Templar jabs animation being reverted or updated?

amig186

LukosCreyden wrote: »

Epic PTS gamers, we need intel. Did they change the animation??

No.

NoticeMeArkay

LukosCreyden wrote: »

Epic PTS gamers, we need intel. Did they change the animation??

Nope, sadly not.

Elvenheart

NoticeMeArkay wrote: »

LukosCreyden wrote: »

Epic PTS gamers, we need intel. Did they change the animation??

Nope, sadly not.

There is no sad emote or emoji sufficient enough to express my sadness over this.

coop500

Not only did they not touch templar jabs, but now light and heavy attacks for duel wield and two-handed weapons got the flurry treatment and look even dumber.

NoticeMeArkay

Elvenheart wrote: »

NoticeMeArkay wrote: »

LukosCreyden wrote: »

Epic PTS gamers, we need intel. Did they change the animation??

Nope, sadly not.

There is no sad emote or emoji sufficient enough to express my sadness over this.

My honest condolences. I do not play a templar. But the nighthollow staff sure was the worst pick for a new look I could have possibly imagined.

virtus753

NoticeMeArkay wrote: »

Elvenheart wrote: »

NoticeMeArkay wrote: »

LukosCreyden wrote: »

Epic PTS gamers, we need intel. Did they change the animation??

Nope, sadly not.

There is no sad emote or emoji sufficient enough to express my sadness over this.

My honest condolences. I do not play a templar. But the nighthollow staff sure was the worst pick for a new look I could have possibly imagined.

I don't know if we ever found out whether Nighthollow was just the style-du-jour for spears that update (it was also used for Devyric's lightning conduit, which could have simply borrowed the style-less model of Vrol's) or it was an intentional irony to use a vampiric motif for Aedric and Druidic abilities.

Either way, they know how well the decision sat with many players, given the feedback all over the forums. Appeals to nostalgia can work well when the content for which we're nostalgic is made accessible - otherwise it's called nostalgia for a reason.

Udrath

The funniest part about the change is the nighthollow style is based on vampires and nothing to do with light or aedra.

"The panoply of the Nighthollow vampires evokes the sublime terror of their shadowy domain. Mortals who see this fearsome armor rarely keep their blood for long." - Crown Store description

Solariken

RIP Templar. I saw the demo video and was super looking forward to resurrecting my old Templar main. Guess I'm sticking with nightblade. The shovel animation is disgusting, it burns my eyes to look at.

The_Meathead

It's baffling to me how this post is just the tiniest portion of a massive deluge of near-universal preference for the original appearance of Jabs, but we've never heard so much as a, "Hey, we hear you guys! It may be a while, but we'll address it."

Nope.

Nothing.

I'll just keep shoveling, I suppose.

U35 was truly epic levels of blunder.

TheBardAtTheInn

After the Aetheric Lancer set came out, which featured yet another instance of the better, older spear model, I made a post in the PTS section about how it's clear that they're sticking with the ugly Nighthollow style out of sheer spite, and my post title got modded for "bashing". The longer it's gone without so much as a mention from the dev team, the more I'm convinced that's the case. They wanted to change the animation, and someone with pull decided to make the new model their own personal favorite staff style. Forget any sort of visual or thematic consistency whatsoever.

Hotdog_23

The_Meathead wrote: »

It's baffling to me how this post is just the tiniest portion of a massive deluge of near-universal preference for the original appearance of Jabs, but we've never heard so much as a, "Hey, we hear you guys! It may be a while, but we'll address it."

Nope.

Nothing.

I'll just keep shoveling, I suppose.

U35 was truly epic levels of blunder.

1000% agree. ZOS has been so tone-deaf about this. Very few like the new jabs. Funny how I have seen so many people excited about the possibility of the old jabs coming back and then nothing, not even a comment about it. 11 updates later, and people still hate it, but ZOS is still sticking their heads in the sand about. What a failure!

Stay safe

Ragnarok0130

TheBardAtTheInn wrote: »

After the Aetheric Lancer set came out, which featured yet another instance of the better, older spear model, I made a post in the PTS section about how it's clear that they're sticking with the ugly Nighthollow style out of sheer spite, and my post title got modded for "bashing". The longer it's gone without so much as a mention from the dev team, the more I'm convinced that's the case. They wanted to change the animation, and someone with pull decided to make the new model their own personal favorite staff style. Forget any sort of visual or thematic consistency whatsoever.

Yeah the whole “bashing” thing is maddening. “Bashing” seems to be a catch all infraction to remove or edit posts that they don’t like but violate no rules. One would think with skill customization we could get the old animation and skill model since they’ve illustrated that they can swap out models and animations via the “Customizable action’ stuff that they sell to us in crates and pre-order bonuses. At this point it all just looks like spite.

Vahndamme

They knew the nighthollow staff in gold/yellow would look awful in the promo material so baited us into hope. Sadge.