ETA: Chocobo Mask?

So.. A while back when you introduced the Chocobo Suit as the reward for getting a rank 10 Chocobo there was word that they were going to re-implement the Chocobo Mask which was only obtainable in 1.0 via the Chocobo Escort missions.

Is there any word on when and how the Chocobo mask will be re-implemented?

Part of me thinks it might become a veteran reward, since they have a whole new tier to announce soon

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Originally Posted by Gerolan

Part of me thinks it might become a veteran reward, since they have a whole new tier to announce soon

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Wouldn't be much of a vet reward to those who have it already. Will likely come when they re-implement Chocobo Caravans or something similar.

Also add the chocobo boots to complete the look. You can even tie it to an achievement like this:

Ride your chocobo 1000000 yalms.

Maybe as a chocobo racing achievement
earning place 1 50 times or something like this

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Originally Posted by Felis

Maybe as a chocobo racing achievement
earning place 1 50 times or something like this

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lol, Chocobo racing full of a bunch of people in chocobo costumes riding chocobos, what an image XD

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Originally Posted by Marxam

Also add the chocobo boots to complete the look. You can even tie it to an achievement like this:

Ride your chocobo 1000000 yalms.

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*finds npc that patrols an area*
*/mount chocobo, /follow <t>*

:D

Chocobo races? Well red chocobos obviously have an advantage there.

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Originally Posted by ispano

Wouldn't be much of a vet reward to those who have it already. Will likely come when they re-implement Chocobo Caravans or something similar.

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They did re-implement it, as a FATE.

Same with Hamlet Defense, as per their original 2.0 plans.


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Originally Posted by Gerolan

Part of me thinks it might become a veteran reward, since they have a whole new tier to announce soon

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Sadly not the new tier. (Goblin being the previous one added)

http://puu.sh/biXVj/1ae56cef3e.jpg

It'll probably be bought in the golden saucer using the new tokens/tickets they're going to be adding there. We've been told it'll work like a traditional arcade with lots of mini-games and tickets to turn in for prizes.

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Originally Posted by Shioban

They did re-implement it, as a FATE.

Same with Hamlet Defense, as per their original 2.0 plans.

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Uh, no, they haven't done either of them as fates. No fate in game even matches up. For either.

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Originally Posted by Shioban

They did re-implement it, as a FATE.

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I did many FATEs, but never a FATE where you need to protect chocobos, feed them if they are hurt and comfort them if they are in panic while moving from A to B.
What we have are ordinary NPC escort FATEs.

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Originally Posted by ispano

Uh, no, they haven't done either of them as fates. No fate in game even matches up. For either.

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Attack on High-Bridge and several FATEs in Coerthas, Black Shroud, Thanalan AND La Noscea involve escorting chocobos. That was the replacement as they discussed in the live letter

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/At...hbridge:_Act_I



As for an ACTUAL re-iteration of Hamlet Defence, the only current plans are from the original documentation for the "Battle for Ishgard : Involving all Disciples"

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Originally Posted by Shioban

Attack on High-Bridge and several FATEs in Coerthas, Black Shroud, Thanalan AND La Noscea involve escorting chocobos. That was the replacement as they discussed in the live letter

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/At...hbridge:_Act_I

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These are not true Chocobo Escort's though.. They do not have a separate Achievement based for Escorting chocobos. as The person stated above you, you're not required to take care of the chocobos based on their status as you escort them.
The Chocobos are also not attack-able by mobs.
Anyway; how this topic went off the discussion is beyond me. >.>

ETA on Chocobo Mask is what I'm wondering and I hope it doesn't trail off again.

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Originally Posted by Grimmel

These are not true Chocobo Escort's though.. They do not have a separate Achievement based for Escorting chocobos. as The person stated above you, you're not required to take care of the chocobos based on their status as you escort them.
The Chocobos are also not attack-able by mobs.
Anyway; how this topic went off the discussion is beyond me. >.>

ETA on Chocobo Mask is what I'm wondering and I hope it doesn't trail off again.

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I'm aware of how Chocobo Escorts worked in 1.23, as well as Hamlet Defense*. I did enough to make my face fold inside of itself on a daily basis.

However I didn't say they re-implemented it into ARR "as it was before", as is the case with Hamlet Defense/Chocobo Escorts currently. Anytime we inquired for their return we were completely ignored for the most part, or we were told they'd be utilizing the new FATE system for previous open world content instead (hence why Behests are gone now too).

Sadly we never got a true Chocobo Escort System or Hamlet Defense, but the stripped down FATE versions you can find in several locations throughout the world.

It's just a stripped down version of what it used to be that was slapped into a FATE.

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Originally Posted by Felis

I did many FATEs, but never a FATE where you need to protect chocobos, feed them if they are hurt and comfort them if they are in panic while moving from A to B.
What we have are ordinary NPC escort FATEs.

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See Above.




I'm not condoning the actions that SE took or saying "This is the original content" it's stripped down from what it used to be to utilize the FATE system, with no certainty that it'll ever return as it was before.



*That being said, Hamlet Defence wasn't really open world content, but they still did away with it for FATEs.