https://youtu.be/WEowyce7GUI
Here’s minor new feature that will help your wolf communicate. The technical term is “animation mixing” but you can think of it as multitasking for your wolf. At long last, you can wag your tail while on the move! Or show a dominant tail while trotting! Or a submissive tail while fleeing. Now you can grin, whine, or growl without stopping because all of those emotes will now keep playing even if you start moving — just like a real wolf can do! New players probably won’t appreciate such a natural ability–of course my wolf can do more than one thing at time. But players accustomed to the current, simpler system (only emoting while stationary) are going to love this additional freedom.
As with every simple idea and, in this case, the fairly basic technical implementation, there are always complications. Some don’t appear until you’ve spent some time thinking and working on it [selects whining emote while testing]. We’ve worked through most of those now and we can’t wait to see the new ways players communicate!
And we have one empty slot in the Tail emote panel, so we’re making a new tail wag animation: higher and more confident. If the WQ team had tails, that’s how we would be wagging today!