[dev1082] The (un)Official Mount System Thread

[Starlord]

Shoopuffs. 'nuff said.

(Hypello: Riiiiide zee shoopuff?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkbf1TYQ6hs

[Krisan]

I don't want to see non chocobo mounts, it would feel more like WoW and less like FF. Chocobos and airships that's what it's all about in a FF game. Different colour chocobos would be more then enough, maybe we could customise them.

You realize that more games than WoW in the MMO genre have had mounts, yes? Furthermore there are lots of possibilities that come directly from the FF universe for this, like for instance.. Magitek Armor.

[Arkine]

Hmmm having mounts (w/e kind) with the option to attach a cart/let 2 people ride would be neat, and look alot better than auto-following.

[Msariel]

I think mounts beyond Chocobos are a good idea because, as other posts have pointed out, colors can only go so far even with customization with armor, saddles, etc. Mounts beyond Chocobos need to be creatures familiar to the FF series though, in my opinion. Wyverns, Coeurl, Adamantoise, smaller scale Behemoth; creatures like those who have been in several FF games throughout the years.

This may be stretching it, but the summons that have followed along the game as well (Ifrit, Oden (the horse part, like an Ixion in X), Bahamut,Fenrir, etc) could possibly be mounts? In the last Letter from the Producers, they said something about an Ifrit battle - perhaps defeating him would grant him as a summon to be mounted? I'm not sure how well it sounds on paper and how much better it would translate in-game, but it's just me putting in my two cents.

I think you're doing a great job SE :3

[Amsai]

I am pretty much OK with whatever ideas people have and whatever SE wants to implement for mounts and the mount system itself. The only strong feelings I have on the subject are that I never want to see mounted combat (in your face Chocobo Knight wannabes LOL). I just don't like the concept of that at all.

[Evenstar]

I rather just have chocobos as a mount and no other beasts.

[Laughlyn]

Slug mount FTW !

[Physic]

I rather just have chocobos as a mount and no other beasts.

you used to play on pandemonium in ffxi or nah?

[Duelle]

Magitek Armor.

I'd separate that into riding armor and battle armor. I still want to see a boss encounter where a member of the raid needs to pilot a suit of magitek armor to assist the raid.

[Randis]

I want to ride a big fluffy wolf, a raptor, a young behemoth, chocobo!
And maybe some useless fun mount, a worm creature maybe, something slow and silly.

I hope that we not only have chocobo breeding but also upgrades, like a chocobo cart, armor and so on.