Should they add flying mounts in the next expansion?

TheTwistedRune

Shadowasrial wrote: »

I would settle for a levitating mount. A mount that flys just a bit above the ground when you sprint. But as for flying flying? No

Agreed. There is no reason why levitating mounts would not work. Or even what is suggested in italics above.

There were two beautiful mounts in Warhammer Online that did this. In fact, looking at those again I cannot help but feel they look far better quality and more majestic than anything currently available in ESO. Graphically most mounts in ESO are mediocre in graphical design and fidelity, at least IMO.

But flying mounts are probably not possible as people have stated due to game engine restrictions and design.

SkyIsTheLimit1206

If they cost crowns, then it's P2W as people can soar over Cyrodiil and land right on the city they want to siege without being afraid of being zerged or ganked.

Oh yeah, they would also be able to reach normally unreachable areas (for quest purposes) and cross high gates and stuff so you don't have to run like 3 miles around to get across.


Yeah, if it cost gold then maybe...

madchuska83

I wouldn't mind flying mounts if they just glided close to the ground, slightly higher than a normal mounts belly. I would not want them to be able to achieve any type of elevation or be able to fly over obstacles.

AzraelKrieg

No. No flying mounts.

klowdy1

Knowledge wrote: »

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

That would just encourage more botting, the majority of bots in WoW use flying mounts

You are able to play this game bot free by playing on an Xbox or Playstation 4. Playing with or without bots is a personal choice.

Lol, bots not mods. I don't get to choose to not have 25 people running in a small cluster while I'm questing, it just happens.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I find this thread both silly and unnecessary.

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xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

only if its going to be like this.

vyndral13preub18_ESO

No. But I’m pretty sure most my characters would not mind being shot out of a cannon.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

DieAlteHexe wrote: »

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I find this thread both silly and unnecessary.

You should see his new one.

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DieAlteHexe

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

DieAlteHexe wrote: »

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

I find this thread both silly and unnecessary.

You should see his new one.

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I ran away when some guy threatened to put me in the stocks.

Huyen

This is Elder Scrolls, Not World of Warcraft, so in short: Oh hell no!

Knootewoot

Why not instead of flying mounts, we should have digging mounts. Like a giant mole so we can just go sub-terranian to skip large amounts of content. And in PvP we can dig into enemy keeps and they have to buy the new mole-detectors for a million AP to protect their keeps.

VonNelson

@xenowarrior92eb17_ESO yes! Flying unicorn sparklehorse!!

VonNelson

Or giant flying ant.

Captain8504

Could you imagine the lag that would be in this game? Pvp would halt to a stop because a zerg of flying mounts headed over a keep...

fierackas

Bleurgh, no thanks

stewhead2ub17_ESO

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Flying Stibbons mount .

8/10

Haha love me some Stibbons!

Sparr0w

Dragons, with an elemental breath ultimate

Shogunami

There are few things that would ruin the game and lore as much flying mounts. It would kind of be like adding Dwemer as a playable race.

Practical reasons it wouldn't work:

They would have to redesign all zones in the entire game to allow for flying in-between zones, and they would have to change the way zones work altogether. Change of terrain, weather systems, music, the sky(?) NPC behaviour etc etc. Meaning they would have to make one huge zone to avoid loading scenes and it just wouldn't work due to engine limitations. The engine is performing badly as it is - please don't make it worse by adding flying mounts and redesigning the entire overworld.

Just no. Pls.

It would be cool though. But no. Neh. Bah!

Vanthras79

They cannot, because the world builders made some "creative shortcuts" in world building that would make flying mounts less effective.

LadyAstrum

Beautiful though many places in ESO are, I think flying mounts would make the world seem smaller, and how many loadscreens would there be whilst flying?

A flying horse or dragon mount would be fun, but l don't think flying would add very much to this game. I've enjoyed flying mounts in WoW and flying (with my character's wings) in Aion, but those games seem better suited to it.

TheShadowScout

Knowledge wrote: »

Should they add flying mounts in the next expansion?

Seriously, for one it would be a mess, with how the game is set up, they either would have to redo everything (like cyrodil PvP, or invisible walls keeping their reagions "pretty" and people from looking behind the scenery props), or add magical thunderbolt "slaughterbolts" that kill everyone as soon as they fly into places they aren't supposed to be...

For another it would not work with the game system, which is set up for a semi-2d playing field, expanding it to full 3d woulf for ome require them to recode half their game, for another double or triple the collision calculations, thus increasing lag...

