Elden Ring - What happened to all the Riders?
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- If you're curious about the model viewing program shown several times throughout this video, it's Dark Souls Animation Studio by Meowmaritus, which now supports Elden Ring.
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Some of the NPCs with RideRequests in their AI, like the Manserpents, also even have entries in the Throw Param for the special critical attack where they can be stabbed on the ground after falling off their mounts. There's a missing spot in the character list after Manserpents as well, so their mount was probably at least partly worked on before being cut. I wonder what it could possibly have been.
Hmm, Would they ride man-horses or serpent-horses?
My guess? A Serpentman.
@@TheCrewExpendable Maybe horse-horses
@@TheCrewExpendable Oh, maybe those draconic horses the tree sentinels ride? Or something similar that's magma wyrm related?
I imagine the Manserpents could have ridden something similar to the Abductor Virgins or the Flame Chariots since they fit the aesthetic of their area.
As to why it was cut, they probably deemed Volcano Manor was too cramped for a mounted enemy to not look awkward.
The fact Mohg has an average pair of tight jeans under his cloak is burnt into my mind forever
he also has a cozy v-neck sweater under the top 💀
He kinda rockin that levi's tho
He has Dispicable Me Minion legs
Without that big ass robe he looks like and accountant
As much as I love Torrent, the thought of fighting Radahn while piggybacking on Blaidd’s back would be so badass that I think I kind of want that instead.
Mohg was actually supposed to ride a surfboard on a huge wave of blood, but they cut it so he didn’t overshadow the other bosses
My headcannon is that Mohg's second phase was originally going to have him flying on a hover board like the Green Goblin, but they ended up just giving him wings.
"You're too late, Tarnished! Blood has been legalized!"
@@robertcapestany6019 "But you're the one getting smoked, Mohggy!"
*Casts Comet Azur*
I like to think he was going to stand on the egg-cocoon thing and roll it around like a bear on a ball.
Makes sense enough, as, if I recall correctly, his second phase doesn't have a cutscene or anything, inloke every other demigod, as far as I am aware atleast.
“GODSPEED, TARNISHED!”
The reason Mohg’s mount point is so low to the ground is so Varré can reach it :) hope this helps.
this made me choke
@@oliveb5478 this made me want to chock
!CURSED KNOWLEGE!
@@oliveb5478 Like varre
Thanks, I hate it
As soon as you said Mohg was potentially ridable/able to ride on something I became VERY worried for Miquella.
You should be on some registry, creep
Mohg WISHES but Miquella is just chillin waiting for his DLC
You weren't already worried for miquella? Mohg is a weirdo 😆
NO
My mind is now a bit more disturbed, have a like mate
*Some inappropriate joke about riding this majestic Wolf man*
Anyone who laughs is a is a Frenzied Flame enthusiast!
Offer dog,
But hole
I can imagine in a quest rannie would be injured and she would be riding on his back to get out of harms way
Maybe you would have to guard them
And become inside of him
Jokes on us we are the mount
After watching Blaidd's voice actor read tweets about him, the phrase "you could ride Blaidd" has a very different meaning lol
When is the Elden Ring dating Sim coming out so I can f**k with Blaidd?
Riding blaidd would certianly be an expreience
Someone send this video to that thirsty whale vtuber
Don't let Bao hear this. She might cease to exist on this mortal plane.
Confused horny whale sounds
Being able to hop onto Blaidd's back like yoda and Luke would have made my day in elden ring Blaidd is already my favorite npc being able to fight with him more regularly would have been amazing
What if it gave you a special leap attack with Blaidd boosting you up into the air when you dismount?
@@zenebean that actually sounds like fun
I hope the modding community plays with the idea
I would've loved to be able to summon Blaidd for a couple more fights. It seems logical that you would be able to summon him for the Dragonkin Soldier and Ancestral Spirit fights, since he's in the area already.
"Blaidd let's you mount him."
And the collective, terrible, enthusiastic shriek of furries rolled across the land and left untold destruction in its wake.
And here I thought Blaidd being rideable was a bersek reference. Imagine Ranni getting on Blaidd's back if he was defending her, like Guts and Schierke. That'd be a fun image
Literally exactly what I thought the moment I read the thumbnail. Was 100% convinced it was Blaidd protecting Ranni from a black knives ambush while she was inanimate.
Cut to the chase and ride Ranni instead 👀
That is… certainly not my first thought a that
*at
@@hearmth6618 No Maidens?
