Age of Conan

I wonder whether there are any plans for any kind of player flight - mounts, powers, what have you - in AoC?

I can already hear the 'go back to wow comments', but on a purely gameplay level, flying was very fun - and I really wished it had been implemented for the original lands of Azeroth. I could spend many minutes just cruising through the world, swooping down and causing some mayhem.

And while Wow's flying was fun, it did not hold a candle to CoX's superjump. That was truly fantastic; in some ways the best thing in the game in terms of pure entertainment. I could also cite Crackdown, the surprise hit on the Xbox 360, which also offered a great sense of super movement.

Now, I can certainly understand why swarms of leaping flying superheroes would not sit well in Hyboria, and might severely disrupt gameplay like sieges etc, so I am not advocating that per se. 

On the other hand, people sure do love to leap/flap/dash/charge/zoom around, and all that spectacular silliness.

So is there anything of this ilk going to be available in AoC at any stage?

Maybe you can volunteer for living catapult ammunition.

Originally posted by sanicek

Maybe you can volunteer for living catapult ammunition.

hah! I like this!

I don't want to see a damn flying thing in AOC...

No wyvern, no flying carpet, no flying spells, no dragons...no no no no!

use your rhinos, mammoths or horses... maybe a trout to go faster underwater but nothing that flies!

We are not playing EQ2, Dark and light WOW or any of these games!!!

You are talking about AOC here!

Agreed! This is a whole different ball game...no flying anythings!

Originally posted by markyturnip

I wonder whether there are any plans for any kind of player flight - mounts, powers, what have you - in AoC?

I can already hear the 'go back to wow comments', but on a purely gameplay level, flying was very fun - and I really wished it had been implemented for the original lands of Azeroth. I could spend many minutes just cruising through the world, swooping down and causing some mayhem.

And while Wow's flying was fun, it did not hold a candle to CoX's superjump. That was truly fantastic; in some ways the best thing in the game in terms of pure entertainment. I could also cite Crackdown, the surprise hit on the Xbox 360, which also offered a great sense of super movement.

 

 

Now, I can certainly understand why swarms of leaping flying superheroes would not sit well in Hyboria, and might severely disrupt gameplay like sieges etc, so I am not advocating that per se. 

On the other hand, people sure do love to leap/flap/dash/charge/zoom around, and all that spectacular silliness.

So is there anything of this ilk going to be available in AoC at any stage?

However, I would ask you, what incidents can you find in the Conan stories for flying mounts being used? If there are and it makes sense, then of course.

I personally don't remember any flying mounts.

Originally posted by Sovrath

 

Originally posted by markyturnip

Fist off, you lost me at "all that  spectacular silliness".

 

However, I would ask you, what incidents can you find in the Conan stories for flying mounts being used? If there are and it makes sense, then of course.

I personally don't remember any flying mounts.

It was mainly a gameplay question, not really advocating one thing or another... just saying that enhanced movement/travel in other games has been very fun and I was wondering if there were any plans to have it in Conan.

I found a reference to a flying mount. Conan's reaction would imply they are pretty rare, but Pelias implies there are a number which are accessible to those who have the right words etc

From the Scarlet Citadel:

"True!" Conan paced the chamber like a caged lion. "With the fastest horse I could not reach Shamar before midday. Even there I could do no good except to die with the people, when the town falls--as fall it will in a few days at most. From Shamar to Tamar is five days' ride, even if you kill your horses on the road. Before I could reach my capital and raise an army, Strabonus would be hammering at the gates; because raising an army is going to be hell--all my damnable nobles will have scattered to their own cursed fiefs at the word of my death. And since the people have driven out Trocero of Poitain, there's none to keep Arpello's greedy hands off the crown--and the crown-treasure. He'll hand the country over to Strabonus, in return for a mock- throne--and as soon as Strabonus' back is turned, he'll stir up revolt. But the nobles won't support him, and it will only give Strabonus excuse for annexing the kingdom openly. Oh Crom, Ymir, and Set! If I but had wings to fly like lightning to Tamar!"

Pelias, who sat tapping the jade table-top with his finger-nails, halted suddenly, and rose as with a definite purpose, beckoning Conan to follow. The king complied, sunk in moody thoughts, and Pelias led the way out of the chamber and up a flight of marble, gold-worked stairs that let out on the pinnacle of the citadel, the roof of the tallest tower. It was night, and a strong wind was blowing through the star-filled skies, stirring Conan's black mane. Far below them twinkled the lights of Khorshemish, seemingly farther away than the stars above them. Pelias seemed withdrawn and aloof here, one in cold unhuman greatness with the company of the stars.

"There are creatures," said Pelias, "not alone of earth and sea, but of air and the far reaches of the skies as well, dwelling apart, unguessed of men. Yet to him who holds the Master-words and Signs and the Knowledge underlying all, they are not malignant nor inaccessible. Watch, and fear not."

He lifted his hands to the skies and sounded a long weird call that seemed to shudder endlessly out into space, dwindling and fading, yet never dying out, only receding farther and farther into some unreckoned cosmos. In the silence that followed, Conan heard a sudden beat of wings in the stars, and recoiled as a huge bat-like creature alighted beside him. He saw its great calm eyes regarding him in the starlight; he saw the forty-foot spread of its giant wings. And he saw it was neither bat nor bird.

"Mount and ride," said Pelias. "By dawn it will bring you to Tamar."

"By Crom!" muttered Conan. "Is this all a nightmare from which I shall presently awaken in my palace at Tamar? What of you? I would not leave you alone among your enemies."

"Be at ease regarding me," answered Pelias. "At dawn the people of Khorshemish will know they have a new master. Doubt not what the gods have sent you. I will meet you in the plain by Shamar."

Doubtfully Conan clambered upon the ridged back, gripping the arched neck, still convinced that he was in the grasp of a fantastic nightmare. With a great rush and thunder of titan wings, the creature took the air, and the king grew dizzy as he saw the lights of the city dwindle far below him.

After reading that, I'm lead to believe that such a beast would as it was stated not be available to every run of the mill warrior, rogue, or what have you.  If anything a gigantic flying bat would be quite rare.  It would then make little sense to me if everybody and their mother had one.

I can see this being worked into a quest of some kind where the npc takes off on one and flies around but not as a mount.  Who knows.  In the end it's up to the developers, but I doubt they will put it in.

Oh and when it came to CoX I had the flight power, and not the super jump or super speed.  Funny thing is I was basically a flying ninja.  I could swoop down in stealth and assassinate people and then just take to the air.  Then again it all fit into the lore of the game so I did not have any issues with it.