We should have more traversal cutscenes

I know this is probably very low on any persons priority list, but personally as someone who does use airships or other modes of transport fairly frequently in the game, it's a little shocking to me that they have not added any new traversal cutscenes in the game since the original launch of ARR.

Provided you haven't turned off traversal scenes in the options, taking the airship between the three main city states shows you riding the airship and lets you watch the ship take off and land at the landings which I think is pretty neat. Besides this, catching the boat from between Limsa and Horizon also bestows us a cutscene of your character riding the boat.

And yet, dispite all the travel options available to us there are no other traversal scenes in the game. I understand maybe not every single boat between Limsa and Costa Del Sol needs to be animated, but I'd personally quite like to see a cutscene of the airships taking off and landing at the new city states they added, and yet there are no scenes for flying to Ishgard, Kugane or Radz at Han. Similarly, catching the boat between Limsa and Sharlyan, and between Sharlyan and Tuliyolal lack any traversal cutscene (on a different note: why is there a 300 gil fee for travelling between Limsa and Sharlyan but the boat between Sharlyan and Tuliyolal is free of charge?)

More baffling to me is there is a scene of you flying an airship to the Gold Saucer during the quest to unlock that area, yet you never see any scene like that ever again. They could have easily just placed that scene as a traversal cutscene! I use the airship to travel to the Gold Saucer all the time because it costs NOTHING! They give you FREE TRAVEL EXPENSES, yet I'm denied seeing the ship dock into the port more than once!

When starting the Bozja quests, there's a cutscene of you taking the airship from the Doman Enclave to Bozja, and yet again this scene is never again shown when you take the ship to and from there. Considering you need to take the airship to Bozja as there's no Aetheryte teleport there, this was frankly a huge missed opportunity.

Lastly, I need to mention the worst offender. The questline for Kai-Shirr's custom deliveries sees you refitting a commercial airship service between Eulmore and the Crystarium, and there's even a quest where you are a given a special seat on it's first flight. Despite this, you never even see the airship you helped refit! Frankly, this is a huge oversight and in my opinion needs to be rectified!

I know it may seem silly, and it's not a huge deal in the long run, but I just think being able to see the city from a distance as you fly in or seeing the ships come and go would go a little way to making these cities feel more real and lived in. Wouldn't the airship landings feel more immersive if we could see the airships?

There's a reason for all of that. ARR was still heavily borrowing from XI in places that weren't gameplay. XI had much more involved travel, but as XIV has gone on travel has been basically reduced to teleportation. So while it made sense in ARR to have traversal cutscenes given the state of how things worked in 1.0 and how much of the game was in flux, it stopped making sense in HW when the devs saw that teleportation was cast millions of times more often than anyone used an airship or boat.

We're a minority OP. I personally would be thrilled to see real time travelling scenes, or a situation like FFXII, where you would board an airship and have some time to relax, buy some items, maybe check your retainer, play some triple triad, etc. Would be amazing, but I get why most people don't want it and why devs don't focus on it.

I agree actually. The travel between places like...

Limsa > Radz-at-Han > Kugane
Limsa > Old Sharlayan > Tuliyollal

Should have some travel cutscenes. It does bother me since I prefer to use these during the MSQ for a little more immersion than just teleporting everywhere.

They are optional after all and can be disabled.

I think there is something to be said for the illusion of scale. Things taking a while to traverse make things feel huge. You can already feel the difference right now between when you first enter a zone and when you get flying. Airships and boats requiring 5-20 mins to reach their destination would show that "yes. This world is big". Considering we can already teleport so easily, I wouldnt be opposed to having slower methods of travel actually have travel time. Right now we can go to the edge of the universe, and honestly it doesnt feel that far away at all.

When you first arrive in thavnir was one of the best memories of endwalker.

I wouldn't really use it because I have a stockpile of aetheryte tickets, but it would be neat to see more cutscenes like that added for people that want them.
Makes me think of the days when I started playing and saw the gold saucer for the first time, it was so cool.
I believe you can even disable those cutscenes for players that don't want to view them more than once.

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Originally Posted by Boblawblah

We're a minority OP. I personally would be thrilled to see real time travelling scenes, or a situation like FFXII, where you would board an airship and have some time to relax, buy some items, maybe check your retainer, play some triple triad, etc. Would be amazing, but I get why most people don't want it and why devs don't focus on it.

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i'd find this really cool. anyone remember maplestory airships and the balrogs that could spawn in flight? newbs would hide below deck while max level players clear the way lol

I'd love more of those scenes again, especially for taking it easy and questing at leisure, it really does add so much to the atmosphere and immersion. And one can always turn it off when one just wants to get there quickly.