Will Legacy Chocobo fly?

[Gilraen]

There will probably be a quest granting some kind of 'conversion' item allowing you to pick which mount can fly. As for chocobos not flying, did you watch any of the trailers? Like, anyone them? The Heavensward areas will obviously have black chocobo porters who, like in VII, will fly. Not saying that it doesn't look ridiculous, but black chocobos have had the distinction of flight since VII.

[Iromi]

Hoping for maybe a dev response on this

[MageBlack]

This is a very good question. I hope we get an official response. Several things have me wondering about this:

Chocobo Companion is seperate and different from the Legacy Chocobo.
- Companion can be fed and colored
- Companion can be used in battle and levels raised
- Companion will have a special quest to allow it to fly
- Companion is able to equip barding

Legacy Chocobo
- Legacy Has a intriguing description

Five years and a realm-shaking Calamity were not enough to break the bonds between you and your loyal steed. A single whistle and he will be at your side once again. In the five years following your sudden disappearance at Carteneau Flats, your ever-faithful chocobo spent each waking moment galloping across the realm in search of his lost master. His myriad adventures are nothing less than fantastical and heartbreaking...but that is a story for another day.

- Legacy has unique barding
- Legacy has a Tattoo on its beak
- Legacy has unique darker coloring to the tips of its feathers.
- other than that is is no different from the other mounts as a straight up mount.

I would love to see more of the back story of the Legacy Chocobo. Perhaps have an Echo Quest where you get some story on him when going to particular places. Some explanation to the Legacy mark on its beak, what it means, and how he got it. I would also love it if we could do everything we can with the Companion but with our Legacy Chocobo. I use him more often than not.

Please SE! Give us some Legacy Chocobo love!

EDIT:

OP, I noticed you mentiond they are pretty much the same thing by quoting someone else but this is not the case. The only thing the same about them is they are chocobos. The companion is a completely different interface. Now, I'm really hoping the quest they will have for the companion chocobo will also work for the Legacy but they specifically mentioned the Companion Chocobo. In the past SE has been pretty good about carefully worded posts, so this has me a bit curious how it will be handled. But yes, I really hope we can get a dev response.

[MageBlack]

It exist also the possibility that even a Goobbue can learn to fly.

The image in my head is disturbing. Floating through the skys like a blimp and its two noodly arms flailing in the breeze behind him. I see a combination of the two images below...

[Iromi]

Bump for possible response? ;^;

[BreathlessTao]

...I'm starting to feel put off, really. As if the absolute swarm of stupid ponies wasn't enough, in a world with lore almost completely lacking horses at all, they'll all also be able to fly. Heck, maybe even that bumbling goobbue will fly. But gods forbid actual birds can learn to fly (as some suggested)? Well, screw that. It's a good thing there's official word about the company chocobo getting the ability of flight - I'd suspect that implies all the other 'bocos will get it too. That's just me, but I am hopeful.

(On a general level, the legacy does need a little bit more TLC, as pointed out - it has an interesting paint and a cool description, and that's it. With that lore though, it deserves some more respect, at the very least, we should be able to have him as company mount too.)

[Fenral]

(On a general level, the legacy does need a little bit more TLC, as pointed out - it has an interesting paint and a cool description, and that's it. With that lore though, it deserves some more respect, at the very least, we should be able to have him as company mount too.)

I'm still bummed from when they announced that Legacy players would receive a "special chocobo" around the time they started talking about the companion system, and never qualified that it would be a "special chocobo mount" until it was way too late to change anything.

[Kukajoo]

it was confirmed in the twitch live letter stream (episode 6 i believe) , there will be a quest which you can take that allows you to train your legacy choco to fly

[FallenArisen0990]

The Heavensward areas will obviously have black chocobo porters who, like in VII, will fly. Not saying that it doesn't look ridiculous, but black chocobos have had the distinction of flight since VII.

To be fair, the black chocobo was allowed to walk over everything expect deep water lol. But it does make sense for it to be the staple chocobo for flight.

[Felis]

Not saying that it doesn't look ridiculous, but black chocobos have had the distinction of flight since VII.

They have flied since IV

https://youtu.be/clspAJx_pmE?t=832