If you happen to play a Charr in Guild Wars 2, well, you know the experience: epic loping animations, the best voice actors, and terrible armor issues. The game’s latest patch doubled down on the last one, as the Reality Rig armor was apparently rigged to unreality for Charr characters and stretched their torsos like fluffy taffypull. This, of course, players then used to great effect.
“Unfortunately, this update has corrected the longcat bug,” ArenaNet tweeted sadly, and it should be sad because this was a good bug. This was a bug that brought people together and sparked multiple memes. This was a bug greater than some MMORPGs’ April Fools’ Day jokes.
PLEASE @ArenaNet PLEASE DO NOTEVER FIX THIS.. THIS NEEDS TO FOREVER BE A FEATURE…#GuildWars2 @GuildWars2 #LONGCATLEGION! pic.twitter.com/yhOqHcrtv3
— Malchemist (@MalchemistTV) March 30, 2022
Even ArenaNet secretly loved the bug.
Incidentally, the same dev apologized for not being able to put the bug back for April Fools’ Day. “Unfortunately we can’t. If something went wrong with the hotfix, people might have to work on Saturday, so we avoid delaying hotfixes unless absolutely necessary,” he wrote on Reddit.
Eliot says I am obligated to end with this:
