To make them truly masters of the sky, the team gave them individual pathing options when flying (not shared with any other flying creatures in the game) in addition to a large amount of custom animations. Like the gryphons of ESO: Summerset, Dragons needed to fly and fight from both the land and the air, but unlike the monsters found in the home of the High Elves, the team wanted to do more for the legendary scaled beasts.
Even throughout the rest of the year beyond the Elsweyr Chapter, you’ll continue to encounter new Dragons! Fire from the Sky When you encounter a Dragon during your adventures, whether it be in the overland events, the Trial, or the main story quest, you will face a beast tailor-made for that type of engagement. “We've crafted more custom stuff for them than any creature we've made before, building the models out of parts so we can mix and match different wings, horns, heads, and colors.” “Dragons need to look intelligent and exude power in everything they do and say,” explains Wicks. Many Dragons appear throughout the various Elder Scrolls games, so the team worked hard to make sure that ESO could support the creation of a different Dragon for every occasion while maintaining their distinctive style. High-quality digital sculpts bring Dragons to life Insight into the tech behind Dragons in Skyrim and what kinds ofĪnimations they needed to make them work.” “So we reached out to Bethesda Game Studios and received some great When it came to Dragons,” says Sean Wicks, the Design Lead in charge of the “ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim set a really high bar Such a massive part in the Elder Scrolls series. Build-a-Beast!įor the team charged with building these giant new monsters,ĭragons represented an unusual challenge, not least because they already played However, unlike the Nords of Skyrimĭuring Tamriel’s Fourth Era, the people of Elsweyr in ESO don’t have aĭovahkiin to protect them. That kind of magical agency is really, really cool.”ĭragons are a threat unlike any other in The Elder Scrolls,Īnd this is especially true in ESO. For Dragons, language and powerĪre intimately linked.
Probably their association with words and time. Stretches back to the dawn of time,” explains Tuttle. Highly intelligent creatures with a language and a culture that many believe “Dragons in The Elder Scrolls aren’t just winged lizards-they’re Just like the beasts you can experience in Skyrim, ESO’sĭragon share basic traits and characteristics, making them one of the series’
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