Damn...who else wished for Q62 to be a thing?

Just in case somebody missed it:

Q62. Similar to the glamour system, can you make it so we can change the appearance of our companion chocobo to look like a different mount?

A62. We would have to create attacks and healing actions for every mount, so this would be difficult.


I know first world problems...but I'm thinking it would be so damn cool to have Behemoth, Twintania or Midgarsomr fight by your side lol. Imagine if they ever implement the possibility to queue in ARR content (or HW once it gets outdated) with your chocobo companion, you'd be able to run through these dungeons with the companion of your election with the undersized party feature. Might just be me though and rest of the people couldn't care less about this :*. Anyhow...it's a shame because given Yoshi's response it doesn't seem like it's gonna happen (they have mount designs already though, would creating a very slight autoattack animation and a simple generic aura on all foes while casting really that complicated?), the skills could be exactly the same as the default chocobo ones, no need to create a different set of skills for each mount... (just renaming them to more generic skill names so that they can fit in every mount, eg. choco cure could be just cure...you definitely don't want to see behemoth going around casting choco cure as it would look silly).

Considering they'd have to reanimate the abilities for every mount with a unique model, I'd say it would be pretty time consuming and pointless. If it ever does happen, I hope it doesn't happen with the super large mounts. Seeing Behemoths around everyone will get pretty old and annoying considering their size.

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Originally Posted by Colorful

If it ever does happen, I hope it doesn't happen with the super large mounts. Seeing Behemoths around everyone will get pretty old and annoying considering their size.

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It wouldn't be any different from having multiple people on their behemoth mounts imo, this can potentially happen already.

I think having the producer answer a bucket load of questions with "we can't do that" "that's not possible" "no comment", the time could have been better spent on answering actual issues and question, why would we need to know stuff they are not doing? Complete waste of time and effort, things they can't do, they don't need to be answered in a live letter, they can be answered by the mod team with the live letter showing us what they are doing, what we can look forward to.

they do that so you know they are not ignoring it.

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Originally Posted by Gallus

It wouldn't be any different from having multiple people on their behemoth mounts imo, this can potentially happen already.

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The only time I see someone ride the Behemoth now is when they want to put it over something to annoy people who don't know about the targeting key.

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Originally Posted by Lexxuk

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People want to know if that's going to eventually happen or not. I much preferred them over the questions about DRG being too hard to play due to positionals, or the seemingly countless class balance questions.

Their answer is invalid, most of the mounts we have already have animations for them. Most of the mounts have a counterpart mob somewhere in the game that has said animations.

They could adept those animations.

If they cant do that then at least let us change to the other chocobos we have.

I'd rather have more companions. We do have an entire tab devoted to it in the lodestone...

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Originally Posted by Kallera

I'd rather have more companions. We do have an entire tab devoted to it in the lodestone...

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Probably an ambitious early plan that eventually got abandoned due to being too difficult or resource-costly to implement, much like "affordable housing seperate from FC housing" and "FC's summoning primals in the open world".

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Probably an ambitious early plan that eventually got abandoned due to being too difficult or resource-costly to implement, much like "affordable housing seperate from FC housing" and "FC's summoning primals in the open world".

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They've had more than enough maintenences of the Lodestone to fix it if it was abandoned.

I asked for this and more stuff on the live letter questions thread, they didn't answer much tho.

It still surprises me how people go against stuff like this saying "is too much effort for the devs" when they are not SE devs, point invalid

having more skins/companions that can fight with you and be able to take them to more places (duties) is a nice thing for EVERYONE

I have no desire, hope or really much care for what was suggested to be brought into the game. It's just not on my wishlist of things would like to see even though having more would not annoy me or offend me in anyway I just don't really care about it to be honest. Glamouring companions also seems a pointless thing to do (specifically using glamours for it), if they were to add variation in companions it would be better suited/would probably take around same amount of time to just add more companions rather than glamouring over a chocobo one since no matter what they would still have to allocate a vast amount of time creating the model animations and such.

