Hide armor, like hide helmet

Koraceus

I'm not asking for a lot, just the ability to show off the awesome body markings that I've accumulated over the years. It seems kind of pointless to have them if I cant show them. Image being able to play a Nord (Or whatever you like) and show off your sick tribal tattoos, or dragon cult, or anything really! I think a hide armor option at the outfit station would be a very welcome addition, just like hide helmet. Maybe restrict hiding your pants since some people are weird about that? I really can not imagine this would be difficult to add into the game.

AcadianPaladin

Agree. This has been asked for many times.

opaj

Being able to hide shoulders and gloves would be a huge deal for me.

OneForSorrow

Just let us hide any/all armor slots.

We can hide all in FFXIV
We can hide all except leggings in WoW

Catch up with the times.

rpa

My guess is they would if they could find the spaghetti strand to unravel to not make player completely invisible as a side effect of hiding a slot. Or there is someone pathologically affected with really weird taboos in a deciding position. Someone who gets deeply offended of people without shoulder pieces and gloves? Considering one can wear Bath Towel or just strip to ugly underwear ingame anyway.

Lephrel

Also give us an option to hide those hideous crotch-flaps and the tassets hover mid-air next to your character's hips.

NinjaApacHe

They will do it if everyone ask to remove it. #ZOSway

AcadianPaladin

Lephrel wrote: »

Also give us an option to hide those hideous crotch-flaps and the tassets hover mid-air next to your character's hips.

I'd like to see the ugly flappers almost completely removed from light armor where they serve no purpose except make the robe/jerkin look bad. Most of the flappers could be removed from medium armor. Alternatively or concurrently, move all flappers to belts - that would vastly increase player flexibility.

silky_soft

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Lephrel wrote: »

Also give us an option to hide those hideous crotch-flaps and the tassets hover mid-air next to your character's hips.

I'd like to see the ugly flappers almost completely removed from light armor where they serve no purpose except make the robe/jerkin look bad. Most of the flappers could be removed from medium armor. Alternatively or concurrently, move all flappers to belts - that would vastly increase player flexibility.

Good old flaps. They could just go back to proper character models instead of 1 size fits all. Then the armor wont look likes its hovering everywhere.

Grianasteri

Quite why such a seemingly simple to implement and hugely beneficial feature is STILL not part of the game, is beyond me.

We know its possible, it already is for helmets. So it should be a really simple case of expanding/adding that feature to each of the other armour items.

Yes please, how can I create that magnificent barbarian look I was working on when I HAVE to put shoulders on. Boo! And our skins! We cant show of these rare and wonderous skins in all their glory while we have to cover in some cases most of them up with armour!

Make it happen Zos, the community have been asking for this for years.

lihentian

agree we need to be able to hide shoulder piece

scorpius2k1

PLEASE ZOS, for the love of Talos, make this happen already!

AlnilamE

If players get the option to run around naked, I would like the option to override that setting in other players and see their actual armor.

HowellQagan

I would be fine being able to hide shoulders and tassets and flaps from chestpieces.
Maybe gloves and boots but those aren't as important tbh, we already habe very minimalistic versions of those (prisoner sandals, etc).

Danikat

I agree, I'd really like the option to hide other armour pieces as well as the helmet.

Mostly I'd just use it to hide shoulders and maybe gloves, but it would be nice to have the option for all pieces in case someone wants it. It's not like we can't already just take them off and run around in our underwear, or use something like the bathing towel outfit to hide them so I can't imagine 'nudity' or realism is an issue here.

(It reminds me of when ZOS said they were reluctant to let players dye weapons in case people dyed them all pink...then stuck us all with light red weapons at CP160 anyway.)

LalMirchi

Agree! Please make a toggle for every armor piece as is already available with the helmet option.

emilyhyoyeon

I'm personally ok with every and all armor slots being hideable at once. But I think at the minimum there should be no issue with (helmet,) shoulders, gloves, boots, and belt. I'm actually surprised we haven't gotten hide shoulder yet considering we've gotten a lot of ''QOL'' the past year or so

Hellmasker

Hide shoulders should be a bare minimum, considering they way too often float way too far from the actual shoulders (and make weapons on your back float a mile behind you, most of the time. For Khajiit and Argonians, being able to hide gloves and boots also make sense - for the claws alone.

And as a little sidenote, the sound department should also do something useful and make it so you don't sound like a heavy tin can when you wear a costume that looks nothing like it (or an outfit for that matter). The sound is always based on what you "actually" wear. Oh and speaking of that, when I don't wear boots, I would like the sound to reflect that.

Tho I have little hope that any of that happens anytime soon - especially since we know that they have atleast the hide-options on their internal testing branch, as shown on some stream a while back.

etchedpixels

Definitely a nice to have although PVP zones would need to be excluded.

You can get most of the way there with a bit of care. The killer is the legs and chest but armour is for the weak 8) and I can happily tank dungeons in this outfit as I am actually wearing 10 of the 12 possible pieces of gear.

