lack of mount and animal form pitching, still???

[Ashuur]

      Hi.  Returning player here.  Game is awesome now, wish I came back sooner.  Only 1 thing still bugs the CRAP out of me.My mounts, and my animal forms (druid), will never face any direction other than exactly horizontal.  Anyone else annoyed by this?  I saw a post about this earlier, but I couldn't find it today, and really wanted to help make noise about it.  Anyone know if this has every even been addressed by SOE?  For me it's the biggest visual flaw in the game so far, and it is distracting from the whole immersion process...Fix please SOE?

[Zaurus]

<p>I agree. I really hope they do fix this sometime. Even just pitching the current animation forward or back so the feet aren't going through the ground or floating above the ground would be nice. Of course, it would be even better if the whole animations altogether were improved. Like if your riding a horse uphill, the rider should be leaning forward some. Now, I'm not expecting this <a rel="nofollow" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=1fs1JOJD-sI" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/watch?v=1fs1JOJD-sI</a> kind of horse animation, though that would be SOOO sweet in EQ2!</p><p>As a side note, having Kerra, Iksar, Ratonga, etc. tails not sticking inside of your mount while riding would be a nice change too. <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p>

[Ashuur]

Oh man, that would be some awesome mount animations if they made it like that video!  You know, if an MMO actually took time to make animations as lifelike as possible, they would have more success in my opinion.  The animations make it look better as a whole than the actually graphics.edit:typo's

[Arkinon]

Yes it has been one of my biggest complaints... If a Cow in Qeynos can stand on the side of a lightpost or tree why cant mounts be at the same angle as the plain they are running/standing on? never made sense to me.

[orchard54]

To start, the Animations in EQ2 are far better than any other MMO I've ever seen.Look at EQ1 vs. EQ2 animation lol. EQ1 is horrible!!!I agree completely they should at least make the horse pitch with the ground.Also, I wish they would put back the animation of the character actually mounting the horse. Rather than the horse magically popping out from you know where...