Eagle is a real let down.

[Nagafusa]

Can't land or walk (even though real eagles clearly can?) one speed, one emote, 3 unusable white box emotes? no animations for its sit and lay down and no way to control how high you go, plus you can't pick anything up.. feels like its just a prototype and its not really worth trying to get to leaderboards or buying the extra stuff for it atm. major changes needed.

[CASEY!]

use Q and E to descend and ascend respectively.
imo the main pull of eagle is exploration and relaxation purposes. it's not for everyone

[Nagafusa]

Originally posted by a nice lizard:

use Q and E to descend and ascend respectively.
imo the main pull of eagle is exploration and relaxation purposes. it's not for everyone

doesn't work. also that shouldn't be the point. if you pick the eagle you cant play the game like everyone else and it just feels broken.

[Kaia]

Well, the purpose of the eagle isn't meant for that and E and Q work so I don't know what the problem is with your application.
It is in a way boring but I personally like playing it. It's meant to be a leader or guide or whatever you wanna call it to help other animals find stuff.
If you are chasing down the leader board or points for achievements then playing the eagle is not a good plan. The rabbit is fun to play, fast and hyper.

[Nagafusa]

Originally posted by Kaia:

Well, the purpose of the eagle isn't meant for that and E and Q work so I don't know what the problem is with your application.
It is in a way boring but I personally like playing it. It's meant to be a leader or guide or whatever you wanna call it to help other animals find stuff.
If you are chasing down the leader board or points for achievements then playing the eagle is not a good plan. The rabbit is fun to play, fast and hyper.

translation "i want a borign thing to stay boring because change scares me"

theres no reason to "guide" other people as the eagle. you get nothign out of it, you have no way of communicating and the deer and fox are way better at the job.

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

Originally posted by Vladimir:

translation "i want a borign thing to stay boring because change scares me"

What you may find boring, other person define as exciting. Many people have enjoyed flying around Meadow for a different reasons. It is not perfect, but nothing really is. Let's respect opinion of fellow players. It's fine to disagree, to each their own.

On the topic, aint' it boring to chase the leaderboards and collect the essense? Tedious and repetetive task perhaps, yet many seem to be in love with grind :)

[Mira ~]

Vlad I understand you, I don't have the eagle but I still hope they make him more interessting in the future. I just feel bad for people who can't use everything of the game when they play eagle. But on the other hand, how should they balance the fact that the eagle would make it way too easy for groups to find obeliscs and glowing pieces?

At the moment there is a glitch which allows you to use emotes ( stone, questionmark etc) as an eagle so if you want to play with emotes you should do it now :) Had an eagle this morning who used it too and it was sooo easy to get obeliscs, it's really not fair to groups without an eagle who want to reach the leaderboards.

[adnuminousnot]

Originally posted by Vladimir:

translation "i want a borign thing to stay boring because change scares me"

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There's no need to be rude because they enjoy something you don't, it's better if we keep discussions here calm and respectful, otherwise they end up in arguments that go no where.

If I want to do things with emotes or collect essence/hunt obelisks I use one the many animals that can do that. I really enjoy the playing the eagle at hours when there's less people on, it's very relaxing and calming to fly about and get a nice view of the landscape, I have a bad visual memory when it comes to things like maps and direction, so I really appreciate having the ability to fly up and look around to remind myself where everything is and explore. It can also be really fun to find small groups and lead them to stuff they can collect, their happy smiles are always so satisfying :).

I wouldn't complain if they added stuff for the eagle, I'm sure whatever they'd come up with would be very cool, but I also enjoy it for what it is now. Sorry you don't feel the same, but there is a chance they will be adding more flying animals in the future (there's 2 on the cover of the soundtrack) so you may still get flying animals that have what you're looking for! :)

[Kaia]

Originally posted by Vladimir:

Originally posted by Kaia:

Well, the purpose of the eagle isn't meant for that and E and Q work so I don't know what the problem is with your application.
It is in a way boring but I personally like playing it. It's meant to be a leader or guide or whatever you wanna call it to help other animals find stuff.
If you are chasing down the leader board or points for achievements then playing the eagle is not a good plan. The rabbit is fun to play, fast and hyper.

translation "i want a borign thing to stay boring because change scares me"

theres no reason to "guide" other people as the eagle. you get nothign out of it, you have no way of communicating and the deer and fox are way better at the job.

They are recomended because they are bigger and easier to see but like any other ground animal they blindly run around to find things.
When it comes to speed in finding stuff the eagle beats it all and is big enough to follow by using sense if in the sky.
And now the eagle can indicate animals of finds... at least I can. (Don't know if it's a bug or not) If you have played enough you've learned when seing an eagle it's good to follow it.

