Will Mounts be able to jump?

[Elexia]

i agee with isaveron and it has nothing to do with insecuirty. why shouldnt our mounts be able to jump, but only boring specific chocobos? it is just silly. what if you are in mixed terrain with both obstacles and water? are we supposed to dismount, mount new mount, dismount, mount new mount? oh please

I think she assumed people were cemented into the FF games to realize traits carried over as you bred your Chocobo and used the colors as a specific example of what they did in older games.

A gold chocobo retained all traits of the Blue, Light Blue, Light/Dark Green and Black chocobo, for example, which means it can do everything, meaning thats your overall goal in raising a chocobo.

A Light and Dark Blue Chocobo were aquarian chocobos. Light blue can cross streams and rivers while dark ones can cross a bit of the ocean (deeper water), logically if you raise a Blue chocobo and raise it to become a Black or Gold chocobo, it'll retain it's ability to jump/dig/cross rivers/cross some deeper ocean.

Obviously being able to color your chocobo any color would change the "defined route" based on color because in FFXI you could train your chocobo specifically in traits no matter the color.

[Arshy]

I hope none of the mounts can jump. Chocobos however, they can easily tie this into Chocobo breeding -- For example Red Chocobos could be able to jump, while our favorite Light Blue and Dark Blue chocobos can traverse watery obstacles, while our trusty purp-black/gold (FFIX) chocobos can fly.

This would be perfect.

[Elexia]

This would be perfect.

Yes! Sadly those who never played FFIV/V/VII/IX/XI didn't understand the concept she was saying fully lol.

[Matsume]

I hope none of the mounts can jump. Chocobos however, they can easily tie this into Chocobo breeding -- For example Red Chocobos could be able to jump, while our favorite Light Blue and Dark Blue chocobos can traverse watery obstacles, while our trusty purp-black/gold (FFIX) chocobos can fly.

Two words: Yoshis's Story (no pun intended)

Furthermore, I am pretty sure Yoshidasan has discussed jumping in one of the LIVE producer letters in which he explains that jumping on mounts is highly unlikely to be implemented. If I knew just where to look I would post the Link, but alas the videos tend to be lengthy (one or two hours) and I am not interested in spending that much time searching for this.

[lackofwords]

Yoshidasan has discussed jumping in one of the LIVE producer letters in which he explains that jumping on mounts is highly unlikely to be implemented. If I knew just where to look I would post the Link, but alas the videos tend to be lengthy (one or two hours) and I am not interested in spending that much time searching for this.

You do not remember that they've transcribed all the information into text? Took me less than a minute to find it. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/30508

44:17
Q: This wasn't mentioned in the FFXIV 2.0 announcement, but are there any updates on jumping and swimming?

A: Let's start with jumping. Since we're completely renovating the map for FFXIV 2.0, we'll have to perform a lot of tests when implementing jumping. We've debated waiting until Version 2.0 to do so. We are currently running various tests on it actually.

For swimming, we're looking at implementation sometime after 2.0. We think that being able to swim wouldn't be much fun by itself, so we'll also be adding areas that you can explore underwater, temples and the like. Please keep in mind that we're still in the very early stages of development.
* A work-in-progress video of jumping animations was shown at 44:52.

51:53
Q: Any chance chocobos will be able to swim and/or jump in the future?

A: First off, let's start with jumping. I've told the team that jumping while riding a mount is not a good idea. I see a lot of problems happening so I was very hesitant about that idea. However, there are many of us who'd like to see jumping chocobos. We're still in the middle of discussing the matter.

Next, swimming. Implementing swimming mounts will be very challenging. We will definitely have to get creative with how the animation will work in the water. If we do implement this, we might make it so that players will be able to swim only on the surface, but not dive under.

[Jennestia]

Two words: Yoshis's Story (no pun intended)

Furthermore, I am pretty sure Yoshidasan has discussed jumping in one of the LIVE producer letters in which he explains that jumping on mounts is highly unlikely to be implemented. If I knew just where to look I would post the Link, but alas the videos tend to be lengthy (one or two hours) and I am not interested in spending that much time searching for this.

He did mention it, mostly due to terrain issues, it's why if they ever do implement the system hopefully it's tied to Chocobos more so than random mounts because they can do so much more with it that way.

[Estellios]

I think Chocobos should be able to jump, not sure about anything else. Hell if they are going to become NPC battle partners they will probably need it in order to follow us around

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

i think they mentioned in live letter that it is up for discussion

[Chinook]

I don't care if they do or not, but wanted to post in that kind of epic thread where a passionate argument should go for at least 10+ pages.

[Chinook]

I don't care if they do or not, but wanted to post in that kind of epic thread where a passionate argument should go for at least 10+ pages.

Quote from first page, I'm kind of sad that it's true that people care more for jumping or not mounts than crucial aspects of the game.