Two ideas as to why blaidd has that capability. 1: does the tower he's perched on when you meet him for the first time have one too? B: maybe blaidd was going to be used to carry Ranni at some point, for some reason?
Yeah, the tower having an attach point would probably it. So he doesn't accidentally fall of.
That's what I was thinking too. I bet he carried Ranni during something at some point
Or the player to trek across the Radahn terrain before ultimately deciding on letting you ride Torrent instead.
If B happened, it would be a blatant Berserk reference and everyone would love it, but oh well.
But he is the rider, not the mount, as Zully explained due to his attach point, so having the attach point where it is it's impossible to carry Ranni other than inside him.
Looking at the Godskin Duo and the fact they have mount points, it makes me imagine some kind of horrific combination attack, with the Acolyte standing atop the Noble.
In general, this video gives me more reasons to wish that the mounting system overall, and Torrent in particular, had gotten significantly more depth than it did.
Noble begins rolling about and tosses the acolyte off.
gurrenlagann shit
The most " Mario and Luigi" moment that could have been.
Noble falls over to his side and Acolyte jumps atop him and starts rolling him like a barrel
Zullie: "you could potentially ride Blaidd at some point"
r34 artists: **start foaming in their mouths**
I know there's definitely some people out there that would love to "ride Blaidd."
This video also confirms that Blaidd is not the mount but the rider, making him a bottom.
I can hear Bao screaming off in the distance…
Accurate
Poor Blaidd
@@deakkristof1818 A win for the tops out there.
I can 100% picture Mohg riding a chariot. He's got the trident, all he needs is a net.
I choose to believe that the RidePoints on the Godskin Apostle and Noble were meant to interact with each other, and that the original planned Phase 2 of the Godskin Duo fight was that they would fuse together and you would have to fight some kind of Black Fire Voltron.
Yeah...guess they got cut because blatant innuendo
There are 5 separate GodSkin battles in the game, if you don't include the Spiritcaller Cave. That's one for each limb just like in Power Rangers
LMAO, Apostle running in place on top of Noble while he rolls around would have easily turned that into the best boss fight in the game for comedy value alone.
@@Antifinity Oh god please I need to see this so bad
@@Antifinity Someone HAS to mod that in.
If you look on the heels of the banished knight's greaves, you can see spurs, the little star wheels. These spurs were used to send directions to the horse for more ease of riding and steering it. I remember looking at them thinking it was strange since they don't ride anything, but now knowing that this, they probably were designed with mounts in mind but the mounts were cut for whatever reason. I find that super interesting and it sorta confirms the suspicion I had!
Even without a mount, it makes sense for them to have spurs on; as elite heavy cavalry, the spur is emblematic of knighthood. Becoming a knight is sometimes referred to as "receiving your spurs," and being handed one's new spurs was sometimes part of the knighting ritual. Having lost lands, titles, and even their horses (and arguably, their honor, since they seem to now work as mercenaries), the Banished Knights are still knights, proudly wearing their spurs.
...and their gigantic codpieces.
@@thefez-cat those knights be hung
0:30 This monstrous beast of a man kneels down for you to climb on. Such a nice and probably completely unintentional detail.
I wish we could’ve ridden a Magma Wyrm at one point. Or take a Dragon and ride it
Or ranni
@@cyrusmuller6502 No maidens?
It'd be too Op since Pvp lazy players would find a way to ride a Dragon AND avoid fighting or cheat their asses off
We didn't get that in Skyrim until dlc, we'll get there
Hopefully they are more mounts we can get ashes from to ride on. I would so love to ride on the Tree Sentinels and Draconic Tree Sentinels mounts.
3:28 thank you for blessing us with this image 🙏
The snake looks so happy!
So this is what Rya does with her days off
It looks so derpy and adorable, I love it!
yah, steed! yah!
I never knew how badly I wanted to see a snake ride a horse until watching this video
But...
Imagine: a snake RIDING OTHER SNAKE.
@@quint3ssent1a A whole stack of snakes
@@abbycaldwell3166 like a stack of pancakes but instead a stack of pan-snakes
He looks so friggin happy to finally ride a horse too
The snake is just grooming the horses hair as per his usual five o clock appointment.
