Oh I only had an issue with the fact you seemed to believe the armor suit idea was plausible, which isn't. I completely agree that seperate shoulder slots are far from confirmed, infact, I'm still leaning to the idea that they aren't

what exactly are we looking for, satanicmechanic?

http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon

I don't see what was "dumbed down" about the armor system from Morrowind to Oblivion. All they did was take away your ability to make small changes in the way your character looked by taking away the precious shoulder slots. I'm sure they will put them in Skyrim again because they took the extra slots out because they thought people would prefer not having to waste their time getting extra pieces of gear that gave little to no protection but instead it enraged everyone that can't stand change. So I'm sure they brought back the extra slots for all the people that complained about them like all the other changes they did to THE PRECIOUSSSSSS. Too many people think that Morrowind was such a golden game and that any deviation from that game is just unacceptable. People have to let go about their first game in the TES series they played. Move on with your life to the better games like Daggerfall and Oblivion and possibly Skyrim.

I would show you my source but then I would violate the TOS of these forums, sorry. Dont worry though you will find out soon enough.

This is just something on my mind - do you think they would dumb down armour slots so instead of Helmet, Greaves, Cuirass, Gauntlets and Boots , and instead of adding more customization to it a la Morrowind, they would dumb it down to a Fallout 3 style with just a helmet and lower body?

i think they should bring back pauldrons, seprate gloves, and the ability to wear some cloths under armor sets.
if not they should have specific base cloths meant for wearing under armor sets.
i've said it many times before and i'll say it again, its all about immersion with elder scrolls.
do what you will with fallout, but the elder scrolls should be a masterpiece.

DCDeacon told silvade a couple of minutes ago that its going to be a multiple armor pieces system

Remember, all multiple means is more than 1.

Previous experience with Beth. statements suggests it is better to assume the lowest possible value and be pleasantly surprised than it is to assume the highest possible value only to be greatly disappointed.

:violin: Two armor slots, wow, they removed the thing that made TES what it is, making one pauldron spikey and one smooth. RUINED!!!!

The fact of the matter is I see so many people that love Morrowind so much sling around "Dumbed down" inappropriately. Dumbing down implies that it has become simpler. Armor didn't become simpler because there was less of it. I don't see how something that was pretty self-explanatory and required no thought can become "dumbed down"

I don't see what was "dumbed down" about the armor system from Morrowind to Oblivion. All they did was take away your ability to make small changes in the way your character looked by taking away the precious shoulder slots. I'm sure they will put them in Skyrim again because they took the extra slots out because they thought people would prefer not having to waste their time getting extra pieces of gear that gave little to no protection but instead it enraged everyone that can't stand change. So I'm sure they brought back the extra slots for all the people that complained about them like all the other changes they did to THE PRECIOUSSSSSS. Too many people think that Morrowind was such a golden game and that any deviation from that game is just unacceptable. People have to let go about their first game in the TES series they played. Move on with your life to the better games like Daggerfall and Oblivion and possibly Skyrim.

Considering enchanting skill is back, I believe we will be seeing much more balance. But come on, in order to enchant all your armor to get effects like 100% chamaleon, you had to spend a lot of friggin' money in the altars, and finding all of this money was very hard!

Having looked at the images again I'm beginning to think that pauldrons might actually be back, the image with the guy being killed and falling backwards - that guy certainly seems to be wearing to different types of pauldron. Similarly in the image above the dark elf looks like he's only wearing one pauldron.


We can only hope.

I think pauldrens are back if you do look on page 51 there are 2 guys wearing the same armor, but one of them has 2 pauldrens and the other has only one

That's quite clearly no the same armor set. On page 52 picture in the top right? One guy in the distance has two pauldrons the guy closer up has none. But they're not the same type of armor. The guy in the distance has lighter looking armor and it appears to have more detail, I'm guessing it might be steel of some sort. The guy closer up has darker armor than the other guy and it has less detail, looks a lot like a basic iron cuirass he's wearing to me.
That's just speculation

I said the guy on page 51, the one dying has the same armor as the other guy in the upper left

Well, we were talking about MW here, so Enchanting was even A LOT more expensive.

Not to mention how awfully uncommon were the best items to enchant (e.g, ebony/daedric stuff)...

I already said that, gosh no one listens to me