CHOCOBOS!!!!!!! 1.19!!!!

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

This seems like a good spot to drop some information that we recently heard from Yoshida... He mentioned that the dev. team is currently thinking about two different approaches.

The first is pet-related content where players can raise chocobos and other mounts that anyone can ride. The second idea is centered around pets that can only be utilized by specific jobs.

However, we won't be picking just one concept to implement. Instead we will be looking into the specifications so that we can implement both. However, as we are not yet at the stage where we can disclose when the implementation timing will be. We hope that the current chocobo implementation planned for 1.19 will hold you all over in the meantime. :)

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so he mean that you can either raise 1 and ride or rent 1 ?

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

so he mean that you can either raise 1 and ride or rent 1 ?

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No, he's saying in patch 1.19 you'll be able to rent out chocobos. And they are trying out ideas for chocobo raising as mounts and other animals, and pets for certain jobs only (not class specific mounts, class specific PETS).
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I would personally be satisfied with using only chocobos as mounts IF they actually gave them different abilities this time around a la FFIV, V, VII, and IX as opposed to just being present in the lore.

IE, give me chocobos that can fly, cross through water, maybe be better suited for certain climates, different abilities like jumping(I would totally be up for chocobo jumping), digging, racing, etc.

oh ic, just want to confirm that they are working on raise a chocobo pet and ride system after patch 1.19

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

oh ic, just want to confirm that they are working on raise a chocobo pet and ride system after patch 1.19

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Yep they plan on this! I actually don't see it taking too much longer after all of the battle updates to implement this.

Hi All,

In case some Chocobo Enthusiasts missed it, Yoshida-san posted a little bit more about Chocobos yesterday, translated via the hard work of Renta Hamster here (in this great Chocobo Thread) :) -

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post232758

Sounds nice. :)

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Originally Posted by Starlord

From Bayo:




No one listened to Bayo on a different subject and he was right.. So.. Believe in the Inky Malboro now!

Chocobos is Coming!!!!

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KWEH !!!!!
/10CHAR

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Originally Posted by Picoman

Yea, yea, we were all shocked to find a copy of Open Beta in the CE box but that was Wada's fault.

It will be a nice day when SE start charging for the game and all the losers leave. (Hope they also get blocked from forum posting.)

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God these are seriously my favorite posts on these boards, its like people actually believe XIV can afford to lose any more subscribers.... If i didnt want this game to succeed so bad i almost wish another mass exodus would happen upon their decision to start charging so you can see exactly where your logic got you and this game.... If it wasnt obvious im so sick of people saying stupid sh*% like oh ho herp derp hope more people leave so my game can be the 1337 saus single player sandbox i always wanted!

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Originally Posted by Azurus

God these are seriously my favorite posts on these boards, its like people actually believe XIV can afford to lose any more subscribers.... If i didnt want this game to succeed so bad i almost wish another mass exodus would happen upon their decision to start charging so you can see exactly where your logic got you and this game.... If it wasnt obvious im so sick of people saying stupid sh*% like oh ho herp derp hope more people leave so my game can be the 1337 saus single player sandbox i always wanted!

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Well, people need to stop complain over stupid stuff. Chocobo Awesome addition what happens? It gets trashed down.. Grand Companies awesome addition like FFXI Nation missions.. what happens Trashed down... Fatigue System Thank god its gone.. what happens? This shouldn't have been in the game in the first place instead of like Hooray thank god its gone.. You see what I mean? its Idiotic responses such as those that really bother me.. not the people being so Negative about that game ( though I wish it would stop) but its whatever.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Well, people need to stop complain over stupid stuff. Chocobo Awesome addition what happens? It gets trashed down.. Grand Companies awesome addition like FFXI Nation missions.. what happens Trashed down... Fatigue System Thank god its gone.. what happens? This shouldn't have been in the game in the first place instead of like Hooray thank god its gone.. You see what I mean? its Idiotic responses such as those that really bother me.. not the people being so Negative about that game ( though I wish it would stop) but its whatever.

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i hear what your saying but honestly we can afford to listen to the trashing because honestly it is never going to go away. However, this game can not afford to lose subscribers no matter who they are. We need to sit back and take the negitive posts with a grain of salt and hope that SE can deliver and can be in a state of charging and growing. What we cant do is wishing for people to leave an already withered player base.

