7.0 Animations

Can we maybe suggest different animations we'd like to see improved for 7.0?

For me the big ones are the death animations and the travel animations.

The death one should be obvious as its the same copy paste job across the board and it looks awful.

The travel animations are probably forgotten, but if you take an airship to Limsa for example you and see your character board the ship and the actual airport being used and shown how it operates. This is not true of newer locations where it just turns black and plops you unceremoniously.

It would also be cool to see the occasional airship leaving the port from the city and flying overhead as well as ships coming in and out of Limsa instead of the stale looking background items the cities have. Merchants coming in to Uldah, etc... There is SOME of that for sure, but definitely not enough.

Ninja's 1 2 3 4 combo

Could name a few in my head right now:

• Climbing vertical ladder. Technically we have this in Castrum Lacus Litore but can we have this elsewhere, like housing? It'll also give them an opportunity to introduce a vertical ladder too.
• Being able to choose left or right dominant hand for our WoL.
• Being able to choose your idle stances. (i.e. I'd love to have [M]Miqo's 1st and 2nd idle pose plus [M]Highlander's 3rd & 4th idle pose.)

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Originally Posted by Ath192

The death one should be obvious as its the same copy paste job across the board and it looks awful.

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I think it would be neat to have, maybe like 2 or 3 kind of death animations i.e. default + collapses forward + blown away (this one's always amuses me when people die to a knockback with their corpse just smoothly sliding xD).

Alternatively if we want to have unique ones, some race's /playdead looks good enough for a death animation.

To be honest I always forget airships are even useable.

More idle stances for all jobs that aren't gender locked.
Including more Battle Stance & Victory Pose Animations

Differentiate the Eating Food Animations, and even a new Food Buff animation.

More Emotes, or Toggles for Emotes to make them Persistent and loop.
As dumb as it is, Id love to use the Tomestone Emote on loop so it looks like Im scrolling through Memes while I wait for the Party Leader to explain the mechanics to new people in my Farm Group.

Need newer female Hyur midlander & Elezen running animations.

Teleportation animations would be good as well. They may even make an excellent reward and be unlocked in a similar fashion to emotes. It would add a whole new category of rewards to the game.

Let us select the animations for previous versions of skills, like machinist's non-Heated shots or white mage's Stone over Glare.

Given all of the races are plantigrade humanoids that fundamentally differ only in that some of them have tails, I still think the ability to choose from animation sets during character creation (mark it as "Personality" or whatever) shouldn't be THAT difficult to implement? Would be a relatively low cost means to give everyone's character more individuality.

What really grinds my gears is that the game DOES have different death animations, they put all those death animations in the Play Dead Emote.

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Originally Posted by Yeol

Need newer female Hyur midlander & Elezen running animations.

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Sure, but only if it's optional!! Let us CHOOSE from several different animations! The more customization options the better!

I absolutely LOVE my anime girl run, thank you very much.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0/animerun.gif

There is room for them to rework some animations, they even said they are looking to increase the memory allocation to animation which could allow for longer emotes for instance but likewise can extend into the main story etc. But this is just one aspect of it and could be applied to battle animations as well but time will tell I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

Sure, but only if it's optional!! Let us CHOOSE from several different animations! The more customization options the better!

I absolutely LOVE my anime girl run, thank you very much.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0/animerun.gif

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Seconded. Female midlander run is one of the most adorable animations in this game.

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Originally Posted by Ath192

The travel animations are probably forgotten, but if you take an airship to Limsa for example you and see your character board the ship and the actual airport being used and shown how it operates. This is not true of newer locations where it just turns black and plops you unceremoniously.

It would also be cool to see the occasional airship leaving the port from the city and flying overhead as well as ships coming in and out of Limsa instead of the stale looking background items the cities have. Merchants coming in to Uldah, etc... There is SOME of that for sure, but definitely not enough.

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We actually had this in 1.0 and the ARR airship animations are a step down from 1.0’s.

The ceruleum exhaust wheel thing in the middle of the airship used to spin along with the fluttering wings. Airships used to run on a schedule and you’d need to wait for one to show up to fly between cities. They intended us to be on the airship in the air as well like in FFXI and the boat ride in 1.0, but never got around to it. You used to also be able to see the airships coming into the dock from the city and even see it flying between the cities from the ground in different zones.

When ARR came, they turned the boat and the airship into teleport buttons so I wouldn’t really expect them to enhance or fix these at all in the future.

I just want my Rage of Halone animation to stay even when you get Royal Authority...

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Originally Posted by Yeol

Need newer female Hyur midlander & Elezen running animations.

