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Why arent capes/cloaks a part of the game?

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It would be pretty nice to see capes/cloaks in the game, even if its just a cosmetic thing from costumes.

Get back to me zenimax, lets see what you can cook up

PS, I want it to be one of the long ones that like goes to the floor almost. Also the ability to dye it.

TLDR; I want capes in the game.
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  • Eirikir
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    Oh gods no. I want capes too man, but now someone is going to post that stupid Incredibles gif.
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  • Milvan
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    Because the engine can't handle dynamic cloacks. We don't even have dynamic door or stairs. :D
    Edited by Milvan on July 17, 2016 2:05AM
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  • SahrotRein
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    Milvan wrote: »
    Because the engine can't handle dinamic cloacks. We don't even have dinamic door or stairs. :D

    Just shortly before reading this, quite frankly, I noticed how hair moves on female models. If they could just make capes move similarly, it would be so fine. This is the very reason why the Nord Hero costume was stripped off its cloak and Elven Hero costume off its belt stripes :disappointed:
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    Eirikir wrote: »
    Oh gods no. I want capes too man, but now someone is going to post that stupid Incredibles gif.

    You knew wat this was when you crawled in the van door ...

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  • Katahdin
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    100 million problems
    Capes aint one
    We dont need the game trying to render 1000s of cape movements adding to the problems
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  • UltimaJoe777
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    In a nutshell: Capes would harm the server.
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    They tested it internally and the server could handle 2 capes.
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    Eirikir wrote: »
    Oh gods no. I want capes too man, but now someone is going to post that stupid Incredibles gif.

    Lol i was gonna do it if no one else did
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  • Eirikir
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    Eirikir wrote: »
    Oh gods no. I want capes too man, but now someone is going to post that stupid Incredibles gif.

    You knew wat this was when you crawled in the van door ...

    rn3kbPI.gif

    Ok I'm in the van.... I was told there would be free candy.... why are you taking your pants off?
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    Eirikir wrote: »
    Oh gods no. I want capes too man, but now someone is going to post that stupid Incredibles gif.

    The Watchmen Easter Egg in that scene grates on me more with every passing year. :\
  • PrinceFabious
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    speeez wrote: »
    It would be pretty nice to see capes/cloaks in the game, even if its just a cosmetic thing from costumes.

    Get back to me zenimax, lets see what you can cook up

    PS, I want it to be one of the long ones that like goes to the floor almost. Also the ability to dye it.

    TLDR; I want capes in the game.

    Can you imagine 50people with capes charging at eachother in cyrodil.. Lol nty
  • Snowstrider
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    In a nutshell: Capes would harm the server.

    Why is Esos engine so horrible? How can so many other mmos have them? I feel like thats just an excuse.
    How is tabards not hurting the server?
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    In a nutshell: Capes would harm the server.

    Why is Esos engine so horrible? How can so many other mmos have them? I feel like thats just an excuse.
    How is tabards not hurting the server?

    Because Tabards don't sway or wave and stress the server. The day they make this game perfectly stable is the day they can properly attempt to implement capes and cloaks.
    Edited by UltimaJoe777 on July 17, 2016 3:52AM
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    In a nutshell: Capes would harm the server.

    Why is Esos engine so horrible? How can so many other mmos have them? I feel like thats just an excuse.
    How is tabards not hurting the server?

    Yeah, it's really bad. And I think that if ESO wants to survive in the long term they need to fix it. Look at any average asin mmorpg. ESO lacks 50% of their features. Archage for example.
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    Milvan wrote: »
    In a nutshell: Capes would harm the server.

    Why is Esos engine so horrible? How can so many other mmos have them? I feel like thats just an excuse.
    How is tabards not hurting the server?

    Yeah, it's really bad. And I think that if ESO wants to survive in the long term they need to fix it. Look at any average asin mmorpg. ESO lacks 50% of their features. Archage for example.

    If we wanted something identical to those games we'd just play them. It's not a bad thing when a game doesn't have another game's features.
    Edited by UltimaJoe777 on July 17, 2016 4:04AM
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    Maybe if they took the hip and ass flaps off 99% of the armor in the game, cloaks would work?
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    Maybe if they took the hip and ass flaps off 99% of the armor in the game, cloaks would work?

    It's not a matter of how it looks, it's a matter of how it functions. People are going to expect the capes and cloaks to actually move and not be entirely stiff.
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  • Araviel2
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    they did capes and cloaks in age of conan, an mmo game thats is allot older then this one and that uses an engine considered inferior to ESO's Havok engine.
    so i really can't se why they can't do it here.
    and no it would not affect server performance as such things are handled client side.

    ago of conan cloaks whit physics:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZxdvkXSMY4
    Edited by Araviel2 on July 17, 2016 5:41AM
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  • Milvan
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    If we wanted something identical to those games we'd just play them. It's not a bad thing when a game doesn't have another game's features.

    Well, I still prefer ESO over them of course. But Archage makes me wonder why a triple AAA like ESO lacks 50% of has features. (Just to name a few: dynamic sea, ships, sea exploration, underwater exploration/combat, fishing mini-game, complex and rich housing system etc, mounted combat etc edit: capes also xD)
    Edited by Milvan on July 17, 2016 6:02AM
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  • wenchmore420b14_ESO
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    Does anyone remember the ESO-Live, the one with the "Arm-Chair Discussion with Delvs"?
    They covered this in that segment or the one before. Capes/Cloaks would need a slot of there own, (Like the ones in Skyrim, Oblivion mods), they prob would clip in rendering, and, yes, they would cause server issues. If anyone really wants to know why "No Capes", go look at old ESO-Live episodes, about 1 1/2 years to 2 years ago.. That is a really dead horse your beating there...lmao!
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    Does anyone remember the ESO-Live, the one with the "Arm-Chair Discussion with Delvs"?
    They covered this in that segment or the one before. Capes/Cloaks would need a slot of there own, (Like the ones in Skyrim, Oblivion mods), they prob would clip in rendering, and, yes, they would cause server issues. If anyone really wants to know why "No Capes", go look at old ESO-Live episodes, about 1 1/2 years to 2 years ago.. That is a really dead horse your beating there...lmao!

    You know what other MMO has capes ? LOTRO . That game is old . I can't even wrap my head around a developer that can't do this with 100 times the resources and tools . Can't even fathom that whole episode even being taken seriously by anyone .
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    Just to debunk any speculation, we do not currently have plans to add capes or cloaks into the game. The items datamined above are just extremely old items before the game was released that were never fully removed from the database (but they will be in a future patch now!). Sorry to burst any bubbles. :(
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    Edited by Vaoh on July 17, 2016 8:40AM
  • khele23eb17_ESO
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    Sublime wrote: »
    They tested it internally and the server could handle 2 capes.

    Servers dont handle capes. Your client does.

    However, they cant even anchor hip and shoulder guards correctly, can you imagine the amount of floating and clipping with capes?
    Edited by khele23eb17_ESO on July 17, 2016 8:42AM
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    Same reasons trees don't sway in the wind, game cannot handle individually animated items.
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  • Snowstrider
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    Doncellius wrote: »
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    Just to debunk any speculation, we do not currently have plans to add capes or cloaks into the game. The items datamined above are just extremely old items before the game was released that were never fully removed from the database (but they will be in a future patch now!). Sorry to burst any bubbles. :(
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    That imperial looks awesome...
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