Wasn't there a runebear in the ruins you find Blaidd that upsets him if it dies? I wouldn't be surprised if at some point he was meant to ride that runebear into battle, but even the guy that brought us the Lake of Rot realized how terrifying that would've been.
radahn would be fucked if he can do that
Probably might not warrant a whole video, but I was wondering if there is some way to check to see if Torrent was originally planned to be used for the Elden Beast boss fight? Ik myself and many other players felt that the scale of the boss arena would have made it a perfect fit for Torrent along with being a nice way to tie up the game (Torrent being with you from the beginning of the game and all). Anyway, great video as usual!
Damn, that might have even made the Elden Beast fight really fun.
I can only imagine Bao will see this video and be like “PLEASE I BEG OF YOU”
That or she'll say "What about a mod that lets Blaidd ride me??!?!?!"
I mean Blaidd's VA voiced, "I'm ready when you are...". All that's needed is a mod to finish it and it'll be beleivable 👌👌
@@Draevan13 I think she would rather like a mod where she can ride Blaidd.
What can I say? The Wolf man really does know how to use his sword.
Cheers!
Rhodey what are you doing here?! wrong game!
this dude is starting to be everywhere
Mohg sure look experienced with that spear
@@meestur6210 Haha, I enjoy some travels in the Lands Between too.
Seek pickle
but likely two-handing
Blaidd being ridable is an anomaly that popped up after release due to the sheer will and power of horny. We have Bao to thank in large part for this.
thank you bao
Bao’s reaction was hilarious lol
Okay so hear me out: the fact that ancestral followers have rider AI leads me to believe that at one point you could fight one that was mounted on an ancestral spirit
Rideable Blaidd? I'm sure Bao will be ecstatic to learn of this, thanks Zullie!
Clearly a mistake on Fromsoft developers, because i want Blaidd to ride on me.
Bro...
I guess I can’t be blaidd’s Little horse.😿
This sentence can be interpreted in many ways, and the first I thought was very wrong
@@iHaveTheDocuments Who are you referring to?
Blaidd is a almost 3m tall, very muscular Wolfman. So if body proportions are not messed up, youll have a very painful time being ridden by blaidd
It's possible that one early plan for reaching Nokstella could have involved finding Blaidd in Siofra and hopping on his back while he leaps up the cliffs in a canned animation.
I don’t see any real evidence for this, but it would have made a lot more sense than killing some guy to drop a comet.
@@DiscoMouse that guy was holding the stars back, so killing him let them go
Is there evidence or this is just a random guess?
@@abyss5600 That's true, but it still doesn't make a lot of sense why this specific area gets uncovered due to the stars falling. Like, I feel like it would make more sense for multiple new dungeons to be created rather than just one dungeon.
@@bigboi8028 it's because only one star actually hit, because it seems to have been much closer, hence the size
I see everyone already thought of the "mounting Blaidd" joke before I did
Of course Blaidd has a ride animation, he's everybody's werewolf boyfriend! In all seriousness, though, I expect Blaidd's mount would have been some modified rune bear model, as killing any of the rune bears in the forest where you meet him still results in him becoming hostile.
Oh, interesting theory!
Hostile? Was this an thing they patched out? I killed bears before meeting him, including the one directly below him and i didnt have him attack me at any point
@@Taevarth They might have patched it out, I remember vaatividya making a video about it, but he might have said in the original release as opposed to the current version.
Based off the thumbnail alone I want to be able to ride Godskin Noble around, rolling around everywhere and inflicting pain and suffering wherever I go
_everything is 'rideable' if you're ambitious enough_
Put these foolish ambitions to rest
Good luck with porcupines.
Another dogged contender
Put these foolish ambitions to rest
If only you could "log roll" on top of the big iron balls! LOL
You know exactly what kind of crowd you're going to draw in with that thumbnail
"Tis only the RUclipsr, quivering at misguided Views"
Apparently there’s alot of gay dudes enjoying elden ring.
HEY THIS ISNT WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR-
That last image made me imagine Torrent letting Zorayas ride on him while she giggles gleefully the whole time.
Probably because he's very soft and fluffy so Blaidd gives good piggy back rides
The good ending
Nothing but facts here.
For the sake of my sanity, I will now just assume Blaidd was gonna offer piggyback rides like a cool big brother, and dismiss all filthy assumptions pouring out of the internet's horny jail.
