Dual Wield Animation Changes, ESO Live 1.6

Rykmaar

Hello!

Perhaps I missed this while watching the stream yesterday afternoon, but was there any mention of changing dual wield animations based on type of weapons used? For example, with the skill Rapid Strikes, if the player is holding a dagger, the animation makes sense (though it still appears to be very robotic and not natural) -- a series of thrusts. However if the player is holding hammers or axes, the animation is still a series of thrusts -- which makes no sense considering the weapons in play.

Those animations should be changed to represent the uniqueness of the weapons you hold. For example, Rapid Strikes with swords/axes/hammers should be a series of slashing motions, not thrusts. Perhaps the axe and mace slashes should look more "weighty" than those of swords, but those three weapon types should not share an animation with daggers.

It just looks awful.

Thanks! Great show,

Ryk'maar

Shlankwald

I don't think its different, I'll check the PTS and let you know because im curious myself.
I also read they would be increasing the attack speed of dual wield/lowering the attack speed of 2-handers and such to create more variance in weapon types, but dual wield seems to still attack really slow

Lynx7386

Zenimax' s animators suck, unfortunately, and seem to have no intention of improving any time soon.

Shlankwald

The skill still jabs even for maces

Lynx, I don't see how you say they have no intention of improving, they have made some nice changes on the PTS (mostly to staves). Though I will say their is things I was told was change but I notice no difference in (such as the stealth animation)

While I can see why their focusing on the areas they are, I really hope they come back and redo the weapon animations a lot better.

charley222

Dual Wield need a lot of work in this game , the weapon tree is to much design for night blade , that why you got only thrusts Animation, also the night blade got teleportstrike to close the gap , dragonnight Dual Wield fail because you got anything to close the gap, and the dk orc passive also fail because Swift are usless any charge , this tree realy fail for dragonnight warrior and add more fail for the orc passive , i will add is the worst weapon tree of the game and dont expect much for 1,6

Aeratus

Anyone tried the rapid strikes animation in real life?

Bloodfang

Aeratus wrote: »

Anyone tried the rapid strikes animation in real life?

Is that you?

Aeratus

Sadly, that's not me.

But I have written many times that the rapid strikes animation is completely contrary to actual fighting. If wrecking blow has a realistic damage of 100, rapid strikes would have a realistic damage of 10.

IrishGirlGamer

Aeratus wrote: »

Anyone tried the rapid strikes animation in real life?

Um ... no ...

GrimMauKin

I'd be happy to keep the current animations if they could ensure that my weapons don't vanish altogether after a few swaps (dual wield and bow)!