This game couldn't handle it, but it is something I very much miss from Daggerfall and Morrowind. It really completed that mage profile imo.

All it would mean for me is I would need a sturdier umbrella.

Don't want

wilykcat wrote: »

I do think adding in more flying(mounts, player abilities, gliding, floating, etc) to the game is possible because there's already plenty of creatures that already fly such as dragons, harpies, birds, butterflies, and more in the game.

So yes I would like the ability to fly.

those enemies fly because they are scripted to fly, it wouldnt work the same for players

like dragons for example fly only very specific routes, there is no variation

Flying mounts? Pass. Levitation and Feather Fall? YES! PLEASE! TES3 players know what I mean.

We have almost every big rock formation blocked by invisible walls from all possible directions since like what, Elsweyr? They're cutting corners with every possibility they can get, no traversal at all compared to base game and first dlc's so it's definitely not planned in a slightest.

It also would add literally nothing until they're basically redo whole zones from scratch for it to work and would add mechanics for flying to make sense, making zones borderless, filling all the gaps etc. so more like remaking the whole game. Is that possible, yes? It is likely? You know the answer to that most probably.

RaikaNA wrote: »

If you can ride dragons in Skyrim.. why can't we fly in eso? Skyrim is a much older game. I would love to have a flying mount. It would be awesome.

You do know that the games are running on completely different engines. You could fly in Morrowind as well, why the hell not in TESO?

It just doesn't work like that. For one, TESO has been designed as more flat game overall. Heck, you are hard coded not to jump over a fence. A lot of areas have physical obstacles that don't allow you to progress - canyons, walls, cliffs. Also, nearly all dungeons / delves have shortcuts that can be exploited with flying.

While flying is cool, i don't think TESO is ready for such a fundamental change. And all yay-sayers are pipe-dreaming.

Loved it in WoW, even quit WoW when they removed it. But it does not fit in ESO.

So ESO should not have flying, in my opinion.

PS: Would have gone back to WoW if they actually had flying still, as they used to have it. (duo playing it with ESO at the same time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6vJaoYng2w

I do not think engine can handle anything flying. Correct me if i am wrong here.

Your character somehow needs to touch the ground. You can not even open your mail box in mid jump. Best we can get is a mount like Gryphon, but that even needs invisible legs, if flying is not an option, always touching the ground. So more like we can get gliding mounts.

Opinions don't matter when the game engine can't support it.

WhiteScythe wrote: »

Being able to fly etc -- flying mounts all that stuff. What is our opinion?

That Ship has sailed. None of the Zones we have are made with flying in mind so they would have to introduce invisible walls or rework the borders of those maps. Also some Cities on those Maps are instanced so they would also put invisible walls over those so you don't attempt to land in the placeholder image you see from far away when looking at a city.

I also don't think they would ever spare the needed work force to get all that done. They are already cutting back on everything, even the Story for the latest Chapter will be spoon fed to us. So no, i do not thin Flying will ever happen in ESO.

It would be a rubbish idea for a game world that clearly is not designed for it.

I think they'd be kinda cool for a little while as a new thing to try, but the stuff that interests me in ESO is located down on the ground so I'm not sure how much I'd really use a flying mount once the novelty wore off. Regardless, it would likely require a new engine... keep in mind that things you see "flying" in the game, like dragons, are just following a scripted path.

Also a core part of the map design is that height is frequently used as a means of limiting access, and currently inaccessible areas of the maps were likely left empty, so it would also require a lot of development work. Rather than flying over lovely mountains, one might be flying over an ugly mess of textures that was never meant to be seen. Some zones have instanced areas (such as the main cities in newer zones) so one could not actually even seamlessly fly around one single zone in many cases. And instanced quest areas might be accessed in unintended ways, breaking quests. Etc.

Reaching the edge of an existing map and flying "over" the mountains, or walls, or ocean full of slaughterfish that currently defines the map edge would NOT take you to the adjoining map... at best you would hit an invisible wall and at worst it might take you into an undeveloped void area with unpredictable results, such as your character getting stuck or the game crashing. (people have sometimes discovered such voids through gaps accidentally left in rocks / walls).

Imo such technical challenges coupled with apparently limited resources being put into further development of eso make highly unlikely that flying mounts can or will ever be added. And there are much better ways they could spend their development resources, instead of putting in a ton of work to add a novelty feature that imo wouldn't really bring anything to the game.