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Do You Want: Mounted Swimming?
Raltin
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Idk about the rest of you, but I am absolutely sick and tired of being dismounted by every seemingly shallow-looking puddle, only to somehow constantly end up hitting that TINY portion of them that is deep enough to put you into swim mode. Heck, they're like traps because if you DO end up swimming in them, it makes no sense, because you can see even the shortest darn bosmer's legs clipping through the dirt at the bottom... And don't even get me started on those split-second dips into the water where your mount just BARELY misses the shallow incline of the shore line, either because the jump button didn't respond or you just couldn't land the shot, where you're forced to dismount, and you have to jab the mount button 0.1 seconds later to re-mount.
In zones with a lot of water, especially shallow bodies of it like murkmire and shadowfen, this is just ridiculous... Mounted swimming was reportedly intended to be in the game at launch, years ago... but it got cut. I don't care how fast mounted swimming goes; whether it's the same speed as our standard swimming speed, is influenced by mount speed, or has a specifically locked speed it is set at, I just don't want to be knocked off of my mount by puddles anymore... fixing this would be a massive Quality-of-Life improvement... who's with me?
Edited by Raltin on November 8, 2020 12:17AM In zones with a lot of water, especially shallow bodies of it like murkmire and shadowfen, this is just ridiculous... Mounted swimming was reportedly intended to be in the game at launch, years ago... but it got cut. I don't care how fast mounted swimming goes; whether it's the same speed as our standard swimming speed, is influenced by mount speed, or has a specifically locked speed it is set at, I just don't want to be knocked off of my mount by puddles anymore... fixing this would be a massive Quality-of-Life improvement... who's with me?
"Proud purveyor of Cyrodiil Pickles."
Do You Want: Mounted Swimming? 95 votes
Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!
76%
73 votes
No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!
23%
22 votes
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Apox✭✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!oh hey look a puddle of water. sure would be a shame if it were just *** deep enough to dismount you
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PizzaCat82✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!Depends. There's definitely places they don't want you to go when swimming, but I see no problem (especially in swamp places like Murkmire and Shadowfen) with being able to cross the water on certain mounts.Edited by PizzaCat82 on November 8, 2020 12:49AM3 -
Radiance✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!Yeah but it's unlikely to happen and it would make Argonian swim speed passive useless, not that it isn't currently...0 -
Linaleah✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!to bring up the game that shall not be named... when you go into a water deep enough that you have to swim - your speed slows down to unmounted swim speed, but you do NOT get dismounted. I honestly do not see why we couldn't have the same here. we still get slowed down by water, but at least we do not get dismounted by water. and if the speed is that of a baseline swim speed - then argonian passive is still valid and makes you go faster then other races while in water. both mounted AND unmounteddirty worthless casual.
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Raltin✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!@PizzaCat82 wrote: »Depends. There's definitely places they don't want you to go when swimming, but I see no problem (especially in swamp places like Murkmire and Shadowfen) with being able to cross the water on certain mounts.
And for the places they don't want you swimming: they use slaughterfish to kill you to keep you out. We already have a good system for that. If that was your only reason for voting against it, consider changing your vote maybe? (if changing a vote is possible, dunno... I've never really looked into it)"Proud purveyor of Cyrodiil Pickles."3 -
Radiance✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!
I guess even though it's not technically the Argonian that's doing the swimming...
I want a Fish Mount!1 -
PizzaCat82✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!@PizzaCat82 wrote: »Depends. There's definitely places they don't want you to go when swimming, but I see no problem (especially in swamp places like Murkmire and Shadowfen) with being able to cross the water on certain mounts.
And for the places they don't want you swimming: they use slaughterfish to kill you to keep you out. We already have a good system for that. If that was your only reason for voting against it, consider changing your vote maybe? (if changing a vote is possible, dunno... I've never really looked into it)
Its not possible sorry.0 -
Mrs_Malaka✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!I wish you had an option for "Other; explain."
I don't necessarily want my mount to swim, so much as I want it to walk majestically on water as if it was the son of God.
But sure, I'll take swimming mount.
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Raltin✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!the1andonlyskwex wrote: »[Quoted post was removed]
And I suppose you, in all your 'masterful perfection', have never ONCE accidentally dismounted in a puddle of water. Ooooohhhh we sorry plebeians cannot ever hope to play as masterfully as you, a god among men, who is above the accidents and concerns of the lesser folk. Innumerable pardons, m'lord. May we one day learn how to play this game that you have conquered, and never made a single mistake, as you.Edited by ZOS_ConnorG on November 8, 2020 3:30PM"Proud purveyor of Cyrodiil Pickles."1 -
Starlock✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!Not really.
I do, however, want climbing and mantling. Also, sliding. This, however, would require a very substantial redesign of the game so it's not going to happen.1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!the1andonlyskwex wrote: »[Quoted post was removed]
And I suppose you, in all your 'masterful perfection', have never ONCE accidentally dismounted in a puddle of water. Ooooohhhh we sorry plebeians cannot ever hope to play as masterfully as you, a god among men, who is above the accidents and concerns of the lesser folk. Innumerable pardons, m'lord. May we one day learn how to play this game that you have conquered, and never made a single mistake, as you.
