What is the actual point of the flying mount?

[Skungis]

It's clunkier, harder to land, takes longer to mount and dismount, and it's max speed is slower than the brooms minimum. Also the "Press shift to toggle flight speed" seems to do absolutely nothing, or the mounts two speeds are "Slow" and "Slow" . Not to mention the misleading menu that makes it seem like there's 4 potential mounts when there's 1 in the game, 1 as dlc, and 1 as a preorder bonus (that's apparently just a reskin?).
I really thought we'd get to kidnap-I mean rescue more mounts since Highwing can be added to the Vivarium, but nope just the slowest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ birdhorse in existence and a stick that goes 20x faster. The number of baffling design choices in this game are really becoming apparent the more I play. What drunk lunatic okayed this?

Edit: Also, why does it look and sound so pained when I summon or dismiss it? It screams and its head gets bent backwards, why did they do this.

Edit 2: Finished the game, can confidentially say they actually did the ground mount right. Although it's slower than the broom or the hippogriff, it serves an actual purpose, being able to defend yourself while mounted. It has a drawback compared to other mounts but also a benefit to balance it, that's what the hippogriff is missing.

[F-Man]

Originally posted by Wankovich, Ista:

wait, you can't nab thesterals or different coloured hypogriff without the dlc?!

what? someone who didn't buy deluxe please go and use the nabsack on a thesteral and try to use it as a mount, report back to me.

because if true that would be wack as ♥♥♥♥

Yep, that's it. Doesn't matter what you "rescue" with the nabsack.
Not even a skin thing. Just can't use them.
Then again, broom is faster and op, as in fast travel still crashes most of the time

[Symaro]

Originally posted by F-Man:

Originally posted by Wankovich, Ista:

as in fast travel still crashes most of the time

...what? I swear to god, I know five people who play the game, three on PC and two on PS5, the only complaints I have heard are stuttering, mostly in Hogsmeade.

This is seriously starting to boggle me.

[halfmonkey]

Just want to point out that the fourth mount slot does come into play, but it's so late in the game that they should have just omitted it. It's the third or fourth main quest from the end-game.
Even worse, the fourth mount is non-flying, difficult to control, and has a stamina bar. It feels like it's from a totally different game.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by Symaro:

Originally posted by surrealnirvana:

Why do you need to get everywhere so fast? Stop and smell the roses. Enjoy the world around you. You'd be surprised how different things are. Besides, they are a fan favorite aspect of the lore.

This. Hogwarts Legacy is one of the most gorgeous games of our generation.
Just use your broom if you're so hellbent on eeking out 10 seconds of travel time.
The folks who like riding around on Highwing are more interested in admiring the landscape as they go.
Hogwarts Legacy is meant to be an adventure, not a race.

These are such awful takes oh my god do none of you understand you are playing a video game? Getting the slower option after the faster one makes no sense, just because you like it doesn't mean it's not absolutely godawful game design.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by BirdDinosaur:

this might be surprising to you but not ?

Originally posted by BirdDinosaur:

this might be surprising to you but not everything has to be about speed or flight control. Its an open world ROLE-playing game. You want to fly a mount? Sure, lets make it realistic for IMMERSION. If nobody wants to use it fine, but I doubt it because this is a ROLE-playing game. Where ROLE-PLAY takes place. Try some time. Things don't have to be so objective oriented like you have a long list of things to complete. That's what a job is for.

This is not a roleplaying game what are you talking about? Just because there's progression doesn't mean it's an RPG, you play one singular role. There is 0 RP in this entire game, it's not some magical experience, it's a video game and the mount is a mechanic that provides nothing to the game unless you do 100% of the work in your imagination. This is not a defense, it's an excuse.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by halfmonkey:

Just want to point out that the fourth mount slot does come into play, but it's so late in the game that they should have just omitted it. It's the third or fourth main quest from the end-game.
Even worse, the fourth mount is non-flying, difficult to control, and has a stamina bar. It feels like it's from a totally different game.

Wow fun. Once again, using the broom at ground level has infinite boost and is the fastest in the game. Love mechanics that provide nothing to the experience beyond "MaGiC"

[Symaro]

Originally posted by BleachedBonez:

These are such awful takes oh my god do none of you understand you are playing a video game? Getting the slower option after the faster one makes no sense, just because you like it doesn't mean it's not absolutely godawful game design.

So, just use and upgrade your broom.
You get the last broom upgrades after you unlock beastriding.
I seriously don't see the cause of this butthurt.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by surrealnirvana:

Why do you need to get everywhere so fast? Stop and smell the roses. Enjoy the world around you. You'd be surprised how different things are. Besides, they are a fan favorite aspect of the lore.

Because I have a job and a life and I don't have the ability to devote all of my time to an average game? Do you guys seriously not see the problem with telling someone actively complaining about this game to "just stop and enjoy it"? There's nothing to stop to enjoy, this game is like a 7/10 at best and the rest is just nostalgia for people. The mechanics and gameplay are fun and I want to utilize and enjoy them but one of the three ways to get between them I'm given is fundamentally broken because it provides absolutely nothing unless I have this bizarre obsessive nostalgia some people have for this world (which I don't. I don't care about the books or the movies, I just like good games).
Basically everyone defending this is just coasting on nostalgia or love of this world some of us don't care about. Surprisingly, you don't need to like Harry Potter to like this game, it just allows you to criticize it without feeling personally offended. This game is not reserved for fans of the books.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by Symaro:

Originally posted by BleachedBonez:

These are such awful takes oh my god do none of you understand you are playing a video game? Getting the slower option after the faster one makes no sense, just because you like it doesn't mean it's not absolutely godawful game design.