And finally, it would be somewhat lore iffy, seeing how Tamriel has no mention of air cavalry in this era, and levitation spells are more often then not unreliable deathtraps (there is a corpse in south-eastern Shadowfen that I recall came to be there from trying to make one such spell work)...

Leave the griffin riders to Dragonlance books and WoW.

Shadowasrial wrote: »

I would settle for a levitating mount. A mount that flys just a bit above the ground when you sprint. But as for flying flying? No

Levitating mounts that don't really fly but just "float" over the ground would be entiurely possible.
And something I'd love to see - floating carpets, floating broomsticks, floating thrones, floating mortar and pestle, floating driftdisks, floating clouds, floating whatever... it would be the exact sort of thing mage-type charatcers might enjoy!

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

i would except flying in Summerset as well as gryphons...

I would expect gryphons.
I make no assumptions about their size, and am at this point thinking they are more likely to be cliff racer-ish mobs to fight rather then mount options. Though there might be some plot driven aerial travel, like that one time you get carried by a harpy in the alik'r...

Knowledge wrote: »

Redguards extensively using magic is lore breaking.

No it isn't.
Redguards may frown upon the use of magic, true, but that is all. People use things they frown upon all the time when they need to.
Now, if Redguards were to suddenly start embracing magic on a cultural level and turn in their curved swords, then yes, that would be iffy with the lore. But not like this is happyning enywhewre in ESO, we just have some redguards quietly studying magic because as they found out through history, not every problem in tamriel can be dealt with a quick dash and slice...

Knowledge wrote: »

Templar vampires using "vampires bane" is lore breaking.

...kinda like vampires using stakes or anti-vampire bullets against other vampires, huh? Which happens in half the vampire backgrounds I know of.
...moving on to the next delusion.

Knowledge wrote: »

It's arguable that the Argonians wouldn't ally with their slave masters willingly...

...unless they maybe figure out from paying attention (or from communion with the hist) that they would be facing worse a situation if they did not ally, perhaps?
Enemies ally with their enemies against a worse enemy all the time. And often enough eventually become enemies again once those worse threats are gone.
It's no more "arguable" then, say, communists and capitalists allying to fight facists. Which quite unarguably happened around eighty years ago, yes?

And we know from the lore, the pact will only be around as long as they feel threatened by the other two alliances. And once those are gone, the nords will go back to their meafhalls, the dunmer will go back to their old ways, and the argonians will go back to fighting off slavers and biding their time until the red year.

It really all makes sense for those knowledgable!

Shogunami wrote: »

There are few things that would ruin the game and lore as much flying mounts. It would kind of be like adding Dwemer as a playable race.

Agreed!

rfennell_ESO

Knowledge wrote: »

As many of you are aware flying mounts are very popular and attractive. Many MMORPGs including this games main competitors such as World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn offer in-game flying mounts. Wouldn't it be wonderful to experience Tamriel from above aloft your legendary dragon mount? I sure think so. Imagine taking in the scenery from thousands of feet in the air while envious players watched you fly across the skies from above like Danaerys her self.

Being that wow had to "disable" flying for new content zones to prevent people from just skipping all content...

I'd say no to flying mounts.

CaffeinatedMayhem

NO

This horse died in year one. Please let it rest peacefully.

Knowledge

thatlaurachick wrote: »

NO

This horse died in year one. Please let it rest peacefully.

A lot of people said that about FFXIV. You'll see.

fojo82

no

SydneyGrey

I just want mounts to fly just high enough off the ground that they can cross an ankle-deep stream without throwing you off and disappearing.
Or better yet, just let the mounts swim.

Other than that, I don't care.

zaria

SkyIsTheLimit1206 wrote: »

If they cost crowns, then it's P2W as people can soar over Cyrodiil and land right on the city they want to siege without being afraid of being zerged or ganked.

Oh yeah, they would also be able to reach normally unreachable areas (for quest purposes) and cross high gates and stuff so you don't have to run like 3 miles around to get across.


Yeah, if it cost gold then maybe...

Airborne groups who land on top of sieges and start to siege would had an impact yes.

Might need some AA capacity,

This would not be lore friendly and could also be used very effective against normal sieges.

NewBlacksmurf

No. Where is it that people are trying to fly to? Mounts are fine the way they are

Sinthrax

Knowledge wrote: »

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

That would just encourage more botting, the majority of bots in WoW use flying mounts

You are able to play this game bot free by playing on an Xbox or Playstation 4. Playing with or without bots is a personal choice.

So you think in your mind that people on PC should have no expectation to play bot free. I will refrain from saying what I should say because I don't want to get banned from the forums.