Scion_of_Yggdrasil wrote: »

So can we get our flying mounts now?

Eclipze wrote: »

Hello all, I have been playing eso since day 1 release and beta on pc, and I am really excited for group mounts! It’s really a dream come true for eso and adds more to group playing with your friends even better! The next thing I would want to see in ESO is flying mounts. With upcoming mmos also adding flying mounts it would make much sense for eso to take the same turn as others and make flying mounts. They can always disable them in pvp or make them hover instead of fly so that way they’re still usable, or simply make a mechanic where the mount can go to ground mode like a regular mount or flying mode so that way it can fly and disable flying mode for pvp. This would be great because it would allow people to actually want to explore the world in eso flying around instead of using wayshrines. And this is an easy money grabber for ZoS. Think about all the people that would easily try to buy a flying mount. We are already introduced to npcs flying gryphons in cloudrest and the welkynars flying gryphons. We’ve seen the Dragonborn in Skyrim with the abilities to ride on dragons. So why can’t we get started with flying mounts on eso? I’m all up for it and will gladly support it! Let me know some of your thoughts down below!

JKorr wrote: »

Eclipze wrote: »

Hello all, I have been playing eso since day 1 release and beta on pc, and I am really excited for group mounts! It’s really a dream come true for eso and adds more to group playing with your friends even better! The next thing I would want to see in ESO is flying mounts. With upcoming mmos also adding flying mounts it would make much sense for eso to take the same turn as others and make flying mounts. They can always disable them in pvp or make them hover instead of fly so that way they’re still usable, or simply make a mechanic where the mount can go to ground mode like a regular mount or flying mode so that way it can fly and disable flying mode for pvp. This would be great because it would allow people to actually want to explore the world in eso flying around instead of using wayshrines. And this is an easy money grabber for ZoS. Think about all the people that would easily try to buy a flying mount. We are already introduced to npcs flying gryphons in cloudrest and the welkynars flying gryphons. We’ve seen the Dragonborn in Skyrim with the abilities to ride on dragons. So why can’t we get started with flying mounts on eso? I’m all up for it and will gladly support it! Let me know some of your thoughts down below!

Oh by the Divines, NO.

Besides pvp, the game wasn't designed with flying mounts in mind. If they did start flying mounts, they'd also start the constant rants about loading screens. Riding, even running sometimes, is enough to trigger screen loads, even in pve. If the controls don't allow the rider to do aerial acrobatics there will be rants. There is no way that the people who desperately want flying mounts for whatever reasons will ever be satisfied with what the devs do. I'd much rather they add sailable ships to the game instead of flying mounts.

Yeah, the Dragonborn in Skyrim. The single player game. Who originally got to ride on ONE dragon because that dragon allowed it. Didn't you ever see the forum complaints, when they added dragon mounts, about how crappy the control was, and they might as well as not added it for all the fun it was.

Scion_of_Yggdrasil wrote: »

Fischblut wrote: »

ESO totally supports flying mounts I would love to have flying mounts in this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edrFVEmduM4

Now slap some wings on that bad boy and call it good.

I would even be happy if Stamina was required to fly, so you would be running on the ground until it recharged.

Mayrael wrote: »

Linaleah wrote: »

Mayrael wrote: »

@Linaleah You have no idea how many work it would be needed to implement it in ESO either. Apple and oranges. ESO is not WoW, it has already full graphics, its not like buildings in ESO are missing roofs, mountains have empty holes, there is no "noclip" textures etc. etc. limit the height of a flight by limiting resources used to fly so nobody will get to high... and ESO is full 3d game if you didn't noticed, we already are moving in every possible axis, its not like ZOS would have to make flight simulator, just vertical axis control.

Yes, if this would take to much resources it's not worth it, but the only ones who can tell it are devs That's why we, the players give them ideas, it's up to them to decide are they capable to do it or not... not me, not you, only them

and yet. we cannot swim up or down. and yet we don't even have static path air travel. and yet.. when you manage to clip your way through the world, you see very well that buildings ARE missing roofs, mountains DO have empty holes etc etc. heck, you can see a TON of missing textures and emptiness when decorating homes with certain pieces. the kind that have no bottoms or no backs. instanced homes are the ONLY areas that we have where we can go up in the air. provisionally.

we are all stuck to the ground, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised of the flight animations of birds have them moving against invisible surfaces rather then genuinely "flying". not unlike the way magic carpet addon works where you are not flying but rather you are statically moving the surfaces and still sticking to those surfaces.

tell me. how can they introduce freeform flight again, when we don't even have free form swimming?
tell me. how can they introduce flight, when the game, unlike WoW is FULL of loading screens between zones?

but most importantly. tell me. please. WHAT can flight possibly add that is worth giving up not one but multiple content updates for?

P.S. did you honestly think that this thread is new an original? that no one has EVER asked for flight before? sigh.

to give you an idea how long it takes them to implement something. it took them years to add... a search function to guild traders. YEARS. and that is for a function that was available via addon on pc for those very same years. all the while consoles did NOT have that. same for multicraft.

Lol Do you have any idea how coding in games work? Can't tell it for sure when it comes to this game but usually flying is not some kind of magickal coded movement, you disable gravity for certain object and voila, it's flying, now this object needs to just move straight forward looking up and down changes his distance from the ground. It's not real environment, you don't have to code aerodynamics. Next thing is just to add animation, to make it more real add a bit of floating up and down and there you go. No additional controls needed, no extreme coding. Heck you could fly in many single player games just by typing cheats (example could be Skyrim) the only thing we were missing was animation.

And about missing textures. When you clip through texture into inside of object it will have missing textures almost always and housing allows for this, but in normal environment you can't clip through textures and you can't see them missing... And even this can be used as reversed argument, since we already have ways to clip through textures and traverse through areas we shouldn't be able to, what's the difference?

Ratzkifal wrote: »

Can't wait for "Take Flight" to actually send opponents flying into the air, causing all sorts of bugs to happen where people in Cyrodiil can suddely fly over walls because the game doesn't remember anymore that everything needs to fall down.