[Major (not critical) Bug - Graphic (Sails)] East boat and ship triangle rear sails animation sprite mismatching (Also present on Asia & South-East-Asian all-sails)

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: 179158
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

:backhand_index_pointing_down: DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL (below). LIMIT TO ONE BUG PER THREAD.
The small rear sails for the East European civ set, boat file and ship file, seem to not have the correct animation rigging. The sail goes from idle to been pushed by the wind and then return to some kind of semi idle statment.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. spawn a war-galley with any east-european civ
  2. move the unit
  3. observe the small triangular sail behavior (easier to see with a west-europen war-galley next to it doing the same movement)

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?
Sail to behave like other sails, with the wind making them “not flat”.

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:play_button: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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A new observation about this issue.

The entire Asian sail set seems to share the same issue, they start idle, then changes at mid animation (15~ frame) to wind blowing on them, and then returning at their idle position at the end of the animation.

The South-east-asian entire sail set also share that issue.

I’ve edited the report title from “Minor Bug” to “Major (not critical) bug” due to this observation.