Chocobos in 1.18?

[Tame]

I was reading the month old article on Siliconera, and it stated that "Ifrit, ridable chocobos, auto attack, leve reforms, and instance raids" were all coming in 1.18 -- so far, we've had almost all of this delivered, but not even a mention of a chocobo.

[Seikninkuru]

Don't hold your breath. it's just a game anyway,

[Colino]

The short answer is: Nope.

[Seif]

it includes battle tweaks, nothing to get overly excited about. Content seems to be at least 3 patches away.

oh yeah the dungeon will be coming though. I can't believe how long we've waited for these small things.

The way I try to reason the horribly horribly slow pace of anything they're doing is the fact that the game is barely finished yet so we shouldn't (?) expect them to update this game as often as other MMOs get updates...

Then again I personally think that time is of the essence to them with the game bleeding players by the second. If SE was smart they'd hire more people to this project that now seems more like n.yoshida's vanity project rather than a full-blown FF product.

[Tame]

Why would they say they were going to add something and then not do it, then?

[Ilethius]

because there ebil.

[Richard]

SE has already confirmed chocobos will be tested around patch 1.19 if not after. Airship transportation confirmed to be in 1.19.

[Loki]

They never said chocobos were ready for 1.18 they are working on it.

In 1.18 we will have 2 dungeons, a better hate control, a modification on leves and some bugs fix that's all.

They said they won't add contents before battle system changed >.< i don't understand why cause chocobos, housing, pets, season event etc don't need to use this battle system so why they stop everything else than the battle system...

[Kafeen]

SE has already confirmed chocobos will be tested around patch 1.19 if not after. Airship transportation confirmed to be in 1.19.

Really? Source?

[Akira_Tenshi]

Chocobos need to come soon if dungeons are coming. You won't be able to set up a party for a dungeon in town and then have everyone run to the dungeon it would take way to long. We will just have to camp outside dungeons to form parties until there is a faster way to travel. We may be able to use anima of course but that is not always available.