Noktus.8506

> @"Randulf.7614" said: > > @"Noktus.8506" said: > > > @"Just a flesh wound.3589" said: > > > Allegedly they tried however the player becomes a single entity ‘mountplayer’ and they can’t easily get a second player to sit on this. > > > > Thats interesting, I wondered what sort of obstacles they might face if they ever did try implementing this > > One obstacle was that there was no reason for it. It fit no game mechanics and so they redesigned The Behemoth to become The Jackal > > It’s been requested for years - eg a Dolyak mount and it would be a lot of fun, but it seems unlikely > > The full quote about it is below > > _” And then there’s the Jackal, which lets you make up to two instant teleport dashes and can also access Sand Portals that are found throughout Path of Fire’s zones. But it took a long time to take this role. For a start, it was originally going to be a huge mount that could seat several players at once._ > > _“But we after prototyped it, it was going to be fairly hard to make it look convincing with the tools we had, and we were concerned about people parking on vendors with a giant mount so you couldn’t see them,” says Helmich.”_ Ahh, very insightful. I feel silly not knowing about this beforehand

> @"BunjiKugashira.9754" said: > I'm not opposed to adding multiseated mounts, but please don't add more seats to the existing ones. Have you ever seen a Charr riding a griffon? Now imagine two Charr riding the same griffon. > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > Only if they figure out how an Asura can carry a Norn. And how a Skyscale can carry another Skyscale. > Mounts and players are not two separate models. Good points, I hadn't realized the fact that mounts and player models are one, makes sense considering different races' mounts vary in size. This should be true even if an entirely new mount was conceptualized with multi-seats in mind, so I now wonder if this system would ever work, given that the skeleton of "mounts" would always be more of a player transformation as opposed to 2 or more separate models interacting with each other. Unless you could somehow "sync" players together in a transformation/animation, similarly to the way players can sync up dancing?

> @"Just a flesh wound.3589" said: > Allegedly they tried however the player becomes a single entity ‘mountplayer’ and they can’t easily get a second player to sit on this. Thats interesting, I wondered what sort of obstacles they might face if they ever did try implementing this