Broken Buzzard Problem

[Nachtwulf]

As a lot of you probably know, in the current live game, all of the 'new' northrend style condors (as well as the brown stormcrow) suffer a broken flying animation. For those that don't... when the pet is following you, it follows in its 'I'm hovering at rest' pose instead of shifting into a flight stance. It's a minor glitch but, at least for me, it bothers the ever loving crap out of me. If you want to see the difference, you can tame one of the stormcrows from outland (which aren't broken) or the ones near Vengeance Landing, and then tame a brown stormcrow. You'll see the difference in how it moves immediately.

Anyway, my big question is whether this flaw has been repaired in cataclysm, and perhaps just as importantly, if the new brown condor model is broken or not. If someone could check for me I'd appreciate it. (And if it is, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF PETS report it as a bug!)

[Lohuran]

I know exactly what you're talking about and it is VERY annoying. I do hope they fix the problem before/during Cata, as I plan to get one for my Undead Hunter. I would be extremely disappointing if it isn't back to normal by then.

[Teigan]

I hope they fix it. Those poor birds...they look kinda broken.

[Vephriel]

Ah, I knew the Daggercap Hawks had this issue but I didn't know the condors suffered the same problem. I agree that it's a glitch which should be reported, and hopefully if it's ticketed in Beta they'll be more likely to listen since they're looking out for glitches and such.

[Ryai]

The irony of this is they hover fly when you run- but when you walk or swim, they fly normally. Tho sadly atm I think people should be reporting the serpents being glitched [and evidently crabs now too] on Beta for the highlighting difficulties. Because if Blizz won't even fix that visual glitch I doubt they're going to care about a model glitch that's been in the game since Wrath's launch.

[Aquillian]

I reported this almost a year ago, it makes me sad and somewhat frustrated that it hasn't been fixed yet I love those skins/models. However, there are working Stormcrows (Horde starting area), and I believe Dreadtalon the elite condor has proper flying/gliding animations... I'll check on my Draenei when she hits level 64.

[Nachtwulf]

They won't fix what they don't know about. They -did- fix the white zombear running glitch, as well as the devilsaur gimp-run and the stomping (now if they'd only kill the tympani on core hounds) so they WILL fix it. But only if people actually complain. Going 'oh, they won't bother' and not even trying just ensures that it won't ever be seen to.

The squeaky wheel gets all the grease.

[Aquillian]

O.o lol, that's what I'm saying... I did report it... both via ticket and the forums! =P Maybe if more people do too, heh!

[Nevar]

I have recently ticketed this problem to a gm and have just now recieved a reply, suprisingly it wasnt an "We are aware of this bug" response however one of we will be taking the measures to fix this. I've enclosed a SS of the ticket in case yu want to read it but this gives me hope that it will be fixed possibly soon!

[Lohuran]

As of patch 4.0 (on the Test Realm) this bug still has NOT been fixed, at least not completely (it does occasionally use the correct animation, but only for a brief second). If you're on the test realm, too, now is as good a time as any to put in a bug report using the Test Realm's feedback button.

[Lohuran]

Blegh. I keep logging into the test realms every time a new build is put in hoping this bug is fixed. No such luck. And now the feedback button is gone. :C

[Anyia]

Blegh. I keep logging into the test realms every time a new build is put in hoping this bug is fixed. No such luck. And now the feedback button is gone. :C

Try /bug - they don't always disable that at the same time as the minimap button.