Optical Rework of Daedric Summoning Pet Skills urgently needed (not combat-related)

AnduinTryggva

I have to say that I refrain from using sorcerer builds that have the pet skills from the daedric summoning skill line and this purely from optical considerations. From this point of view these two skills and outstandingly particulously the winged twilight is just such an utter annoyance!

Not only is the textures and the sound files associalted to both pets heavily outdated and a pain to the eye. Much worse and a complete annoyance and fun killing aspect of the winged twilight is its terrible habit to always flutter right in front of my camera. When talking to an NPC I always have an ugly wing going up and down over the entire scene killing all enjoyment of quest story lines.

Yes, I know that I can deactivate this pet but this is first too complicated to do every time, second I too often forget to reactivate it again in a fight, third there should be much simpler options to avoid this annoyance. Remember questing involves a repetitive pattern with interchanging fights and dialogue.

So please:
1. Program the Winged Twilight in such a way that it does not stick at less than 5m from the player and that it avoids positions between character and camera
2. Please update texture and sound file.
3. Optional: Replace the entire model by something less intrusive.

Supreme_Atromancer

I LOVE Winged Twilight. It was, in 2014, and still is today one of the coolest things about the Sorcerer. Its easy to get bored and jaded, but its still really cool.

I can see how it gets annoying fluttering in your peripheral vision, though.

If resources weren't a problem, my ideal solution would be to have it land and do the bat-crawl thing it does in Morrowind, only taking to wing when mounted or in combat.



It would also be fun if mage-type guards in cities had Banish Daedra spells- would make sense that people are a little "shy" about Daedra, given the main theme of the game. I 'spose that the "hide pets" feature they recently added makes this redundant, though.

I'd hate a solution that changed the Twilight, like some suggest- shrinking it, or changing it to something else. I'm not the only one, so keep in mind there is resistance in the community to this, even if you don't read about it in the weekly "I hate Twilights" threads.

In the meantime, OP- if you're on PC, there's an addon called Pet Dismiss that allows you to keybind one-click dismissal. It wont get rid of your problem of forgetting to recast them, but its really super convenient to get rid of them when they're annoying you.

CGPsaint

Make it the size of a Nixad and people will be less salty about how obtrusive it is.