Ok So, before Beta 2 the archer animations were awesome. Fluid and looked nice. People started complaining about how when you move like run at the same time you use the actions it causes them to do an ugly slide. Which I have seen no GOOD LOOKING alternative to those animations. Because all they did was turn off the leg part of the animations for actions. Which if you look closely they just standthere, no character, no change, just default leg position when in combat stance. Its Ugly.
Before things like Straight shot would do some cool crouching stuff the first half of the animation. They turned off the leg part, now the arms do some weird unnatural looking recoil flailing.
When you shoot a bow, you do use some leg strength for balance. And basically the upper body is the only part of the animations that are animating!! Please do something about it! What we have no makes me not want to play archer at all.
Need for Archer Animation Revamp
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11-02-2013, 05:06 PMArecNeed for Archer Animation Revamp
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11-02-2013, 07:48 PMSylve
You ever done Archery? You plant your feet in a solid stance, and you do not shuffle around while trying to take your shot.
So there isn't really a lot they can do with it. If the include the legs in weird animations to go alog with the top half, you get the weird sliding around again.
It's kinda hilarious when i get knocked back right as i launch a Dragon Kick or Demolish. just keep doing the animation in its entirety while sliding backwards/forwards, lol. -
11-02-2013, 10:12 PMGooner_iBluAirJGRIts a game. I think they can cut some of the realism out to make things look a bit nicer for archers. I agree with the OP. And also all the melee classes have to deal with the slide effect during combat animations too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylve
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11-02-2013, 11:06 PMSove92
All they should do is make archers keep facing their targets while moving and charging an attack, it looks ridiculous when you fire somewheher else and you still hit.
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11-02-2013, 11:09 PMyukikaze_yanagi
In beta was a river of tears because archer had too much sliding, and they fixed separating lower body animation from upper part. Now animations are bad ? bohoooo.You got what people wanted.
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11-02-2013, 11:17 PMSylveExcept Melee Combat in general relies a lot on footwork to look even half as good as it does. The Archer not so much. *all* of the animations for the Archer involve drawing the bow. And theres only really one way to do that. What exactly do you want your feet to do during animations anyway? It's going to make Archers look awfully silly to be dancing around like a Monk does while trying to draw a bow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooner_iBluAirJGR
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11-02-2013, 11:58 PMTupsiIt looked fine in 1.x.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylve
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11-03-2013, 12:04 AMRowanLauron
I know the perfect Bard fix! Make it like FFXI. Stay still or you no do damage! That way the animations can be nice and realistic and bards aren't so OP since they wouldn't be able to move while shooting! Problem solved~
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11-03-2013, 12:18 AMLobsterBisqueYes also make them do twice the damage as everyone else -.-Quote:
Originally Posted by RowanLauron
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11-03-2013, 12:44 AMTupsiThen it would be an actual bard.Quote:
Originally Posted by RowanLauron
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11-03-2013, 12:58 AMRowanLauronI know :(. I was being a sarcastic ass, but kinda serious too >_>. I miss my ranger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tupsi
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11-03-2013, 12:58 AMAlhanelemNo, it looks as it should look. Just because it's not attractive to you doesn't mean it's not how it should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooner_iBluAirJGR
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11-03-2013, 06:10 PMArecHave you ever seen the animations BEFORE they messed it up? THere is alot to do with animations. Specially with archery. You know, your knees bend. You can crouch, when you pull your bow father back your feet need more grip on the ground and you lean more back. Man players have no sense of creativity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylve
and yes i have done archery, and yes i played NUMEROUS games as an archer class. And i can say after people complained about sliding while animating, they turned off the lower half of the animations. I wish i could show you what they originally looked like. -
11-03-2013, 06:10 PMArecActually no, its not how its intended to look. You never played alpha and phase 1 did you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alhanelem
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11-03-2013, 06:29 PMArec
http://i39.tinypic.com/4v1oh3.png
The original animations were perfect, then people complained.
Those are examples; some rough crappy sketches. The animations could be dramatized if it wasnt for people going on about the sliding while you animate. -
11-03-2013, 07:06 PMScott
I would happily Slide again for nicer animations.
I got used to it by now but I really miss my fluid Version 1 Animations. -
11-03-2013, 07:09 PMyukikaze_yanagiThe moral of the day is: be careful on what you ask for. You could obtain it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
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11-03-2013, 09:11 PMGooner_iBluAirJGRIt doesn't seem like I'm the only one that has a problem with the animations. Just saying some things I think need some improvement. No need to get all negative Nancy on me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alhanelem
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08-12-2020, 11:39 AMGreyTigress
Still an issue in 2020! Coming to Archer for the first time, the animations are TERRIBLE. The bizarre flailing jelly arms and the look like the upper torso is a robot jammed onto an unresponsive pair of legs is just so JARRING!
They're bad alone, but when compared to other classes and even enemies in the game? This is an embarrassment! I can only imagine this issue was put on the backburner and then forgotten, but it's still hideous. -
08-12-2020, 12:05 PMgumasagree with this one, for mch too i guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sove92
everytime i need to run back because enemy doing large aoe, my char just face the other way and still doing attack animation while its clear it was aiming completely different way it still count as hit, it look ridiculous lol
technically if you do a hard lock on (i forgot the config but it was there in option setting), your character will run in backward motion if you go the opposite direction of your target, but this method decrease your movement speed by half i think because... well its a proper running in backward.
now if only they get rid of that 50% movement speed penalty, i would love to keep using that hard lock on