So, just use and upgrade your broom.
You get the last broom upgrades after you unlock beastriding.
I seriously don't see the cause of this butthurt.

Because the broom is boring good god how is this confusing to people? When I'm given 3 options and the only way to enjoy 2 of them is to be nostalgic for a separate book, it's bad game design. I don't see the cause of yall taking this post so personally. People can say "this is bad" without you feeling the need to defend that you like it. You can like bad or poorly designed things, but it's not because it's well made.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by SoN Alucard:

Well it does make sense in lore. Brooms are a means of transportation(like Kawaga said in the Broom Flight mission). Besides the Broom is also used in Quidditch (@dev pls have a word with Headmaster Black to reconsider and allow Quidditch again). If mounts would be as fast as or faster then brooms they would be using them also in Quidditch

No way, wait, is there actually no Quidditch in the entire game? Ha that's hilarious I thought it was just a way to delay it until later in the game but it's 100% because they couldn't figure out how to program a good minigame. I don't blame them, the actual game of Quidditch makes no sense, but a Harry Potter game with broom flying but no Quidditch is so baffling.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by Jiub:

Mounts really need a rework, i only used them twice to fly over the Hogwarts Lake like in the films (that was absolutely beautiful though with the epic music playing). They lack in speed and everytime u scan for points of interest the flying mount stops which is annoying. U can fly faster with the broom and also don't have to stop while casting Revelio. Just make flying mounts like the Griffrin or Testral faster so its actually more rewarding to use them.

I did just realize I am able to cast revelio from both the broom and the mounts so that might be a bug on your end.

[SickTag]

I wish landing was like it was with the broom

[Dragon Master]

Originally posted by Skungis:

It's clunkier, harder to land, takes longer to mount and dismount, and it's max speed is slower than the brooms minimum. Also the "Press shift to toggle flight speed" seems to do absolutely nothing, or the mounts two speeds are "Slow" and "Slow" . Not to mention the misleading menu that makes it seem like there's 4 potential mounts when there's 1 in the game, 1 as dlc, and 1 as a preorder bonus (that's apparently just a reskin?).
I really thought we'd get to kidnap-I mean rescue more mounts since Highwing can be added to the Vivarium, but nope just the slowest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ birdhorse in existence and a stick that goes 20x faster. The number of baffling design choices in this game are really becoming apparent the more I play. What drunk lunatic okayed this?

Edit: Also, why does it look and sound so pained when I summon or dismiss it? It screams and its head gets bent backwards, why did they do this.

Because sometimes it's just awesome to fly on an animal which can maintain its top speed no matter what altitude it's flying at, unlike the broom which needs upgrades periodically.

Also, animals are a lot faster on the ground than our character is.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by Dragon Master:

Originally posted by Skungis:

It's clunkier, harder to land, takes longer to mount and dismount, and it's max speed is slower than the brooms minimum. Also the "Press shift to toggle flight speed" seems to do absolutely nothing, or the mounts two speeds are "Slow" and "Slow" . Not to mention the misleading menu that makes it seem like there's 4 potential mounts when there's 1 in the game, 1 as dlc, and 1 as a preorder bonus (that's apparently just a reskin?).
I really thought we'd get to kidnap-I mean rescue more mounts since Highwing can be added to the Vivarium, but nope just the slowest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ birdhorse in existence and a stick that goes 20x faster. The number of baffling design choices in this game are really becoming apparent the more I play. What drunk lunatic okayed this?

Edit: Also, why does it look and sound so pained when I summon or dismiss it? It screams and its head gets bent backwards, why did they do this.

Because sometimes it's just awesome to fly on an animal which can maintain its top speed no matter what altitude it's flying at, unlike the broom which needs upgrades periodically.

Also, animals are a lot faster on the ground than our character is.

But when the brooms get infinite boost at low elevation I just don't get the point, esp when there's nothing at higher altitudes. Plus the base broom speed is the same or just barely slower than the hippogriff's max speed. Basically all of these problems would be solved by just making it a little faster. It's an upgraded gameplay mechanic, it needs to have upgrades beyond it looking cool because that's purely subjective. Now, if you could cast from the hippogriff or it could maintain movement without forward press while the broom couldn't, it'd be a different story, but right now the only reason I or anyone can think of to use it is "it looks cool" which I just disagree with. It looks clunky, slow, and awkward.

Also you don't need to upgrade your broom to maintain its top speed at different altitudes, upgrades just increase the max speed from already fast to even faster. The only benefit in that regard is the hippogriff doesn't need to boost to meet it's lackluster top speed, but with the infinite boost at low altitude, and like I said there's just nothing at higher altitudes, I still don't see the point. No matter how you slice it, it's a baffling design decision for everyone but the people who get nostalgia for a horse bird.

[Knavenformed]

Because it was in the movie