Flying elephants and rhinos

Game mode: Single-player
Type of issue: Bug
Region: [Europa]


Why should I still looking to the sky and see my victory fly hundreds of meters away? Even when u harvest them they will fly from you?

Funcom this is a old bug, please fix it!


  1. Kill a elephant or rhino
  2. Check the sky if u can (grassy u know)
  3. Harvest them while u running after corpses
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They only fly on the killing blow, and its not thaaaaat high and distant, I can harvest them fine, and honestly, I find the flying hilarious fun :smile:

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I dont kidding itā€™s for real but not every time so high

or when you skin a animal the first hit with a skinning knife will move the animal away from youā€¦ not fun next to a ledgeā€¦

It is hilarious. But at the same time, it is also terribly sad. Immensely sad. This has been reported over and over again. The rhino / elephant rocketing launch painfully breaks the game immersion. This is a hallmark ā€œlack of polishā€ bug that probably could be easily corrected if they had the resources to address the object properties as they relate to the physics engine.

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This is not a bug, itā€™s a feature.

Seriously though, itā€™s probably just really low priority given everything else that needs addressing. Iā€™m with Caco on this, I find it really amusing and Iā€™d be genuinely sorry to see it ā€˜fixedā€™.

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I donā€™t know. I landed one is asagarth from nordhof. Hillarious.

Was a fun harvest too, back in the days when nordheimers actually used their shields to block your attacks.

Hmm. Iā€™m torn. I laugh, too. But I also weep for the game, and itā€™s lack of polish. It has such INCREDIBLE potential. And then the rhino flies over the moon.

But, while we are at it, we might as well mod the rhinos and elephants to have astronaut outfits, or flight suits. You knowā€¦ to complete the effect.

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When I was first ā€˜discoveringā€™ the game and how buggy it is, the animal corpse physics annoyed me as just another example of things wrong with the game. So many things!

However, over time playing, I actually came to enjoy that ā€˜bugā€™ to the point I hope they donā€™t change it. I enjoy the ragdoll effect of the corpses flopping around a bit, and astronaut rhinos are rare enough that itā€™s hardly a problem for me. Iā€™m far more bothered by things like getting stuck inside them and dying, though this hasnā€™t happened (to me) for ages either, maybe itā€™s been fixed?

I definitely know what you mean by the lack of polish. Itā€™s so frustrating and disappointing precisely because of how good the underlying game is. If it wasnā€™t as amazing as it is, no one would give a sh*tā€¦ weā€™d just forget about it and move on.

The concept(s) is brilliant, many aspects of the game (building, world map, art direction, combat system, music etc) are superb, and the potential is off the chartsā€¦

Itā€™s a real shame that for whatever reason(s) the team hasnā€™t been able to fulfil their vision for the game, or at least polish it sufficientlyā€¦ yet.

If they ever doā€¦ this game ā€˜shouldā€™ have been an Ark-killer. It still could be, but itā€™s hard to see that happening at this point. A lot of work would have to be done on the devs part, and I doubt that Funcom management would care enough to devote sufficient resources to try.

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It doesnā€™t help that the death throws (pun intended) seem to be client specific, so I might see it fly north, you might see it fly south, etcā€¦

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Oh yes indeedā€¦for the first time my clan mate and I killed a rhino together instead of hunting solo ā€¦ I saw it fly one way and ran over there to mark the spot whilst he got his skinning knife out and check for other enemies ā€¦ he headed off in the opposite direction ā€¦ knelt down and skinned what appeared to me as empty ground ā€¦

Unfortunately the getting stuck into rhinos still occurs at least with using daggers ā€¦ I think I was fortunate I did have my clan mate with me.

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Iā€™d be happy with an Adam West Batman style ā€œPOWā€ or ā€œBAMā€ to complete the effect.

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