"why is Blaidd rideable?" Zullie you knew EXACTLY what you were doing when you typed that
I'm sad she changed the thumbnail lol
Oops, if she changed it, we might have joked a bit too far o.-
She changed it?! oh boo you zullie
@@missbirb9692 Sadly, she said using that thumbnail caused RUclips to get mad at her
@@Sir_Crow what was it originally
"This does have some implications for Blaidd"
Thank you Zullie for confirming that Blaidd is in fact a bottom
We need a Blaidd s3x mod
Assigned bottom by game mechanics
*Power Bottom
To Ranni: “so why can we ride Blaidd?”
Ranni: “don’t ask the questions you don’t want the answers to”
You could have highlighted a myriad of other NPCs for the thumbnail and bulk of this video, but we know why you chose Blaidd and we are grateful. He's a very good boi.
The furry jokes will be strong today.
Technically monster dude over furry I think, since he's half man half wolf and not a complete animal so to speak
@@DarkChibiWeebie nope, furry, half man half wolf is all we swoon over
It's called anthropomorphic
@@keyboundDragon isn't anthropromotic when its a dog that becomes a human, aka an animal with human characristics? I doubt blaidd was a dog before becoming half human lol
@@DarkChibiWeebie anthropomorphic is when there's a two legged character with both animal and human characteristics
Think Argonians and Khajiit from Skyrim, they could easily be considered anthropomorphic lizards and cats respectively
@@DarkChibiWeebie Anthropomorphic is animal and human like. It's a flexible definition for a flexible topic.
Also, Blaidd and Maliketh are the same type of creature, and maliketh is full fur, and while we don't see Blaidd under his armor it can be inferred that it's also fur.
Furry is Animal man/woman/etc.
he is a dog man
so he is a anthropomorphic dog, which falls into furry.
Rule 34 artists are going to have a field day with this valuable information.
e621 artist are way ahead of this
Mohg's mounting point is likely used during his intro cutscene, where he slowly rises from a pool of blood. They probably put an invisible dummy mount for him to ride up for that shot to create the illusion of rising from the pool, which is why it's positioned so low.
Imagine if he has the mohgmobile tho.
That's actually a really smart idea, and almost definitely what it is. FromSoft has always been good at using subtle tricks.
Why couldn't they just move his model up during that cutscene? Sounds like a much easier solution than giving him a mount and moving the mount up.
@@erikmkir5567 Yeah, its a conspiracy so that they won’t reveal that mohg is the new character for bloodborne kart.
or mohg used his mounting point to be ridden by miquella all the centuries he have been kidnapped
It would be legendary to have a ranni boss fight where she clings to blaids back (idk how well she can move being a doll and all) while shooting magic lothric style
Edit: just scrolled through comments and it seems alot of people had ideas like this
I imagine that a lot of them have mount points without having mounts is that the devs did a lot of testing with which NPCs worked better on mounts and which didn't.
I feel like in Blaidd's case, maybe at one point he would have carried Ranni around on his back.
Would've be very cute to see if that was actually the case lol
But Blaidd is the rider though so maybe she would carry him on her back instead
@@nguyenvietanh2152 very cute
"blaidd was designed as a rider, but he has no riding animations"
bottom by nature, top by nurture 😪
I'm sure a lot of people wish they could ride Blaidd.
Or have the opposite happen
@@madmuffin2842 Can confirm.
I can already hear a certain whale barking
My first thought beyond mounting any beast, was seeing the ability to “mount” other riders and be placed inside their torso. This could be used for a really cool mod when you “possess” other enemies using the mount system to take control of them and use them to fight
thru the power of sheer horniness oozing in the comments y'all made zullie change the thumbnail, just froth at the mouth for the welsh wolfman in private like most of us, like-
God, imagine fighting the Foreskin Duo with mounts. That would be hell
I think there was once a plan to have them ride eachother
Foreskin duo lmao
@@pavloydus Thanks for the image... foul tarnished.
@@pavloydus that actually seems kinda valid since their final phase is some orenstein smough shit where one gets stronger as the other dies - maybe it couldve been used as some lothric-like animation where one picks up the other before they transform in to one entity
I like that fight.
"ride-able" or as the kids call it these days "submissive and breedable."
U go 2 honey jail; do not pass Go do not collect 200$
@@spirit.punk. I am going to my GF today, but I have never called her place honey jail before, 200$ for gasoline sounds about right though.
I cant wait for the DLC to have Mohgwyn riding Margott's shoulders, and having a move where they both fly in the air and he drops Margott on you.
They got bro attacks like they're playing the Mario & Luigi rpgs!
