Gauss Barrel

Dear Square-Enix,

Your Gauss Barrel animation looks dumb and is the reason I won't level Machinist.

Some of the guns look cool but are ruined when you slap a Pinwheel on the end of them. Odd, I know... I understand you think it looks cool but it doesn't.
Plz give us a toggle switch/command so we can turn it off and on.

Otherwise, add face paint to the game resembling The Joker so I can act out my favorite parts of the Dark Knight while using my "Bang" gun. Then I believe it suitable and entirely support your reasons for making Gauss Barrel so ridiculous.

Thanks in advance.

xoxo

P.S. Plz tell the team working on FF15 that If i could mail you homemade sandwiches I wouldn't. The Mayo would probably be bad by the time it got to you. But If I devise a way to make Mayo that doesn't deteriorate at an incredibly rapid rate after leaving a fridge, you will be the first to receive Ham Sandwiches on me.


P.S.S. Plz release Haurchefant Body pillows. He is my Waifu

kthx

I second this. Please let us remove the aesthetic of the Gauss Barrel. It makes most guns in the game look bad.

https://i.imgur.com/IEehLak.png

The image on their blogs was a bit inaccurate, so I fixed it a while back.

Also, wildfire explosion.

Don't let this die out. SE needs to be reminded over and over again that the GB aesthetic ruins the look of 95% of guns in this game.

Imo they should just rename the skill to something that relates to spending time aiming the weapon or something that justifies the cast times without any addition of weird aparatus. Cause honestly the thing looks horrible on close to if not all guns.

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Originally Posted by Velhart

Don't let this die out. SE needs to be reminded over and over again that the GB aesthetic ruins the look of 95% of guns in this game.

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They should do something about the lunchboxes too. Gauss Barrel and the lunchboxes don't look good with a lot of guns because they're generic and the same for every gun, regardless of theme.

You won't level MCH due to vanity?....

This is actually why we can't have nice things.

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Originally Posted by AniCelestine

Imo they should just rename the skill to something that relates to spending time aiming the weapon or something that justifies the cast times without any addition of weird aparatus. Cause honestly the thing looks horrible on close to if not all guns.

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Idea I had before was just have your tool set on your side light up. Can even make a lore reason out of it. More aether is required for a more powerful attack, so it takes longer to charge from the box to your gun, creating the cast time. It wouldn't happen but it is a fun thought or retrospect on what they could of done.

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Originally Posted by Pence

You won't level MCH due to vanity?....

This is actually why we can't have nice things.

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Aesthetics and peeves like this can be the deciding factor on what jobs people want to play, especially if the two jobs are extremely comparable. The gauss barrel is another factor for me on why I didn't look forward to upgrading my weapon for a point in time (the other being the fact that it wasn't an upgrade despite a higher ilvl)

Was the snark really necessary?

That aside, I don't like the barrel look either. I mean there are SOME guns it looks okay on, and I understand it's hard to design something that's going to look right on every single weapon, but the majority it ends up looking a bit strange on. When I recently upgraded to the Ferdinand thanks to the easy access of weapon Gobdip I was surprised at how ugly it looked on that, especially considering it's their signature weapon.

And +1 Wildfire animation. Bards got their casting motions improved, let's get some MCH love.

is true my gat looks terrible with that damn floating dish, please let us toggle it off!

I would like to formally agree to add my voice to this thought.

1.) Gauss barrel aesthetic should have a toggle option so I can choose not to see a stupid spinning top floating magically infront of my COMPLETELY AWESOME GUN.
2.) I would like to see a bigger explosion or better animation AND sound effect to wildfire. The enemy needs to explode in a fireball. I just dropped 40k on the enemy. I want to SEE them hurt. Ricochet animation and sound is amazing. Why did you stop there? The skill, the attention to detail from sound to animation to colors to effects...all of that effort stopped after ricochet, I feel like.

