Flying mounts?

Nope.

Floating mounts, sure, I'd love to see a witchy broomstick, oriental carpet or drow driftdisk floating over the ground... maybe even a mystic cloud or bat swarm to carry a character in a floating manner... since that would only be a special effect, nothing more. And as such, no different then any other mount save for the visuals...

But actual flying??? In ESO? That can has more worms then the whole friggin worm cult!
Between the issues of invisible walls and no-go zones to constrain people from wandering off the map (the more of those, the more lag, since they have to be calculated), point-of-view faux-pas when people suddenly can see "part the curtain" from up high in the sky and notice where the developers saved on objects where noone would notice from the ground, and the questions about how flying would mess up cyrodil sieges...
No.
Just no.

If anything... well, there is only -one- good suggestion about "flying mounts" I ever stumbled over at the forums:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/433317/suggestion-flying-mount-solution/p1
...and that is still the only way I ever would want to see them!

Bouldercleave wrote: »

I actually enjoyed my flying carpet in EQ2. No elevation changes, but the "floating" was cool.


All I really want here is better horse animations. At 60 speed upgrade, all they did was make the horses legs move faster -



And that is NOT how horses run faster. There should be an increase in stride length to make it look more correct.


Just my $ .02

Yep, as a long time horsewoman I have some real issues with the way they did horses in this game.... Some of the "slimmer" ones aren't too bad (though your comment about stride length is spot on) but the "draft horse look" is just.... wrong. The legs are wrong, from the hock through the gaskin and flank to start.... Now I do think they did the heads pretty well - nicely broad between the eyes. But damn sons.... the manes don't move when the head does! Sheesh.

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Bouldercleave wrote: »

I actually enjoyed my flying carpet in EQ2. No elevation changes, but the "floating" was cool.


All I really want here is better horse animations. At 60 speed upgrade, all they did was make the horses legs move faster -



And that is NOT how horses run faster. There should be an increase in stride length to make it look more correct.


Just my $ .02

Yep, as a long time horsewoman I have some real issues with the way they did horses in this game.... Some of the "slimmer" ones aren't too bad (though your comment about stride length is spot on) but the "draft horse look" is just.... wrong. The legs are wrong, from the hock through the gaskin and flank to start.... Now I do think they did the heads pretty well - nicely broad between the eyes. But damn sons.... the manes don't move when the head does! Sheesh.

I can even look past the anatomical abnormalities to an extent ( although you are 100% correct on on the legs and the draft horse just being "off"). But I can't get past the stride at speed. Anything over about 20 in speed upgrade and I just cringe. I ride horses until I get to 20 and switch to some sort of lion or senche. It's the only thing I can stomach riding.

Right now, on my second account I have to just deal with the horses. I'm not into spending a lot on extras on that account (as it's one I use to "get away" in a way....)

@Aertew - no, I'm still not into it. I just want horses that look and walk, run, gallop like horses. I did flying mounts in WoW. I don't care to do them any more. Not that I didn't enjoy flying - I did. But the devs took that away, and I am simply not willing to get blindsided again.

Besides, as stated in many other posts, the world has no vertical dimension. So no flying or swimming anyway. And no, at this point, it's really doubtful that the devs are going to mess with the engine much. "Reworking" a game engine is extremely expensive....

As for the dragons - you can make "shadows" of things that seem to fly - like the cliff racers in MW and the gryphons in Summerset. But actually flying on them isn't possible - and in fact those simulacrum of flying beasts are pretty much just that: a pretense.

If they have flying dragon encounters in Elsweyr, I'll be quite surprised. For one thing, if the damn things are flying high above, HOW do you expect to kill the boss?

Aertew wrote: »

Wow, I didn't expect this to blow up, so im gonna answer some questions

No I didnt do research nor did I look through the forums, I didn't feel like doing research and I just wanted to know the communities opinions on it, but it is my bad for not looking through the forum, usually go on here to report a bug or to ask a question.

Also, it seems mostly the problem is the game engine and that it wouldn't work. I guess that's fair. But i have two questions

If, say, Zenimax had the means to rework the engine, to make it so adding in flying didn't break the game or lore, would you want it? Basically so everything in ESO was fine, and they just fixed the maps for flying and made it lore friendly.

also, if they were to add mounts that floated of the ground, would you want that?


Also they are planning on adding in dragons that would fly? How is that gonna work if the game engine doesn't allow that? Just curious

1. I do not see it a big deal that you created this thread. Heck, you learned it is not possible in game.

2. Hypotheticals that have such a little chance of happening are not really worth dealing with.

3. I think Zos lacks imagination with mounts which is why we started getting some weird ones in murkmire. Mounts that hovered, like they were flying but were not, would work in the game starting with newly found Dwemer technology. While some would say it is lore breaking, the game is about creating new within an existing make believe world As long as it is plausible it is possible to fit it into lore.

As long as it was kept out of cyro and you could convince me with 100% certainty that there would be no negative impact on performance, I wouldnt be opposed. I would not hold my breath if I were you...