Ahaha
@@AT7outof10 I mean, Mohg has fire and Morgott has a hammer. Could be
Now I'm just imagining them kicking a fucking Koopa Shell at the Tarnished lmao
Unfortunately i cannot imagine the two of them working together like this, seeing all their differences, but the thought is really funny
@@kfogo7459 Interestingly, Morgott doesn't mention Mohg in his list of Traitors to the Erdtree despite them being brothers and both of the Golden Lineage. This may be because he acknowledges that Mohg, being an Omen like he was, had no real reason to be loyal to the Erdtree to begin with.
The only character in Elden Ring that could prompt them to work together to fight against would be Ranni, because her Age of Stars is presumed to be a method of severing the gods from the Lands Between, something that they probably don't want seeing as they both worship gods.
The true question no one is asking: can we ride Leonard?
"Mohgs attach point is lower than you'd expect." Damn where's THAT prompt for his boss fight?
opening a can of worms with this one, queen
Mohg's ride attach point was obviously intended for Miquella, but I understand why they decided to cut that out from the game.
That's a large oof
Outta pocket.
I get that this is a sex joke but imagine if he rode atop miquella's shoulders kaiju style. But then again its likely that they want Miquella to be his own encounter and not a glorified horse mount for Mohg
Mohg's attach point reminds me of visually where Leonard is positioned on Radahn. As Radahn & Leonard were eventually implemented as a single entity, I'd guess that Mohg & Radahn's character models were made from the same base template really early on before Radahn's riding mechanics were changed.
If Mohg never had anything to ride, that would explain why Mohg's unused attach point was just left in place, since that feature was never directly modified for him during the development like it was for Radahn.
I'm not sure if there's any data that might help to support or refute that possibility, but it might be worth poking around at!
I thought about Leonard when I saw the low point too
See, now I'm thinking about every single character also riding their own tiny horse, as small to them as Leonard is to Radahn.
Came here to say this! Reusing the Radahn rig to save re-rigging Mohg from scratch. I bet this is the same reason all NPCs have attach points. It's likely almost every humanoid is built from the same character rig. It's not lazy, it's cost effective and produces the same results as re-rigging every character.
@@FingerinUrDaughter either nice bait, or you have a laughable misunderstanding of game development and design
@@FingerinUrDaughter lol, keep crying. It only further proves your ignorance on the matter
As always, super interesting peek into the games inner workings 🤘
Mohg's mount point is so low because he was meant to ride a unicycle in his second phase.
I'm really hoping that we get a rider-type boss in the future that mounts up or dismounts as part of a phase change, like the nameless king did.
Also...
Something something Blaidd simps.
Heh.
One wonders if there might have been a plan to have Ranni (or perhaps her miniature version) being carried by Blaidd at some point.
Surely
Maybe a berserk reference (actually)
Edit: the changed thumbnail really killed this joke, I guess it was too much. :D
Because some people are into that. I won't judge.
"re-enabling the Ride prompt lets you mount him", oh myyyyy.
The reason Mohg has a mount point was because he was originally going to be a generic enemy that rode on top of the chariots typically seen in the Hero's grave dungeons. This is also why there's two Mohgs.
"Mogh's situation might have been much stranger, as his attach point is significantly lower than you'd expect."
*attach point is swinging below the knees*
Christ, dear Miquella indeed...
I know something like this won't ever happen because Fromsoft, but I can easily imagine an "episode" stage, for examlle one where you play as Blaidd for a short while fighting off the Black Knives on Ranni's Rise before he goes insane. Or something like AC Nexus' ending where there is no win condition and you can only "lose".
Blaidd goes insane?
@@enderkatze6129 I'm not to that point myself, but it's part of Ranni's quest. Something happens (I think he thinks she's dead or something, but I'm very likely wrong) and he goes nuts and you have to fight and kill him. Happens after you free him from the evergaol if you choose to free him at that point in the game. I think nothing happens if you leave him there, but it won't progress Ranni's quest (again, I could be wrong with how it's connected).
Maybe a Fan Made Mod but It might take years robe Made AND It might Also be Uber expensive, just look at Skyblivion or Fallout London. It's been years AND they're not fully completed
@@SolaScientia him going mad is related to why he, a shadow, exists in the first place, and why he was put in the Evergaol.
@@SolaScientia As far as I know, Blaidd exists because of the two fingers and he was created to serve Ranni, who's also supposed to serve the two fingers. But because Ranni disobeyed them, Blaidd went insane because he's supposed to kill Ranni if she goes against the two fingers. Given that they're childhood friends and Blaidd is very loyal, he fights against that as best as he can, up until the Tarnished kills him due to Blaidd being insane and attacking the player on sight.
