Chocobo Racing and Weather Effects

[Welsper59]

Try doing this with a fair chocobo under rain weather:



I did this with a foul chocobo under fair weather.


I wish you some nasty luck trying to win these guys with a fair chocobo. I was lucky in this one there wasn't Teioh and an NPC called Star Breaker which I calculate have a maximum speed of around 500...just so that you make a slight idea of what that is, they can permanently sprint at roughly the same speed as any chocobo under choco dash. R300 is a nightmare even with an R285 chocobo with 460 max speed and 500 stamina. I dread to imagine what it would be like with a permaheavy every time it rains. I'm not gonna be the one to find out, you can give it a wild try though if you want.

Was that while enduring a large portion of the race with Heatwave weather though? Rain is just way too common and is the extreme for the foul weather conditions, whereas heatwave, as uncommon by comparison as it is, would be for fair. I mean the fair weather birds aren't anywhere near as bad in cloudy/foggy weather, as long as it's not rain. Foul weather in general seems to be way more frequent than fair, and I don't think bias has too much of an effect, since people will generally always be looking for beneficial weather and happy to get it lol.

On a side note though, I really don't think the NPCs are bound to weather conditions. It really seems like they're just following a set AI difficulty (making stupid mistakes, slowing down to give an advantage, etc) and doing these things reliably as though they were at the max stat levels for the given R-bracket. I can't speak for anything above 200, but below that it seems to be the case.