Chocobo Trailer!

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Originally Posted by Chrees

Weak sauce. Rap de Chocobo is where it's at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nJnSqLquk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8pVSK2t88s

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Originally Posted by Rhianu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8pVSK2t88s

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Oh my, I forgot about this one! Well played! :D

Hey everybody! Foxclon was able to field a few questions on the upcoming personal chocobo system and I wanted to pass along those answers to you all.

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Originally Posted by Foxclon

Details about acquiring personal chocobos will be announced soon on Topics, but I will answer a few other questions in the meantime.

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About the upcoming "Chocobo Growth" system, I want to ride around on the fastest chocobo! Please allow us to increase our chocobo's speed through training!

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The current plan is to implement the ability to battle alongside chocobos in the future, so the growth system is being planned to train chocobos in preparation for battle.

We also plan on implementing other mounts in the future, so we will look into chocobo speed in conjunction with the other mounts.

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Can we choose between male and female chocobos?

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The personal chocobos being implemented this time will all be male.

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Will there be color variations for chocobos?

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The personal chocobos being implemented this time will all be yellow. We are looking into whether or not we will implement additional colors in the future, so please stay tuned for future updates.

Once patch 1.19 is implemented, and players begin to use chocobos, I'm sure there will be various other comments and requests. We look forward to receiving your feedback!

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The current plan is to implement the ability to battle alongside chocobos in the future, so the growth system is being planned to train chocobos in preparation for battle.

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Yay!

Chocobo, ATTACK!

KWEH

Ew! Screw this all male chicken!

No breeding no fun! /fail

Already not looking good anymore this idea...i was hoping something like FFXI chocobo system...it was such a fun system...too bad this one will be crappy :/

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

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Originally Posted by Foxclon

The personal chocobos being implemented this time will all be yellow. We are looking into whether or not we will implement additional colors in the future, so please stay tuned for future updates.

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So, they're rescinding the old promise that our chocobo will be variously coloured, huh? 'Cause aways back it was pretty definitively said that chocobo of various colours would be in the game, not that they were 'looking into whether or not [they] will implement additional colours in the future'.

Honestly, as per the above, this whole thing will lose the vast majority of its appeal if it turns out they're leaving out stuff like breeding and just tacking on a generic mount system; I hope that's just a misread implication and it will indeed be coming later.

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Originally Posted by Lienn

Ew! Screw this all male chicken!

No breeding no fun! /fail

Already not looking good anymore this idea...i was hoping something like FFXI chocobo system...it was such a fun system...too bad this one will be crappy :/

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Breed system come later. We all knew this.
First we get chocobos to ride.

I can't wait to fight alongside my bocochos! I mean chobocos! I wonder if we'll get access to skills like Choco Meteor and Choco Cure?

I realize that there are bigger fish to fry, but having this in the game makes me very happy. :o

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Originally Posted by Cycloptichorn

Yay!

Chocobo, ATTACK!

KWEH

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What an attacking chocobo might look like...

There will be multiple chocobo colors eventually, you can rest assured. Like Felis said, the breeding system will come later. They're implementing the system in steps so we can get important functions in stages instead of having to wait a long time to get them all at once.

I'm glad I was right and chocobos will be NPC partners instead of simply being jousting mounts :cool:

Colored chocobos or bust!

Magitek mounts!

I'm getting hyped all over again.

Colored Chocobos - {Yes please!}

Don't care much at all about other types of mounts besides chocobos (no wow petting zoo thanks, lets keep it final fantasy).

I'd love to see breeding system with various colours and sizes of chocobos take priority over silly ridable random beasts.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Hey everybody! Foxclon was able to field a few questions on the upcoming personal chocobo system and I wanted to pass along those answers to you all.

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Come on now......You know the 1st thing people are going to want are the different color chocobos!

Before they add in colored chocobos they have to figure out what their purpose is. Getting out the rental and personal chocobos, you should be happy about. Just a few weeks ago it was said that the personal chocobos might not make it in 1.19. Now they are! Maybe they had to edit down some plans (such as colored chocobos) in order to make this happen sooner.

Again, if you're going to add colored ones. You have to figure out what different abilities they will have while not being broken. (red crossing steep hills, blue running over lakes, ect)

I think having different colors for the sake of having them is not good enough. Might as well wait and figure something more clever out that has to do with their coloring.

I for one am very excited, I also hear that we can get gear and equip our chocobo's as well. Don't know if this will be in with 1.19 but that is also exciting. Gear for looks and for also helping take damage, and fight. Should be good times all around. Can't wait. :)

If you do implement a chocobo breeding system, please make it more like the one in FFVII and less like the one in FFXI. :)

FFVII's breeding system was way better than FFXI's.

