For those that haven't caught up, List of confirmed flying mounts in 3.1

[Toguro]

Wait so if Magitek armors could fly this whole time... the why didn't the Garleans............

Oh God OH GOD next raid confirmed

[Enkidoh]

I suspect that SE will explain it as being an 'experimental upgrade' by Cid and the Ironworks or something, possibly using Biggs and Wedge's aether-conversion system that also powers the manacutter. But I guess I'm reading too much into it.

[BunnyHop]

I personally don't like any of these showed flying mounts, except the 3 chocobo's. But I am happy that they get implemented for those people that do love these mounts.


I also fully support the idea for Fenrir being able to fly. I mean if all these mounts can get an excuse to fly, so can Fenrir. Let people have what they want, why is that so much of a problem?


I also don't get people trying to argue about "logic" in a FANTASY game, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I personally don't like any of these showed flying mounts, except the 3 chocobo's. But I am happy that they get implemented for those people that do love these mounts.


I also fully support the idea for Fenrir being able to fly. I mean if all these mounts can get an excuse to fly, so can Fenrir. Let people have what they want, why is that so much of a problem?


I also don't get people trying to argue about "logic" in a FANTASY game, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

More of "suspension of disbelief" rather than logic. For me, the only way non flying mounts can fly is by either slapping on wings or using "magic" as a glorified no clip mode. Both would look extremely tacky.

[Nalien]

Making absolutely everything fly seems absurd to me, more so considering I doubt many of them would look good doing so... The Magitek mount could already be pushing it, IMO...

That said, the justification for anything being able to fly is simple...

Actually, that might be the best way to keep land mounts relevant... If they could effectively jump from one island to the next, and perhaps had a speed boost to put them ahead of flying mounts, we'd have a case of "I can go anywhere on Fenrir, faster too, but I could get aggro" verses "I can go anywhere on ADS and avoid aggro". Having Fenrir jump to floating islands, or up steep cliffs, would certainly look worlds better than him magically sprouting wings and flying somehow... The animations could certainly be a lot better, who doesn't want to see Goobbues preform extraordinary jumps by sneezing, from the other end...?

[Misutoraru]

I can already foresee
ppl asking to shoot laser for the mouth or able to use Kamehameha by monk
Or having supernatural power for their characters
At the end it is Fantasy game

[SendohJin]

I also fully support the idea for Fenrir being able to fly. I mean if all these mounts can get an excuse to fly, so can Fenrir. Let people have what they want, why is that so much of a problem?

none of them needs an "excuse" to fly besides Kirin and Magitek. all of the other ones already don't touch the ground or have wings.

are you going to pay the devs overtime so other people can get what they want? flight animation doesn't grow on trees.

[Colorful]

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So because it's a fantasy games, no laws of reality apply to it? No, FFXIV has its own set of rules, you can't claim "but it's fantasy" on everything. How about our characters grow 10km long legs and just walk to other continents? It's just a fantasy game, right? Anything goes.

[RiceisNice]

none of them needs an "excuse" to fly besides Kirin and Magitek. all of the other ones already don't touch the ground or have wings.

are you going to pay the devs overtime so other people can get what they want? flight animation doesn't grow on trees.

Kirin is tributed to asian myths of kirin, and well, has magical wings, and the magitek, like when you'd re-enable its weapons systems, would most likely have a quest to unlock flying (similar to the chocobos).

The other mounts though, would require something like being strapped onto a rocket pack, getting augmented with magics (in which case why do we even need mounts to fly if we can literally slap wings onto anything, including ourselves) or get some Allagan improvements.

Like an owlbear.

[Kosmos992k]

none of them needs an "excuse" to fly besides Kirin and Magitek. all of the other ones already don't touch the ground or have wings.

are you going to pay the devs overtime so other people can get what they want? flight animation doesn't grow on trees.

I'm not entirely sure that the Magitek Reaper really needs an excuse to fly.

::rationalization mode enabled::
There are plenty of examples of technological walkers similar to this that have flight capability. I'd go as far as to say that the 'wings' are purely cosmetic for the Magitek Reaper in flight, and that instead there is a Magitek flight system built into the device that neither Cid, nor we were aware of. I mean, those flying gunships (the cylinders with wings) can't possibly fly with just those wings, so there has to be a Magitek system for flight capability build into them. The armored Magitek Reapers look more advanced (to my eyes) than those flying gunships, so why wouldn't they include that capability in them?

Wait so if Magitek armors could fly this whole time... the why didn't the Garleans............

Oh God OH GOD next raid confirmed

I sense a disturbance in the force....I sense flying Magitek Reapers will appear somewhere in Void Ark....