The Animations (again).

Morgha_Kul

I posted this a year ago, and nothing has been done. It was discussed when they first changed the animations, not sure when it first happened, and it was discussed again after a year... but only by US, the players. There's been no comment at all from ZOS. So, I'm bringing it up again, and simply reposting my original comment, since it's still completely relevant, word for word.

Morgha_Kul wrote: »

So, I was playing a while back and they introduced new animations for several things. I noticed the walking, and I noticed the staff animations, and also the animation for the 2H sword ability "Uppercut." The walking animations were nice, but the staff animations were awkward and unnatural looking (and conspicuously ONE HANDED, for a two handed weapon), and the Uppercut animation was wierdly accelerated halfway through, making it look unrealistic and silly.

The forums blazed with dismay, as people told the devs in no uncertain terms that the new animations, at least these ones, were awful, and should be changed back or adjusted. Real life took me away from the game for a time, and after a couple of months (or whatever it is), I've returned to find nothing has been done.

Thus, I am again bringing this up.

The animations for staff attacks look terrible. They look awkward and uncomfortable. More, the mere STANCE of the character when not actually attacking, but with the weapon drawn, is also ugly and uncomfortable looking. For example, it's GREAT that we can stand with our staff in hand, leaning on it like a walking stick. However, we stand with feet apart, slightly off-balance, with our arm sticking out and wrist awkwardly bent. Why not let us stand like the Prophet does? Why can we not WALK with the staff the way the Prophet does? These animations are clearly in the game, so why can't WE use them? It's also very annoying that only restoration staff users get to stand like this at all. Destruction staff wielders stand awkwardly with the staff held more or less horizontal. When at rest, staves should be held upright (again, the way the Prophet holds his).

The attack animations should be changed to be more natural and fluid, and should use TWO HANDS. Indeed, the original animations were MUCH better. Just return us to those. The idle animations with weapons drawn should also be changed back. We should NOT wear a staff on our backs at any time. When a staff is stowed, we should hold it in our hands as the Prophet does, and if we walk while it's stowed, we should walk USING the staff, again as the Prophet does.

The original animation for Uppercut was ALSO much, much better. It was slower on the upswing, giving the attack a feeling of actual WEIGHT. It looked like I was hitting my foe with a heavy sword. The current animation starts slow, but the sword seems to turn into balsa wood for the upswing, which is comically fast. Once again, just return us to the original animation. If the point was to make the attack faster, then do one of two things: either speed up the whole (original) animation, so that it doesn't wierdly change midway through, or increase the damage of the attack to compensate for it being slower.

I'm sure there are other animations that people can bring up. These are just the ones I've come in contact with. I encourage other players to add their requests to this thread, and I hope the developers will look in and take the request seriously. Even better if we could get some dialog started between the devs and the community, so I encourage the devs to join in and comment.

Thanks!

Nyladreas

I'm sort of baffled by the things some people are bothered by. LOL

Especially in the current situation.

Judas Helviaryn

Look, power to you.. But this is more personal opinion, than objective feedback. It's also liable to be exceptionally low on the priority list, bordering on nonexistent at the current time. It didn't pick up speed a year ago, don't expect it to now.

You're just going to have to live with it.

Morgha_Kul

Perhaps so, but I lose nothing by making the effort.

DragonBound

Judas Helviaryn wrote: »

Look, power to you.. But this is more personal opinion, than objective feedback. It's also liable to be exceptionally low on the priority list, bordering on nonexistent at the current time. It didn't pick up speed a year ago, don't expect it to now.

You're just going to have to live with it.

Well maybe, but quality of life improvements seem to be happening now so maybe it is a good time to bring it back up:)

Koensol

I agree on the standing animations with destro staves, but completely disagree with everything else. Have you forgotten how idiotic the stave light and heavy attacks used to look? Complete garbage. They look a thousand times better at the moment. Just look up some old video from 2014 and look at the animations. Terrible.

Shad0wfire99

Any animations that I won't get stuck in while in combat would be nice.

Morgha_Kul

Koensol wrote: »

I agree on the standing animations with destro staves, but completely disagree with everything else. Have you forgotten how idiotic the stave light and heavy attacks used to look? Complete garbage. They look a thousand times better at the moment. Just look up some old video from 2014 and look at the animations. Terrible.

Well then, how about new animations.? The current ones are just bad, between the weird tennis swing we do with the Destruction Staff and the awkward pseudo-pulling we do with the Restoration Staff, we're still using only one hand. and look awkward and uncomfortable either way.