Freeing him from the Evergoal is optional and he'll get out either way when you progress through Ranni's quest, so I don't believe it's connected to that in any way. You can find him at the bottom of her tower after returning from giving her the Dark Moon ring.
The way you ride blaidd is like studio ghibli levels of romantic looking. Wonder if he was a romance route at one point.
I'm thinking maybe we were gonna ride Blaisdell throught the lake of rot cause he's practically immortal because rannis connection to the 2 fingers before we meet her
I think the most likely explanation is that the blaidd mount was intended for ranni to use at one point
Crouching to let someone leap onto your back and then default-rider-pose inside of your torso is romantic... how?
@@-VoDkAsVengeance- simple, your inside him 😏
I hate this community more and more each day
"Blaidd was probably intended as a rider, look at where his mounting point is"
*it's at his crotch*
Oh, I think it's quite possible he'd be the *ridden* one.
The unused rideRequest call for each object, could be the result of inheritance pattern. Maybe there was nothing planned at all for the most of them. Just inherited from other objects.
You just accidentally leaked the next Elden Ring Kart game, the sequel to Bloodborne Kart.
Zullie, you know EXACTLY what you're doing with that thumbnail
Frankly, I'm aghast at the lack of mountability for Blaidd in the final product. You gave a 10 foot wolfman that voice and didn't think we'd want to ride him? Frankly, riding Blaidd was the first thing on my mind
What I find interesting about Blaidd's example is that he clearly has some kind of animation tied to his mounting mechanic. He kneels down for you, then stands back up, complete with a short "grunt" sound effect to go along with it, while all other examples just have the entity either become immobile (sometimes with a static model pose) or just... don't react at all while you snap to them. Blaidd's seems as though it had more consideration for it than just a generic snap point for a rider. Further, his animation doesn't appear to mimic that of a rider climbing onto their mount, but of a mount accepting a rider, since he kneels down for you to get on his back.
It's clearly unfinished, certainly, but it seems like there was more work put into him specifically than most other ridable entities. I imagine the goal was to allow him to piggy-back another entity in some instance that was cut part-way through the dev cycle, after they'd gotten a rough animation down and programmed in a sound effect, but before it was fleshed-out into a more clean, complete idea. My best guess is that it's either (a) a cut concept in which he would give the player a piggy-back for some reason or (b) a cut concept in which he would give another entity a piggy-back for some reason (my bets are on Ranni).
Depending on when Torrent was finalized as a phantom steed that could appear and disappear at will (since he seems to have been intended to act more like a normal horse at an earlier point in development), it might be that he could become inaccessible at certain points in the game and alternative mounting options would be available for the player, including other horses or bewitched giant ants for example. My guess is that you were, perhaps, intended to hop on Blaidd's back in areas where you'd fight alongside him, like in Radahn's boss fight, to allow you to maintain mobility in an otherwise huge arena against a fast boss. Likewise, if he was scripted to allow other NPCs to mount him, I could imagine an instance in which you fight him and his rider, much like the Lorian & Lothric boss fight in DS3; of course, the obvious assumption is that it would be him and Ranni, with him providing the melee side of combat and Ranni providing the ranged/magic side of combat, creating a tough duo boss that can fight effectively from far away or up close.
It's one of those mechanics that, as a whole, feels like there was much more ambition considered for it than we ended up getting in the final game, with a plethora of mounting options for the player to make use of besides Torrent as well as many enemy/rider types that just... never happened. I can imagine why they ultimately chose to scale back the concept, but there's always that part of me that wishes we could have seen it really meet its full potential for the final game.
I very much think it's only Ranni who would "mount" him. I can see that being something they intended at some point, to have him pick her up and tote her around.
@@ThrottleKitty That was my thought as well.
As an avid R34 enjoyer, I've seen people ride Blaidd many times
2:26 I was NOT expecting Mohg to be wearing skinny jeans under his robe.
I will not lie: if I was able to do that during the Radahn battle, it would've made that fight more epic imo.
ride Alexander into battle.
2:26 the image of Mohg wearing what amounts to a pair of grey pants is oddly hilarious to me
This just further proves Blaidd was best Doggo. Alongside his “summon” by Rennala.
Fromsoft should have done a bit more with him IMO considering he has a picture on the load screens.
