[News] Senche-Tiger Mount Confirmed Soon^TM

DenverRalphy · September 2014

Evergnar wrote: »

I just wish it was race specific (khajiit only mount). One new mount for each race would be cool. Highly doubt Zos will do that though, since they would really need to release them all at the same time.

I don't know that it should be race specific. But moreso that you can only get it after gaining influence with the NPC Khajiiti. This would give more meaning to red dialog choices.

timidobserver · September 2014

The lore conservatives are probably going to freak out, but I think this is a good thing. This is one of those things where the MMO factor wins out.

Shunravi · September 2014

timidobserver wrote: »

The lore conservatives are probably going to freak out, but I think this is a good thing. This is one of those things where the MMO factor wins out.

Senche are traditionally Khajiit mounts. There is no lore conflict.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Senche-Tiger

Nihili · September 2014

Mondo wrote: »

Oh wow how about give fixes for real problems....

Oh wow, I'm partial to looking at a gift horse in the mouth myself.

whiteshadow711jppreub18_ESO · September 2014

Dominoid wrote: »

From the massively successful AMA With The ESO Writing Team

"The Senche-Tigers: The in-game answer is that the differences between Senche, Senche-raht, and senche-tigers are confusing and hard to understand for everyone
but Khajiit. Furthermore, Khajiit seem to sense an intelligence in senche-tigers that other races do not, but since senche-tigers don’t speak, their intelligence is hard to assess. We WILL be adding senche-tiger mounts sometime soon, but they’ll be just slightly larger than their wild counterparts, NOT the gigantic felines described in some of the lore."

Source

Awesome, just Awesome, this one cannot Wait

Draxuul · September 2014

Seriously ??? COME ON ............ just as i expected, this game will start to resemble WoW little by little untill it just becomes another friggin wow clone.

It was friggin innevitable from the start , i knew it.

At least i cannot say that i didn't try. I was here on the forums almost everyday trying to fight off all of the demands that came from old WoW players who tried to bring some of WoW into ESO.

Yeah i failed but at least i tried .

friggin tiger mounts , come on man , thats gotta be a joke. The second they're in the game i'm out for good , no chance of me ever coming back .

I'll go back to space sims or something . At least i won't see people riding tigers out there .

Draxuul

BRogueNZ · September 2014

wanna wide a fluffy bunny wabbit

Arsenic_Touch · September 2014

Draxuul wrote: »

Seriously ??? COME ON ............ just as i expected, this game will start to resemble WoW little by little untill it just becomes another friggin wow clone.

It was friggin innevitable from the start , i knew it.

At least i cannot say that i didn't try. I was here on the forums almost everyday trying to fight off all of the demands that came from old WoW players who tried to bring some of WoW into ESO.

Yeah i failed but at least i tried .

friggin tiger mounts , come on man , thats gotta be a joke. The second they're in the game i'm out for good , no chance of me ever coming back .

I'll go back to space sims or something . At least i won't see people riding tigers out there .

Draxuul

You do realize that this is part of the lore right? that they aren't adding anything new? with all of the things to complain about with this game, you chose this? just wow.

Anastasia · September 2014

bluesodafizz wrote: »

I was just thinking, when they add these mounts to the game will there be new food to feed them? I don't think a senche-tiger would eat oats apples or hay... Any speculation on this matter?

Red Meat (stamina from all the protein), Moonsugar(speed...well obviously) and Fish(carry-weight from the healthy fats and vitamins) maybe?

**Genious bluesodafizz! Esp using fish for something. Finally something useful for fishing besides the recent 'pretty colors' of dye...??!

dodgehopper_ESO · September 2014

I'm actually fine with Senche with saddles exist... but I really hope its a Khajiit only thing. I reckon a human or elf would really have to plow through a lot of moon sugar before he could live in the world of Khajit, think like a Khajit, and interact with Khajit well enough that a tiger would let him sit on his back. I say this as someone who doesn't even have a Khajit character.

I would also love to see Guar as pack animals (for anyone), Silt striders, and maybe other types of horses, possibly Mammoths (Nords), Elephants & Camels (Redgards), and maybe a Wamasu (Argonian). Some of these might possibly should be locked to racial access, or perhaps even create a skill line for them specifically. It could be cheaper for Khajiit (in skills) to ride a Senche for instance, or a Dunmer to ride a Silt Strider. That way its still open to an outsider, but they have to pay a serious price for gaining that access, purely for the cool factor. (Like werewolves).

I hold the standpoint of others, that Horses should be the most normal thing out there, but I'm fine with a few weird animals here and there, with limitations and uniqueness. At the end of the day I don't want to see every Tom, *** and Harry riding around on an Oversized Dwarven Spider or something so unusual like that that it just breaks lore. In theory, all our characters more or less fall in the 'demigod' status of the TES series, but in practice it just looks weird when the screen is full of us sporting our oddball stuff.

Makkir · September 2014

Wolfshead wrote: »

Annra wrote: »

Please no. It ruins the unique style of this game. There should not be other mounts than horses.

