I also don't like chocobo racing and I don't care about it much either. But I feel like if I ever meet Yoshi P I will ask him about this lmfao

Aha! My time has come to finally finish my Perfect Racing chocobo! (it's been WIP for a while now, but this is good motivation to go back to it lolol. i'm almost there!)

Love how there is no explanation in this video if weather has a mechanical effect on chocobo racing :)

Always hated how awkward chocobo's move in races, they don't behave like that on overworld maps.

Nice vid

Hotdamn, more research and care went into the Chocobo Racing WEATHER than DT MSQ. The length of that spreadsheet is impressive! That's dedication right there!

Chocobo racing the easiest MGP you’ll ever earn I am the community

Actually such a good video. My nerd ass loves watching scientific research take place lmao

"What is your level of autism?" "Chocobo Racing secret changes!"

KWEH!

Finally someone made this video. When I did breeding and racing seriously it occured in mid 2020. I asked why I wouldn't breed for fair skies since I noticed we start that way in every race. A guy in my novice network said the change recently made it so only the weather in the second half of the race matters for your chocobos preferred weather now.

that's a lot more than I ever have to say about something I don't care very much about.

So, as a chocobo racing fiend, I can say this does affect what is BiS for chocobos. It's not a HUGE deal since 99% of the time you're racing easy to beat NPCs, but... it is interesting!

Surprisingly good video for someone with 83 subs lol If you'd like a suggestion, I'd advise you to invest in a higher quality microphone. It doesn't have to be a professional quality $1000 microphone with mixer or anything like that, but this one is noticeably low quality to the point where it's a little distracting and even hard to understand you sometimes. A decent quality USB condenser mic, such as a Blue Yeti, can be had for $100 - $150 new, and would really do a lot to "up your game" so to speak.

You know if Asmongold ever comes back to FFxiv, he'll be interested in this.

epic video

*checks chocobo card* Off to the gril.. I mean, farm for you.

Me, who loves Chocobo racing and yet still not gotten into Chocobo Breeding yet because the MSQ and sidequests are so overwhelming; _Weather has effects?_

Maybe I am really lucky but I had rain at the start of my races around the launch of Endwalker. Just one or two times but it happend. But yes, now it make sense, that it's always fair weather. Thank you for your upload, that was really interesting. 🙂

Edit: nvm finished watching the video at 4:20

As someone who does the weekly chocobo racing challenges for the MGP and achievements, I had no idea weather was even a thing in chocobo racing after ~2000 races.

Could be a mis translation.. maybe check what the Japanese section says about it

Never used any guide for 8 years, only now im trying to breed a rank 10 i have to look at one

Considering how cursed rng in FFXIV is, I wouldn't put it past the game that every single race in the last 5 years has been legitimately randomly decided to start on Fair Skies. There is no definitive way to disprove it.

I think the only thing this will really effect is that there will no longer be a foul weather preference on ped 9 max rank chocobo's, so a good sneaky change imo

Hi there, this is the author of the Wordpress guide! Thanks for looking into this! I guess it makes sense that this flew under the radar so long, with it being such a minor mechanic in a minigame that has sadly gotten so little dev attention in many years. Either way, I'm happy to update the guide; would you like me to credit you?

My knee jerk suspicion is a weather coding change-Not sure if you're aware, but The Firmament and Empyreum have very strange weather behavior compared to everywhere else in the game, and Firmament got added in 5.1. Might be a link there!

I do believe foul skies like rain and thunder DID indeed start at the beginning of some of my races right after 4.x early 5.0

It actually does have an effect races now. A chocobo with Super Sprint will always have the best time on Sagoli Road, but not necessarily on the other tracks due to their length. A chocobo with max stamina will still run out of stamina before the end of Costa del Sol and Tranquil Paths without some lucky chest powerups if it's Super Sprint. It's entirely possible for a player managing their stamina without SS to pass you on those 2 tracks. And now it's even more likely, because fair weather doesn't penalize stamina drain like other weather types do. The change effectively buffs the amount of stamina conserved by chocobos that don't use SS.

i didn`t get the point of the video - but i hope you are free from chocobo racing already

Chocobo racing will never be competitive and taken seriously so long as Super Sprint is unchanged. They should at the very least not be immune to slow.

As someone who got the Racing Chocobo Mask, here's my tip to get it: It's not worth the race spam.

Oh that feeling of something you don't even care about having a mystery you need to solve. Mad respect. I also don't care about racing and greatly enjoyed this vid.

I only do the Chocobo Races for the bonus MGP in the challenge log. I literally had a 50 1st place win streak until a couple days ago where I ended in 2nd. One of the random chocobos had choco meteor and killed my stamina. Rarely do I ever pay attention to the weather effects.

interesting. I mean I remember more varied weather long ago, but I only did a lot of Chocobo racing in 2015, and I don't even play that character anymore. My 2019 Au Ra character is now my main. But this does remind me, I enjoyed doing that way back when. But OMG the breeding bit was overly complex.

I don’t think any of is who took racing seriously enough to care about this do anything but super sprint out of the gate.

THEY CHANGED THE LAST TURTLE MOB OF THE LV99 DUNGEON SO THAT IT CAN'T BE STUNNED LIKE, LITERALLY BETWEEN A WEEK AGO AND WHEN DAWNTRAIL RELEASED I'M SO PISSED THAT YOU CAN'T STOP IT FROM STOMPING ANYMORE AUGHHH

Just another fun type of group content that SE came up with 2.X and never updated or cared to improve upon

the hyperfixation claims yet another

Multimillion dollar company, btw.

Interesting. I have been playing this game for over 3 years and never tried chocobo racing.

Us Gold Saucer frequenters are built different. Especially Verminion players. I'm more of a TT and mahjong fan myself however I do have a chocobo at rank 24 but I really need to redo his stats

lol people still do chocobo races? rebirth does chocobo racing well

That is so weird lol, thanks for the vid.

Someone has to ask YoshiP just so he can say "what's chocobo racing?"

I've only done a handful of races, but... what does the weather even *do* in chocobo racing?

As someone who has perpetually worn the chocobo mask since Heavensward and wears "The First Across" as a title. I can say I never even regarded the weather mechanic before once. I knew of it of course, but I never really paid any attention to it.

I have started writing a hate-fueled tirade to Mr. Yoshert-P. This cannot stand.

Good catch!

What's that? Can't hear you over my Super Sprint. This really is a weird thing to change. I haven't been back to grinding races in years since I got my wins. So good catch.