Give Behemoth Flight! and by association swimming

[Lildragora]

I really wish they would just classify things into one or two of three groups. Terrestrial, Aquatic and Flying. My bomb carriage can swim but my elbest cant. This really irritates me on a deep level and feels awkward especially when riding a flying Syldra. I agree with an above comment "lazy"

[Judecca_Penombra]

Woww you're all so serious... I still think it'd be cute

[Ferrasper]

Sleipnir first before Behemoth.

[ReplicaX]

Still waiting for Sliepnir to get flight.

This above anything else as it was talked about in a Heavensward Live Letter.

[ryouma17]

Also give the goobbue mounts flight as well.

this

i love my 1.0 goob and it pains me that it just collects dust in my mount menu

[Talraen]

In terms of realism and immersion, having a mount that can swim but not fly would be great. But it's completely impractical in terms of how this game is actually played. That said, I think now more than ever we need mount roulette customization or something, so we can limit the roulette to only mounts that actually make sense in all contexts. Assuming there are any at this point, lol.

[Lambdafish]

I really wish they would just classify things into one or two of three groups. Terrestrial, Aquatic and Flying. My bomb carriage can swim but my elbest can't. This really irritates me on a deep level and feels awkward especially when riding a flying Syldra. I agree with an above comment "lazy"

This is exactly how I would do it, and to make things fair here's my design for the mount system:

Terrestrial: Moves fast on land, cannot swim/fly
Flying: Moves slow on land, can fly
Aquatic: Moves slow on land, can swim

The movement system introduced in Stormblood would also be updated, with movement upgrades affecting flying and aquatic mounts when moving in the air/water respectively.

The devs have designed themselves into a hole where flying mounts are objectively better, so every mount has to have both flying and swimming. They said "you can't have a tiger mount because it can't fly" previously, but at some point, they smoked something strong and their design process changed to "sure, a tiger can fly"



Edit: Also, for my sanity: Aquatic mounts should be able to be mounted when on the surface of the water.

[Talraen]

This is exactly how I would do it, and to make things fair here's my design for the mount system:

Terrestrial: Moves fast on land, cannot swim/fly
Flying: Moves slow on land, can fly
Aquatic: Moves slow on land, can swim

The movement system introduced in Stormblood would also be updated, with movement upgrades affecting flying and aquatic mounts when moving in the air/water respectively.

The devs have designed themselves into a hole where flying mounts are objectively better, so every mount has to have both flying and swimming. They said "you can't have a tiger mount because it can't fly" previously, but at some point, they smoked something strong and their design process changed to "sure, a tiger can fly"

That design is certainly logical and consistent, but does it improve gameplay? Does anyone want to have to change mounts every time they dive into water, or land? One of the things I love about the increased mount speed is that in HW it was faster to land your flying mount on top of your destination than touch down and travel over land for a single second. Now, with upgraded speed, you can land a ways away and it makes no difference. I don't consider mount micromanagement to be a great enhancement to the game. And nothing is stopping you from switching out your mounts based on context if it bothers you.

Edit: Also, for my sanity: Aquatic mounts should be able to be mounted when on the surface of the water.

They can! Kinda! But only after you've unlocked flying. Because... reasons? lol

[Tonkra]

That design is certainly logical and consistent, but does it improve gameplay? Does anyone want to have to change mounts every time they dive into water, or land?

And i say screw mounts, i want to fly with my bare hands. because it is too much to press a button. *sarcasm off*

Sorry but people like you are cancer to immersion and this genre. cancer.


jesus christ.

[Talraen]

And i say screw mounts, i want to fly with my bare hands. because it is too much to press a button. *sarcasm off*

Sorry but people like you are cancer to immersion and this genre. cancer.

jesus christ.

lol what? That's a bit extreme. You might want to tone that down a tad.