Remove fake birds

[marble coral]

Fake birds are very annoying for gameplay and they look weird if you zoom in to them (they look like their animation has 3fps)
I'm not talking about the hirschfelden/layton birds that you cant hunt at all
You might think these fake birds are good for immersion but they look weird and you cant hunt them which takes away from immersion in my opinion

[wheat lance]

Not to mention they all crash into eachother in the air sometimes, other times live ones turn into fakes, so strange seeing a female mallard turn into a male as well. Which is with all fake birds btw, they all turn into males or are all males, there are no fake female birds

[shadow stratus]

I hate the gulls, don’t mind the eagles.

[marble coral]

yeah the live ones turning into fakes or vice versa sucks

[wheat lance]

The gulls gotta go, they aren’t even where they should be

[marble coral]

@floral sigil i was just wondering why you downvoted?

[floral sigil]

The birds make the base game maps feel alive and add to the immersion. DLC maps can feel lifeless at times without details like birds. I think all maps should have them or things like them to bring them to life.

[marble coral]

the base game birds are fine they can stay maybe get an updated model and animation
but in the dlc maps the fake ducks just look weird and theres enough ducks flying around already
its hard to know if thats a real bird in the sky or not and sometimes fake ones turn into real ones and vice versa which is very weird
while i get its immersive in my opinion it makes hunting worse and sometimes breaks immersion if you try to spot them and see they have a bad animation

I think theres other ways to add immersion to maps too like https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1333059465376698408

[floral sigil]

Oh. You mean the ones that look glitchy when they fly? I thought you honestly made a typo when you said "not talking about the Hirschfelden/Layton birds" and the word not wasn't supposed to be there.

Anyway, the ones you're referring to are just a visual glitch that's been in the game for a few months of real Ducks/Geese that are in travel mode. Not being able to spot or shoot them is apparently an intended thing from the devs and has always been in the game. They claim they can be broken out of travel mode if you call, although I've never personally seen it happen. The visual glitch should be fixed at some point.

Sorry I've just never seen anyone think they're anything more than a recently added bug.

[marble coral]

oh thats interesting

how do you think i should make it clearer im not talking about the hirschfelden and layton birds?

[floral sigil]

Delete the post altogether lol. It's probably listed as a known issue on bug threads. Nobody is too concerned about it, because we all expect it to be fixed in a future update. I think the bug started either when Askiy Ridge came out in July or when the Rapid Hunt pack came out I march. As soon as the bug came out, I remember people asking and EW said it was just a visual bug.

[marble coral]

i think ive seen it way before askiy ridge

[floral sigil]

It was probably in March then. That sounds more correct to me as well.

[twin ruin]

Not fake birds, they are in a migratory stance. I believe everybody is misinterpreting your post.

[formal verge]

This is what I’m saying YEAA