turned a ton of people off.

They changed jabs here and people stopped playing Templar.

Would love an optional 4k texture pack, but I am scared that if ZOS messes with the old zones they will end up looking much worse than they do now.

All animations seem fine to me, as they fit the class's themes! Nothing should be done here. Just add new classes, new races, new zones, and more character slots to enjoy everything!

TaSheen wrote: »

Do not mess with my characters. If they want to do environment fine. But I've already been through 2 "upgrades to character models" in other games which RUINED my characters.

If they mess with my girls' looks, I'll never pay them another dime or play this game ever again.

This. This right here. Every "character update" I've ever been through in a game has been abysmal and has felt more like a character downgrade.

A texture upgrade to the older zones wouldn't go amiss but complete changes? No thank you.

Just leave it alone. The obsession with modernizing every game ruins the core aesthetic.

Copying my comment from another thread with a similar topic:

CC desperately needs a QoL update. If anything needs to get better textures and meshes first, it's our characters. Better lighting in the CC too, I'd like the ability to change backgrounds so I can see my character's eye color, skin tone and hair color contrasted against different light spaces. Say, a background in dreary High Rock (cool lighting), another in sunny Hew's Bane (warn lighting), another in neutral Cyrodiil (neutral lighting), and one in a more fantasy location like Coldharbour and/or the Deadlands.

I'd also like the ability to give Altmer black hair, Imperials silver-white hair, etcetera. I think the arbitrary locks for hair color make little sense when we have about 20 colors to pick from, which is so few, while FFXIV has like over 50. You can limit the palette to keep it lore compliant, but IMHO there's nothing lore breaking with a black-haired Altmer (Leythen is right there) or a silver-white haired Imperial (they get old too, look at the Prophet, who uses a hair color inaccessible to us players, just like Bastian Hallix's red), I've never understood why we're prevented from making those choices.

Some assets are just bad. There's a bunch of body markings that give you an egregious neck seam (Spider Daedra Chest Paint), one costume has a floating black triangle around the clavicle area that wasn't properly erased from the diffuse (Glenmoril Witch Robes), some are just low quality (Thief Starskin). I have found so many poor quality assets like this, yet ZOS wants me to pay for these things.

Vampire and werewolf need a visual upgrade, at least. It's sad to know there's already a higher quality texture and mesh for werewolf we don't have access too. Vampire looks bad at various stages, some eyes were clearly made with men, not mer, in mind—it makes them look off because their irises and pupils are too small for their eyeballs when mer have bigger eyes (irises and pupils included) in comparison to men. In stage 3 and 4 I don't look undead, I look like I have a skin condition that desiccates my character because the textures are so pixelated.

We can up the quality of character visuals without making it too hard on system resources. I know this because I've done character asset work both as a hobbyist (I mod Skyrim and FFXIV) and a professional. I don't mind paying for cosmetics (fashion is the end game, after all), but not when they're this low quality. There's furniture in this game that's higher quality than our characters' assets, and there's just as much furniture in the world as the amount of PCs running around, so the argument based on 'taking up too many of our computer's resources' is kind of moot.

Increased loading times should be a non-issue with proper optimization. I'm not asking for 1GB 4K textures, I'm asking for better quality than the mid 2000s stuff we got at the moment.

An idea I've had is allow players to change features about their characters up to an hour after character creation. Not race change, not gender change, not Alliance or Class change, just basic appearance tweaks like skin, eye, hair color and face/body sliders. The amount of Appearance Change Tokens I've burned because my character's skin tone look fine in the Balfiera cell, but then awful in the overworld are too damn many. As a matter of fact, why does the CC start us now in such a dark location with terrible lighting? It's awful for character creation purposes.

TL;DR: Bring the CC quality up to par with other MMOs currently on the market.

I think the older base game outfits and furnishings need to be updated a little. I don't see anything wrong with animations. I guess they could be improved, but we may not like the outcome, so it's probably better to leave them alone.

FelisCatus wrote: »

It has become increasingly apparent over the years that the old classes and zones do not hold up to the new zones textures and class animations. This game is a decade old now and it really shows visually.

To those asking for new animations, may I point at you to Jabs & Flurry?
Flurry especially new animation is awful. TRULY AWFUL. The old animation was far better by miles.

Don't ask to fix what is not broken folks.

p_tsakirisb16_ESO wrote: »

To those asking for new animations, may I point at you to Jabs & Flurry?
Flurry especially new animation is awful. TRULY AWFUL. The old animation was far better by miles.

Don't ask to fix what is not broken folks.

What... you don't like flailing around with two daggers and having your character look totally inept?

Textures absolutely 100% need a visual update. We've already reached the point where it's just jarring to see some old zones with their simple city designs, comparatively low-res textures, or low-detail assets. This is mostly obviously the case with Riften, which looks virtually nothing like it should, yet many years later we got Solitude which looks amazing in its design, and very close to what it looked like in TESV: Skyrim.

It's clear that the graphical possibilities in the game have improved, and so the quality of assets have also improved. It's better to go back and bring things up-to-date than to leave them as they are, which looks ever-increasingly out of place.

As for animations, I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. From my perspective I've not seen anything about animations that feel very dated (i.e., casting animations, running animations, etc). But if they can be improved in some way, then why not.