SO I just got the new Bonesteed Flying mount.
What’s with the flying animation?
Surely that can’t be the way it was intended for it to fly?
Can it?
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a lot of the mounts are janky in animations since they were ported to skyflight
they are recolors of midnight which cant fly
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Ive been complaining about that horrible animation on the forums since i first saw it. Completely ruins all the flying horses, minus a small amount of unicorn type horses. Doesn’t seem like blizz thinks its an issue.
Had a weird experience riding a felbat kind of mount from Azuna to Valʻsharah.
It swam the entire way.
Not flapping wings flying but dog-paddle swimming.
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It shouldn’t have been intended to fly anyway on top of the animation being so terribly designed, like it was accidentally given the ability.
It should be removed and kept as a ground mount, especially since Midnight herself is strictly grounded from the Legion version.
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I mean it’s comical.
Mighty Steed with bone armor flitting it’s hove’s.
I hope they change it. Make them like the other steeds.
Yep, just tried mine out because I was so excited to get those. Quickly jumped on one of the courser mounts to compare, but nope, the coursers fly just fine. Guess my bonesteeds are doing the fast scurry until it gets fixed (hopefully).
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I had to take it for a spin just to see what you were talking about. I nearly snorted my coffee. It flies like it’s two people walking in a horse costume.
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Exactly
I hope it gets fixed the steeds from the first round fly like regular steeds.
I am wondering why Midnight can’t fly but Bonesteeds can since the Bonesteeds are supposed to be recolours of Midnight?
I’d be fine with that.
I didn’t get it because it was flying mount.
But if’s going to be a flying steed it needs to fly like a steed not what ever this is we have now.
It is terrible. I actually came in here just to post this. Who could have possibly designed those beautiful mounts only to use that rediculous animation and think that looks good. Just give flying horses the same animation as Invicible and be done with it. Half the horse ground mounts look like you are on a hobby horse. Just bad.
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the flying horse cadaver just doesn’t look natural…
they’re using the horse swim animation. this might be the failover animation slot for flying when a unique flying animation isn’t included in the animation rig, and those bucking bronco type horse rigs don’t have flying. so this is likely a result of assigning the acherus deathcharger style rig to these horses but flipping the “flying mount” switch to “on” in the db. my guess is they’ll switch them back to ground-only since that’s the least possible effort.
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I knew I saw that animation somewhere before.
it is the swim animation.
Looks a bit daft while flying lol.
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I was about to post about it.
I was so excited to buy one, even more when I saw they can fly — and then… looks like they’re pooping mid-air
Not only does the animation look wonky… I was expecting an effect from the hooves when walking or moving… like the new horseman mount has. i’d expect it to since the hooves are glowing
Yeah…this is bad. I have to wonder if they are bugged. This can’t be right. I decided to mount up on one out of curiosity and I’m glad I wasn’t sipping a drink at the time. I laughed so hard.
I bought it, used it, and now it will be just a number until the animation is fixed. At least it looks cool, so that is a plus.