So I am 90 hours in.....

[medledan16]

and have been doing side-quests mostly with some main missions sprinkled in. Did some Main Quests and.....I get a flying mount and arena access. Ok....

Why lock all these behind Main Missions? You almost have to be at the end of the game to get flying mounts.

Strange.

[Geek]

Ther are quite a number of quests which require climbing, that become trivial when you can just fly to the destination.

[★HiyoriX★]

There are some side quests where you must have the flying mount, as it's in the middle of the sea

[GlowWorm]

And then you do an NG+, where you keep the Sunwing override at the outset, and can get a Sunwing mount as soon as you complete the acquisition of the Base and open access to a Sunwing site.

[Thornok]

there are many side quests ... already maxxed out at level 60.

follow the main quest until you have the bird,
there are still many other things to do.

[karl-emil]

because people would miss out on key features if they were tied to side quests, did you even comprehend what you wrote? lmfao

[medledan16]

Originally posted by karl-emil:

because people would miss out on key features if they were tied to side quests, did you even comprehend what you wrote? lmfao

Did you not understand what I wrote? I meant why give us key features for this game, and near the end of the game?

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by medledan16:

Originally posted by karl-emil:

because people would miss out on key features if they were tied to side quests, did you even comprehend what you wrote? lmfao

Did you not understand what I wrote? I meant why give us key features for this game, and near the end of the game?

Because it's not?

Flying is the 'final' player upgrade. It grants you access to a few more areas you previously couldn't reach, and trivialises/breaks a lot of other things.

Seriously, this is the equivalent of complaining that Doom 2016 doesn't give you the BFG until late on. That's how games work.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by medledan16:

Originally posted by karl-emil:

because people would miss out on key features if they were tied to side quests, did you even comprehend what you wrote? lmfao

Did you not understand what I wrote? I meant why give us key features for this game, and near the end of the game?

Because it would ruin the game, the same reason you don't get a tank in the first mission of GTA or the BFG on the first level of Doom.

[Thornok]

i fly all the time, still i did not start the Singularity quest.

approx 100 hours ..

[[CTU]Jack_Bauer]

replayed it on ps5 many times, got one of my savegames ng+ at around 265hours, just trying out different combos of weapons and seeing if i can get higher damage scores or a machine entirely "stripped" before killing it meaning all armor pieces and components.

The whole waiting until later in the main quest for the flying mount is too keep us grounded so to speak, yes it is nice to be able to fly, however, it is all of a sudden a different game, we miss a lot of stuff that is on the ground, small data points or some items foods or machines.

[radblue]

Once I realized how this worked I just went strait on main story only, then started a NG+, You keep all tools and ability to get flying mount at start of NG+.
Now I'm taking my time exploring everything in game.
So far I've only used the Flying mount once to get to a ? that was a pita climb, exploring is best done on foot.

[TheAspieFox]

Originally posted by medledan16:

Originally posted by karl-emil:

because people would miss out on key features if they were tied to side quests, did you even comprehend what you wrote? lmfao

Did you not understand what I wrote? I meant why give us key features for this game, and near the end of the game?

So you don't like progression?

Also, it's less important for a main playthrough than it is for NewGame+ (if you're into hunting achievements; or otherwise for a main playthrough if you do Story first then move to side content), as you get to keep your ability to ride and fly on mounts -- though you will still have to wait until you get to the mountain Base to climb up and get a new Sunwing (unless you happen to run into them sooner) in NG+ before you can utilize it again, which is still far sooner than near the end of the main story. Not that the main story is all that long anyway -- approximately 7-8 hours (if you skip through the cutscenes and don't get distracted along the way).

[𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰]

Originally posted by medledan16:

and have been doing side-quests mostly with some main missions sprinkled in. Did some Main Quests and.....I get a flying mount and arena access. Ok....

Why lock all these behind Main Missions? You almost have to be at the end of the game to get flying mounts.

Strange.

For "balance" reasons.You get sunwing back in new game+ though

[Parry Hotter]

Slow access to the map helps keep players from discovering potential spoilers. For example, stumbling upon the Zenith base before finding Hades will spoil the Zenith introduction. Also, if players have the ability to fly early in the game it's more than likely they will miss out on other mechanics of exploration and enjoying the detailed world the devs worked hard on.

[Hydra_360ci]

So... you rather spend 70 bucks for a game and be done with it in an hour?