# What happened to the crawl stroke?

**URL:** <https://forums.funcom.com/t/what-happened-to-the-crawl-stroke/3525>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [April 27, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/what-happened-to-the-crawl-stroke/3525 "2018-04-27T20:46:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Crossforge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@Crossforge](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Crossforge)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/what-happened-to-the-crawl-stroke/3525/1 "2018-04-27T20:46:55Z")

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I noticed the new crawl stroke animation my character does while on the water surface is gone as of today’s patch, will you guys be bringing it back in the future?

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**Author:** ![GaryIce](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/garyice/32/3270_2.png) [@GaryIce](https://forums.funcom.com/u/GaryIce)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/what-happened-to-the-crawl-stroke/3525/2 "2018-04-27T21:02:03Z")

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hmmm WHAT?

Characters since patch #33 are not swimming underwater by default. so why would they be out of breeze?

Or I may terribly misunderstood something.

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**Author:** ![Nuria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Nuria](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Nuria)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/what-happened-to-the-crawl-stroke/3525/3 "2018-04-28T00:06:03Z")

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😂 Hey!

Well.  
I guess Crossforge meant the new swimming animation while swimming instead of diving. We had a new animation there. I didnt pay attention to it on testlive - if you (@Crossforge) even meant testlive… Uhm…

Anyway, I would guess its a bug, not a feature.

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**Author:** ![Crossforge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@Crossforge](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Crossforge)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/what-happened-to-the-crawl-stroke/3525/4 "2018-04-28T04:30:41Z")

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Yes I did, that particular surface animation is called a front crawl or freestyle stroke. As opposed to the breast stroke which is what is now used when diving underwater.

In any case my mistake, it appears to be a glitch and my character has gone back to freestyle on the surface, after bracelet suiciding. Though now the hair and cloth physics have stopped working, but that’s an old temporary bug that happens from time to time, should fix itself. I suppose this could be moved to the bug section.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/original/1X/8d85ca8a66fb78fa7574e255b50aa722d634177b.png) [@system](https://forums.funcom.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/what-happened-to-the-crawl-stroke/3525/5 "2018-10-19T17:43:05Z")

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Closed on October 19, 2018, 5:43pm UTC