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Awh heck no, don't take away my overly dramatic sprint :D

I think some general movement system animation. A lean on when you change directions running, or an about-face when you turn around. It should never interfere with actual movement; just an illusion of actually being present. 1.0 oddly had it and it was nice. Characters felt more part of the world rather than footage of someone on a treadmill.

Would be nice to see some different death animtions. We already have unique /playdead animations for each race and gender.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

Sure, but only if it's optional!! Let us CHOOSE from several different animations! The more customization options the better!

I absolutely LOVE my anime girl run, thank you very much.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0/animerun.gif

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It's missing something...piece of toast in the mouth.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

Sure, but only if it's optional
I absolutely LOVE my anime girl run, thank you very much.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0/animerun.gif

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My eyes…
I wouldn’t mind the running animation if the female Hyur looked more like teens, but they look like adults to me lol

I’m all for optional animations.

Im glad a lot of users feel like the death animations need work. They are probably some of the worst in the industry.

Another one I just thought of is being able to go to bed/log off from your house and wake up from it like in the inns.

Male elezen run animation could use an update because it's quite wacky, but perhaps it's a charm point that male elezen players enjoy. For me it's a bit of a distraction lol.

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Originally Posted by Renalt

It's missing something...piece of toast in the mouth.

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They had to take that out. It kept attracting trucks for some reason.

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Originally Posted by Tehmon

Male elezen run animation could use an update because it's quite wacky, but perhaps it's a charm point that male elezen players enjoy. For me it's a bit of a distraction lol.

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Male Elezen has an awkward bow but I feel it is so charming for some reason... the last second of the animation has them awkwardly rise their head almost like they are proud of what they did.


Overall I do agree with more varied death/fainting animations, at least could have how you faint against a magical attack or a thrusting physical attack etc

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Originally Posted by Tehmon

Male elezen run animation could use an update because it's quite wacky, but perhaps it's a charm point that male elezen players enjoy. For me it's a bit of a distraction lol.

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I do not enjoy our animations, especially our running animations. I wish they would give us an animation bundle based on attitude. That would help give us a more personalized version of each race to each player.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

They had to take that out. It kept attracting trucks for some reason.

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When they add it back in, you know we're getting Isekai'd to another world again.

I just hope they stop adding bigger and bigger particle effects to every single attack skill.

EW was the first expansion I have hard to limit party skill effects because even in an 8 man there was way to much glowing shit at all times around the boss when the devs also want you to look at the boss for a tell for mechanics.

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Originally Posted by Thi

I just hope they stop adding bigger and bigger particle effects to every single attack skill.

EW was the first expansion I have hard to limit party skill effects because even in an 8 man there was way to much glowing shit at all times around the boss when the devs also want you to look at the boss for a tell for mechanics.

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I once ran the Mothercrystal trial and all four DPS were summoners. I legitimately could not see a damn thing the entire time and had to drop after the first wipe because my eyes were in severe pain. Granted, I'm glare sensitive, so the bright blue-white battlefield isn't great for me in the first place, but damn.

Hyur Princess Run please.

Things I'd like to see improved would be:
Handover animations with real objects not just invisible something.
Death animation (which was brought up already). Just funny when there is characters dying and they all fall the same way like what?
Mounting up animations similar to gw2's. I know its a lot of mounts already but still would be cool.
Give us more interactions between characters, actual touching hands and stuff like that. Similar to cutscenes from ShB and EW. Not everything is possible I know, but my hopes are high.

Monk:

Dragon Kick: The current animation lasts so long, your character's still on their back by the time your next GCD is ready.

Dragoon:

Chaos Thrust/Spring: Why flower petals on a dragon-themed job? Those weaponskills should be fire-themed so they would reflect the dots they apply and recall a dragon's breath.

Heaven's Thrust: Personally, I think Full Thrust, the inferior weaponskill version, still looks and sounds more impactful.

Wyrmwind Thrust: Should have quick tracer line going through the twin dragons to better display the spear throw. Right now, your spear simply disappears from your hands like your're throwing air.

Black Mage:

BLM's many similar casting animations: There's probably about 6 different casting animations. I think they should be more diverse.

Machinist:

Heated Slug: Heated Slug is the most goofy animation out there and it sounds empty.

Clean shot: Looks like a magic spell, which flies in the face of what a machinist is.

Ricochet: It also looks magical. I would instead change it to a hand grenade or grenade launcher.

Automaton Queen: All of Automaton Queen's animations should be greatly sped up. She's so slooooow.

Landing animation after a longer drop, that neck snap....