Mount Animations

[Lortheron]

The Chocobo mount animation is really well done, beautifully made, hair moves, armor moves...

The new implemented mounts have zero animation, the player character stays stiff as a brick on top of them, it's like a game bug really. It stands out a lot as not being on the same polish level of everything else in the game, not even near it. It looks very lazy made.

Please, Square Enix, implement the same Chocobo animations for other mounts in the game.

[Immortal]

Yeah its pretty terrible and highly noticeable on a lot of mounts. Check the Magic Pot mount, the character is so stiff it looks ridiculous.

[Lortheron]

Yeah its pretty terrible and highly noticeable on a lot of mounts. Check the Magic Pot mount, the character is so stiff it looks ridiculous.

Right? It's not asking much... just a few player character movement here and there, maybe mimic the chocobo original ridding animation or something like that... the way it is now is just silly and really not on par with all the rest of the game (which is from 2002...).

Please, do you know where can one place such suggestions / requests for it to be heard by the developers? Any idea? Thank you.

[Pixela]

The issue is, the monster was never intended to be ridden and so does not have animations built into it to accommodate the player bouncing around. If they tired to do this, it would look worse and clip through.

Personally, since it bothers me I don't use those mounts but I notice a lot don't really care. There are plenty that work fine, like raptor, tulfaire and crab etc

[Alhanelem]

The issue is, the monster was never intended to be ridden and so does not have animations built into it to accommodate the player bouncing around. If they tired to do this, it would look worse and clip through.

Personally, since it bothers me I don't use those mounts but I notice a lot don't really care. There are plenty that work fine, like raptor, tulfaire and crab etc

I don't think anyone expects anything fancy, just a variation on the idle animation, so that your character looks like he's still among the living. i.e. just a little natural flexing/wiggling of the limbs etc.

[Lortheron]

I don't think anyone expects anything fancy, just a variation on the idle animation, so that your character looks like he's still among the living. i.e. just a little natural flexing/wiggling of the limbs etc.

Exactly this, nothing fancy, just something on par with the rest of the game (which is from 2002). Not asking much... Is there any place for such suggestions / requests to actually be heard by developers?

[Zehira]

Be grateful, we don't have a Regalia Type-G in "Vana'diel." It's very weird but a four-seat mount is always nice.


Black, red, blue, and green chocobo mounts would be nice. I'd love to ride them more.

[Lortheron]

Be grateful, we don't have a Regalia Type-G in "Vana'diel." It's very weird but a four-seat mount is always nice.


Black, red, blue, and green chocobo mounts would be nice. I'd love to ride them more.

God damn how I hate the mounts in FFXIV... don't get me started, nothing makes sense, and it's all so poorly made.

[Alhanelem]

God damn how I hate the mounts in FFXIV... don't get me started, nothing makes sense, and it's all so poorly made.

Poorly made? I strongly disagree. Yeah, some of it is out of place, but that's partially because it's a fanservice game. every model is unique and many require new animations or poses, new VFX, new sounds, some mounts even had new music added for them, here in FFXI, they're basically just stapling your character onto an existing monster (We did get the one new music track for non-chocobos, but that's it). Granted, I'm actually very thankful they went and gave us more than just the chocobo we had for so long. But it's pretty insulting if not downright false to suggest that FFXIV's mounts are "poorly made" by comparison. My only complaint about them is the ones that are just so obnoxiously large that you can actually interfere with people being able to do certain things COUGH Asmongold COUGH (and maybe get banned for doing it lol).

[Lortheron]

Poorly made? I strongly disagree. Yeah, some of it is out of place, but that's partially because it's a fanservice game. every model is unique and many require new animations or poses, new VFX, new sounds, some mounts even had new music added for them, here in FFXI, they're basically just stapling your character onto an existing monster (We did get the one new music track for non-chocobos, but that's it). Granted, I'm actually very thankful they went and gave us more than just the chocobo we had for so long. But it's pretty insulting if not downright false to suggest that FFXIV's mounts are "poorly made" by comparison. My only complaint about them is the ones that are just so obnoxiously large that you can actually interfere with people being able to do certain things COUGH Asmongold COUGH (and maybe get banned for doing it lol).

FFXI is not my comparison in terms of quality, except maybe for the Chocobo original mount. Still, FFXIV mounts are a clipping galore and some very poorly animated, specially the cars, not to say: extremely out of place and immersion breaking. Also some mounts should not be able to jump at all, many of them actually, others should not be able to fly, and some should steer and behave overall different. Why have 34872x mounts if they all behave the same?? If they go trough the trouble of making new sounds, animations, models, textures, etc., they should really go all in and make it unique and care of immersion and things like clipping, etc., or it's best to simply not implement it in the first place at all. Quality of quantity, always (this used to be Square Enix way of thinking, BTW).