Flight in first expansion

[jenova_9]

A flying mew could be an innovative feature. =^^= Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn’s First Expansion Will Let You Fly - Siliconera

[Carter]

Re: Flight in first expansion

I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, to me at least, most things that fly are cool o_0!

But on the other...specifically with MMO's in mind...if it wasn't designed from the ground up with "flying" in mind then it always feels a bit clunky. To me at least.

Happy to be wrong of course

[Etra]

Re: Flight in first expansion

Despise flying in MMOs. Just makes the world feel crazy small.

[Malacite]

Re: Flight in first expansion

Gold chocobo? Wyvern? How they planning on doing this?

[Nandito]

Re: Flight in first expansion

Pretty sure it's just flying in terms of instances...

C'mon now. That's just jumping the gun a bit.

[Aeni]

Re: Flight in first expansion

I'm on the fence about this one. WoW is planning on going the other direction - with ground mount only in WoD expansion (just in Draenor) A lot of complaints were that the world was too small after flying mounts was introduced and that people stopped seeing each other (the world looked empty) I do not want SE to put flying mounts into the game, but would be intrigued to have flying in other ways, either as a transportation service (like chocobo porters) or gimmicky dungeon/instance only mechanics.

[Malacite]

Re: Flight in first expansion

it also kinda kills the point of having airships tbh.

it would be cool in specific instances, like if we get to fight Bahamut while airborne since he's so damn huge but otherwise yeah I'd say flying mount would destroy what little immersion there is.

on the other hand, it would mean not having to deal with getting stupid heavy slapped on me by shit that doesn't have a prayer of killing me.

[jenova_9]

Re: Flight in first expansion

There is a lot of immersion, mew. If people abuse things like aetheryte a lot, then they should slap their own twist oversimplying things. Perhaps the flight will be related to Black Chocobos, like they can hover kind of like that ahriman mount. but if they mean flight flight then I dunno, mew. That could be for an instanced thing, or maybe people get their own airship to go to an instanced dungeon in the sky. It might be kind of like if they added swimming, it would be specific to certain zones. So there would be zones/dungeons/something that enables flight option, mew.

[Aeni]

Re: Flight in first expansion

There is a lot of immersion, mew. If people abuse things like aetheryte a lot, then they should slap their own twist oversimplying things. Perhaps the flight will be related to Black Chocobos, like they can hover kind of like that ahriman mount. but if they mean flight flight then I dunno, mew.

Ahriman is still a ground mount ... although I get your point. However, they wouldn't make such a big deal out of it if it was simply that kind of mechanic. By the looks of things on both the internet and the Q&A responses, it seems like the flying aspect was really in relation to all kinds of unreasonable "wants" by the community during Alpha and Beta testing. The most vocal of these were the, "please give my character a bigger butt" and covered the wide breadth and scope of whining and otherwise childish desires.

They could not implement flying and swimming due to technical reasons and I would rather them not bother because they still have not fixed all kinds of exploits in this game. I've seen people teleport to Uldah and back out to some random point in Coerthas in order to get to any FATE at anywhere and anytime. They did this IN THE FATE group I was in and so blatantly, like "everyone does it, why do you care". Then there's other exploits that I won't bother mentioning here for fear of having them become too popular before SE can go about fixing it.

[Malacite]

Re: Flight in first expansion

Come on Salvage bans 2.0!