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    Bablioteca's Avatar
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    Crofea Villiers
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    Leviathan
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    Thaumaturge Lv 50

    Machinist's Clean Shot Animation

    Does Clean Shot's animation bug anyone else? For the most part in my short leveling experience with machinist, their skill animations have been pretty tame but more or less functionally practical:

    Shoot with both hands while aiming, shoot with one hand, shoot with one hand and have a bigger recoil, drop to one knee to two-hand fire some big wind bullet, shoot what looks like a flare in the air and let it land on them for a dot... and then we have for some reason a jump into the air 360noscopeblazeitmlgshot. I know I'm nitpicking but it just feels kind of silly. Clean Shot Animation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCkjk8us5u8


    I mean come on, really? Why? Why are you doing that? Does the sweet aerial twirl somehow make the bullet hurt more? Stop.

    In a game where people are shooting fireballs out of their hands and sprouting massive wings from their backs I don't expect anyone to really agree with me, but I thought I'd just throw my feelings out there.

    If we're going to have the unnecessary flare why not something more like this? A totally different flavor of (gun themed) ridiculousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulEeIUDxbaQ
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    Ludicracy's Avatar
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    Itori Ruuka
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    Cactuar
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    Meh. Doesn't bother me nearly as bad as the ninja's mutilate animation...SLASH SLASH, unnecessary backflip!!
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    Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for the shadow is my own.

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    Raze Landale
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    Hyperion
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    Astrologian Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by Ludicracy View Post
    Meh. Doesn't bother me nearly as bad as the ninja's mutilate animation...SLASH SLASH, unnecessary backflip!!
    Only thing that bothers me about ninjas are the main combo moves are all variations of itself, spin around and slash. Start out slow, maybe just do a normal stab and work your way up to the acrobatics.

    Mchs on the other hand have a different problem since the first two semi-combo moves are just 'stand there and fire'. That's why people watching say 'Boy, mch sure looks boring'. Because while you're actually doing a lot it sure doesn't look like it. Clean shot actually adds a bit of flair and certainly isn't the problem. But it's relatively uncommon, because actually getting the full combo is luck/cooldown based. While nin starts going all out and doesn't build up it's flash mch starts looking basic and doesn't really build up to anything from there.

    The second shot in the combo needs something to distinguish it from the first.
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    Lace Valeria
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    Jenova
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    Machinist Lv 80
    Lol, it's quite simple really: kicking ass is one thing. Doing it with style is where it's at. :P
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    HeavensSword's Avatar
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    Marik Landzaat
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    Leviathan
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    Dragoon Lv 70
    I find i really enjoy flashy over-exaggerated animations; I enjoyed Windbite on BRD way more than I should have.
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    Alizebeth Bequin
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    Brynhildr
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    I would rather the focus be on the shots looking cool rather than me looking cool shooting.

    However MCH is pretty light on the animations (far uglier than BRD) so I'll take what I can get.
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    Keylus Laststorm
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    Machinist Lv 60
    That flip adds inertia to the bullet, making it does more damage
    Trust me, I'm an engineer
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    Dante Venarra
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    Jenova
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    Dark Knight Lv 100
    Mutilate animation is awesome especially if you are locked and strafing out of an aoe while doing it. I like the animations in this game honestly. It adds some eye candy to the mix.
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    Aiot O'lein
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bablioteca View Post
    Clean Shot animation
    Well, you aren't the only one bothered by it... of that I am sure, since I am a fellow "wtf was that" person in that regard.
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