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Originally Posted by Azurus

i hear what your saying but honestly we can afford to listen to the trashing because honestly it is never going to go away. However, this game can not afford to lose subscribers no matter who they are. We need to sit back and take the negitive posts with a grain of salt and hope that SE can deliver and can be in a state of charging and growing. What we cant do is wishing for people to leave an already withered player base.

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Well tbh.. a huge surge of new people just came on to the Besaid server so people are hearing about the Radical changes and are starting to pick up the playbase rate I recruited like 5 new members already from that batch

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Well tbh.. a huge surge of new people just came on to the Besaid server so people are hearing about the Radical changes and are starting to pick up the playbase rate I recruited like 5 new members already from that batch

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Thats great thats the kinda stuff i like to hear. Retention is my worry but thats neither here nor there. Chocobos ftw and lets see this game grow!

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Originally Posted by Azurus

Thats great thats the kinda stuff i like to hear. Retention is my worry but thats neither here nor there. Chocobos ftw and lets see this game grow!

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Airships....Chocobos.... Dungeons..... Grand Companies (missions).....Jobs.....Materia System.....Primal Battles.....Fatigue Gone....Physical Levels gone....

Going to repost this here 'cause I'm a narcissistic asshole(but seriously, just think about it):

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

add a jump system with fatigue (no more than 2 jump in a row)

Allow chocobos to cross zones that u cant walking (high grass zones or something similar)

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Maybe this would be the gateway into adding airborne or island/underwater content. Maybe you'd need a few flying birds to access land that is otherwise unsuited for airship travel, or travel across bodies of water that large objects like ships can't make it through. Maybe dungeons could be accessed this way. They could also create various paths through places, and in order to access alternate routes, you might need chocobos to jump over cliffs or large downed trees or whatever.

...Now that I think of it, a "stamina" meter for chocobos(think of the carrot meter from Ocarina of TIme and such) might be conducive to some interesting racing environments. If you sprint with your bird or leap over an obstacle, the gauge is reduced greatly, while running at reasonable pace would recover the gauge. This might also be good for general traversal to prevent people from going apeshit with it.

Assuming that Yoshida is able to have chocobos combat ready, that might also be an interesting combat mechanic. Say when the stamina gauge is full, you can use like a "choco-charge" attack or maybe different types of abilities based on chocobo type, kind of like the limit breaks for your Wyvern as a Dragoon in FFXI worked. That would add some variety I think.

...I just had an idea sugar shock... >.>

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

Going to repost this here 'cause I'm a narcissistic asshole(but seriously, just think about it):

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Feather Icons for Birdy Boost FTW!!! :D

I sort of though they took long time to implement because this "new purpose" was being worked on.

Apparently they were just working on these dungeons then or something. I guess there's not that much behind the scenes being worked on and this is the pace they're going to be adding new things to the game.

While I'm happy to have even the bare bones of a battle system and chocobos I fear the current playerbase will burn through whatever content SE will be dishing out in few days and then wait for another 6 months for new additions.

Well it's all just speculation born out of waiting. When do you think it will be officially acceptable to announce one thinks SE is moving really slowly with simple systems? Presonally I felt a bit bad when a free-to play Spiral Knights got an AH within weeks of release and here we are looking at SE trying to make the MW mess just not to crash with half empty servers.

I was hoping for chocobo fighting but maybe that's setting the bar too high? The concept art just seemed to be hinting at something like that but then again same could be assumed of XI concept art.

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Originally Posted by Seif

...I was hoping for chocobo fighting but maybe that's setting the bar too high? The concept art just seemed to be hinting at something like that but then again same could be assumed of XI concept art.

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Just in case you may have missed it, Yoshida mentioned something to that effect.

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

Just in case you may have missed it, Yoshida mentioned something to that effect.

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That sound good but I won't get my hopes up until it's in the game.

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Wark~

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Kweh? :D

Got to love our feathery friends.

Well they could borrow half their ideas from FF11 considering how far the breeding system has gone there. Though that's not to say other games have not done better pet systems.

At least the lore is easy to copy-edit-pasted over from FF11.