I have same problem in Age of Conan but when the add Wolf and Tiger mount to that game it work out very well to be honest

Tiger mount

Wolf mount

If ZoS make them look good and not like Wolf and Cat mount WoW look like i think it can be real good

.

OMG miss that game so much.

UrQuan · September 2014

Annra wrote: »

Please no. It ruins the unique style of this game. There should not be other mounts than horses.

timidobserver wrote: »

The lore conservatives are probably going to freak out, but I think this is a good thing. This is one of those things where the MMO factor wins out.

Draxuul wrote: »

Seriously ??? COME ON ............ just as i expected, this game will start to resemble WoW little by little untill it just becomes another friggin wow clone.

It was friggin innevitable from the start , i knew it.

At least i cannot say that i didn't try. I was here on the forums almost everyday trying to fight off all of the demands that came from old WoW players who tried to bring some of WoW into ESO.

Yeah i failed but at least i tried .

friggin tiger mounts , come on man , thats gotta be a joke. The second they're in the game i'm out for good , no chance of me ever coming back .

I'll go back to space sims or something . At least i won't see people riding tigers out there .

Draxuul

OK, so this thread has served as proof that @Annra @timidobserver and @Draxuul don't know their Elder Scrolls lore...

I definitely hope that this mount can only be obtained by completing a quest to gain the senche-tiger's loyalty. Put the quest in Reaper's March so that it'll be available to Aldmeri Dominion players pre-vet levels, while players of other pacts need to get to vet levels to obtain them. This makes sense from a lore perspective because senche-tigers are native to that zone. Ideally at the same time senche-tigers are brought into the game another unique mount is introduced for each of the other 2 factions (again, through a quest set in one of the faction zones). Guar for EP obviously, although I'm not sure what the one for DC would be.

timidobserver · September 2014

UrQuan wrote: »

Annra wrote: »

Please no. It ruins the unique style of this game. There should not be other mounts than horses.

timidobserver wrote: »

The lore conservatives are probably going to freak out, but I think this is a good thing. This is one of those things where the MMO factor wins out.

Draxuul wrote: »

Seriously ??? COME ON ............ just as i expected, this game will start to resemble WoW little by little untill it just becomes another friggin wow clone.

It was friggin innevitable from the start , i knew it.

At least i cannot say that i didn't try. I was here on the forums almost everyday trying to fight off all of the demands that came from old WoW players who tried to bring some of WoW into ESO.

Yeah i failed but at least i tried .

friggin tiger mounts , come on man , thats gotta be a joke. The second they're in the game i'm out for good , no chance of me ever coming back .

I'll go back to space sims or something . At least i won't see people riding tigers out there .

Draxuul

OK, so this thread has served as proof that @Annra @timidobserver and @Draxuul don't know their Elder Scrolls lore...

I definitely hope that this mount can only be obtained by completing a quest to gain the senche-tiger's loyalty. Put the quest in Reaper's March so that it'll be available to Aldmeri Dominion players pre-vet levels, while players of other pacts need to get to vet levels to obtain them. This makes sense from a lore perspective because senche-tigers are native to that zone. Ideally at the same time senche-tigers are brought into the game another unique mount is introduced for each of the other 2 factions (again, through a quest set in one of the faction zones). Guar for EP obviously, although I'm not sure what the one for DC would be.

All my posts said is that people that are conservative about Elder Scrolls, and don't want people riding around on tigers, are going to be upset. I don't understand why you chose to include my name in your response.

Arsenic_Touch · September 2014

timidobserver wrote: »

All my posts said is that people that are conservative about Elder Scrolls, and don't want people riding around on tigers, are going to be upset. I don't understand why you chose to include my name in your response.

Because if people were actually conservative about the lore they wouldn't be upset by this. They'd be in full support of it given that it is part of the very lore. That's why you were mentioned in the response.

And your exact words were "freak out" and then went on to say that the mmo wins out when this change is more lore than mmo.

AshySamurai · September 2014

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Cool. But you know people on the forums think soon means tomorrow.

Because ZOS said loyalty program gift will arrive in September, and we already have a few threads about "when it's arrive".

And I hope I dont need to chase and hunt on this tiger to catch and ride it.

timidobserver · September 2014

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

timidobserver wrote: »

All my posts said is that people that are conservative about Elder Scrolls, and don't want people riding around on tigers, are going to be upset. I don't understand why you chose to include my name in your response.

Because if people were actually conservative about the lore they wouldn't be upset by this. They'd be in full support of it given that it is part of the very lore. That's why you were mentioned in the response.

And your exact words were "freak out" and then went on to say that the mmo wins out when this change is more lore than mmo.

Nice, so it is in the Elder Scrolls lore for a tiger to be the primary most used mount across all of the lands? I wasn't aware of that.

Iago · September 2014

Personally I look forward to the tiger mounts

KenjiJU · September 2014

Wolfshead wrote: »

Annra wrote: »

Please no. It ruins the unique style of this game. There should not be other mounts than horses.