DreamsUnderStars

If ZOS is for some reason overly concerned about PVP needing to show the armour you're wearing then just make them shown? Though I am pretty sure that's a moot point since you can wear costumes...

If it's a problem of spaghetti code, slap another noodle on top lol.

I think the easiest way to give us what we want to to make Emperor's New Clothes, which is how FF14 solved this issue. Invisible armour motif. And if they *have* to, to make the monkeysuits happy, sell it in the cash shop.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

etchedpixels wrote: »

Definitely a nice to have although PVP zones would need to be excluded.

Why? We have outfits and costumes. There's no reason to why hiding more armour parts in our outfits should be excluded in PvP.

DreamsUnderStars

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

etchedpixels wrote: »

Definitely a nice to have although PVP zones would need to be excluded.

Why? We have outfits and costumes. There's no reason to why hiding more armour parts in our outfits should be excluded in PvP.

Because in WoW their biggest excuse against transmog and hiding armour for years was "But in PVP we need to know a tank is a tank!" Because players are too dumb to know that a character holding a sword and shield and not using magic is anything but a warrior.

But that is a ridiculous argument, especially in ESO since we can use outfits and costumes.

FaylenSol

Shoulders, gloves, boots, and belts would be a huge deal for me.

etchedpixels

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

etchedpixels wrote: »

Definitely a nice to have although PVP zones would need to be excluded.

Why? We have outfits and costumes. There's no reason to why hiding more armour parts in our outfits should be excluded in PvP.

Right now it depends - disguises don't work, memento's don't work and some other stuff does and the resulting visuals are all over the place. If proc sets are banned for unfair advantage by cleverness then the same ought to be true for concealing your true gear, wearing a golden saint outfit to confuse newbs etc.

Even more confusingly mudballs work from the event but not from the memento.

So right now it's a mess and the obvious way to clean it up is to just remove all the fakery stuff from PVP if PVP is meant to be skill not gear based.

Nord_Raseri

etchedpixels wrote: »

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

etchedpixels wrote: »

Definitely a nice to have although PVP zones would need to be excluded.

Why? We have outfits and costumes. There's no reason to why hiding more armour parts in our outfits should be excluded in PvP.

Right now it depends - disguises don't work, memento's don't work and some other stuff does and the resulting visuals are all over the place. If proc sets are banned for unfair advantage by cleverness then the same ought to be true for concealing your true gear, wearing a golden saint outfit to confuse newbs etc.

Even more confusingly mudballs work from the event but not from the memento.

So right now it's a mess and the obvious way to clean it up is to just remove all the fakery stuff from PVP if PVP is meant to be skill not gear based.

No thanks

NotaDaedraWorshipper

DreamsUnderStars wrote: »

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

etchedpixels wrote: »

Definitely a nice to have although PVP zones would need to be excluded.

Why? We have outfits and costumes. There's no reason to why hiding more armour parts in our outfits should be excluded in PvP.

Because in WoW their biggest excuse against transmog and hiding armour for years was "But in PVP we need to know a tank is a tank!" Because players are too dumb to know that a character holding a sword and shield and not using magic is anything but a warrior.

But that is a ridiculous argument, especially in ESO since we can use outfits and costumes.

Exactly. We already have things that hide armour, it makes no sense. Even in WoW they have the restriction that cloth need to be transmogged into cloth, plate to plate etc. We have no such restriction.

Nord_Raseri

rpa wrote: »

My guess is they would if they could find the spaghetti strand to unravel to not make player completely invisible as a side effect of hiding a slot.

They already have the build, as seen (if I remember correctly) when the showcased the outfit station. Dev build had all 'hide' slots available. So it does exist. Somewhere.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

etchedpixels wrote: »

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

etchedpixels wrote: »

Definitely a nice to have although PVP zones would need to be excluded.

Why? We have outfits and costumes. There's no reason to why hiding more armour parts in our outfits should be excluded in PvP.

Right now it depends - disguises don't work, memento's don't work and some other stuff does and the resulting visuals are all over the place. If proc sets are banned for unfair advantage by cleverness then the same ought to be true for concealing your true gear, wearing a golden saint outfit to confuse newbs etc.

Even more confusingly mudballs work from the event but not from the memento.

So right now it's a mess and the obvious way to clean it up is to just remove all the fakery stuff from PVP if PVP is meant to be skill not gear based.

@etchedpixels But outfits, costumes and I think polymorphs works in PvP. You can already "hide" gear. Using that as a reason not to get hide option for outfits is ridiculous, so is removing the option to use those things in PvP.

etchedpixels

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

@etchedpixels But outfits, costumes and I think polymorphs works in PvP. You can already "hide" gear. Using that as a reason not to get hide option for outfits is ridiculous, so is removing the option to use those things in PvP.

Personal opinion: being able to disguise your gear in PVP is ludicrous. If you disagree I respect your viewpoint too - it's just my view nothing more.

I didn't intend the PVP question to derail the rather more fundamental point the original poster was making that the limits on gear hiding seem silly and unnecessarily restrictive.