Are the new mounts getting along with GW's lore ?
I'm pretty hyped with all those new things announced by Anet for PoF, i was dreaming of going back to places i knew from GW1 and was hoping for mounts since day 1 (TP makes you miss most of the beauty of Tyria IMO).
Yet i'm kinda concerned about one thing about those mounts. Especially the rabbit-kangaroo Springer one. I mean, it looks pretty fun and has useful abilites but how the hell does it come from ? Was that creature ever seen or mentionned in History of Tyria ? I don't recall seeing those in Nightfall ^^
Isn't Anet falling in some kind of "the richer the Lore the better" trap, and forgetting to keep that Lore consistent? I both feel like it's pretty fun and kinda cool but not making much sense at the same time.
So if anyone has any idea / intel / theory on where do those mounts come from let me know :)
And since we're at it, feel free to suggest what other mounts we could have ;)
Posted Aug 3, 2017, 7:47 AM UTC
Just because it wasn't there yet doesn't mean it didn't exist that is the fun thing about game design and lore. the mounts could be very well be imported from other countries or domesticated over the hundreds of years we haven't set foot in the Crystal desert. in Tyria it didn't made much sense lore wise to have mounts because the Asura invented the Waypoints and Portals for transportation. In Elona and the crystal desert there are no Asura technicians that could have been inventing or building this technology so it makes a lot of sense for them to use different kind of transportation and what is the best use for that? Domestication of wildlife and selective breeding of such creatures.
Maybe there is lore behind them in game which we will only know about if we actually play the game ...
This is actually the literal lore they provided in one of the YT vids.
I can't wait to play and find out, hence the need of talking about those mounts^^
BTW, do you think there won't be Waypoints in Crystal Desert ? I think it would be cool but i'm pretty sure some players enjoy being able to easily TP to almost anywhere
Yes there will be, but they will be rare on the maps maybe even less present than on the HoT or LWS03 maps. But that is okay.
Waypoints are comfortable however they make the world smaller because you can get faster to one place to another. I remember in the time I played WoW I flew like 10 minutes with the transportation griffon or bat from one place to another. That made the world so much larger because you actually spend so much time travelling. I think with mounts in central tyria I will probably use them more to run through the world than just using waypoints.
A map, the first I believe, was featured on streams. It had something in the neighborhood of 5 WPs. I would wager the other PoF maps all have around that number of WPs.
Given that they're big maps, 5 WPs is enough to teleport close enough to where.