Mount Random Animations

Do you think mounts should have random animations when inactive? Like the horse mounts shaking it's head a bit when snorting or a couel stretching? In my opinion, because some mounts just standing there looks rather boring and dull, and not all mounts have to have animations since some don't have limbs or are just machines.

I agree. Giving mounts an idle animation would help make the afk'ers seem less lifeless. Hell, why not give us players some idling animations, be it stretches, yawns, looking around, etc.

or my horse/chocobo doing a poop when idle

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Originally Posted by Enur

I agree. Giving mounts an idle animation would help make the afk'ers seem less lifeless. Hell, why not give us players some idling animations, be it stretches, yawns, looking around, etc.

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You know, I wouldn't mind this in a way. Have a small list of idle animations we do when left sitting for a few mins. Granted it wouldn't really do any good for the player but be an interesting touch.

There's just too many mounts to realistically give them all ones. And implementing such things may cost us something elsewhere such as not getting new emotes etc.

I'm sure Im not alone in saying that if it was a choice between idle animations for mounts and new emotes for our actual characters is no bueno.

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Originally Posted by Shippuu

There's just too many mounts to realistically give them all ones. And implementing such things may cost us something elsewhere such as not getting new emotes etc.

I'm sure Im not alone in saying that if it was a choice between idle animations for mounts and new emotes for our actual characters is no bueno.

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True, but a lot of mounts are just copypasta versions of each other, so they can easily just recycle them.

I would rather see more mounts get special actions you can do while riding them, like the magitek armor's beam.

Am I completely nuts, or didn't the behemoth mount used to let you summon a tiny comet? Was this ever a thing? I was so sure this was real, but I guess not..?

You're imagining things. I had the behemoth mount since it went live and it never had that ability. Heck, none of the mounts ever had any actions until the Magitek mounts got them I think.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

You're imagining things.

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I feel like such a crazy person right now, because I have this memory of thinking it was a cute/funny thing for it to have. Maybe I'm misremembering something from another game? Could be when you summon Beast in Kingdom Hearts, and he does a meteor attack. I dunno. Regardless, I think it would be cool if FFXIV did this.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

You're imagining things. I had the behemoth mount since it went live and it never had that ability. Heck, none of the mounts ever had any actions until the Magitek mounts got them I think.

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Wasn't the Goobbue able to sneeze from the beginning?

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There are always different teams working on different things, and while ofc cost and manpower are limited, it does not have to be one or the other. We can get new emotes AND mount movements if enough people highly care about that.

I'd personally really like idle motions for both players and mounts.
One of the reasons why I like going back to lala time and again is their movement when sitting. Not just like a mannequin, but softly lean here and there, or wiggle their legs when sitting on a chair, stuff like that :)

Since I'm greedy, I'd also like all the mount skills to become available for usage in the overworld, especially all the beastmen and seasonal mounts.

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

I feel like such a crazy person right now, because I have this memory of thinking it was a cute/funny thing for it to have. Maybe I'm misremembering something from another game? Could be when you summon Beast in Kingdom Hearts, and he does a meteor attack. I dunno. Regardless, I think it would be cool if FFXIV did this.

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Mmmmmaaaaaybe you saw someone use an item from last year's rising event? There's an item that has a meteor come down and explode before transforming into the ARR symbol.

Would be a nice addition to have.

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

Am I completely nuts, or didn't the behemoth mount used to let you summon a tiny comet? Was this ever a thing? I was so sure this was real, but I guess not..?

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Only since CT1 and not as a mount

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Wasn't the Goobbue able to sneeze from the beginning?

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Not the 1.0 Gobbue. It came ingame with the sylph beastquests.