Werewolf Idea: Werebear Cosmetic Skins

Skullstachio · October 2018

As it implies in the title, To see the Wardens Feral Guardian get a skin (slate grey skin) is just cool in a way, but really, something occurred to me.

Wouldn’t it be a great idea to have Werebear Skins for Werewolf Transformation? (Purely cosmetic that have no real impact in the game whatsoever aside from looking like you have a right to “Bear” Arms.) that and it kinda takes me back to one of the Legitimate console mods by the Elder Scrolls V player community (I believe it was ”Moonlight Tales Special Edition - Werewolf and Werebear Overhaul.”)

Interestingly, I also thought that Werewolf Transformation’s Morphs could dictate the colour of the werebear, such as the base Ultimate being brown with any eye colour of choice(on Zenimax’s part) a Polar Bear with blue eyes for Pack leader and a Black Bear with Red eyes for Werewolf Berserker.

SydneyGrey · October 2018

So many people want this.
It would be like printing money if ZOS made it happen.
It's very lore-friendly, too.

Aeschere3 · October 2018

Yeah, it would be cool to have a werebear and wereboar option. And werecrocodile for Argonians and werelion for khajit.

Werevultures are also in the lore but I don't see that happening.

Imperial_Voice · October 2018

I cant fathom why Zeni hasnt done more with the ability to reskin abilities. If they change the bear then surely they could do thia for other skills.

KwarcPL · October 2018

I was proposing something like this quite some time ago. Anyhow, polymorphs for transformation would be awesome

Chrlynsch · October 2018

Guild flea collars

Skullstachio · October 2018

Chrlynsch wrote: »

Guild flea collars

Werewolves don’t get fleas, they get werefleas.

Danikat · October 2018

Imperial_Voice wrote: »

I cant fathom why Zeni hasnt done more with the ability to reskin abilities. If they change the bear then surely they could do thia for other skills.

I'm surprised they didn't. When they gave wardens an alternate bear colour I thought it basically testing and/or demonstrating the tech and we'd see more skins available through the same system. Maybe other options for the warden pet (I'd love a big cat or a wolf instead of a bear) and skins for sorcerer pets.

And werewolf skins would be a great addition to that. As well as werebears they could add all the other werebeasts mentioned in lore and occasionally seen in other TES games. Maybe not the weresharks since I kind of like the uncertainty over whether they actually exist, and I'm not sure they'd be very practical on land. Maybe not werevultures and werebats either since I think they're supposed to be capable of flight. But werebears, wereboars, werelions etc. could all be options.

Girl_Number8 · October 2018

They would make so much money having special skins for werewolves and vampys. Thought it would be great if one was included as an achievement skin.

Rhoande · October 2018

Werebears, wereboars, werevultures, werelions, werebats, werewolves of different colors..ect. All of it could be done.

It's odd that they -haven't- done more with the reskin thing, I agree.

Also yes, Weresharks do NOT exist. All the rest are confirmed in a lorebook as existing but Weresharks are implied to be a joke among scholars. Like "Oh yeah we've ALL seen one.. don't know why you haven't Joe! They're real scary! Scariest of them all.. for sure.. Mmhm."

Danikat · October 2018

Rhoande wrote: »

Werebears, wereboars, werevultures, werelions, werebats, werewolves of different colors..ect. All of it could be done.

It's odd that they -haven't- done more with the reskin thing, I agree.

Also yes, Weresharks do NOT exist. All the rest are confirmed in a lorebook as existing but Weresharks are implied to be a joke among scholars. Like "Oh yeah we've ALL seen one.. don't know why you haven't Joe! They're real scary! Scariest of them all.. for sure.. Mmhm."

My understanding is that the existence of weresharks is uncertain. Some people claim to have seen them, but they're generally pirates and fishermen who aren't considered reliable sources by scholars so their stories are often dismissed.

But considering various scholars have made the same mistake with the Dark Brotherhood, the Thieves Guild, dragons, dragonbreaks, stone buildings in Black Marsh, alfiq and all kinds of other things which actually do exist in Tamriel we can't know if it's just scholars being narrow-minded and elitist or if it actually is fishermen telling tall tales to justify losing their boats.

We know for a fact werewolves, werebears and wereboars exist because they've appeared in the games (werewolves in all of them I think, werebears in Skyrim and wereboars in Daggerfall - you could even become a wereboar).

Werebats appear in ESO but I don't think we ever seem them transform and they're not affected by Fighters Guild skills the way werewolves are, so I feel like they could be a bit less certain - they could 'just' be gigantic bats.

Werecrocodiles and werelions seem to be treated as fact in lore books, but they haven't appeared in any of the games and since they only appear in Black Marsh and Elsyweyr respectively I'm still kind of sceptical they're not just large argonians and khajiit. But it wouldn't surprise me if they did exist.

If I remember correctly there's some uncertainty over whether werevultures are creatures of Hircine like the other lycanthropes, or something to do with the Wild Hunt - possibly bosmer who retained their ability to transform after the hunt was over. But either way there are records in lore which are considered reliable.

rexagamemnon · December 2018

I do not run any characters as a werewolf, but if the ability to reskin the werewolf form, i would do it in a heart beat to try it out

Ertosi · December 2018

Its a great idea, and I'd certainly love to see it, but the given the amount of work that would be necessary to make the new mesh, textures, animations for all of the skills, probably new sounds... its a lot more work than just a retexture of an existing mesh. If we see anything, eventually, it will probably just be some cosmetic skins to change the werewolf textures to a different color, like what they did for the Warden's bear companion. Maybe a similar one for the wolves as well.

baratron · December 2018

I cannot express in mere words my pleasure at the thought of having a Warden with a bear mount, a Combat bear, a non-Combat bear cub and a Selene's spectral bear also becoming a werebear with the ability to summon more bears.

I might just die of sheer ursine delight.

idk · December 2018

While an interesting idea, it is likely not an easy idea to implement. It would likely require adding an entire new field into the database and much more which could end up being very complicated.

if it is somewhat complicated that could sink the idea, not just for the actual work but the increased chance it would work poorly and require additional work trying to figure out the bugs.

Only Zos would know of course. If it is not a big deal to add I expect they would like the additional crown store revenue.

Forvet · December 2018

idk wrote: »

While an interesting idea, it is likely not an easy idea to implement. It would likely require adding an entire new field into the database and much more which could end up being very complicated.

if it is somewhat complicated that could sink the idea, not just for the actual work but the increased chance it would work poorly and require additional work trying to figure out the bugs.

Only Zos would know of course. If it is not a big deal to add I expect they would like the additional crown store revenue.

How does the Hulk-Wolf work then? Isn't that a skin for the werewolf transformation? I've been yearning to get it, but I am terrible at dungeons, so I don't actually know.

Ashryn · December 2018

Hell, I'd just settle for a transformation that shows my petite female wood elf is not some hulking male-looking were! Were are the the cute-but-deadly FEMALE werewolf tranformations?!