Swashbuckler Personality, was done right

MornaBaine · January 2020

Please don't ruin it... like you did with the assassin personality with the CONSTANT and annoying knife flipping. PLEASE change all weapon fiddling to an EMOTE within the personality so people can chose to do it or not.

Addendum: The above was my original post. I am pleased to discover that this personality was incredibly well done. All weapon brandishing is done as an emote and not automatically as part of the idle stance. The whole thing is well animated and not "too much." So, thank you Devs! Credit where credit is due.

Now please revisit the Assassin Personality and give it a similar upgrade and I'll cheerfully buy it.

Royaji · January 2020

Reduce animation frequency? Sure.

But why would you want to turn a nice little idle stance animation variety into just another emote most people will never use because typing /fiddlingmyweapon is just not something you remember or even bother to do every now and then?

tomofhyrule · January 2020

I think the problem with the assassin personality is that it's only one idle, and it plays every three seconds. A lot of the other personalities (heroic, furious, etc) will have a few idles they rotate through, and they only play about once every minute or so - in fact some of those would be nice to have as separate emotes for screenshot purposes (like the heroic 'thinking' pose).

But for the assassin, it's pretty well flipping the dagger every fifteen seconds. And that's it. At least put the 'greet' emote as an idle so we get more than one possibility, and space out the idle anims

Saucy_Jack · January 2020

NO SWASHBUCKLER CAN OUT-STRUT THE PIE KING!

CMDR_Un1k0rn · January 2020

Drunk personality.

No others needed.

Except thief because it looks awesome when confronting your enemies.

Acrolas · January 2020

MornaBaine wrote: »

... like you did with the assassin personality with the CONSTANT and annoying knife flipping. PLEASE change all weapon fiddling to an EMOTE within the personality so people can chose to do it or not.

It's not just a generic weapon. Fitting a loyalty reward from Dark Brotherhood, the Assassin personality specifically uses the Blade of Woe in its animations.

akdave0 · January 2020

It should be like black Bart from the princess bride.

snoozy · January 2020

MornaBaine wrote: »

... like you did with the assassin personality with the CONSTANT and annoying knife flipping. PLEASE change all weapon fiddling to an EMOTE within the personality so people can chose to do it or not.

+ 1000

soo annoying

especially with sound on
i really don't get why it has to play that often.
how bored do you have to be to resort to looking at your knife every few seconds???

too bad i like the pose so i have to endure it on my main :'(

ProfessorKittyhawk · January 2020

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

Drunk personality.

No others needed.

Except thief because it looks awesome when confronting your enemies.

You can also Naruto run through Cyrodiil. Which is the equivalent of Area 51.

Saucy_Jack · January 2020

akdave0 wrote: »

It should be like black Bart from the princess bride.

What about Black Bart from A Christmas Story?

logarifmik · January 2020

MornaBaine wrote: »

... like you did with the assassin personality with the CONSTANT and annoying knife flipping. PLEASE change all weapon fiddling to an EMOTE within the personality so people can chose to do it or not.

As well as they ruined Telvanni Magister personality by this ridiculous default idle stance, which should not be the one played most of the time. Other idles from the personality fit this role much more better, IMHO.

MornaBaine · January 2020

Acrolas wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

... like you did with the assassin personality with the CONSTANT and annoying knife flipping. PLEASE change all weapon fiddling to an EMOTE within the personality so people can chose to do it or not.

It's not just a generic weapon. Fitting a loyalty reward from Dark Brotherhood, the Assassin personality specifically uses the Blade of Woe in its animations.

Okay... but my point remains. yes, the dagger is neat (if a bit over the top but that's weapons in video games generally) but the constant flipping it becomes incredibly annoying. I don't want to see the swashbuckler constantly brandishing their weapons. I know the majority of players won't be fussed by this. But this is the kind of thing that drives us picky roleplayers nuts. Imagine standing around during your guild briefing for an upcoming assault... or even just having drinks after said assault... and half the party is constantly waving a weapon around with absolutely no logical context. It's grating.

MornaBaine · January 2020

logarifmik wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

... like you did with the assassin personality with the CONSTANT and annoying knife flipping. PLEASE change all weapon fiddling to an EMOTE within the personality so people can chose to do it or not.

