They probably won't update anything that has been released. Hopefully they will add some new styles that are higher resolution and have fewer hip flaps and crotch flaps.

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25101

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https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/151638/eso-hides-my-cleavage/

So given the backlash, I doubt zos will update old styles, even if it were just a texture update.

If they can find a way to stop shoulder pieces hovering above the character without making them clip through chunkier armour pieces that would be a nice improvement. Although I'd prefer they add a way to hide them entirely as I rarely want them on my armour at all, so I'm often choosing the smallest and flattest one I can find to avoid them showing. (Ironically I usually want them showing on heavy armour on bigger characters, and that's when it's relatively easy to find ones which clip through the chest piece so that it barely shows at all.)

But I'd be wary of any "improvements" to the texture or design of armour because it could easily have undesirable consequences. For example a lot of newer motifs have very shiny cloth and leather parts which react with dyes in unpredictable ways and end up looking like plastic or where it's impossible to get either bright or dark colours because the underlying material is either bright or dark and dyes have a minimal impact. It's not exclusive to newer motifs but seems to be more common. I'd prefer to stick with what we've got than see all the older motifs updated to the same format. Or getting carried away and changing the actual design as they have done previously.

It's not the end of the world, I'd just have to find new motifs to use instead, but when the selection can already feel quite limited for some characters because I want to avoid themes ZOS seems to really like using it would be frustrating to have existing options taken away just for the sake of using extra graphical effects in a few more places.

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Y'know.... I'm not super invested in how stuff looks. Serious. I PLAY the game, I don't jones on how armor looks. There are probably a lot of things other than armor the devs need to deal with.

If looks are a problem for people, maybe.... I dunno.... play some other game?

Wow... forgive us players who want our characters that we have to stare at while playing to look nice. Shame on us.

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Sylvermynx wrote: »

Y'know.... I'm not super invested in how stuff looks. Serious. I PLAY the game

For some, the "game" consists of exploration and Role play

For some, the "game" consists of trials, PvP and IC

For some, the "game" consists of Housing, crafting and designing looks for both people and places

There is no wrong focus, just a way of playing that isn't to your taste.

If you are not super invested in how stuff looks, then cool.

I'm not super invested in 12-man trials.

But I still hope that each type of player/preference has their content respected.

Really do think the older ones, aka the 10 races ones should have an update.

the honorguard shoulders are pretty good if you look for ones looking less "bombastic".

2 examples:





Unfortunately pretty expensive and rare to find, approx 120k on xbox.

Cheaper are the Akaviri (10k), but they look not as small. I used those as "poor mans version" before I got honorguard:



A third alternative (cheap) are Mercenary MEDIUM shoulders. Smaller than "light", they cover just the right shoulder, the left remains free. If you use a dark dye, they are less easy to spot:



Not yet available as style is the spawn of Mephala monsterset. Right side, less huge than other monstersets. Was shown in dataleaks as style maybe a year ago, but afaik never made it ingame. So the screenshot shows not the style, but the monsterset shoulder itself.