Sincerely,
-me

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Originally Posted by Velhart

Idea I had before was just have your tool set on your side light up. Can even make a lore reason out of it. More aether is required for a more powerful attack, so it takes longer to charge from the box to your gun, creating the cast time.

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Oh this is good. This is REALLY good!

SE, PLEASE take this into consideration! (Also consider it reason to create different aetherotransformer designs too :D)

I was gonna make a separate thread for it, but on the subject of visual improvements for MCH, can we please have a more sensible running animation? Aside from the fact that our weapon arm does not move at all while in motion, it's a very impractical way to carry our guns. On top of that, the form factor (long barreled pistols/carbines/musketoons) would imply our weapons would have a bit of weight to them. Thus running with the weapon at the ready (i.e. much like the Hyur/Miqo'te female weapon pose) would be far more practical and visually appealing.

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Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI

I was gonna make a separate thread for it, but on the subject of visual improvements for MCH, can we please have a more sensible running animation? Aside from the fact that our weapon arm does not move at all while in motion, it's a very impractical way to carry our guns. On top of that, the form factor (long barreled pistols/carbines/musketoons) would imply our weapons would have a bit of weight to them. Thus running with the weapon at the ready (i.e. much like the Hyur/Miqo'te female weapon pose) would be far more practical and visually appealing.

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I'd be so happy if they held the weapon with both hands as a default.

Could we also fix the casting animation? The gun wiggle makes no sense. Have them use the Reload animation or simply aim the gun straight.

I personally like the Gauss Barrel attachment; I think it looks good on my magitek repeater and wootz revolver. However, a toggle option is totally reasonable and probably should have been available from the beginning of 3.0.
Actually, having different looking GBs for different types of guns would be pretty cool. Such as the Ferdinand having a "double barreled" type of GB to fit it's aesthetic~

As a guy whose happy Machinist life ended at level 52 when the class trainer passed upon me the Unfun Barrel, I too want a toggle option for the ugly lump of metal.

I also like the idea of a more sensible casting animation and more *BOOM!* animation for Wildfire.

The GB wouldn't even be so bad if they at least had one that matched each gun. Its really dumb looking if you get something like the Leviathan weapon that is very small and thin and then the big, heavy looking GB that has no unique color scheme to it makes it look atrocious. I can't believe someone at SE thought this was a good idea. I get looking resourceful was your aim, but I doubt people wanted the aesthetics of their gun attachments to go to this extreme.

I like the Gauss Barrel. It's neat. I imagine they had ideas for actual barrel attachments, but the floating disc gives the impression while still letting them vary the length and size of the gun's barrel with their models.

I do not like the gun waving animations, though. I swear I feel more like wand-waving Harry Potter as a MCH than I do as a BLM. Is there really any need to fencing salute every time I want to shoot a split shot? >_>;

It wouldn't be so bad if the Barrel actually ended up on the end of ALL guns. For many guns it kinda floats off detached from the actual muzzle... really looks silly.

As for what has been said about the holding, yes they need to fix that. Even when you fire it one-handed you fire it wrong compared to how you'd one hand fire a pistol IRL. (Free hand rests on your hip for balance, anyone who has taken PAL/Gun safety courses knows this). Not that you'd be reasonably able to fire a gun that size one handed....

It's irked me to no end how everything regarding a machinist holding/firing their gun is entirely off from how you ACTUALLY handle firearms IRL.


P.S. Though I think it's silly to not level the class just cause of aesthetics.... :P

Ehh. Finally something looks decent with the GB:

http://i65.tinypic.com/awdc81.jpg

Then it gets ruined again when put away:

http://i65.tinypic.com/2ex20ax.jpg

I personally prefer smaller guns, and none of them look good with the Unfun Barrel in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by AniCelestine

Imo they should just rename the skill to something that relates to spending time aiming the weapon or something that justifies the cast times without any addition of weird aparatus. Cause honestly the thing looks horrible on close to if not all guns.

