Guild Wars 2

Just when I thought an effort was made here…
It was in fact, a reskin of the lightning bug found in Metrica province
Caught me by surprise today:

http://i.imgur.com/xzr1n.png

Definitely a reskin.

Why was this topic moved here? who am I helping with this info?

Ah I get it, “Player Helping Players” forum is like the recycle bin of the forums.
I guess this is one way they won’t remove a topic but instead put it a in a place no one will bother to look.

Sad, losing my faith even more.

Reskins are incredibly common though in these games. It’s a lot easier to use an already existing animation model base and slap a new skin over it, instead of creating a brand new everything from complete scratch. While the latter would be preferable, it’s not really efficient or time friendly.

I’m so used to playing games where that is done up, down, and backward all over the game world, so I guess it doesn’t bother me any.

To be fair, it is a new model that uses the same animations and not a reskin.

The younger versions are simple reskins, the elder ones are not.

Yeah, I’ve seen some bug-like creature in Bloodtide Cove. They resembled the karka very much, with their animations, except they didn’t shoot out those crippling machine gun shots.