Capes or no capes

WarCheifLugo

Did you ever want to have a cool looking cape like an extra jewelry slot
Imagine future monster sets come wit a cape for the set
Or agility capes etc

WalkingLegacy

Cloaks*

WarCheifLugo

Well cloaks work too

AfkNinja

Or No capes ?

Lag is bad enough without having to animate capes.

Number_51

Capes ?

To paraphrase Lady Eloisse, "Cloaks are are SO fifth-century."

On topic, I'd like to have the option for cloaks and/or capes but I'm sure it's not, nor would I expect it to be, a priority.

TalonKnight

Capes ?

AfkNinja wrote: »

Lag is bad enough without having to animate capes.

u must b on the pc, cause i have not had any lag issues on x box 1

Nestor

Or No capes ?

Capes are impossible in the game. No matter how many times they are asked for, it won't happen.

Because of what they have to do to animate them, it boils down to:

The capes you want you can't have because the game will be a slide show, the capes you could get you don't want as they won't be animated but like a board attached to your back.

TalonKnight

Capes ?

Nestor wrote: »

Capes are impossible in the game. No matter how many times they are asked for, it won't happen.

Because of what they have to do to animate them, it boils down to:

The capes you want you can't have because the game will be a slide show, the capes you could get you don't want as they won't be animated but like a board attached to your back.

i completely disagree with u dude, have u even played any other mmos??

dimensional

Or No capes ?

They look dumb, so no I'd rather not see them.

CJohnson81

TalonKnight wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Capes are impossible in the game. No matter how many times they are asked for, it won't happen.

Because of what they have to do to animate them, it boils down to:

The capes you want you can't have because the game will be a slide show, the capes you could get you don't want as they won't be animated but like a board attached to your back.

i completely disagree with u dude, have u even played any other mmos??

You should search once of the other myriad threads about this. The game has limitations which have already been discussed.

Nestor

Or No capes ?

TalonKnight wrote: »

i completely disagree with u dude, have u even played any other mmos??

Whether or not you agree with me or not does not matter. Nor does it matter what they have in other MMO's. In this MMO, they can't provide the animation detail that people would want without the game becoming a lag fest when more than 2 or 3 characters are on the screen at once.

This is based on several quotes from Devs on these boards as to why they can't offer Capes or Cloaks in this game.

TalonKnight

Capes ?

"You should search once of the other myriad threads about this. The game has limitations which have already been discussed. "

Oh.... thats why we cant swim....

Kendaric

Capes ?

TalonKnight wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Capes are impossible in the game. No matter how many times they are asked for, it won't happen.

Because of what they have to do to animate them, it boils down to:

The capes you want you can't have because the game will be a slide show, the capes you could get you don't want as they won't be animated but like a board attached to your back.

i completely disagree with u dude, have u even played any other mmos??

Other MMORPGs are irrelevant to the discussion as they all use different engines.

I don't think it would cause a lot of lag and they could be disabled while Cyrodiil. They are, however, a lot of work to animate properly unless you want something rather stiff like WoW has.

Duiwel

Capes ?

They can disable capes / cloaks for pvp just like they do the pets, that argument is invalid.

Nestor

Or No capes ?

Duiwel wrote: »

They can disable capes / cloaks for pvp just like they do the pets, that argument is invalid.

Because you never see other players in the rest of the game world.....

Callous2208

Or No capes ?

I think people should consider what some others have already said. No sense in weighing in on whether or not you think it will cause lag, it will. It has been well documented on many threads, with devs confirming this.

Solid_Metal

Capes ?

i rather have capes/cloak rather than wings that "other" MMO offer

yodased

obligation:met.

Browiseth

Or No capes ?

No more edge is required
the edge quota has already been fufilled

WalkingLegacy

CJohnson81 wrote: »

TalonKnight wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Capes are impossible in the game. No matter how many times they are asked for, it won't happen.

Because of what they have to do to animate them, it boils down to:

The capes you want you can't have because the game will be a slide show, the capes you could get you don't want as they won't be animated but like a board attached to your back.

i completely disagree with u dude, have u even played any other mmos??

You should search once of the other myriad threads about this. The game has limitations which have already been discussed.

Limitations they self created can always be engineered around. Havok has a pretty good cloak system if I remember right.

dimensional

Or No capes ?

But they don't use Havok.

And yes it's easy to say they can always do this and they can always do that since they created the engine... but that's not true. Different dev teams have different skills. A team making one game won't be able to pull off the same kind of technical and mechincal feats that a team making another game can. Just a simple fact.

WalkingLegacy

I might be blind - but I'm pretty sure Havok is their physics engine

JD2013

For cape thread #3,967;

Capes still aren't coming. Gina stated not long ago that they're not something they're working on.

AfkNinja

Or No capes ?

yodased wrote: »

obligation:met.

This was all that was needed.

dimensional

Or No capes ?

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

I might be blind - but I'm pretty sure Havok is their physics engine

You know, you're right. Sorry about that. I don't know why I never recognize that... however in my defense I think they were using HeroEngine before? Is Havok somewhat new-ish for ESO?

WalkingLegacy

dimensional wrote: »

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

I might be blind - but I'm pretty sure Havok is their physics engine

You know, you're right. Sorry about that. I don't know why I never recognize that... however in my defense I think they were using HeroEngine before? Is Havok somewhat new-ish for ESO?

They built their game using the heroengine. Graphic assets, scripts, etc. Havoks is used to add mote realistic physics to the game.

They have a "custom" engine now but until proven otherwise it functions/looks exactly like the heroengine. (Still use havoks for physics)

nimander99

I want a red cape with a S in gold on it!

Or maybe a purple cape that can go with my "heavy armor" tights and heavy glass helm and be Magneto!

Katahdin

Or No capes ?

We don't need another thing for the server to try and calculate the movement of and cause more problems with the Cyrodil lag. Every player with a cape is one more calculation for the server to make. They had to remove 600+ deer in Cyrodil, they aren't gona add capes.

GW1 had capes, they often clipped horribly and that game was mostly instanced zones, had much simpler graphics to render, and much less calculations to make.

DHale

Or No capes ?

They said long ago in one of the early ESO lives that they can never get cloaks without impairing server performance so it is not ever going to happen.

RAGUNAnoOne

They can't even get pauldrons to fit correctly and don't get me started on the hip flaps no it won't be good. But the cape would at least somewhat hide the hipflaps...

Ffastyl

Or No capes ?

I like the option of capes.

I just don't want to use capes.

Unless it's a cloak. A forest green cloak.