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Originally Posted by Choyi

Don't care much at all about other types of mounts besides chocobos (no wow petting zoo thanks, lets keep it final fantasy).

I'd love to see breeding system with various colours and sizes of chocobos take priority over silly ridable random beasts.

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There have been plenty of FF games that let players ride other types of mounts besides just chocobos. FFXIV won't be the first.

Personally, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for ride-able moogles! :3

I wont mind additional mounts like hippogryph, but I much rather magitek.

I hope to see even gold chocobo in the future lol

One more thing, I hope the breeding system is not going to be like FFXI. iirc it took half a month to raise a chocobo to adult hood, and the results from it was lack luster because no matter what color they were, they was still slower than rental chocobos, and did nothing special.

I have mixed feelings about this. I really don't want a hundred different gaudy mounts cluttering up every town. But I would like to see some variety.

Also, I dunno how I feel about Chocobo combat. I would have preferred support features over combat. Fighting is already excessively easy.

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Originally Posted by Kiote

I have mixed feelings about this. I really don't want a hundred different gaudy mounts cluttering up every town.

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Have they mentioned anything about riding the chocobos in town yet? Just wondering. I hope they let us personally, and just not let us enter certain areas on chocobo (like the tavern areas). If it's going to be anything like FFXI, I have my doubts they will let us ride in the city period. :(

Ah well.... to spark this argument again...

The cities are not even that big, I dont see the need to walk the chocobo inside any city. No mounts inside cities please.

Reason? inside cities there are always specific gathering points for players: right outside the Wards, the Guildleve counter, the Repair NPC (This might change with incoming changes in 1.19), etc. The lag this would create once were up to 2k ~ 3.5k players will be horrible. And besides the fact it would break "immersion" xD

I know the market right now is WoW players but really there no need to make other type of mounts o.o

and we should be allow to use diff type of colors and each city should have the color for themself.

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

I know the market right now is WoW players but really there no need to make other type of mounts o.o

and we should be allow to use diff type of colors and each city should have the color for themself.

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I dont think it has to do if WoW does it or not ... ^^;

But it is well known there are other mounts in the Final Fantasy universe besides chocobos. Variety doesnt hurt ^^

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

We also plan on implementing other mounts in the future, so we will look into chocobo speed in conjunction with the other mounts.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

other mounts.

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Morbol Cavalry: Yeah, You're Pretty Much Effed.

I'm glad for what they are releasing and I'm content to wait for the rest. Battle chocobos sound pretty fun. :)

please add chocobo digging ^^

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Originally Posted by Andrien

I wont mind additional mounts like hippogryph, but I much rather magitek.

I hope to see even gold chocobo in the future lol

One more thing, I hope the breeding system is not going to be like FFXI. iirc it took half a month to raise a chocobo to adult hood, and the results from it was lack luster because no matter what color they were, they was still slower than rental chocobos, and did nothing special.

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Sure it took some time but my chocobo was a tad faster than the rentals. I understand the half a month thing but thats the nature of mmos some things take time. It wouldnt be raising a chocobo if the damn thing hatched from an egg and two secs later you expect to be blazing through the game riding the poor thing.

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Originally Posted by Lienn

Ew! Screw this all male chicken!

No breeding no fun! /fail

Already not looking good anymore this idea...i was hoping something like FFXI chocobo system...it was such a fun system...too bad this one will be crappy :/

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Um this is a basic chocobo system. Just the start of a much larger and more complex system. You weren't able to breed chocobos when you could first get them in 11 either, that came later.

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Originally Posted by Vesper

Um this is a basic chocobo system. Just the start of a much larger and more complex system. You weren't able to breed chocobos when you could first get them in 11 either, that came later.

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They have to implement the Missing Genders Patch 1st. ;>P

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Originally Posted by Enthy

please add chocobo digging ^^

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+1 to you my good kitteh!~

Please add chocobo digging, Hot&cold!

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Originally Posted by Felis

Breed system come later. We all knew this.
First we get chocobos to ride.

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Wrong way round.

It would have been really cool had they introduced choco raising right at the start when chocos first come into the game. You could raise one right at the beginning and it would be with you all through your 'life' in the game.

I was really hoping SE would do this, after loving choco raising in XI, really disappointed now.

W0000 Chocobos!

I wish 1 day SE adds mounting animation, so its not just instant pop... but besides that all cool :)

A big NO to riding chocobos in towns.

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Originally Posted by Delmontyb

I for one am very excited, I also hear that we can get gear and equip our chocobo's as well. Don't know if this will be in with 1.19 but that is also exciting. Gear for looks and for also helping take damage, and fight. Should be good times all around. Can't wait. :)

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They planning this for 1.20

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Originally Posted by Davorok

They have to implement the Missing Genders Patch 1st. ;>P

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You mean female chocobo? ^^