Flying/Hovering Mount?

Supreme_Atromancer

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

Bo0137 wrote: »

I am here to share my disapproval of flying monts. It will kill the game exploration completely, just like it did with WoW (and others). IMO horses and characters should be even slower and the wayshrine should be less exploitable. But it's too late for that. NO to flying mounts! Let people bump and interact with each other and feel some sense of vastness.

The logic of this statement doesn't hold up.

Game exploration is not dead, for those who want to explore, they do. All one has to do is:

1. Make the conscious decision not to use wayshrines, if that is the way you enjoy playing.

2. Make the choice to toggle "walk" on both the character and the horse.

3. Explore.

The thing about exploration is, it is more fun when it is something you choose to do, not something you are forced to do. Others do not have to be forced into "exploration" 24/7, when you can choose to slow down and play the game the way you like without interrupting the experience of others or slowing them down. ESO enables exploration, all you have to do is choose to do it.

When I feel like exploring, I'll slow ride my horse around tamriel. But I like that I have the choice to do that, a choice that doesn't stop others from playing as they wish.

Yes, strongly agree! Exploration is what makes this game worthwhile, for me. As an aside, the more the devs can do to facilitate this- MORE connections between zones, more engaging PoI's, worldbuilding- the richer it becomes.

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Just a thought, why not introduce a flying mount? I don't mean one that actually flies around way up high as I have heard ESO cannot handle that kind of coding but one that just stays a few feet off the ground and has animated wings with feet that do not touch the ground.

I think its a fantastic idea.

In Eyvea, and at some other locations, you can see Guild Mages "levitating" across the ground. They are only very slightly off the ground. I feel like this could work as a "mount", if it would work in every way like a regular mount. Given they are only very slightly off the ground, obstacle behaviour would still largely make sense. I'd love to see it become available.

Tahlavos17

I think that if we do get a flying mounts that they can possibly fly above certain building out in the wilderness of each zone with a few options to have mount races with the winner being given the option to choose from tome of speed, stamina, or weight.