Flight?

[Orion Invictus]

Is it fancy gliding or actual flight? Also, does it have a stamina system, or can you just, y'know, fly?

[Sunsetter]

Gliding. There's a stamina bar which you can upgrade.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Samael:

Gliding. There's a stamina bar which you can upgrade.

Thanks. Guess I'll keep searching for a game that actually lets you fly without any of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Shift]

Like said above, you just glide around with a stamina bar as limiter while constantly losing altitude. That said, you'll be hard pressed into finding an open world game that allows free flight without the use of vehicles.

Last I remember was Aion (the MMO), but even that was limited to select few areas, limiting it to gliding everywhere else - and flying was that game main gimmick.

Reason is that developers don't want the player to skip the entire level design by just flying from point A to point B, platform challenges included.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Shift:

Like said above, you just glide around with a stamina bar as limiter while constantly losing altitude. That said, you'll be hard pressed into finding an open world game that allows free flight without the use of vehicles.

Last I remember was Aion (the MMO), but even that was limited to select few areas, limiting it to gliding everywhere else - and flying was that game main gimmick.

Reason is that developers don't want the player to skip the entire level design by just flying from point A to point B, platform challenges included.

Believe me, I know how hard it is to find one. Outside of Dragon Ball games (probably other anime games), they basically don't exist.

[Starvingartizt]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Samael:

Gliding. There's a stamina bar which you can upgrade.

Thanks. Guess I'll keep searching for a game that actually lets you fly without any of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

you wont really find a decent game with flying. VERY hard to build levels for them. imagine getting a flying mount in say World of Warfcraft from lv 1...youd just fly from point a-b avoiding everything...gets boring quick. if you want to fly get some VR games with no realy plot just to fly

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Starvingartizt:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Thanks. Guess I'll keep searching for a game that actually lets you fly without any of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

you wont really find a decent game with flying. VERY hard to build levels for them. imagine getting a flying mount in say World of Warfcraft from lv 1...youd just fly from point a-b avoiding everything...gets boring quick. if you want to fly get some VR games with no realy plot just to fly

I do want some story. If I just wanted a flight sandbox I'd probably make one myself. I'm sure there's a free game engine out there with fully textured assets that can do that.

I will indeed have to imagine what you said about WoW because I've never played it.

[Azirahael]

The Adult game Wildlife had a character that really can fly, but it's in early access.

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[Dragon222]

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[Shadow The Innkeep]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Shift:

Like said above, you just glide around with a stamina bar as limiter while constantly losing altitude. That said, you'll be hard pressed into finding an open world game that allows free flight without the use of vehicles.

Last I remember was Aion (the MMO), but even that was limited to select few areas, limiting it to gliding everywhere else - and flying was that game main gimmick.

Reason is that developers don't want the player to skip the entire level design by just flying from point A to point B, platform challenges included.

Believe me, I know how hard it is to find one. Outside of Dragon Ball games (probably other anime games), they basically don't exist.

Just as the person pointed out, flying negates (and kills) all the effort devs put into content, world and level design on the ground "floor". That's why more and more games switch from full-on flying to gliding. Unrestricted flying doesn't allow for any interesting mechanics to be involved in. Full on flying in WoW, for example, also allows higher level players "abuse" it when stealing resource nodes from lower level players because they can get there faster. I did like travelling flying and ground paths/taxis though, just sit there, chill, and look around, enjoying the views.

That being said, this game has better gliding than, say, GW2 does, simply because stamina bar lasts a lot longer and you don't have to suffer sanity impairment to get it or improve it (e.g. Skyscale grind in GW2).

MHS2 Wings of Ruin has full flight with some selected monsties, but you have to play through like 50% of the story, if not more, till you unlock it. It's on foot or on a monstie's back till then. It's cool at first, flying around aboard "airship" Rathalos or Bazelgause, but it becomes rather dull too after awhile and serves only one handy purpose - looking for specific monster spawn when hunting for eggs from above is easier. Very little is involved directly with the mechanics in the game.