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Gliding Mounts
Mojave
Member, Alpha Two
I know that Intrepid have talked about having a very few amount of flying mounta at one time on a server, but I think a very cool thing to add would be something of a gliding mount that any player can have. Of course there would be draw backs so that not everyone is going to only use the gliders, such as lower base movement speed compared to other mounts such as with water mounts on land. But it could just be a very cool variety to add to the game. Or even have gliders just very hard to unlock but still you can just own them? Because I could only see gliders being very good in mountain type biomes after you climb to the top.
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Unfortunately that wiki page is literally 3 dot points with much to be desired in terms of actual gameplay impact and design vision
I dropped a question asking for more information about Gliding Mounts into this months Q&A thread so hopefully we'll have more stuff to add to that page *soon*.
Will we be able to fight from a gliding mount? Like dropping bombs on stuff or something in a siege.
Why would I want to say ride a mount that floats 2ft off the ground vs one that glides through the air?
Will there be things like updrafts that allow us to gain altitude whilst gliding? Any other skills that might be usable? Arial survey?
There's lots that's not covered in those 3 dot points!
FYI, my bias is that I want to see gliding mounts be something similar to the GW2 "flying" mounts.
Gliding is gliding. You find an elevated location. You jump and glide. You land on the ground and then run.
Iirc we've heard Steven say that the flying mounts on the stream are pretty much just gliding mount models, but flying.
And considering that AA is one of the inspirations, I'm imagining smth like this
There's even a small "jump up" in the air on a cd.
From what I can tell, the intent of gliding moutns isn't set in stone yet, and that's what I want to tease out of Stehpen. Is he set in that way. If so, then ok, its his game overall.
If he's not set and is still open to discussion, well, let me ask you. For the highest tier of NON royal aerial mounts, do you want them to function just like fleshy gliders?
Because I personally believe the more dynamic movements of the GW2 mounts feel good. It feels like you are actually riding something alive. And fundamentally even these GW2 mounts the average glide slope is down. You cannot gain long term altitude with them, so at its core, i see it as a gliding-ish mount.
But again, i just want Stephen to come out and clearly state the design decision for these, or state that its still not formed yet and they are open to feedback.
I enjoy aerial movement, will probably never get hold of a royal mount, so I'm putting forth my opinion and feedback to try move the needling towards a model i know i enjoy. Nothing more than that
I don't really care for flairs or air tricks or whatever. All I need from a gliding mount is to let me jump off a roof or a mountain and diagonally get down to the ground.
I also find it weird that in discussion with flying mounts. The tier 3 mounts can only fly for about 20-30 minutes, I thought they would be able to fly indefinitely but I guess it's good because if you can only takeoff from the royal stables, it helps balance out the flying mounts in game.
Are you talking about the royal mounts here?
Because if so, even if you had a royal mount egg, don't you need to be one of those 10 'royal' people to actually make use of it? Otherwise you'd be better of selling it to one of those who can actually fly. Sorry, my brain died trying to follow that other flying mount thread so not sure what info surfaced there.
Well, I guess we fundamentally differ on this, and that's ok.
Just curious though, have you had a go with the GW2 mounts before? Or GW2 gliding?
Nope. I tried starting GW2, but barely got past the first quest
And I'd prefer if the game didn't have reupping winds or other mechanics that could make people effectively fly all over the place. GW2's world was built with that kind of feature in mind (at least I'd assume it was), while the whole point of super limited flying in Ashes is to keep the world feeling small. If all the people could just go gliding super fast across the lands, it'll go right against the design of the game.
From the wiki: Royal mounts are capable of true flight when utilized by Mayors of metropolis nodes or Kings and Queens of Guild castles.[4][5]
Haha fair. Even if you got to lvl 80, GETTING the flying mounts is a PAAAAAINNNN.
And yeah, the later maps were designed with gliders and mounts in mind, but the earlier ones not so much.
Also, in the 7th reference Steven says there might be up to 20 players on the server with flying mounts and there'd only be 10 royal people. And that's from 2020, so I think that design hasn't really changed throughout the years.
I kinda feel like wiki page could be worded a bit better
This can be found on the wiki