I noticed that when caster finishes casting a spell they don't perform any animation or movement with their hands, either to finalize the spell or to direct it at target, it's just like EQ 1, you finish the cast and the spell just "goes off".
I personally don't like this, i much preffer when my character does an "end" animation when the spell is fully cast, it looks more authentic and tells you that the spell finished casting. I fell that my spells have a lot more impact when there's an "end" animation to a cast.
Thoughts on this?
Edit: it's not about how good the animation looks or feels, it's about the "end" animation being there.
you mean like tennis players grunt during the game?
I'm sure they will touch up on this for im sure it has been brought up a few times and they just havent gotten into this part of the animations is all, but still tweaking other things that are just more important as im sure adding animations is pretty simple, maybe a lil time consuming but i don't see it being all that hard, but once they do it i hope that all races/classes cast differently as in a orge/druid will cast different than a orge/shaman and a halfling/druid will cast differently than a orge/druid.
Fluffy said:you mean like tennis players grunt during the game?
No, I mean a real animation, like a kamehameha, in the end of the cast Goku pushes his spell, that's the part I'm talking about, the finish of the cast actually being different from the rest of the spell cast.
Shai said:I want my wizard to karate-kick fireballs.
Seriously though, you're not alone in placing a high value on character animations, generally. The "end" animations you describe sound appealing to me! Also, I actually wasn't kidding about the karate-kick fireballs...
Not sure Karate-kicks firballs fit the lore, lol! Maybe a monk can do a fire round house kick that would be neat.
The finish of the cast being different than the cast,i see
I'd love to see show-down abilities to settle matters too once in a while
Bet you don't want animation cancelling either? This has become a thing in a few recent games
jpedrote said:I noticed that when caster finishes casting a spell they don't perform any animation or movement with their hands, either to finalize the spell or to direct it at target, it's just like EQ 1, you finish the cast and the spell just "goes off".
I personally don't like this, i much preffer when my character does an "end" animation when the spell is fully cast, it looks more authentic and tells you that the spell finished casting. I fell that my spells have a lot more impact when there's an "end" animation to a cast.
Thoughts on this?
Edit: it's not about how good the animation looks or feels, it's about the "end" animation being there.
Go look at their team list and see how many animators they have working for them at this point in time. The vast majority that you see are default/generic place holder animations. I would wait until you see a more finalized product before complaining/criticising about there not being an animation when there's not animations for most things that we've seen publically at this point.
The type of animation cancelling where you stop casting to return to normal stance is normal and fine
It is a different story when players are allowed to proudly jam in 5 other moves while the animation is supposed to finish
It even became a requirement to master animation cancelling in order to be allowed in groups,guilds and raids
That type of animation cancelling is cancer lol
Can't believe eso retroactively endorsed such exploits(one of the many reasons I've quit that game)
None of the finish effects you want would matter if the abusive type of animation cancelling would be allowed,
as players would just interrupt the animation preemtively with 5 other attacks they manage to jam in
That Pantheon has rather slow-paced combat might be a reasurance that things will turn out quite differently <3
I loved the shaman spell effects and the monk kicks so far in the teaser
There's NOTHING WRONG with respectfully saying "This is a thing that's important to me." That's what OP did. Literally everybody knows it's still early and that VR is on a shoestring budget. Throwing up a strawman criticism and then rushing in to defend VR from it is both useless and annoying.
Kilsin said:Casting animations are still being worked on, you will see changes and improvements as development progresses.
I have but two hopes when it comes to casting animations:
1. Different spell lines have different animations. I don't want all the spells having the same animations, be creative.
2. Casting animations are tailored to the length of the cast. EQ1 had very short animations which fit perfectly with cast timers in the early game. But later on when casting times were many seconds long the character just stood there like an idiot until the very end.
The enhancement to the spell graphics in this latest teaser video look amazing! I know thats not what OP is talking about but we are seeing lots of upgrades occour to these areas and I am sure the work on character casting animations are going to be following soon! I'd love to see some creativity go into the casting animations too, i love it when you can see the characters look like they are really launching those fireballs out of their hands etc as the casting animation ends, knowing how much love is going into the game i am so certain we are going to see some awesome looking animations unfold as they progress!
Kilsin said:Casting animations are still being worked on, you will see changes and improvements as development progresses.
This is is what I keep having to tell my friends. I understand that animations are not a current focus, since the development team is prioritizing mechanics and ambiance first. Despite all their interests in the game, this is really their only complaint. I can only hope that they are blown away once the game is ready for release.
I guess I'm a twat .....
Just watched the new stream, casting animations look superb!
But the running still needs some tweaking, haha, just messing arround, you guys are doing amazing progress keep up fantastic work, looking foward to the next stream, wonder why the guy is called "the Reckless Magician".