Suggestion for flying mounts.

Tommy_The_Gun · January 2018

How would you balance this out ? Especially in Cyrodiil PvP ?! Can you imagine how capturing keep / fort / castle would look like ? No need to use siege weapons...

ArcVelarian · January 2018

"Flying mounts" simply don't exist within the Elder Scrolls Universe. So that's a big fat no from me.

greylox · January 2018

Just no, cheesy pointless idea.

AnviOfVai · January 2018

As much as I would love to say YES to all the flying mounts, I don't think ESO can be engineered to allow flying mounts...Unless they hovered more than fly. But heck imagine the crown store with all those flying mounts..

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO · January 2018

you want flying mounts you go play WoW.

Synthwavius · January 2018

Not sure how would this fit lore. I'd rather have sailing and ship building.

SolidusPrime · January 2018

I am more disappointed that there will probably never be underwater stuff than I am about flying

MythicEmperor · January 2018

Perhaps we will fly Sun Birds in the Summerset Isles. The thing is the current zones aren’t designed for flight.

Flying dragons would violate the lore in unthinkable ways. Please no.

Hurbster · January 2018

With that view distance ?

Saturn · January 2018

Flying has no place in ESO, the zones aren't designed for it. Remember what it took to make WoW's normal world capable of accomodating flying mounts, that's right, Cataclysm... Flying has in general also been very limited in the singleplayer TES games (outside of mods of course), and while a game like Skyrim was definitely built with a lot of height variation, that sort of thing isn't prevalent in ESO and means it'd be incredibly boring to fly around in the world. Other games with flying mounts tend to make zones that appeal to the idea of flying, i.e. floating platforms in the sky, mountains, etc.

I think underwater exploration is way more doable in ESO, though would also take a whole remodelling of the world to pull off, but it's at least something I see as doable, and with a purpose, as opposed to flying, which for now has no good way to be implemented into the game.

grannas211 · January 2018

Just have them hover. I want an AD Eagle

Valdek · January 2018

From people's comments, a lot of people appear to have missed the idea of designing a new zone so that exploration is enhanced with underwater and flying or gliding rather than having to redesign all other zones in the game. The dungeons where you have to jump and navigate obstacles are tremendous fun.

ESO has incredible scenery and creating content that takes this to a new level for exploration I can only see as a good thing.

Milvan · January 2018

I would love to see flying, gliding, underwater exploration etc.

But forum warriors ARE SOO CONSERVATIVE about that. It's really sad.

Juju_beans · January 2018

SolidusPrime wrote: »

I am more disappointed that there will probably never be underwater stuff than I am about flying

wow had an entire underwater zone and it didn't go over very well with the players.
it included underwater breathing and a seahorse mount but trying to quest was horrible.

Valdek · January 2018

Juju_beans wrote: »

SolidusPrime wrote: »

I am more disappointed that there will probably never be underwater stuff than I am about flying

wow had an entire underwater zone and it didn't go over very well with the players.
it included underwater breathing and a seahorse mount but trying to quest was horrible.

While I personally thought that zone was fantastic, I can appreciate why some people may not have. Regardless, I don't think that combining overland, gliding and water exploration effectively in an ESO landscape could be so easily compared to a (in my opinion) far more clunky and cartoony game such as WoW. I believe that ZeniMax could do a far better job.

Gargath · January 2018

Good idea with flying mounts, but they need to fulfill some strict rules.

Why not letting this fellow to fly a single meter above ground - when we ride it flies, when we stop it lands

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Cryptical · January 2018

There are flying animals already in the game that might be specialized to accommodate some limited flight as a mount.

A magically enlarged - or specially bred and raised - cliff racer. There are the lore books in the vvardenfell expansion that talk about one person’s efforts at encouraging the cliff strider to evolve into a better flying creature. We could get one of the subjects of that effort.

An extra-large twilight, possibly a grievous twilight. It could be introduced as part of a dlc that involves the daedric Prince war.

A gargoyle.

For the gargoyle and grievous twilight, a new mount configuration could be used. Instead of sitting atop the mount, it carries you. Your character’s model would be just as high off the ground as for using a terrestrial mount, but instead of the mount being under you it will be rendered above you. The same land/fly/land mechanism used for the sep adder and brassilisk governs the mount holding you under your arms, launching up when you move, and landing when you stop.

And never again would we slow down over small pebbles or, hopefully, when going uphill. That lack of a slowdown in pvp would be balanced by the fact that with the entire thing *above* you and flapping its large wings, there will be no avoiding detection by traveling along the small gullies and low spots of the terrain.

Linaleah · January 2018

honestly, I would be very open to underwater zone and limited gliding in specific areas, for the purposes of specific gameplay/sightseeing. I just... I don't know what it would take to implement. a LOT. we never had any diving into water in this game. I have no idea if its becasue the engine doesn't support it, or whether it was a deliberate choice. so... even when we talk about designing a new zone, specifically meant for it. IS it actualy possible? in this game? or will they need to rework the engine to allow for it. best case scenario, it would have to be a separately sold chapter and it would not be this year's chapter either. 2019 at the earliest. IF its feasible and worth investment.

ol_BANK_lo · January 2018

Valdek wrote: »

I know this will have been posted before. However, here are a few thoughts that may be different.

Awesome views, epic roleplay
Firstly, being able to fly a dragon like in Skyrim in ESO would simply be marvellous. It would be so fun for roleplay and being able to view this incredibly visual game from another perspective would be fantastic, not to mention the video footage / screenshots for game advertisements!

Worried about making ground mounts redundant?
Perhaps there could be a long mount and dismount time (with the creature flying down from the sky and climbing up like Daenerys in GoT). This could make it similar in a practical sense to a wayshrine and mean that people don't just hop on to go short distances and harvest resources faster. It would also make it look even more totally epic...

Concerned about the impact on exploration?
Other games have exploration requirements so that the zones must have been explored already before the flyers can be used there. Seems to work well.

What about flying into forbidden areas?
I'm not a huge fan of the invisible walls, though I can appreciate that they are sometimes useful. Personally, I really like the idea of the slaughterfish (though I do wish there were more underwater swimming in ESO). It wouldn't be too implausible to be mobbed by a few cliff racers and torn off the mount if you were to venture into those areas.

What about the time and energy from ZOS to create this feature?
A little like homes, I imagine they would be an enjoyable extra for those who like to roleplay more than anything. There is clearly a market for such things, and I for one would pay very handsomely to purchase something like this from the Crown Store. I would predict that it would pay for itself and more besides.

Please share your thoughts!

I thought about this a long time ago. I support it, but it wouldn't be able to fly more than a few feet off the ground to work. You can't be any more elevated than a jumping mount now. I'm still cool with that.