Suggestion on the Ozma mount

One of my favorite mounts in this game is the Demi-Ozma mount you get for clearing the Baldesion Arsenal in Eureka Hydatos. However, my one gripe with it is that it plays the default mount music. I personally felt like it should've played the theme you hear when you fight Ozma in the Baldesion Arsenal (or even in the fight during the old 24 man raid he was in). Something to differentiate it more, as it's not exactly the easiest mount to obtain.

It's a similar gripe that I and a lot of others have with the 'reward' mount from each expansion for getting all 7 EX mounts. Rather than even something simple, like that expansion's standard boss battle theme, it just plays its respective expansion's main menu music. Kills the excitement of it a bit.

Yeah I totally get that. Don't all of them just play the log in menu theme essentially? Not even the main theme for the expansion? I know for me, it was like the final hurdle of Eureka, and they put so much effort into the mount with it changing forms based on land, sky, and underwater travel. Why not give it it's own music on top of that

It's because it would require the sound team to have to specifically code that mount to play that specific track rather than just default to the standard mount theme (The Rider's Boon or Borderless depending if it was classed as a 'flying' mount or not. As it takes extra resources to do this, SE usually are not interested in going back and changing mount music, but it has happened (the magitek armour, the SB Primal mounts). But it is still unlikely.

Also it was my understanding that the Eureka music is from FFXI, which, frankly, does not suit Ozma at all, given Ozma and it's design both came from FFIX, a completely different game.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

It's because it would require the sound team to have to specifically code that mount to play that specific track rather than just default to the standard mount theme (The Rider's Boon or Borderless depending if it was classed as a 'flying' mount or not. As it takes extra resources to do this, SE usually are not interested in going back and changing mount music, but it has happened (the magitek armour, the SB Primal mounts). But it is still unlikely.

Also it was my understanding that the Eureka music is from FFXI, which, frankly, does not suit Ozma at all, given Ozma and it's design both came from FFIX, a completely different game.

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Wut? dude you go through the whole eureka just to get the ff11 instance and get ozma, just cause it came from 9 doesnt mean it must have ff9 music. Especially since the mount itself on fly/diving mode has a picture of hydatos inside of him.

You still have mount music turned on?

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Originally Posted by HeulGDarian

Wut? dude you go through the whole eureka just to get the ff11 instance and get ozma, just cause it came from 9 doesnt mean it must have ff9 music. Especially since the mount itself on fly/diving mode has a picture of hydatos inside of him.

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No but it would be rather poetic if they gave it a rearrangement of "You're Not Alone" from FF9 given how even getting it in the first place is an immense team effort. Though since they /didn't/ do that I'm hoping they're saving that track for another story appropriate time.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

It's because it would require the sound team to have to specifically code that mount to play that specific track rather than just default ...

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Since other mounts do have custom music this should be a trivial task, essentially changing the track id in the mount object's data file. Ideally their content authoring tools should have that capability. Certainly there would be some QA effort as well.

Note that I said "should". I don't know how they coded mount music selection. If they were competent then it's data driven like above. If they took a shortcut there's a hideous switch or if-then-else tree hardcoding each one. While that take slightly more effort to address it would then require a developer to make the change and would have to be distributed as a code patch instead.

They've changed mount music often enough that it obviously isn't *that* big a deal to do for them. They changed all the Mogstation mounts to have that crappy palace of the dead/hullbreaker isle music, they changed Alte Roite to have the Neo Exdeath theme, and as recently as ShB they changed Sabotender Emperador to have the Gold Saucer theme. It definitely seems like something they're perfectly willing and able to do if/when people complain enough about it.