Guild Wars 2

Hey folks,

Sorry if this is something obvious or has been posted before, but I could not find any topics related to it or anything on the net at all for that matter.

I was half idling in Lion’s Court, standing on top of the fountain, geting my groove on when I noticed these weird birds floating around. They only appeared from certain angles and their animation would be triggered by my camera, so it seems like it’s not actually in the world, just on the client’s end.

It’s probably no big deal, but it got my interest. Any ideas, an explanation perhaps?

-Rix

Do they look at all… angry?

Tachenon.5270:

Do they look at all… angry?

I don’t know, man, are you saying I’m a pig?

I don’t have a screenshot, but I noticed that too, last night. I thought is just a graphical glitch on my end.

I’m guessing it’s some bug with the visibility of 3d objects, in this case the blue moa birds that can be found in LA?

By the gods, I recognize those I think. They look a lot like the legendary Foo birds from GW1. There’s a story behind those… let me see if I can remember… ah yes, I recall now. A couple Ascalonian explorers were (back in the pre-Dragon era) scouting around old Ascalon for black moa chicks when they startled the nest of a Foo bird. Now, the part that makes them legendary is their defense when startled. The Foo jumped up, turned tail and fired a stream of the most foul smelling excreta you could imagine right on the two explorers before running off. Automatically the younger and less experienced of the two began wiping this off himself before he could be warned. Where the waste product had been in contact with the skin, and now with the air, there formed a toxic, acidic substance. His death was said to be horribly painful. The other had the wits to avoid wiping the foo poo off himself, waiting for it to try naturally and drop off by itself. There is, indeed, a moral to this story.

If the Foo kittens, wear it. (You’ll have to substitute the proper sh* based word for kittens…)