[InD]

I like playing as the eagle. But i do agree that it can sometimes get a but dull because of it's limited gameplay. I always love flying in open world games but you can't land or do anything on the ground. But atleast they gave it new emotes right? :3
Unfortunately though, without any idea of the developers intent I don't think the eagle will ever be able to land. All the animals in this game you can find in previous games and they all have walk animations and whatnot. But you never find the eagle walking in neither shelter or shelter 2, it's always flying.
To sum it up a bit better, all the animals you see in this game have models and animations already seen in previous games and that's what meadow is built off of i think.
That said they are gonna add more birds like the swan and pheasant and they all have walking animations anyway.

[Jynn]

I love playing Eagle, but I do agree I'd love to see it have more emotes, more animations, and in general just more utility (though I'm a believer it shouldn't collect essence)

As for leading groups, they're actually very good at it ^^ (when people actually follow them). While Goats and Lynxes are still limited to what they can see from ground level, Eagles can see everything in a big radius around them, so they can see obelisks that are hidden behind hills the ground pack can't see past, they can see crystals up in mountains that the ground pack is going to run past without finding.

As for no reward for helping...there doesen't need to be one, I think ^^ I don't care about essence, I just enjoy flying around helping people, so being able to find things for a pack that's following me is fun for me, even if i get nothing out of it

but i do hope in the future the eagle gets a bit more to it, even if it's just the basic command emotes

[A_Cheeky_Vixen]

I think more emotes for the eagle would be nice, at the very least a smile and a sad face, to facilitate commiunication and bounding with other players.
But rendering the eagle capable or collecting thing would be far too easy and unfair to the other players, you could just fly from one collectible to the other, no challenge, no spending half an hour trying to find your way up a particularly stiff sloap (especially if you're as unreasonably clumbsy as I am...), you wouldn't take the time to discover all the nooks and crannies you stumble upon completely by accident.
I think it would defeat the purpose of the game a little bit... Finding flowers and puzzle pieces and obelisks is awesome and everything, but so is walking around and simply enjoying the scenary, especially as an eagle, you're just floating in the air, enjoying the peace and relaxation....
I get that it's not the type of thing you may be looking for, but if such is the case, you have plenty of other games who can provide the type of exitment and sens of achievment you appear to be looking for :)

[Saito-Site]

Originally posted by Vladimir:

Originally posted by a nice lizard:

use Q and E to descend and ascend respectively.
imo the main pull of eagle is exploration and relaxation purposes. it's not for everyone

doesn't work. also that shouldn't be the point. if you pick the eagle you cant play the game like everyone else and it just feels broken.

it is the point of the entire game :/

[beardgoggles]

Originally posted by Jynn:

I love playing Eagle, but I do agree I'd love to see it have more emotes, more animations, and in general just more utility (though I'm a believer it shouldn't collect essence)

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but i do hope in the future the eagle gets a bit more to it, even if it's just the basic command emotes

I’d absolutely love to be able to use some basic commands when playing as the eagle, even if only for highlighting crystals and obelisks when leading groups of players.

[Gadzooks]

i can agree too, you need to buy all the other games to just have something that can fly (wich seems reasonable) but the restrictions dont seem that rewarding.. like theres a few games that give a better reward etc.

giving it an ability to pick up flowers along with shards etc should count to other animals that are missing the skins/etc..

some people may think its relaxing but they would still think its useless comming from a dlc/game pack to be less rewarding then most..

[Ethan]

Originally posted by Milophie:

Vlad I understand you, I don't have the eagle but I still hope they make him more interessting in the future. I just feel bad for people who can't use everything of the game when they play eagle. But on the other hand, how should they balance the fact that the eagle would make it way too easy for groups to find obeliscs and glowing pieces?

At the moment there is a glitch which allows you to use emotes ( stone, questionmark etc) as an eagle so if you want to play with emotes you should do it now :) Had an eagle this morning who used it too and it was sooo easy to get obeliscs, it's really not fair to groups without an eagle who want to reach the leaderboards. [/quote]
The Eagle does need some more work put into it, Landing and better controls with... well, I'll just put that in the suggestion thread. I do agree that it would be unfair to collect things as the Eagle since there's no limits for it unless that include not being able to get inside caves fully, as for the Emotes the Eagle has. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1213817648

Might and Delight should look into mabye having some small note pop up in the Den that tells you how to control the Eagle and on top of that, a way to tell the players what the eagle
can't do as a trade off for being abel to fly around the entire map.

I enjoy useing the Eagle to fly around and help players find things and help those little badgers.