Updated Animations.

[RizelStar.3724]

I'm sure there is a thread that asked about this earlier this year but, has there been any word on A-Net's plan to updating animations for Vindicator, skill 2 ideally?

Now I'm not expecting this to receive priority over other important things especially coming off of the debacle that released tuesday(From what I've been reading). Just have a small/tiny hope on things like this getting address someday if it hasn't, because I've been out of the loop for abit. 

 

[Dahkeus.8243]

Nope.  There's no word on devs wanting to address this and even if they had, I doubt we'd see it anytime soon, unfortunately.

[RizelStar.3724]

14 minutes ago, Dahkeus.8243 said:

Nope.  There's no word on devs wanting to address this and even if they had, I doubt we'd see it anytime soon, unfortunately.

Ahh okay, well appreciate the update. I'll probably check again later this year or next. 

[Shao.7236]

By update you mean new animations or a better alternative?

 

Because chances for anything new is non existent if it can't be re-used somewhere else, they could however use the GS ranger AA spin for a more unique tell.

[RizelStar.3724]

26 minutes ago, Shao.7236 said:

By update you mean new animations or a better alternative?

 

Because chances for anything new is non existent if it can't be re-used somewhere else, they could however use the GS ranger AA spin for a more unique tell.

Yea I sort of gave up on the idea that they'd give new animations. So yea re used would be good enough to be honest. 

[Jungario.6485]

What is wrong with this animation? I am curious 😛

[LucianTheAngelic.7054]

3 hours ago, Jungario.6485 said:

What is wrong with this animation? I am curious 😛

GS2 is a copy paste of one of the GS1 chain autos, just with a slightly longer cast time. There's no way to differentiate them outside of the ending effect

[Jungario.6485]

Ok I see. I like this animation, but when you talk about these differences it makes sense.

 

[Blazinflames.8415]

Gs4 also shares the same animation as Gs1 secondary attack

Edited July 2, 2022 by Blazinflames.8415

[Scoobaniec.9561]

Idk why they didnt made all skills look like autoattack. 2 out of 4 function that way already

[Blazinflames.8415]

8 hours ago, Scoobaniec.9561 said:

Idk why they didnt made all skills look like autoattack. 2 out of 4 function that way already

LOL!!! The saddest part is, they probably won't ever address it. Must be the most lazy Elite Specialisation to date!!! 

[Markus.6415]

They even forgot to work on some UI elements of all the new specs. Have you ever looked on the Virtuoso's elite skill ground target? There's a god kitten chrono symbol on the ground 🙄

[Krillaklise.9461]

You know what? I swear during the Espec betas vindi dodge animation finished with twirling the sword around. 

Then during live launch all of a sudden we chuck the sword up after the ground slam and catch it. 

I honestly miss the twirling flourish.

[Scoobaniec.9561]

4 hours ago, Markus.6415 said:

They even forgot to work on some UI elements of all the new specs. Have you ever looked on the Virtuoso's elite skill ground target? There's a god kitten chrono symbol on the ground 🙄

Its rushed expansion they had no plans for. Im pretty sure it was their be or not be. In either case i have not bought it nor going to if they cant even put some effort into visuals or even fix mace 2. But thats part of it. Another and in fact main factor is balance and recent leak does not help em either in my eyes and confirmed what i thought anyway (im 100% sure rev is balanced off wiki at this point). Shame cuz i wanted gs on rev for long time but it is what it is

I do understand they didnt want to bother making new animations. What i dont understand why they did not recycle animations from say Balthazar gs and made gs feel unique. All that stuff already made, in the game and looking pretty good. It something that gonna confuse me for years to come. And gs 5 imo needs a rework anyway. Id suggest them another autoattack animation..

