Run/walk cycle for coeurl kitten was changed in lord of verminion

[Myon88]

Random thing I noticed this patch (7.4), but the running animation for the coeurl kitten was changed in lord of verminion only. There could be other minions affected but this is just the one I noticed as they are a strong unit and I use them a lot.

It's a fairly innocuous change and I'm not sure if it's deliberate or a bug due to things being changed elsewhere in the game. Just thought it would be interesting to point out.

https://youtu.be/LFYXY9mlgJ0?t=45

Here you can see what the animation used to look like in the past, they are running from the center of the arena to the search eye in the top left. It's a hopping kind of motion, and if you summon the minion version in the overworld and make it chase after you, you'll see the same thing.

Now in 7.4, in LoVM they instead walk smoothly across the floor almost as if they are sliding, without any vertical motion at all. I don't have a video of that so try it and see for yourself. Could be beastmaster spaghetti code maybe? Just a random undocumented change because the minion dev has too much free time? Who knows, that's all I have to share.

[Iscah]

There was a sidequest in Dawntrail where you had to chase a black coeurl kitten around the town. Is that minion moving differently too?

[Myon88]

https://www.twitch.tv/myonmyonpyonpy...qDAF8SIpN0viiB

I made a quick clip to show the difference in animations. First is the new running animation it has in lord of verminion only, then I zone out and show the overworld minion which still has the old/existing animation. It seems to also affect the black coeurl minion, but not any of the other feline or quadripedal minions I happened to try, like Tora-jiro, the Bluecoat cat, or Nagxian cat. Presumably, only the minions that share that exact same skeleton are affected.