Was Kind of Hoping for New Systems

[Unholychinchilla]

I have been meaning to ask, Are we able to dismount our chocobos and other flying mounts in mid flight currently? I ask because when I try to do so I always land first before being able to be dismounted. If we can't then according to the Benchmark trailer, being able to go straight from flight into a combat action while in Mid-Flight seems like a pretty major Z-axis improvement to the game and flight systems. And it seems like a largely glossed over improvement.

I wouldn't put too much stock in that sort of thing. The benchmark is primarily designed to test performance and they often put in little cinematic things that work in a pre-planned sequence because they can take short cuts behind the scenes, knowing it will play the same way every time.

Without an actual announcement of such things in a live letter or similar, I'd assume that the mid air dismount is just a fun animation thing that we might possibly see more of it's kind in cutscenes, rather than an actual coming gameplay change.

It'd be nice but I wouldn't advise getting your hopes up for this being an actual thing.