Machinist leg animations... cemented to the ground?

[DeadRiser]

It's a crappy video with me playing like garbage, old, and recording software that was lagging the crap out of me, ultimately crashing, but here lol

It does show off some of the animation stuff though.


https://youtu.be/Fe0uYRqlBuY

Gosh, I miss the old Bloodletter..

And Doomspike...

And Chaos Thrust...

And just about everything except the magic.

[Canadane]

Machinist has some of the few animations that look fluid and normal while in motion.
More classes need this.

[Zari]

Thanks for the responses, all! Now that I know it's intended, the best I can do is try to work with it.

That being the case, I could use some help from the community! What's the smallest gun a machinist can use? Physically small; less rifle more pistol kind of thing? Even if a pistol isn't possible, the closest I can get the better.

Well, off the top of my head I know there is a revolver you can get for PVP medals (though since it is a pvp weapon definitely glamour only in PVE generally.) and the Esoteric weapon is closer to a sawed off double barrel than a rifle

[mosaicex]

The alternative is sliding around like you're in Final Fantasy : On Ice™, like what happens with all melee jobs. NIN is the only one that looks less obnoxious since most of their weaponskills involve spinning around like a spinning top.

And not to mention all those ugly animation clipping, which is even more apparent in Job like Machinist.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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.

And come heavensward bards and machinists are bow/gun mages with cast times on most of their skills....

So they lose the movement, and are now left with the same animations..?

[The_NPC]

can't remember the name fully but "Mithrite carbine" (I think a lv52 craftable gun) is the smallest 1 I have seen so far, just u hold it no were near the trigger hence why I don't use it (Assetics & some form of believe-ablity in even a fantasy game is a must) so I just use the Eso gun as it reminds me of a sawed-off shotgun (or relic 170-180 if I bothered with more then 1 relis)... to bad MCH's "casting" involves so much handwaving just to shot something usless its a oGCD move, what are we sidshow magicians its a gun not a wand u'r gona get Carpoltunnel doing that (or break u'r wrist)

[l---------------l]

Please, we are warriors of light. We can use a gun with one hand and no recoil at all...

>:3

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Please, we are warriors of light. We can use a gun with one hand and no recoil at all...

>:3

So all the NPCs we fight that use guns one handed must be warriors of light as well.

[Cakekizyy]

They're magitek guns, maybe there is no recoil.

[Jynx]

They're magitek guns, maybe there is no recoil.

You can't hand wave basic physics though that the realm of Eorzea tends to follow for the most part. Magic while a mystical abillity using a fuel known to residents as Aether still creates a reaction. They are using a gun that functions the same way regardless of it's power source.

If the gun wasn't shooting bullets there is a different argument but considering that for all intents and purposes we are to assume machinist weapons actually fire a physical projectile from it's barrel (Even if magically charged) would have to follow the basic law of.

"Every actions has a equal and opposite reaction"

such skills as lead shot being a physical item and blank shot (Having pushback) support this theory and debunk that machinist are using pew pew laser guns.



/end serious explanation to unserious response.