Do you actually care about clipping?

Thorn416 · February 2016

I've seen a few posts and comments on "clipping" issues and I have to say, I didn't even notice this was a thing til I saw people complaining about it.

Are the complainers just a vocal minority or does the community at large actually give a *** about this?

Personally, I couldn't care less, I still feel that given the scale, this is one of the best looking games I've seen, so complaining about little graphical issues isn't something I'd ever do tbh

Selstad · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

It depends on the clipping. If it's something that can - and should - be fixed, it should be. Like prop items clipping into geographical things. Other things, such as weapons clipping into player model, isn't as easily fixed due to them not having a physical calculation attached to them and as such don't know how to interact with the player models. Meaning that clipping will happen.

Some can be fixed, some can't. All in all, I wouldn't mind it being fixed but as it is it doesn't make a difference on my entertainment in this game.

Kendaric · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

Selstad wrote: »

It depends on the clipping. If it's something that can - and should - be fixed, it should be. Like prop items clipping into geographical things. Other things, such as weapons clipping into player model, isn't as easily fixed due to them not having a physical calculation attached to them and as such don't know how to interact with the player models. Meaning that clipping will happen.

Some can be fixed, some can't. All in all, I wouldn't mind it being fixed but as it is it doesn't make a difference on my entertainment in this game.

Exactly the way I see it

EsoRecon · February 2016

There's bigger fish to fry as far as fixes go, I don't mind the clipping at all

I haven't even noticed much clipping...

eliisra · February 2016

Hard to answer. In some cases clipping really saves my ass. I also think a lot of players does clipping naturally without actually knowing they're cancelling an animation.

One example is when using Dawnbreaker in vMA, If I cant clip or end that stupid animation with block or dodge directly after as templar, I might die in mele range. Same with a lot of defensive skills, where I'd be dead all the damn time if I had to wait for the animation to run it's course.

Meanwhile there's moments in PvP where I just hate it so much. You get clipped heavy attacks hidden under a Wrecking Blow that's also animation clipped with bash and you take like 30k dps in your face. It's really annoying when you cant see what opponents are doing in actual real time PvP. Clipping makes it impossible to time correct counters.

Best solution is removing or trimming down pointless animations all together. I dont see the purpose of it since it's making gameplay much more messy and ofc much more difficult for people not knowing the drill. If a skill is suppose to take 1 second it shouldn't take 1.3 because some animation to add "immersion".

Duiwel · February 2016

There's bigger fish to fry as far as fixes go, I don't mind the clipping at all

There should have been an option : "Not anymore"

Clipping is like being married to an ugly person, you get use to it.

khele23eb17_ESO · February 2016

Depends. There's clipping and theres CLIPPING. Some things you just cant unsee once you notice them and they drive you nuts. Also there's the opposite of clipping in which case you have pauldrons and weapons floating in the air far away from the character's model. This is more common in ESO and I think I find that even more annoying than clipping.

bikerangelo · February 2016

There's bigger fish to fry as far as fixes go, I don't mind the clipping at all

eliisra wrote: »

Hard to answer. In some cases clipping really saves my ass. I also think a lot of players does clipping naturally without actually knowing they're cancelling an animation.

One example is when using Dawnbreaker in vMA, If I cant clip or end that stupid animation with block or dodge directly after as templar, I might die in mele range. Same with a lot of defensive skills, where I'd be dead all the damn time if I had to wait for the animation to run it's course.

Meanwhile there's moments in PvP where I just hate it so much. You get clipped heavy attacks hidden under a Wrecking Blow that's also animation clipped with bash and you take like 30k dps in your face. It's really annoying when you cant see what opponents are doing in actual real time PvP. Clipping makes it impossible to time correct counters.

Best solution is removing or trimming down pointless animations all together. I dont see the purpose of it since it's making gameplay much more messy and ofc much more difficult for people not knowing the drill. If a skill is suppose to take 1 second it shouldn't take 1.3 because some animation to add "immersion".

That's animation cancelling, I think OP is talking about polygons overlapping in terrain, items and apparel.

CJohnson81 · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

Yeah, I'd have to say that I rarely notice the clipping either. I think some people will just nit pick and on the other hand there is some clipping that should be cleaned up. Haha I guess I'm of the generation where every new game is still a technological marvel. I'm just not that jaded.

