NO Capes.

Mashille · May 2015

Ok so clearly Zenimax has been listening to Edna Mole when it comes to this but in the 'Gameplay' trailer it shows a man wearing a cloak in game. What happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlEipFtHw7o

Skip to 2:25 on the video. CAPE!

c.p.garrett1993_ESO · May 2015

Pretty sure this has been covered repeatedly.
Lag. Dynamic animation for capes/ cloaks would be too much for the game to handle on such a massive scale. At least at this time. It could certainly be possible down the road, though.

Psychobunni · May 2015

My best guess is that ZOS decided functionality was more important than looks? Especially in Cyrodiil where standing still creates lag, less for the system to generate, less lag?

Idk, that was my experience from LOTRO, we could literally have less lag in raids simply by having everyone hide their capes.

Mashille · May 2015

They don't need to be dynamic or move fluidly with gravity and such or have physics. I used to play Dark Age Of Camelot and it had large Faction PvP battles yet it still had capes aswell.

Heromofo · May 2015

Yar my understanding they could not figure out how to add them without it causing major problems.
So they gave up on them but alot of us still reckon they will be in 2016 area.

Mashille · May 2015

Also in the gameplay trailer does anyone else think that the game looks a lot brighter than the game does today. The game is very drab and dark with it's colour scheme but in the gameplay trailer everything looks a lot more bright.

eventide03b14a_ESO · May 2015

Anyone who thinks they need realistic cloth simulation to get cloaks just doesn't know what they are talking about. Plenty of other games including MMOs have them and they do just fine. It's a stupid argument by people who hate them for some inconceivable reason.

c.p.garrett1993_ESO · May 2015

keybaud wrote: »

Also in the gameplay trailer does anyone else think that the game looks a lot brighter than the game does today. The game is very drab and dark with it's colour scheme but in the gameplay trailer everything looks a lot more bright.

Try adjusting the setting for your TV? A lot of newer ones have options to fix things like that. If you're lucky it'll have a game/ movie setting that might help brighten things up.
If not you could try playing with your brightness. Although that wouldn't really do anything for colors.

Mashille · May 2015

ZOS_UlyssesW · May 2015

Hi, all. We are closing this thread because there is already a thread on this topic. Keeping threads consolidated allows us to help players more efficiently and facilitates the visibility of different issues. We encourage you to head to that thread to continue your discussion.