Machinist leg animations... cemented to the ground?

[Tolmos]

So, I finally unlocked machinist today I was super excited. I normally play gun toting classes if they are available (Like Guild Wars 2's engineer) and so I felt I would be right at home with the machinist.

One thing I noticed, however, that is really bugging me for some reason are the animations. His upper body is VERY animated, with lots of waggling of arms and general excited motion, but his lower body is almost like it belongs to someone else; utterly and completely stiff. No matter how excited his upper body gets, or what sort of recoil he seems to show, his legs are in the same idle state they are in if he is reading a book in town.

Having come from Guild Wars 2, where my engineer uses his legs to brace against the recoil of his gun in a very natural looking and fluid movement, this is seriously messing with me lol. Is it some kind of bug with the animations, or is this just how animations work for the machinist?

Thanks!

[MiniPrinny]

Machinists have legs made of steel. Seriously though? It's just poor animation work. The animations look fine, but anyone who knows how guns work, especially the high-powered rifles we have in Eorzea, knows the legs help absorb the recoil.

[Roukiz]

It's not a bug at all, it's just REALLY dumb, lazy animations! I think some jobs have a split between upper and lower body animations for most attacks. (Specifically i know bard does) This is so that when moving and attacking, which bard and mch do most often, it can look as natural as possible in most cases.

[Gokuhan]

Machinists have legs made of steel. Seriously though? It's just poor animation work. The animations look fine, but anyone who knows how guns work, especially the high-powered rifles we have in Eorzea, knows the legs help absorb the recoil.

You are also firing that high powered rifle with only 1 hand. There are whole videos of people getting hurt from not holding a gun correctly, but our characters pull it off.

Roukiz has has it right though, it's all about movement.

[ArikDimas]

You are also firing that high powered rifle with only 1 hand.

We should try and make it more impressive by using a shotgun like Blackthorne's protagonist does.

[Shippuu]

This is the result of people complaining when ARR was in beta. Archer/Bard had some great animations for its abilities, but when you moved around your character just slid while doing the animations. Despite every melee job also having this scenario, people complained explicitly about the Archer ones and the changes that resulted are what we have now, where the upper body does one animation while the lower body moves around normally.

Thus when they made animations for MCH they followed the same pattern.

[Larkspur]

I heard people saying the 1.0 animations had more "weight" to them. Like archers actually recoiling on their bows for skills like heavy shot and such.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I heard people saying the 1.0 animations had more "weight" to them. Like archers actually recoiling on their bows for skills like heavy shot and such.

This also affected your movement as well, so you had to be careful in how you attacked or you'd be eating that AOE.

[Ferth]

After reading the title of the thread I had a mental image of lalafell MCH getting knocked on their butts every time they shoot. I would very much like that to be a thing...

[Felis]

I heard people saying the 1.0 animations had more "weight" to them. Like archers actually recoiling on their bows for skills like heavy shot and such.

That was because it stopped your movement during the skill animation. To move away you had to wait until the animation of the last skill ended.