@eliisra you're talking about animation canceling which is different from clipping. Clipping is where the graphical elements can intersect each other instead of the physics disallowing it. For example if you're standing next to a wall, your sword tip disappears into it, or a lot of costumes have clipping issues where the weapons seem to be coming through the cloth. Or back in the day, you could put in clipping codes that would allow you to run through walls.

Xendyn · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

Depends, really.
A lot of the small things you don't really notice but when you pay a premium price for a costume, it should be quality equal to the price.

RAGUNAnoOne · February 2016

If you have to pay extra for it it should be fixed or at least not worse than racial styles

Abeille · February 2016

Yes, clipping is a real pain in the ass, something needs to be done

On regular armor/costumes, not that much.

On crown store costumes? Absolutely unacceptable.

(cue to Lemongrab)

andreasv · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

Abeille wrote: »

On regular armor/costumes, not that much.

On crown store costumes? Absolutely unacceptable.

(cue to Lemongrab)

@Abeille Exactly what I think. If it's a costume for reaching a certain level or being a paying subscriber for a certain amount, I don't mind.

However, if I've paid 2000 crowns, you've better make sure there's no such issues as clipping (e.g. with certain weapon combinations).

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · February 2016

Yes, clipping is a real pain in the ass, something needs to be done

Clipping is a small but visible sign that you have problems in the coding fixing the small things makes fixing the bigger problems easier.

It's like rules when people break them enforce the small ones that way their are no rule that don't matter. Not fixing small problems in the coding then turning around and making major changes will cause more bugs cause the underlying problem is not fixed.

Tandor · February 2016

What clipping?

Emma_Overload · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

It's really only important when it affects the player character's visuals. For example, when the armor looks bad on Khajiit, they need to fix this right away.

Keep_Door · February 2016

There's bigger fish to fry as far as fixes go, I don't mind the clipping at all

no

WalkingLegacy · February 2016

Yes, clipping is a real pain in the ass, something needs to be done

Artists that fix clipping issues or design the armor/clothing engine more than likely don't work on bugs.

Having said that, they could quit focusing on their horribly designed costumes and fix clipping and more importantly how costumes and armors fit our characters.

Snowstrider · February 2016

Yes, clipping is a real pain in the ass, something needs to be done

The art design is really bad in this game and being an mmo is not a excuse since other mmos does alot better.

And Even when it isnt about clipping everything just looks floaty and painted on and the weapons look like toy weapons

EölMPK · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

Snowstrider wrote: »

The art design is really bad in this game and being an mmo is not a excuse since other mmos does alot better.

And Even when it isnt about clipping everything just looks floaty and painted on and the weapons look like toy weapons

Arent you too used with korean mmos anime-like style? I prefer eso graphics ten times more than black desert, gw2, archeage and all that asian color show...

Inarre · February 2016

Yes, clipping is a real pain in the ass, something needs to be done

I dont care if for instance, my staff moves through my body in certain animations, but some costumes where the clipping just makes them look really BAD (for instance the free v16 reward costume) just is ridiculous and should not even exist in game as it is.

EölMPK · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

Inarre wrote: »

I dont care if for instance, my staff moves through my body in certain animations, but some costumes where the clipping just makes them look really BAD (for instance the free v16 reward costume) just is ridiculous and should not even exist in game as it is.

Where do you play? PC? I really dont see those problems in ps4

Volkodav · February 2016

There's bigger fish to fry as far as fixes go, I don't mind the clipping at all

I could care less about clipping.If I did care about stuff like that,Id grouse about the long hair with braids that sticks out like a flat plate behind my character when she rides a horse.

Danikat · February 2016

Not a big deal, but I would like to see this fixed

It would be better if they could fix it, even if they can't address everything since as people have said some problems are harder to fix than others. But it's not a priority.

It does bother me when I see static objects in a landscape clipping through each other. That's not a problem with hit boxes not matching images, or animations causing issues, it looks like it's just lazy design - they threw things together and didn't bother to check how they actually looked.

(I don't know, maybe the way their software works fixing something like that is an absolute nightmare and just not worth the time and effort, but it seems unlikely.)

Moonshadow66 · February 2016

I guess it would start to slightly bother me if we had Mammoth mounts and I would try to squeeze it through a roofed bridge, like in Windhelm^^

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