New Apex have no effects at all?

Cameron991 · June 2020

What the title says... I actually can’t believe that... no bat swarm when called in our red gloom... nothing... thats very disappointing they are really cool looking mounts but they don’t have any special effects like every other apex mount has please add something zos

redspecter23 · June 2020

I've been finding that lately, the radiant apex tier are looking fantastic while the standard apex tier are barely special anymore. I'd guess that this is completely intentional.

Jaimeh · June 2020

redspecter23 wrote: »

I've been finding that lately, the radiant apex tier are looking fantastic while the standard apex tier are barely special anymore. I'd guess that this is completely intentional.

Yeah they seem to lack 'wow' factor in the past 2-3 seasons, it's definitely not a coincidence. They're so diabolical over at the marketing department

meekmiko · June 2020

I made a video to show what the Cursebound Kagouti looks like VS the Lizard Guar (which it shares the same sound as)

https://youtu.be/E6S4cRw_CnA

Aptonoth · June 2020

Make the mounts cooler. Make the kagouti sound deeper and more evil.

GeorgeYung · June 2020

They really have to update these apex mounts...

Cameron991 · June 2020

GeorgeYung wrote: »

They really have to update these apex mounts...

Agreed I was so excited for the datamine but I wasn’t expecting them to be standard mounts

dhboy123 · June 2020

Wow, looks absolutely terrible and boring.

Only reason I guess for doing this is to make people want the Apex Radiant mount.

redspecter23 wrote: »

I've been finding that lately, the radiant apex tier are looking fantastic while the standard apex tier are barely special anymore. I'd guess that this is completely intentional.

100%

max_only · June 2020

I wish we could gem these mounts. If I get one, it’s always a guar or senche and I don’t like those kind. In fact I haven’t liked crown crate mount designs for a while now. I liked the robot/Dwarven one and the Atronach one. The other designs haven’t been very appealing to me. It should be a “mount ticket” at least so I can pick the least worst

Fischblut · June 2020

The mount models look nice for this dark theme, but lack of summoning animations and any special effects is extremely disappointing

I seriously hope that this is not intended and will be fixed soon. Please, don't leave these promising mounts as another example of wasted opportunities :'(

With nice effects, this season would have one of the most solid selection of Apex mounts

So far they look unfinished :'(
I don't know what effects they will have. I would suggest these effects:

1) black "rotten" footprints (like Zombie Horse does). They are cursed creatures, they defile the environment around them

2) usual manifestation from under the ground with earth blackening and deforming as they make their way from their "graves" + black fog with dark red parts

Full showcase of all Apex mounts (playlist):

Also, one little detail which feels out of place: Bear and Sabre Cat have footsteps sound which belongs to Gloomspore mounts. It sounds like they run on branches, and doesn't make any sense in this case - they are simple "meaty" mounts, and should have simple footsteps of their mount type (maybe with some mild sound of their armor clanking)

I also hope that this little detail will be fixed.

Idle animations of Bear, Sabre Cat and Wolf are either broken, or intentionally boring? They don't show any new interesting animations, only rare simple roar/howl (and the wolf also does simple stalking animation). I watched them for very long time, I placed them in different houses, but they didn't do anything else

Just stand there, and rarely do the "roar".
Horse and Kagouti use their new animations frequently, and it's interesting to watch them. Horse also does the simple neigh animation, but rarely.
Kagouti is absolute star of this season, his new fierce idle animation is awesome