of course it would be better for them to be different companions, as it would be arguably better for egis to be different, BUT, we are asking for SOMETHING to be added, even if its just a glamour... saying is pointless is the same as saying that all kinds of glamour are pointless

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Originally Posted by jazo

of course it would be better for them to be different companions, as it would be arguably better for egis to be different, BUT, we are asking for SOMETHING to be added, even if its just a glamour... saying is pointless is the same as saying that all kinds of glamour are pointless

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All glamours are pointless in the sense they do not give you any advantage in combat, they don't function in the real world meaning you the player won't be kept warm by your character wearing warm looking clothes etc and if glamour your mount or companion it won't make it run faster or fight harder etc. Will it make you feel better about your character? Maybe, but I am not sure how much value I would place on that (maybe about same value as which colour socks I might wear under my trousers and shoes). But that wasn't the point I was making originally.

My point was it is pointless in the sense it would probably take an equal amount of time to create the actual companion variations rather than relying on glamour and you yourself said agree actual companions would be better than glamours so if both take around same time why not ask for actual companion variations rather than falling back on glamours which would not be really that much easier to do in the first place.

Instead of asking for glamour, just ask for other companions since the latter is better and the former won't be really that much easier to do than the latter anyways. That was my point in pointing out the pointlessness of specifically asking for glamour versions. The other point I was making is I do not care one way or the other whether can use different companions to fight with or not, it won't improve my enjoyment or decrease it however the OP asked in the title who else wished for it and I answered 'not me followed by giving my reasons and some (apparently misunderstood) advice.

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Originally Posted by Snugglebutt

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Not everything in a MMO is fighting even less in this one, saying glamour is pointless is your personal opinion, we were not asking for glamour since release for nothing and lots of people ask to this day for glamour to be less restrictive and more variable, so yeah, glamour is not pointless.

also, believe me I asked for EVERYTHING



Here is the copy of my points:

Some love for Companions/mounts

Our companion chocobo is useful when we are doing stuff in the open world, make it easier to grab a bunch of enemies, but there is stuff that we have been asking for QoL and some other that we would like, as:
- Being able to queue with our chocobo out
- Being able to go into dungeons with our chocobo
- Talk to NPCs while mounted
- custom roulette
- Emotes for more mounts
- Being able to get into battle with other companion other than chocobo, as in other mounts (even if its only a companion glamour)
- Dyable bardings
- Get more companions such as our retainers
- More achievement rewards as getting a rank 20 chocobo is quite an investment in gil/time/effort/cooperation (golden dye maybe?)
- Increase the AI of our companion or make it scriptable/commandable
- Public stables for homeless people
- Increase max rank/add new abilities

There are lots of stuff that would be great to have to beef the companion system, is there any plan to do some/all/more of the points I listed?


And again we where asking if something is being planned in any point in the future

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Originally Posted by jazo

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Why are you so intent on picking a fight?

Go back and read my last sentence of my first paragraph in my previous post to this one and try to understand the angle I am coming from plus understand what I was initially responding to...

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Damn...who else wished for Q62 to be a thing?

Just in case somebody missed it:

Q62. Similar to the glamour system, can you make it so we can change the appearance of our companion chocobo to look like a different mount?

A62. We would have to create attacks and healing actions for every mount, so this would be difficult.

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...rather than adding additional elements which have nothing to do with what I originally said/was referring to.

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Originally Posted by Gallus

Just in case somebody missed it:

Q62. Similar to the glamour system, can you make it so we can change the appearance of our companion chocobo to look like a different mount?

A62. We would have to create attacks and healing actions for every mount, so this would be difficult.

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Honestly, there are several monsters in game right now that have wait for it: attack and casting animations!

Just a few I know, but they exist! I understand though since there are no Biasts, Ahriman, Goobues, Behemoths, Coeruls, or Wolves in the game world as fightable monsters.