Sundrop dance feedback

[Spawnie]

I heard that the Vanu dance is inspired by Haka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuS42TY-ipk

And the female version is indeed different from the male version, I think that is the reason.

being an aussie whenever i watch the haka performed by kiwis i always say to my mates.. how the hell do the aussie players keep a straight face?? i laugh everytime cause the expressions some of them pull while performing it lol

[Belhi]

I think the female dance looks great and it's amazing to me how many people have their titties in a twist over it. Even if you disagree, demanding to have the male one is...insane? I sorta wish this was like PSU tho where you could do the other gender's emotes all the time by just adding one letter to the / command but I don't think SE will ever give us that option somehow.

And no it's not sexist or whatever. It's just fictional reflection of a real life tradition and how it varies slightly from one gender to the other.

My problem isn't that its different but that it looks stiff and awkward.

[Dree-Elle]

Hooray for human gender politics being imposed upon a clearly nonhuman race. /s

[KazuneHypnotik]

Please don't make another thread while there's so much feedback on main thread

Calm yourself, not everyone checks the forums everyday and know what has and hasn't been posted in the past.

[Ashkendor]

Calm yourself, not everyone checks the forums everyday and know what has and hasn't been posted in the past.

That argument might work if the original thread had actually left the front page.

With that said, the other thread does have a really misleading title.

[Kahnom]

The Male version looks funny,interesting and strong.
The Female version looks weird .. well at least its cute somehow.

[Dotsusama]

It's not cute at all. It's boring, robotic, and altogether unprecedented.

Are there any other purchased or otherwise unlocked emotes that differ based on whether you are playing a male or female character? I don't mean race-specific emotes. (That's another complaint altogether.)

[CyrilLucifer]

It's not cute at all. It's boring, robotic, and altogether unprecedented.

Are there any other purchased or otherwise unlocked emotes that differ based on whether you are playing a male or female character? I don't mean race-specific emotes. (That's another complaint altogether.)

Race-specific emotes are a problem?

You mean, one of the very few things that actually stop races from being a generic mass of sameness? More than they already are?

It's also not unprecedented. if anything, making them the same would be unprecedented, since the real-life dance they modeled it after differs based upon sex.

[Alistaire]

I don't even like the male version. Just because it's obviously better doesn't mean it's good.

[Dotsusama]

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The Vanu Vanu are giant bird people that live in a land in the clouds. We are not talking about Earth here. I am not even playing a human -- er, Hyur. Sorry.

I am not even talking about sexism in this specific case -- only because I don't need that point to make my case this time.

The animation underwhelmed me. I wish they hadn't put this difference in when they literally have never needed to do so before.

My complaint about race-specific emotes is that they are the same for all characters of the same gender for the same racers, irregardless of that character's actual aesthetic or personality. No, I don't RP in this game, but my character is still crafted along certain guidelines I have in mind for what they should look like and move like. The female Sundrop dance flies in the face of that, so now something I was looking forward to, I'll never use.