As well as they ruined Telvanni Magister personality by this ridiculous default idle stance, which should not be the one played most of the time. Other idles from the personality fit this role much more better, IMHO.

I love that personality but yeah, some slight improvements could have definitely made it much better. The "problem" with most personalities is that they are over the top and clearly created for laughs. While that's okay, that really needs to be less than half of them.

MornaBaine · January 2020

Royaji wrote: »

Reduce animation frequency? Sure.

But why would you want to turn a nice little idle stance animation variety into just another emote most people will never use because typing /fiddlingmyweapon is just not something you remember or even bother to do every now and then?

It could actually be changed to an idle stance very easily. Or, barring that, leave it as is and give us an idle for it that has the stance WITHOUT the knife flipping. The latter would probably please the most people.

MornaBaine · January 2020

snoozy wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

... like you did with the assassin personality with the CONSTANT and annoying knife flipping. PLEASE change all weapon fiddling to an EMOTE within the personality so people can chose to do it or not.

+ 1000

soo annoying especially with sound on
i really don't get why it has to play that often.
how bored do you have to be to resort to looking at your knife every few seconds???

too bad i like the pose so i have to endure it on my main :'(

I feel your pain. I use it for screen shots frequently but can't being myself to leave it on during RP.

Megatto · January 2020

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

Drunk personality.

No others needed.

Except thief because it looks awesome when confronting your enemies.

I always get a weird pain in my back when I look at the thief personality

MornaBaine · January 2020

Megatto wrote: »

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

Drunk personality.

No others needed.

Except thief because it looks awesome when confronting your enemies.

I always get a weird pain in my back when I look at the thief personality

LOL I know exactly what you mean.

robpr · January 2020

I don't think Assasin Daedric Dagger flipping is more annoying than Heroic's tension breaking "YEEEEAAAH"s every 2 mins.

max_only · January 2020

robpr wrote: »

I don't think Assasin Daedric Dagger flipping is more annoying than Heroic's tension breaking "YEEEEAAAH"s every 2 mins.

They need to remove THAT and turn it into an emote.

Or give me a witty pun and sunglasses every time it plays.

https://youtu.be/6YMPAH67f4o

Finedaible · January 2020

Beast personality was just a rehashed Zombie personality so don't get your hopes up for Swashbuckler.

Saucy_Jack · January 2020

max_only wrote: »

robpr wrote: »

I don't think Assasin Daedric Dagger flipping is more annoying than Heroic's tension breaking "YEEEEAAAH"s every 2 mins.

They need to remove THAT and turn it into an emote.

Or give me a witty pun and sunglasses every time it plays.

Yeah, Heroic is a personality that just...
*puts on sunglasses*
...screams for attention.

YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Ackwalan · January 2020

akdave0 wrote: »

It should be like black Bart from the princess bride.

Don't you mean, the Dread Pirate Roberts.

MajBludd · January 2020

@akdave0 black bart was a Christmas Story.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid

MornaBaine · January 2020

Please see my updated OP. ZOS got it right this time.

VoidCommander · February 2021

Swashbuckler is my new favorite personality. And to think I almost missed it! It is so well done, basically an altered copy of the assassin personality, but as OP mentioned, NO ANNOYING DAGGER! I hated that part in particular because it would get in the way while in first person when I was trying to film something cool.

essi2 · February 2021

Did they fix the run animation? Or does it still look weird and twisted?

Bat · February 2021

Seconded on assassin knife flipping, that excessive swish-swosh makes me wear it on exactly 0 of my characters.

belfong · February 2021

I previewed the Personality and liked the fact that it shows off my male avatar muscular body. The Personality flexed the chest and made it more, macho! I just didn’t quite like the hands-behind-back stance.

SOLDIER_1stClass · February 2021

Strongly disagree.

I like not having to activate the animation and wasting an emote slot on it for Assassin

belfong · February 2021

Bought this Personality and I must admit that the Running animation is really bad. No person in their right mind runs that way - chest out, body straight, hands at the waist. Even Assassin Personality running is better than this. What are they thinking?