MMO veteran and enthusiast looking forward to the shake up this game is presenting to an otherwise kinda stale genre. My husband and I bonded over video games while long distance, leading us to always be on the lookout for new things to play together. The last big one we both loved was Black Desert Online, but we unfortunately just don't have the time to be competitive in that anymore since we had our son. We also sculpt and create keyboard accessories - hence the profile picture :D
I've seen MMOs that made the mount a summonable that disappeared upon dismissal (like WoW), and I've seen MMOs where mounts are a permanent that can be damaged without proper care (like BDO).
Personally, I hope that they have mount permanence as I feel it adds a level of immersion, but I was wondering what everyone else's opinions are? Also, I was wondering if there was any word on it that I just haven't seen yet?
@therippyone
In Black Desert Online the mount had a giant display above it to tell you which one it was. I think BDO took it a little too far, as you did have to feed them to keep their stamina up (but they wouldn't die of starvation) and they had a giant horse breeding system in place to get a better mount.
I did love the permanent mounts, though, as it made you feel like you actually had a thing to keep track of instead of just having something pop out of thin air (which I felt kind of took you out of the moment). Also, the animations of mounting up, running through a field of monsters and watching your mounts health, and having to leave them with a stable keeper or run back to them - all of those things are things I would absolutely love to see put in Fractured because they are just... improvements in my opinion to the mount system.
@jozef
You know which horse is yours based on a giant display... which I wasn't huge on, but I think some kind of display or light would work well.
If you tumbled off of a cliff or your mount died in game you would have to pay money to the nearest stablekeep to resurrect it - and it would harm its breeding potential. It was costly, but not irreversible.
@specter steampunk type mounts honestly sound cool as hell - and I don't think there is any reason why technology and fantasy can't coexist... if it's done well, like it is with the humans, it doesn't seem invasive. It could just be that mount attainment had a difficulty curve. Like, humans could craft steampunk mounts - beastmen could go tame wild creatures (or breed them) - demons had to subdue a mount... something like that would take the typical mundane cash=mount and make it just that tiny bit more fulfilling.
I know it's a small thing in the grand scope of all of the awesome things Fractured is doing, I just love looking into the small things lol.
@grofire I agree, to an extent. I think the being able to kill them adds a certain amount of risk and investment in your mount... but I think being able to steal them would cause people to just not buy them. I mean, if I bought a mount and it got stolen more than once I would probably be like "f*** it, I'm walking."
@dybuk I honestly loved the whole breeding mechanic... but the RNG in BDO was killer. Like, I dedicated so much time to that and horses only had so many breeds... getting the top tier horses was so expensive it was ridiculous. I don't think their way was super realistic, nor do I think that it was perfect, but I do love the immersion that the perma-mounts gave.
Mount breeding/building/what-have-you would be a fantastic job to include, I think - just as long as they didn't do the system of limited breeds that BDO did.
Thankfully in BDO you lost Karma for killing peoples mounts - so people were pretty damn good at not killing each others mounts like dicks. It happened, but rarely. Like super rarely. 2 years playing almost and it's happened to me once and the guy got banned for ganking and hacking.
@jozef
You know which horse is yours based on a giant display... which I wasn't huge on, but I think some kind of display or light would work well.
If you tumbled off of a cliff or your mount died in game you would have to pay money to the nearest stablekeep to resurrect it - and it would harm its breeding potential. It was costly, but not irreversible.
@therippyone
In Black Desert Online the mount had a giant display above it to tell you which one it was. I think BDO took it a little too far, as you did have to feed them to keep their stamina up (but they wouldn't die of starvation) and they had a giant horse breeding system in place to get a better mount.
I did love the permanent mounts, though, as it made you feel like you actually had a thing to keep track of instead of just having something pop out of thin air (which I felt kind of took you out of the moment). Also, the animations of mounting up, running through a field of monsters and watching your mounts health, and having to leave them with a stable keeper or run back to them - all of those things are things I would absolutely love to see put in Fractured because they are just... improvements in my opinion to the mount system.
I've seen MMOs that made the mount a summonable that disappeared upon dismissal (like WoW), and I've seen MMOs where mounts are a permanent that can be damaged without proper care (like BDO).
Personally, I hope that they have mount permanence as I feel it adds a level of immersion, but I was wondering what everyone else's opinions are? Also, I was wondering if there was any word on it that I just haven't seen yet?
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