Ducks Rain From the Sky

[WarpLover]

I was just hunting Harlequin duck in the Yukon, and twice I experienced something weird. The first time I heard the thump of the duck hitting the ground/water long after I should have, but I was able to collect my 2 ducks.
The second time I hit 2 ducks and watched them start to drop after the initial puff of smoke yet they never hit the water. I waited on the ducks to float up to me for some time. While I waited I saw my two duck rain out of the sky over and over, from about 10' off the water, but they never floated in the water, so no retrieval.

[JOHNNY GUEGGU]

Same here.

If it helps: Turn away (don't look at the ducks) and eventually they will hit the water, float to you and you can retrieve them.

It's a super weird bug, but this worked for me.

[ruichi]

It happened to me the last time I played. Turning away and not looking at the duck dind't work for me. This game is a mess now. That bug, and the dead animals disapearing bug, finally made me unistall this once wonderful game.

[TΩKSYK]

Please improve physics of bird falling down!

When shooting birds the flight motion just stops on the spot as they start to fall down, no sense of kinetic energy, huge immersion breaker so please devs do something.

[Jumbled Hokum]

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Please improve physics of bird falling down!

When shooting birds the flight motion just stops on the spot as they start to fall down, no sense of kinetic energy, huge immersion breaker so please devs do something.

I agree they spin when they get hit and fly a ways then just fall straight down. The birds need better animation for getting shot and fall. They could maybe add some feathers coming off instead of spinning like the old bird hunter game.
People have said about it a long time ago and nothing was ever changed. Sadly I don't think the devs care about bird hunting.

Admin this post has nothing to do with the bug where the ducks are forever falling.

[PicSoul]

Originally posted by Jumbled Hokum:

Admin this post has nothing to do with the bug where the ducks are forever falling.

I believe they are both related and show how wrong/broken the kill animation is.

That said. The best way to get the devs attention is to gather any and all info pertaining to this issue in one easy-to-find location so that maybe just maybe they will take notice and make some changes.

Hopefully (crosses fingers) when the waterfowl rework is done (no eta) both of these problems will no longer be an issue.

[TΩKSYK]

Originally posted by Jumbled Hokum:

I agree they spin when they get hit and fly a ways then just fall straight down. The birds need better animation for getting shot and fall. They could maybe add some feathers coming off instead of spinning like the old bird hunter game.
People have said about it a long time ago and nothing was ever changed. Sadly I don't think the devs care about bird hunting.

Admin this post has nothing to do with the bug where the ducks are forever falling.

Currently the way the game handles bird death animation is the exact same from Nintendo's Duck Hunt from 1984 but in 3D

I don't know the technical details, but maybe lack of physics implementation or animation it seems like the AI just stops flying and going into falling motion while spinning.