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This, take time to percicely aim skills to inflict 30% more dmg, the additional concentration used for aiming shots requires you to no longer fire auto attacks to preserve energy for aiming. Something like this makes soo much more sense... Also, make movement not interrupt, but either reduce acc of the skill being cast or not grant the 30% increased dmg due to not getting the aim on the move.

With fights like Sephirot Extreme that require constant movement/knockbacks (especially the last phase), ranged and casters seem to be at a bit of a disadvantage. I'm used to working hard for big damage, but that fight seriously just burns me out nice and quick. THEN there's the whole aspect of dealing less damage natively for being "Support" (but not Support. . . yeah), AND taking a further hit to damage dealt for using the support skills we're designed with.

Ninjas don't take a hit for using Goad, DRGs don't pay a price for using Battle Litany, hell, healers don't take a hit for dpsing (outside of Cleric Stance, of course). Why are MCH and BRD penalized for doing what we're designed to do, yet expected to keep up in our primary role of dealing damage?

Seriously, SE it's time you review these far more important aspects of ranged physical DPS. We're NOT casters, everyone provides some kind of party support now, but only WE pay a price for it, and most if not all MCH hate the Gauss Squid. Please give these their due revision.

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Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI

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This is a thread about the aesthetics of the gauss barrel, not the ability/stance itself. OP should of specified that in the topic, but that is what it is.

Things that they should have a On/Off Toggle for:
- MCH's Gauss Barrel and Lunchbox
- BRD's Quiver
- AST's hip-mounted duel disk

Maybe do a button on the equipment screen for "Weapon-Extras", like they did with Sheathed Weapons and Headgear?

I'm aware this is primarily about the aesthetics and not the functionality, but if they'll change one, they should really look at the full spectrum of it entirely. Among other things, but that's irrelevant to the topic at hand.

Just change the name from "Gauss barrell" to "Gauss stance". While in Gauss stance you hold the gun with two hands instead of one.

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Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI

I'm aware this is primarily about the aesthetics and not the functionality, but if they'll change one, they should really look at the full spectrum of it entirely. Among other things, but that's irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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I don't find anything particularly wrong with the stance. The job was built from the ground up to work with it, unlike BRD.

The aesthetic is the biggest gripe to me.

The stance itself you get used to, and definitely feels more designed for it than BRD, but it's the overall ideal that SE has forced upon players which ends up very counterproductive for what's asked of us when we play the job: Support vs DPS. As I said before, EVERY job now offers some kind of supportive skill to the party, and in some cases, it's a significant one. But only BRD and MCH are automatically lesser for being Support, then further penalized in our primary role of damage dealers when tasked to use said support skills. All this of course, in the face of fights with tight DPS checks and sometimes heavy movement (which our damage-increasing stances don't mesh well with).

It's really time SE truly reviews their concepts of BRD/MCH as "support" as well as DPS, and yes, while at it, address the almost unanimously hated visuals of the Gauss Barrel.

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Originally Posted by Truck

Just change the name from "Gauss barrell" to "Gauss stance". While in Gauss stance you hold the gun with two hands instead of one.

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Nice idea. Don't know how much effort from SE it would take, but I would like to see it as well. =D

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Originally Posted by AniCelestine

Imo they should just rename the skill to something that relates to spending time aiming the weapon or something that justifies the cast times without any addition of weird aparatus. Cause honestly the thing looks horrible on close to if not all guns.

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If Fallout 4's use of the Gauss rifle is to be seen as accurate, the way the barrel works and why the stance is named that makes sense.

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Q: There are a lot of great gun designs in the game, but there are many occasions when machinists use Gauss Barrel and you can’t really enjoy the original design. Can you implement a feature to hide the Gauss Barrel?

A: We’ve standardized it into a single design so that it would not limit the freedom of the guns’ designs; however, we are planning to implement a setting that will allow you to toggle this by using a text command since there is a large demand for it. We’re aiming to implement this in the next patch.

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3635205

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