Feedback on the new "Primal Birds"

[Renault]

Just some real quick feedback here.

I love the look of the new mounts, they're awesome, really.

However, I was very disappointed today when I turned on my mount music specifically so I could hear the cool new Sephirot theme...Only to find out it plays the "Phase 1" music instead.

Considering (edit for correctness) ALL of the other primal mounts play their Phase 2 themes, why did the Sephirot one get left out?

What is the chance that this change could be made? I just want to find out what happens when you pull back the curtain, you know?

[Taramin]

Wait, the Sephirot birb theme is the FFVI remix?

You just saved me a lot of farming.

[Morningstar1337]

Personally I'd prefer the former part of Brismarck's and Shiva's themes to the latter (if slightly) but if the Warring Lanner plays the phase 1 music instead of the post ultimate one, that IS a major inconsistency.

[Eul]

While other primal's mount plays phase 2 bgm but this mount play phase 1 bgm? Why oh why

[Kupocoubo]

They should give us an option to chose between phase 1 or phase 2 for every primals mounts...

[Mykll]

They should give us an option to chose between phase 1 or phase 2 for every primals mounts...

PS3 limitations. They can't do that because if they did they would have to load both songs into memory, even the one that you would never want to hear. Or that seems to be how they do the UI toggles anyway.


Edit: The elbow jab against the UI memory is per this post:

Hello, everyone.

The following is a comment from UI Lead Hiroshi Minagawa in regards to the new recast timers implemented in Patch 3.2.

A) Change how the icon is presented when an action becomes available
Change how the icon is presented when an action's recast is near completion, so that users can tell right away when an action will soon become available.

Display the remaining recast time as a numeric value
*Since we cannot add more displays on top of existing icons (which is a measure to lessen display density), we therefore used the part of the display which was used for TP cost. There were comments from testers mentioning that they wanted the number to be displayed in the center of the icon; however, this would required preparation of a different part or the placement of a process which would check the situation to change the displayed position. This was rejected because it would increase the load.

Limitations related to the design change suggested in A)
Currently, we cannot increase the capacity for texture images on the UI (HUD) which are constantly displayed.
*The capacity limitations on video memory for the lowest spec environment
In regards to the textures for the HUD, in order to account for the stability of the memory status, it has been structured in a way where it does not re-read, therefore we cannot address this by preparing two types of animation patterns for the recast.

We do not have an option to turn on or off the circles (or to revert back to prior UI), we don't have option to turn on numbers in the center of skills (even though the UI and memory is there when you cursor over an action while it is counting down), adding countdown timers to skills that did not have them before and having that as an option somehow works though.

So, yeah, when they are explaining in parts about how tight memory constraints are (yet somehow adding all sorts of stuff to the UI) and thus a lot of things we can't have a toggle for, oh yeah and there is this:

*The capacity limitations on video memory for the lowest spec environment

Which screams PS3 and really old computers, then yeah I don't have faith that we can have a toggle to select which song we want to hear on which mount beyond what we already have, hear the mount sound or not. And even then that toggle is global, not a per mount option.

[Slappah]

PS3 limitations. They can't do that because if they did they would have to load both songs into memory, even the one that you would never want to hear. Or that seems to be how they do the UI toggles anyway.

Yeah those pesky ps3 limitations suck

Ps3 limitations stop us from getting anything nice, like tp bars for our par.....owait

Or how about when the ps3 limitations stopped us from having timers on our cds.....owait

[Yasuhiro]

Yeah those pesky ps3 limitations suck

Ps3 limitations stop us from getting anything nice, like tp bars for our par.....owait

With the loss of party bonus shown in the HUD now we have to open our party list manually to see it.
Not like anyone really cared to look at those. Still either PS3 is holding the game back or devs can't come up with work arounds.
Final Fantasy XI and XII managed to get by the consoles limitations pretty well.

[CGMidlander]

However, I was very disappointed today when I turned on my mount music specifically so I could hear the cool new Sephirot theme...Only to find out it plays the "Phase 1" music instead.

Really? I can't think of a less fitting fight theme in the game for flying.

That sucks.

[Renault]

Really? I can't think of a less fitting fight theme in the game for flying.

That sucks.

Yes, it makes me sad