Dev1037 Enhancement of Battle Effects

[Lienn]

Some people just won't be happy until they decide to redo all the skill effects. Every action in 14 was done through motion capture animation so everything is incredibly realistic in movement. I wouldn't mind if they added some crazy effects and all but who's going to pay for those acrobats to be recorded and those magic skill renovations until every skill in the game looks satisfactory before even balancing their powers. I say bigger is better as long as it's a good thing getting bigger. I'm sure this is all the result of the massive complaints on the forum from people expecting unbelievable and inhuman movements for every different skill in the game. The sheer number of skills in the game makes this unreasonable.

I don't complain about the animation. The motion capture is perfect...what i mean is that, even though there's like 8~10 different sword swings if you count slash and stab, most of GLA animations use the very same swing motion. Also, GLA animations are terrible poor...you can't really disguise phalanx from spinstroke from howling vortex by just seeing the animation (or lack of it)...maybe just making them bigger fix it...maybe not...all i hope is that bigger animations don't generate even more lag.

OBS: Fix the topic tag...the dev1037 needs to be at taglist and not at title.

[Soukyuu]

OBS: Fix the topic tag...the dev1037 needs to be at taglist and not at title.

everyone can edit thread tags - i just added the devtag to the list.

[Lienn]

everyone can edit thread tags - i just added the devtag to the list.

Didn't know this! Never noticed the button there before. Thx ^^

[PM1337]

everyone can edit thread tags - i just added the devtag to the list.

thanks!!!

[Rivers]

Some people just won't be happy until they decide to redo all the skill effects. Every action in 14 was done through motion capture animation so everything is incredibly realistic in movement. I wouldn't mind if they added some crazy effects and all but who's going to pay for those acrobats to be recorded and those magic skill renovations until every skill in the game looks satisfactory before even balancing their powers. I say bigger is better as long as it's a good thing getting bigger. I'm sure this is all the result of the massive complaints on the forum from people expecting unbelievable and inhuman movements for every different skill in the game. The sheer number of skills in the game makes this unreasonable.

Dunno if you meant me in particular, however, I'm not saying re-do every single animation. The ones that are currently in the game, are great. But if getting people into a mocap studio to make new animations is what it takes to make the game feel better, then that's what it'll take.

Many people aren't totally happy with current animations, according to one of the polls. Also, look at Luminous Spire for Gladiator. That's probably more unrealistic than anything I could possibly come up with for animations. Example, the last Lancer WS hits many times. I don't think it's unreasonable to have an animation similar to Penta Thrust from FFXI, where the character simply stabs with the lance 5 times. And they don't *have* to go back to a mocap studio for new animations, there is still the old fashioned way.

In the end, it's not a game breaker for me by any means, if they don't add new animations, I'm still in this for the long haul.

[Laughlyn]

lol will this "Crap" actually have any effect on the amount of Damage for example "Burst", "Flare" etc....?
If not... whats the point? if anything looks awful & weak (my bad.. Pathetic) its the Nuke spells for conjurer.
They look like crap & do crap damage. (atleast Burts, Flare, floodd etc...)

Increasing their visual effect will not make any mage happy, we want Power with Style not, Gimp with Flare!

[PM1337]

We complain because of the lack of info. If SE makes a statement, as I said before, that this is only the first in many fixes. I would be more then happy with this subtle change. If SE said they are even considering changing some, not all, battle animations I would be ok with it. But they haven't. I am voicing my concern so SE is aware that simple fixes such as this is not a cure all but a minor fix until they can devote more time on it, in my eyes. Please do not forget that this is just my view on the subject and there is no RIGHT or WRONG view. I just wanted to start this thread to let SE know how we feel about these little changes so they can best make greater changes.

[Bethor]

The idea is good, since some animations are really tiny and small. But since we want an overhaul of the animations we need patience once again.
I guess this is just a small fix which can be done rather quickly for a chance. But the animations need to be more shiny and exciting

Maybe they'll add a dev post that they're considering to change the animations as a whole.

/hope up

[Tonka]

As a mage class, I want my spells to be unique and visually attractive. Hurling fireballs is much cooler than having that regular old casting animation that is the same for every spell followed by a different color explosion on the critter.

Same casting animation > Green explosion
Same casting animation > Red explosion

The answer is not to make them bigger. But I do appreciate them doing something...

[PM1337]

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