Revamping of animations.

I have no idea if I'm imagining this or not but didn't they say a while back that 1.20 actions will use temporary animations until they can 'pretty' them up in 1.21? I was digging around trying to find where I might have read this but haven't found it yet.

Anyway I'll keep looking but just thought I'd post this to see if anyone else remembers it or if I dreamt it or something. :p

Nope didn't dream it;

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To address these issues, patch 1.20 will see the adjustment and redistribution of actions for all classes. New actions will be added, and individual combos (name tentative) introduced. Further down the track, patch 1.21 will usher in the job system, which will serve as a new focal point for character development.
* The inner workings of actions will be prioritized in 1.20, and graphical resources will be reused where possible. Cosmetic changes are expected to commence from patch 1.21 and continue in stages ahead of Version 2.0.

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Taken from the class reforms post by Triairy;
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post441509

So yeah...discuss~

So can I expect this in this patch or did they forget it?

Thats all I wanna know.

You can expect it to begin in 1.21 from my comprehension.

That might just mean that we get new animations for the new job WS's, but other animations might only be revised in later patches or 2.0.

To be honest it's not something they need to really make a topic on. The last time they made an animation topic was to show the scaling of everything since the animations already exist, they just replaced it temporarily.

Though the question is, whether they meant implementation between 1.21 - 2.0 or rather internal working starting after 1.21 launch (basically like how they're working on new servers and server tools that won't be put into play for version 1.x.)

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

So can I expect this in this patch or did they forget it?

Thats all I wanna know.

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I was thinking the same thing. No one has really mentioned it (neither the devs or players) so I thought I'd dreamt it or something. So either it's going to be a nice little surprise or it's been completely forgotten.

Think I perhaps needed more ?!?! and wild statements/accusations in the post title for things to kick off lol.

I want to know if this is still happening as well.

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

So can I expect this in this patch or did they forget it?

Thats all I wanna know.

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You won't know til 10 mins before the patch goes live :o

That quote stats they will be adding more animation up until 2.0 it does not state that everything will be done @ the same time. If you have not seen the Skill video then go check it out cause those are new animations.

I'm assuming it's starting with the new job animations.

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Originally Posted by Firon

That quote stats they will be adding more animation up until 2.0 it does not state that everything will be done @ the same time. If you have not seen the Skill video then go check it out cause those are new animations.

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Kinda not the same thing, they're talking about reusing graphical resources in order to concentrate on the actual content (which was a good idea) therefor that implies current skills we already have are going to be tweaked graphically. I've already seen the new animations video and they're great but those are for totally new skills.

Also yes that doesn't mean it's all going to appear in 1.21 but "Cosmetic changes are expected to commence from patch 1.21 and continue in stages ahead of Version 2.0." can be read as some of these changes we might expect to see in 1.21

They really need to revise the early conjurer spells regardless of how often used. Stone should not look like a puff of dust, and aero should not look like a breeze of minty freshness.

Not asking for extreme flashiness, but a small noticeable whirlwind or large rock hitting the enemy shouldn't be too much trouble.

I always liked Stone 3 in FF11, it came up like spikes from the ground if I remember correctly.

Stoneskin needs a major overhaul too, its the sillyest looking animation and when you compare it to the xi animation its even more horrid. Lets face it all the current animations are something you could easily render in rpg maker xp and even tho I am eager as hell for content so I can stop crafting and do something for once they could put a couple ppl on animations.

As visually stunning as the game is the animations need to live up to it and as they stand now they have a far way to go.

I too was hoping for an animation overhaul in 1.21 and hope we get something. To be honest the new job ws werent all that impressive visually either so hopefully they are on the redo list as well.

Early patch notes will say it all, let's just be a little more patient. :D
It's coming fast.

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Originally Posted by Nakiamiie

Early patch notes will say it all, let's just be a little more patient. :D
It's coming fast.

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No one was being impatient, we were merely wondering about it because it hasn't been brought up since probably before 1.20 hit. Thread actually started off talking about whether they were planning to overhaul them or not rather than demanding for info/videos.

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Originally Posted by Teknoman

aero should not look like a breeze of minty freshness.

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Sounds like a York Peppermint Patties commercial

Just thought I'd add an extra comment in here now that patch is out. Appears they are indeed tweaking already existing skills with each patch up until (and beyond?) 2.0. An example of this tweaking is they changed aurapulse to be more similar to how... the earth punch thing (it's been a while) used to look but with aurapulse style light show~

Pretty sure there were other skills that got a makeover but I don't know them off by heart, anyways back to awesome patch.

yeah they changed doomspike like it was before with a jump, i saw a cleaner animation in chaos thrust too.

hey, I got my doomspike animation back at least