[Blazinflames.8415]

5 hours ago, Scoobaniec.9561 said:

Its rushed expansion they had no plans for. Im pretty sure it was their be or not be. In either case i have not bought it nor going to if they cant even put some effort into visuals or even fix mace 2. But thats part of it. Another and in fact main factor is balance and recent leak does not help em either in my eyes and confirmed what i thought anyway (im 100% sure rev is balanced off wiki at this point). Shame cuz i wanted gs on rev for long time but it is what it is

I do understand they didnt want to bother making new animations. What i dont understand why they did not recycle animations from say Balthazar gs and made gs feel unique. All that stuff already made, in the game and looking pretty good. It something that gonna confuse me for years to come. And gs 5 imo needs a rework anyway. Id suggest them another autoattack animation..

Indeed!!!! It's such a shame that the playerbase keeps accepting this kind of behaviour. The amount of work that has been put into the Elite Specialisations are absolutely bare minimum. Like I've said many times before, they don't even have to create new skill animations. Just be creative and reuse interesting skill animations that are already existing inside of the game.

 

The GS of the Vindicator is clearly based on the GS skill set of the Ranger. IMO one of the classes with a unique set of GS skills. Then they put even more effort than needed into replacing the skill animations with the most boring and overused animations they could find.

 

Yet again the same autoattack animations as every other heavyclass (In total we have 3 heavy classes somehow with 4GS sets, yet they all have the same autoattack animation :S Again that hammer swing animation on GS3 that almost result in my character decapitating himself (Why not keep the Swoop animation?). Autoattack animations on GS2 and GS4, they would've done better by keeping the Ranger animations on GS2(Maul) and the GS4 (The same counter attack). A uninspiring GS5 the animation doesn't fit the skill description, and they should've kept it a Reaper exclusive.

 

With the Cantha theme and all, why we didn't get the same Dragon Slash animation from the Gunsaber is beyond me :S

[RizelStar.3724]

On 7/4/2022 at 10:41 PM, Blazinflames.8415 said:

Indeed!!!! It's such a shame that the playerbase keeps accepting this kind of behaviour. The amount of work that has been put into the Elite Specialisations are absolutely bare minimum. Like I've said many times before, they don't even have to create new skill animations. Just be creative and reuse interesting skill animations that are already existing inside of the game.

 

The GS of the Vindicator is clearly based on the GS skill set of the Ranger. IMO one of the classes with a unique set of GS skills. Then they put even more effort than needed into replacing the skill animations with the most boring and overused animations they could find.

 

Yet again the same autoattack animations as every other heavyclass (In total we have 3 heavy classes somehow with 4GS sets, yet they all have the same autoattack animation :S Again that hammer swing animation on GS3 that almost result in my character decapitating himself (Why not keep the Swoop animation?). Autoattack animations on GS2 and GS4, they would've done better by keeping the Ranger animations on GS2(Maul) and the GS4 (The same counter attack). A uninspiring GS5 the animation doesn't fit the skill description, and they should've kept it a Reaper exclusive.

 

With the Cantha theme and all, why we didn't get the same Dragon Slash animation from the Gunsaber is beyond me :S

Didn't expect the thread to keep going but just to add my tidbit, I agree and  this is essentially why I stopped playing and won't be back till I see QoL come to the classes mainly Rev. 

Rev being my main I time and time again held hope they'd put some actual effort into the class. I'm sure(though could be wrong) to many of the current playerbase small things like this don't matter but I find it disrespectful to pretend that the Vind class is complete. Just visually  it's in truth, lame as hell for animations to be copied in the fashion they did. 

It's a shame really with how much potential this game has yet still hasn't reached. I just sense an odd amount of complancency. Hope I'll find myself back oneday. 

 

[Blazinflames.8415]

Bump 

[Lonewolf Kai.3682]

On 6/30/2022 at 4:52 PM, Shao.7236 said:

they could however use the GS ranger AA spin for a more unique tell.

THIS!!!!  THIS!!!!!  ANET, MAKE IT SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!1!1!1!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited September 12, 2022 by Lonewolf Kai.3682