New Mounts

[Leyllara]

YoRHa Flight Units are fully animated in-game, with full models and textures, and still they didn't give us those as mounts. I'm hoping they do it when Nier anniversary comes in, or as a collab marketing event for the Nier Automata anime that was recently announced.

[Marcman]

YoRHa Flight Units are fully animated in-game, with full models and textures, and still they didn't give us those as mounts. I'm hoping they do it when Nier anniversary comes in, or as a collab marketing event for the Nier Automata anime that was recently announced.

This was discussed in a ffxiv stream that involved Yokotaro and a few other developers of Nier:Automata. There are a lot of issues with how to adapt the models to fit all the different races in the game, since the characters are inside the flight units. Adapting this to accommodate everything from a max size roe/hrothgar to a min size lalafall is a challenge without distorting the shape of the mount, as well as it being a large amount of work. There's a reason why most mounts in the game has the player characters "on top" of the mounts, so that the mount can simply be scaled in size in all directions and the player characters will still fit nicely.

There was however talks about a pod mount, for which all the necessary animations for all races already exist, so we might see that sooner rather than later.