I have same problem in Age of Conan but when the add Wolf and Tiger mount to that game it work out very well to be honest

Tiger mount

Wolf mount

If ZoS make them look good and not like Wolf and Cat mount WoW look like i think it can be real good

I hope it just looks like the normal tigers. Every time an mmo has a cat mount it looks too similar and reminds me of the old WoW mounts.

RSram · September 2014

It would be nice if the Senche-Tiger mount could assist in battle like the summoned pets.

katkat42 · September 2014

Nihili wrote: »

Mondo wrote: »

Oh wow how about give fixes for real problems....

Oh wow, I'm partial to looking at a gift horse in the mouth myself.

You do mean a gift senche-tiger, right? We already have horses....

Draxuul · September 2014

UrQuan wrote: »

OK, so this thread has served as proof that @Annra @timidobserver and @Draxuul don't know their Elder Scrolls lore...

I definitely hope that this mount can only be obtained by completing a quest to gain the senche-tiger's loyalty. Put the quest in Reaper's March so that it'll be available to Aldmeri Dominion players pre-vet levels, while players of other pacts need to get to vet levels to obtain them. This makes sense from a lore perspective because senche-tigers are native to that zone. Ideally at the same time senche-tigers are brought into the game another unique mount is introduced for each of the other 2 factions (again, through a quest set in one of the faction zones). Guar for EP obviously, although I'm not sure what the one for DC would be.

You`re right i don`t know the entire TES lore. Only some of it . It could make sense that Khajiit have some kind of connection with felines and that they`re able to tame them more easily than human, orcs and elves . I can accept seeing a few Khajiit riding their feline mounts.

But i certainly cannot agree with seeing orcs or humans riding tigers.

Worst case scenario, maybe wood elves, cuz they`re a lot close to nature than any other races.

I could also see Argonians riding a Guar or some other kind of reptile large enough to act as a mount . But once again i wouldn`t want to see humans or elves riding those mounts.

Problem with making mounts , race specific, is that the forum will be flooded with whining and ranting again because humans and elves will want to ride them too and they`ll say it`s unfair that they don`t have access to those mounts . Either that or they`ll want to have a race specific mount too.

Message to Zenimax here: you give an inch to people and they`ll pull on it untill it`becomes a mile. So my advice to you is don`t give people everything they ask for, don`t give them the feeling that they have any kind of power or leverage on you from the very start. Otherwise there will be no end to those demands.

Draxuul

bertenburnyb16_ESO · September 2014

greath news, I hope they make em look a little more fantasy-cat-creature like than the regular tigers with Senche pasted on them that we have now

CapuchinSeven · September 2014

bluesodafizz wrote: »

Annra wrote: »

Please no. It ruins the unique style of this game. There should not be other mounts than horses.

The unique style of the game is what is causing these new mounts to be added. Khajiiti mounts have been a part of the ES lore since at least Morrowind.

Yeah I was going to say the same, I'm sure they were already in lore, as well as things like Argonians turning into giant Were-Crocodiles.

NskDen · September 2014

This is crazy...Zoo is coming...

Annra · September 2014

Its the same crap like in every game. The degradation has just begun.

Vanguard - Saga of Heroes:

Horses -> Unicorn -> Shadow Hound -> racial Mounts like Battle Lobsters, Crocodiles, Spiders etc. (aka vermin) -> Rainbow Whale

Rift :

Horses -> Turtles -> Spiders -> a lot of other crap -> pink Squirrels -> Crazy colored birds -> more crap

ESO:

Horses -> Tiger .... whats next?

Dominoid · September 2014

Annra wrote: »

Its the same crap like in every game. The degradation has just begun.

Vanguard - Saga of Heroes:

Horses -> Unicorn -> Shadow Hound -> racial Mounts like Battle Lobsters, Crocodiles, Spiders etc. (aka vermin) -> Rainbow Whale

Rift :

Horses -> Turtles -> Spiders -> a lot of other crap -> pink Squirrels -> Crazy colored birds -> more crap

ESO:

Horses -> Tiger .... whats next?

Anything in the lore is next.

Ulvik · September 2014

Senche-Tigers should be race-specific. An Imperial with no ties to the senche would just look silly on it. What they could do is add some more race-specific mounts, like different colored horses, guars or bears(orcs)..

At the very least there should be som lenghty quest beforehand making you a khajiit "at heart".

I also find it strange that the senche in this game are everywhere and attack you unprovoked seeing as they are sentient beings born the same ways as all the other sub-species of the khajiit, only under a different moon phase. Basically two khajiit breed and there is a 1/16 chance on it beeing a senche depending on the moon cycle. 2/16 if you count the senche-raht.

Xeres14 · September 2014

Er, since when is riding horses in a MMORPG unique?

BBSooner · September 2014

Im happy people get their senche mount, but when can my Dunmer get his Khajit/Altmer slave Sedan Chair mount?

bertenburnyb16_ESO · September 2014

BBSooner wrote: »

Im happy people get their senche mount, but when can my Dunmer get his Khajit/Altmer slave Sedan Chair mount?

to bad with this alliance war I had to set free my argonian mounts