Hopefully our “guide NPC” for the DLC could be the Shadow of Miquella or Malenia. Praise the Shadow doggos!
I want and demand more dog pope, I also am dying to see the end of patches and the Volcanic quest line ending. I refuse to believe that patches a man who transcended dimension just goes back to a cave and runs a shop for highwaymen in the end of his quest.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus The shop doesn't even get new items at the end, does it? >.< Come on now, From...
Guide NPC? 👀 confirmation or hot rumor?
@@Blacklands I don’t think so sadly, he better kick us into a new map in the dlc at least
Hey Zullie (and co.), not sure if this had been discussed before but I'm wondering if there is anything to learn about sitting animations. Specifically when "sitting on the environment" like the floor, a bed or a wall. Are these unique animations or is there a system to implement them?
I wonder because of the frequency sitting characters; the death bed maiden, D's twin brother, Blaidd's perching above the ruins, the merchants, some of the knights, etc.
that lizard mounted on the horse at the end was something I never knew I wanted to see but I'm glad I did
Awesome video as always, Zullie! Although now I'm certain you've doomed us, since I can think of several kinds of players who would want to use the Ride Blaidd option.
The bestest boy
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Yup, I'm pretty sure lots of people from the fandom would absolutely love to "ride" Blaidd
If it’s me I’m going ranni over blaidd 😝
Do you think this ride mechanic was less designed for enemies to be mounts but to play as them during a sequence? Like going into a evergoal as Blaidd?
This would make a lot of sense. All they would have to do is make your character invisible while you're "riding" them.
This makes me wish Torrent was customizable. Imagine if you can customize his appearance and abilities.
Mfw Zullie removed Blaidd's mount because she wanted to ride him all by herself
Seeing that the Godskins have a RideRequest function makes me envision Godskin Horse. It'd be a pale, grosser version of the Night Cavalry horse, all covered in skin, rising up from a pool of Blackflame at the whistle of it's masters.
That would have been super cool.
That sounds badass. Would’ve made the godskin fights a lot more interesting for sure
Absolutely loving the idea of this, Blaidd is the one npc I want to ride, as long as I get to use his big sword while doing so
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There it is.
If we actually got to ride Blaidd for some kind of battle, this game would've shot from a 100/10 to 10,000/10 right there.
I'm going to say that his mount was Adula considering that Adula was also a loyal vassal to Ranni. So Blaidd riding a dragon would've been even cooler.
I was thinking a bear, either the normal ones or a runebear, since he becomes aggressive if you kill the runebear in mistwood ruins before you meet him
Snek is so happy with their new pony. :D
The thought of Mohg having a mount is utterly terrifying. He’s already enough of a bastard on his own.
Great video as always 👍
Wouldn't it make sense that Blaidd is "mounted" when he's attached to his tower in the woods? Perhaps that is his mounted animations and designated mount. He is (to my knowledge) the only NPC with that type of behaviour, so rigging it up using a pre-existing set of parameters would make more sense than making a bespoke Interaction between him and his perch when a system that already exists would allow for the same functionality? Just a thought, I have no actual clue how that all works 😅
The easiest way to make him stand on that tower is... well, to just put him standing on that tower. Why would he need to ride the tower? Also, the tower has no riding points, as Zullie would have pointed it out
Zullie replied to someone else and said there's not an attach point on the tower that he's just standing up there.
i saw " Why can you ride Blaidd? " and i, along with possibly everybody else assumed the worst
Assumed the best!
2:03 it might also be worth noting that Blaidd was a cut summonable spirit that Rannala could use against you as there are audio files of her calling his name for assistance. This could imply that the Blaidd that was to be a part of this boss fight could have been using a mount
i think it was an early concept of the fight against radahn, with an arena that huge and most summons beeing just basic character models (exept for alexander) who should all be able to ride. Radahn riding aswell (not really riding but atleast looking like he does), making blaidd ride something in that fight would make sense.
The RideRequest behavior actually explains that really weird glitch where the Latenna summon can mount on an enemy Wolf npc. There are albinaurics mounted on wolves in the Consecreated snowfields, so latenna is probably a copy of those enemies and an oversight allows summoned npcs to request from hostile ones.
I like to imagine that Mohg was going to ride in on a pimped up version of those giant birds and make motor sounds with his mouth as he rides around the arena.
Mohg's mount obviously is gonna be Miquella once the DLC comes arpund.