Various gamebreaking behavior issues on the crow

[Soren-Astra]

Game Version

1.20.0 rc-8

Platform

Linux

Modded

Vanilla

SP/MP

Multiplayer

Description

The crow had weird behaviors the whole time we were near the new zone (two players in a LAN game, me being the host). It would sometimes start circling the tower from afar and never get close again, start flying away at high speeds and disappear, or just stop and do nothing. We tried teleporting it to us and flying in creative mode in order to be able to finish the fight, because punching it sometimes would fix its behavior.

How to reproduce

1. The two players ran to the tower and started climbing it. The crow was there, its health bar would flash onscreen a few times while climbing.
2. We went down and left the zone to get more resources, the crow seemed to have followed us for a good distance and swooped in once while being nowhere near the tower
3. We went back to the tower, the other player could see it try to shoot at us but I couldn't
4. When reaching the top, the fight music would start but the crow wasn't there (even after restarting the game)
5. Second played teleported the crow on top of himself, the crow was teleported but its tooltip said waiting and it wasn't doing anything
6. Punching it made it start acting normally, then after a few attacks it started circling us indefinitely
7. At this point the second player repeatedly teleported the crow near us, it would start working again then broke again, until we did enough damage to finish the fight
8. The end of the fight seems to have worked properly (the crow had a "dying" animation and sound effect when it got to less than half health, and I could pick up the lens, though we didn't test to see if the lens was accepted for the next part of the story, and the second played was also able to pick up the lens after I did)

Screenshots

No response

Logs

server-main.log
client-main.log

[Bughaw]

For me the crow vanished after I died to falling off the tower the second time. I went into creative to fly back (I didn't realize the elevator switches actually worked) and then the crow vanished and never came back. It didn't count as defeated or anything. Not sure if I should open a separate issue or if it is actually related to OP's issue.

[tyronx]

Is this new in rc.8 or was it like that before?

[Bughaw]

I only got there on rc8, so I'm not sure.

[Radar11]

Just created a brand new Wilderness Survival in rc.5, with Creative mode, in SP and no mods. Went to the Devastation and after the crow completed the following attack sequence, it flew off to the North and proceeded to fly in place: R-S-R-S-R-S-D-S
R = Ranged attack pattern while flying
S = Swooping pass for a melee attack
D = Dive attack to land on tower roof

[Radar11]

Somewhat related, but in a modded MP server, a similar behaviour was noticed. The crow would either circle indefinitely, while still being occasionally hit by arrows or fly off either to the South or West and fly in place at the ground level.
After running up to it and hitting it with a Blackguard Sword, the crow would return to "normal" behaviour for another few passes before getting stuck flying at ground level.

[ifozz]

Is this new in rc.8 or was it like that before?

I think it's always been broken like this. I've heard people talking about this issue since it was first implemented.

[Craluminum2413]

#4833