will companions litter cities with massive amounts of duplicates?

Hurbster

Can they wear costumes?

Monte_Cristo

Projects Leda and Castor have really gotten out of hand. Time for another Helsinki.

VaranisArano

Iccotak wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

Iccotak wrote: »

Daraklus wrote: »

Best way to solve this "Imyershin break" would be to allow the Companions to wear helmets.

At least that way you can say that it's some random nameless companion following the other player around, rather than your current companion's twin brother/sister.

There is already a solve for this problem. Just do the same thing they do with quest companions.

Whenever you run into a player who has the same quest companions they look visually different to you just as your companion looks different to them.

They do this all the time with quests - I think they could do the same with "Companions"

Except that the quest companions also look the same: you just get a generic Solitude guard instead of Lyris Titanborn.

I still think that is an improvement over seeing the exact same face everywhere

The generic Solitude guards have the same appearance, so as far as I'm concerned, it quickly becomes the same problem.

Caligamy_ESO

Hurbster wrote: »

Can they wear costumes?

Fortunately yes, and you can design outfits from them at any outfitter station.. but sadly that's about all that's right about companions so far lol

Kwoung

CoronHR wrote: »

will companions litter cities with massive amounts of duplicates?

Yes, and they will probably be blocking every quest giver/banker/crafting table as well with sheer numbers.

DarcyMardin

danno8 wrote: »

Sengra wrote: »

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

That's why we need more customization options

I don't know. On the one hand, yes, I agree, it would be nice. On the other hand .... it would be even harder to tell who is a player and who a companion. Unless you have the names visible all the time.

On that note I hope companions other than your own don't have nameplates. Or if they do I hope companions have their own setting to switch off their specific nameplate.

No reason to litter the field with pointless clone nameplates.

Currently on the PTS, their nameplates simply say, “So-and-so’s Companion,” with “So-and-so” being the name of the player.

Rexy18

Given their useless state, only roleplayers will use them, so hopefully not that many

PigofSteel

Riptide wrote: »

I never have understood why there wouldn’t be the player option to hide other people’s non combat pets and assistants. I mean besides budget and bad arguments from revenue folks about devaluing CS items. Same applies here.

There is precedent in decreasing spell effects of others in combat, which had to be done when visibility in trials and such became awful.

Jep it will be disaster... Just like copies of agent Smith in matrix...

Lugaldu

If I had a choice, I would prefer all of the companions to wear the same clothes, but we can design their faces and hairstyles individually. Hey, am I the only one who looks people in the face first and memorizes it?!

Stahlor

...and the allover game performance will probably suffer even more.

CoronHR

i wish there were 1,073,741,824 different combinations of companions/bankers/merchants etc (that's 2 to the 30th btw)

jssriot

Don't worry. With the gradual attrition of players leaving or "taking a break" from ESO since CP 2.0 was introduced that is making the usual lull prior to a new chapter's release feel more noticeable than in the past, by the time Blackwood is released, there will probably be plenty of room for companions in normally crowded area.

DawnsLight65

Riptide wrote: »

I never have understood why there wouldn’t be the player option to hide other people’s non combat pets and assistants. I mean besides budget and bad arguments from revenue folks about devaluing CS items. Same applies here.

There is precedent in decreasing spell effects of others in combat, which had to be done when visibility in trials and such became awful.

At the very least...have an auto setting that non-combat pets are blocked from spawning in dungeons or other group play. I cant tell you the number of times I accidently hit a dungeon mates banekin....

DawnsLight65

PigofSteel wrote: »

Riptide wrote: »

I never have understood why there wouldn’t be the player option to hide other people’s non combat pets and assistants. I mean besides budget and bad arguments from revenue folks about devaluing CS items. Same applies here.

There is precedent in decreasing spell effects of others in combat, which had to be done when visibility in trials and such became awful.

Jep it will be disaster... Just like copies of agent Smith in matrix...

Or more accurately Stormtroopers...cause I am sure their DPS sucks as badly as they shoot...

xaraan

I thought it wouldn't be too bad when I read you could put outfits and costumes on them, but when i heard they never get helmets, then I knew, yes, you'd just have 100 of the same guy running around a town.