Has anyone else noticed that the remiges (black flight feathers on the wings) of the flamingos are invisible? It's a problem with both adults and juveniles. The feathers are invisible at rest, but as soon as the birds display an animation that moves the wings (e.g. flying, preening, mating, etc.), they magically appear - only to disappear again when the animation is complete and the wings are refolded. I know it's not just a problem on my end, because I have never seen anyone else playing the game with fully-feathered flamingos. The only place the remiges appear normally is in the promo material and the zoopedia image.
This has been an issue since the game launched. I've been hoping someone else would report it/the devs would notice and fix it, and even finally caved and made an issue tracker report a few months ago myself, but alas, no luck. Birds are kinda my thing, and I suspect most people probably aren't as acutely aware of wing anatomy as I am.
So I figured I'd take matters into my own hands and create another report, and post the issue here so others may become aware of it.
(As an aside: I know flamingos in life don't have very prominent remiges - sometimes, the long feathers of the back actually completely cover them. However, since the flamingos in-game obviously don't have those long feathers to cover the wingtips, the missing feathers just look very odd. Also, I'm not sure why this would be an intentional feature when, as I said, the promo material and in-game images clearly show these feathers, so I would assume something went wrong somewhere along the line and the feathers became hidden by default.)
Here are a few more images to illustrate the issue:
EDIT: Just realized I forgot to post the link to the issue tracker report, in case anyone wanted to contribute. https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/18774
This has been an issue since the game launched. I've been hoping someone else would report it/the devs would notice and fix it, and even finally caved and made an issue tracker report a few months ago myself, but alas, no luck. Birds are kinda my thing, and I suspect most people probably aren't as acutely aware of wing anatomy as I am.
So I figured I'd take matters into my own hands and create another report, and post the issue here so others may become aware of it.(As an aside: I know flamingos in life don't have very prominent remiges - sometimes, the long feathers of the back actually completely cover them. However, since the flamingos in-game obviously don't have those long feathers to cover the wingtips, the missing feathers just look very odd. Also, I'm not sure why this would be an intentional feature when, as I said, the promo material and in-game images clearly show these feathers, so I would assume something went wrong somewhere along the line and the feathers became hidden by default.)
Here are a few more images to illustrate the issue:
EDIT: Just realized I forgot to post the link to the issue tracker report, in case anyone wanted to contribute.
https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/18774
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