Flying Griffin Mount!

Graydon · May 2018

This is exciting! The Summerset cinematic foreshadows a flying griffin mount!

Great News! Awesome stuff ZOS.

Yakidafi · May 2018

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LMar · May 2018

It doesn't

they are strictly NPC mounts for an elite force of Alinor protectors.
Flying mounts cannot be implemented in the game due to the game's and environment's implementation

Aliyavana · May 2018

no no flying mounts plz, I prefer flightless gryphons

Yolokin_Swagonborn · May 2018

For once I am grateful for this games mediocre design and invisible walls, texture glitching, etc. Flying mounts are just not possible.

Dolnor · May 2018

This game is not set up for vertical spaces. If we had flying mounts, players could overcome most boundary-hole-blocking inviso-walls. Players could end up in areas they don't belong. It would also ruin my achievements of finding out-of-bounds area...everyone could easily go there! >.<

I wouldn't mind a Glider of some sort (like ArcheAge/GW2 has)....since I'm pretty good at finding ways to get very high!

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WhiteCoatSyndrome · May 2018

If they manage flying mounts they have to do underwater content first!

Feanor · May 2018

I just don’t understand why people are so keen on this. You want to cover the small maps even faster?

Runschei · May 2018

NO! GOD NO! Stop it with the flying mounts. We cannot have them

Turelus · May 2018

ZOS have already confirmed there won't be flying mounts.

The mounted NPC's are just new monsters/NPC's which act as one creature (from my understanding). It's very unlikely ESO will ever have flying mounts due to the games engine and previous zone design.

Merlin13KAGL · May 2018

Graydon wrote: »

This is exciting! The Summerset cinematic foreshadows a flying griffin mount!

Great News! Awesome stuff ZOS.

Yes, they do. (Just not for you, sadly.)

Feanor wrote: »

I just don’t understand why people are so keen on this. You want to cover the small maps even faster?

Well yeah... I mean, think of all the loading screen tips!

Katahdin · May 2018

No thank you.
Also glad for once that this is something the game can't handle

Ground based griffin mounts might be cool though

Horker · May 2018

You've acomplished the impossible! Leaping small rocks!

Sevalaricgirl · May 2018

I think a non flying griffon would be excellent but I, too, don't want flying mounts.

Geekgirl · May 2018

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

If they manage flying mounts they have to do underwater content first!

I would LOVE underwater content. Everyone wants to go up. Let's go down first and see what's in the depths!

Odnoc · May 2018

Wow wasn’t designed for them either. But look what happened... regardless, no, leave them out.

kind_hero · May 2018

The same issues with invisible walls, unreachable mountains or terrain and so on, were in WoW before they introduced flying mounts. Before that it was "impossible" to have flying, besides the preset flying gryphon rides that allowed traveling between places.

But the flying mounts destroyed a lot of the world interaction and exploring. It left the ground for low level alts and role players. ESO has wayshrines which is enough to fast travel... I think you can travel faster once you have discovered the desired wayshrines, rather than flying.

So I don't want flying mounts...

DanteYoda · May 2018

Tera had flying mounts it was pretty garbage..

ChimeraDeux · May 2018

You can have your flying gryphon, when I can have my surface to air anti-gryphon ballista

VDoom1 · May 2018

Flying mounts will never happen. For one they will kind of break the world. Either we would have no fly areas, or you could fly up to the top of White Gold Tower. In a way it could also make Wayshrines obsolete. It would especially break Coldharbour.

So as cool as it would be, nope not going to happen.

niawrathb16_ESO · May 2018

I would prefer not to have flying Gryphons I can deal with gliding like the pets or If you insist on flying mounts keep solid glass ceilings like you have in some houses...just imagine all the hunched players dragging across invisible ceilings.

zaria · May 2018

Feanor wrote: »

I just don’t understand why people are so keen on this. You want to cover the small maps even faster?

This, eso is divided into zones because of megaserver, instead of 100 servers they put you in instances in each zone who is physical server, load time is in part the time to move you to another server.
its wayshrines pretty much everywhere, using an mount with maximum stamina and speed you can bypass all overland mobs.
It would obviously be disabled in Cyrodil so people will drop raid groups on top of keeps.

Rain_Greyraven · May 2018

Yeah I think pretty much every developer in the world learned from Blizzards horrible mistake.

xxthir13enxx · May 2018

Realistically they could just leave the invisible walls as walls. Just enabling flight doesn’t require opening the world... can’t break immersion on something that Already breaks immersion....OMG! There is an invisible wall here that I can’t walk, jump through or even Fly over!

This said, I still highly doubt they’ll ever get around to adding Flying mounts.

BladedMischief · May 2018

No flying mounts. Not for players at least.
It’s not possible with the games engine. That and it would be extremely annoying to have a bunch of players flying over your head whilst you’re trying to go about your day in peace. I’d rather not get annoyed with the game over a mount.

Serjustin19 · May 2018

I thought flying dears where real though. But who says we need to wings to fly? Am I correct, US humans do something to geese and others wings. So they won't fly? Who says we can't have flying mounts, if wings are tiny clipped.

Dolnor · May 2018

I wouldn't mind riding on a flying mount as part of a quest line. Something where my character is actually flown and not a cutscene....but flown over common area where glitching wouldn't allow access to forbidden areas by falling. Maybe you ride a creature that circles the area gaining altitude and flies between peaks...up a valley...to a perch/platform and your character auto-dismounts...and it flies away.

Reasons to have something like this:
• Imagine everyone's experience and being able to video capture it to share on social media. It might inspire other instances in ESO and/or other games.
• Shared experience amongst friends, guildmates, strangers.
• Prove to the world that Zenimax/Bethesda have the technical chops and they are cutting edge...which would sit well with Venture Capitalists for any future projects! -)

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MartiniDaniels · May 2018

I miss levitation and jump spell and gear from Morrowind.. somehow 15 years ago they could make maps suitable for travel at huge speed (boots of blinding speed plus icar scroll, lol) and now they can't, it's sad.

meatboll · May 2018

Once up a time i asked them same question with no responding.

Danny_UK · May 2018

Flying mounts should have been in the game years ago, it makes sense to have them. Not played WoW in a very long time but I know they had them, not sure why they can't be in ESO.

I would like to see something attack zones or cities like in WoW where everyone has to fight it off once in a while.

MisterBigglesworth · May 2018

I would prefer an MMO with flying, but only if the world is actually designed with flying in mind.
Not even WoW is designed with flying in mind; not really.
You need flying enemies, ground enemies that can knock you off your mount, flying needs to have a resource with physics so you're not just floating indefinitely, and the world needs to have the verticality to justify flying.