If you dismounted it was probably more than a puddle. You dismount in water deep enough to cause you to swim if you were on foot. Otherwise you ride right on across it. It is a bit annoying to get dismounted for a short swim but not so much so that they need to devote time to change it.Edited by ZOS_ConnorG on November 8, 2020 3:30PMand then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."1 -
PizzaCat82✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!I want a jumping mount.. lets get bouncing here and there and everywhere.0 -
rpa✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!I'd rather have mounts just a bit slower to dissolve in water if that could be easily arranged. Not agaist it but a mounted char should swim at least same speed as unmounted (because Argonians) and swimming not break the shadow rider passive (it's the only reason I bother to mount for short distances).Edited by rpa on November 8, 2020 3:40AM0 -
Shaie✭✭✭I also wish you had an "other" option, which is why I did not choose one.
WoW finally implemented mount swimming, which is slow but better than constant mounting/dismounting as soon as your mount's toe/hoof gets a drop of water on it.
EQII though, if the water's deep enough for you to swim, your mount disappears but as soon as you climb back out of the water, you're mounted again. I'd go for this option.
WoW ALSO has barding now and one of the items you can use grants water walking to your mount. Since we cannot go below water anyway, why NOT allow us to purchase water walking? Or a raft that our mount just steps on when we cross water (our characters as well since AGAIN WE CANNOT GO BELOW WATER WHILE SWIMMING) because honestly, swimming in this game is UTTERLY stupid & redundant. It appears to exist solely to slow us down in our efforts to get from one place to another.1 -
Raltin✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!I also wish you had an "other" option, which is why I did not choose one.
WoW finally implemented mount swimming, which is slow but better than constant mounting/dismounting as soon as your mount's toe/hoof gets a drop of water on it.
EQII though, if the water's deep enough for you to swim, your mount disappears but as soon as you climb back out of the water, you're mounted again. I'd go for this option.
WoW ALSO has barding now and one of the items you can use grants water walking to your mount. Since we cannot go below water anyway, why NOT allow us to purchase water walking? Or a raft that our mount just steps on when we cross water (our characters as well since AGAIN WE CANNOT GO BELOW WATER WHILE SWIMMING) because honestly, swimming in this game is UTTERLY stupid & redundant. It appears to exist solely to slow us down in our efforts to get from one place to another.
I don't think there's really any other way to handle it other than giving mounts the ability to swim... the raft idea? Eeeehhhh... nah.... and the water-walking for the mount? Well that'd really just make the argonian swimming passive obsolete..."Proud purveyor of Cyrodiil Pickles."0 -
preevious✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!Ah, yeah.
I don't see why not.
They'd keep the slaughterfish barrier, so, it wouldn'tchange a thing.
Now, the animators will have work, adding a swimming animation to every mount model0 -
MaleAmazon✭✭✭✭✭
✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!In fact, I want the OP´s mount to perma-die and be forced to be re-purchased from the Crown Store whenever he goes into a deep puddle.
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Mythreindeer✭✭✭✭✭No! I don't want Mounted Swimming!
Now, the animators will have work, adding a swimming animation to every mount model
I wouldn't worry I don't see this happening.
If the animators were going to rework anything for mounts it should be the hobby horse running style. It's goofy. I last played a game 5 years older than ESO and they got running-horse animation correct.
As for dismounting in water...jump.
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Sylvermynx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Other - I don't care one way or the other. I don't use mounts a lot because I'm always harvesting while out anyway.1 -
NotaDaedraWorshipper✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭It would be nice, but there are more things I want. Even do I've more than one so called "bosmer", who get dismounted more than anyone else. It's both funny and annoying when you're running in a group and everyone gets past the ponds and puddles just fine then you go "Splash!" <swim swim>.[Lie] Of course! I don't even worship Daedra!0 -
Vevvev✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!We had mounted swimming in Oblivion and Skyrim so yes please!PC NA - Ceyanna Ashton - Breton Vampire MagDK1 -
Jeremy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!Idk about the rest of you, but I am absolutely sick and tired of being dismounted by every seemingly shallow-looking puddle, only to somehow constantly end up hitting that TINY portion of them that is deep enough to put you into swim mode. Heck, they're like traps because if you DO end up swimming in them, it makes no sense, because you can see even the shortest darn bosmer's legs clipping through the dirt at the bottom... And don't even get me started on those split-second dips into the water where your mount just BARELY misses the shallow incline of the shore line, either because the jump button didn't respond or you just couldn't land the shot, where you're forced to dismount, and you have to jab the mount button 0.1 seconds later to re-mount.
In zones with a lot of water, especially shallow bodies of it like murkmire and shadowfen, this is just ridiculous... Mounted swimming was reportedly intended to be in the game at launch, years ago... but it got cut. I don't care how fast mounted swimming goes; whether it's the same speed as our standard swimming speed, is influenced by mount speed, or has a specifically locked speed it is set at, I just don't want to be knocked off of my mount by puddles anymore... fixing this would be a massive Quality-of-Life improvement... who's with me?
I'm with you.
Generally speaking: you get kicked off your mount when you do almost anything on this game and it does get annoying after awhile. I wish they would add mounted swimming, mounted combat, mounted harvesting... etc. Because it would make riding around and exploring on your mount a lot more fun if you wasn't getting kicked off of it every few seconds.Edited by Jeremy on November 8, 2020 6:32PM0 -
omnidoh✭✭✭Yes! I want Mounted Swimming!I want:- Conservation of Momentum while jumping (apparently only Mounts obey the laws of physics)
- Actual swimming, as in, you know, underwater and what not like 100% of all other MMO's have
- Mount Swimming
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