Damn...who else wished for Q62 to be a thing?

[Gallus]

Just in case somebody missed it:

Q62. Similar to the glamour system, can you make it so we can change the appearance of our companion chocobo to look like a different mount?

A62. We would have to create attacks and healing actions for every mount, so this would be difficult.


I know first world problems...but I'm thinking it would be so damn cool to have Behemoth, Twintania or Midgarsomr fight by your side lol. Imagine if they ever implement the possibility to queue in ARR content (or HW once it gets outdated) with your chocobo companion, you'd be able to run through these dungeons with the companion of your election with the undersized party feature. Might just be me though and rest of the people couldn't care less about this :*. Anyhow...it's a shame because given Yoshi's response it doesn't seem like it's gonna happen (they have mount designs already though, would creating a very slight autoattack animation and a simple generic aura on all foes while casting really that complicated?), the skills could be exactly the same as the default chocobo ones, no need to create a different set of skills for each mount... (just renaming them to more generic skill names so that they can fit in every mount, eg. choco cure could be just cure...you definitely don't want to see behemoth going around casting choco cure as it would look silly).

[Colorful]

Considering they'd have to reanimate the abilities for every mount with a unique model, I'd say it would be pretty time consuming and pointless. If it ever does happen, I hope it doesn't happen with the super large mounts. Seeing Behemoths around everyone will get pretty old and annoying considering their size.

[Gallus]

If it ever does happen, I hope it doesn't happen with the super large mounts. Seeing Behemoths around everyone will get pretty old and annoying considering their size.

It wouldn't be any different from having multiple people on their behemoth mounts imo, this can potentially happen already.

[Lexxuk]

I think having the producer answer a bucket load of questions with "we can't do that" "that's not possible" "no comment", the time could have been better spent on answering actual issues and question, why would we need to know stuff they are not doing? Complete waste of time and effort, things they can't do, they don't need to be answered in a live letter, they can be answered by the mod team with the live letter showing us what they are doing, what we can look forward to.

[Colorful]

It wouldn't be any different from having multiple people on their behemoth mounts imo, this can potentially happen already.

The only time I see someone ride the Behemoth now is when they want to put it over something to annoy people who don't know about the targeting key.

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People want to know if that's going to eventually happen or not. I much preferred them over the questions about DRG being too hard to play due to positionals, or the seemingly countless class balance questions.

[SendohJin]

they do that so you know they are not ignoring it.

[Destinova]

Their answer is invalid, most of the mounts we have already have animations for them. Most of the mounts have a counterpart mob somewhere in the game that has said animations.

They could adept those animations.

If they cant do that then at least let us change to the other chocobos we have.

[Kallera]

I'd rather have more companions. We do have an entire tab devoted to it in the lodestone...

[LineageRazor]

I'd rather have more companions. We do have an entire tab devoted to it in the lodestone...

Probably an ambitious early plan that eventually got abandoned due to being too difficult or resource-costly to implement, much like "affordable housing seperate from FC housing" and "FC's summoning primals in the open world".

[Kallera]

Probably an ambitious early plan that eventually got abandoned due to being too difficult or resource-costly to implement, much like "affordable housing seperate from FC housing" and "FC's summoning primals in the open world".

They've had more than enough maintenences of the Lodestone to fix it if it was abandoned.