Combat animations

Lust69

Personally I find the combat animations lacklustre I’ve always been a big fan of bdo combat animations but I think somewhere in between bdo and aoc’s current animations would be right or at least if keeping the current main attacks the same make the skills more flashy. The jumping over and shooting three arrow skill is a nice idea but it’s not flashy enough for me I feel it needs to be more exciting.

I couldn’t quite make out one part of the sword melee video is there an option to change the colour of animations and also the size of them similar to bdo. If not this is a good idea because one person could have it like it is as default and the next change it to red and bigger flashy animations.

Never the less it’s starting to look nice but I won’t be excited about a skill until there more bang for your buck.

Again the basic shooting arrows is nice but I’d get bored of this animation pretty fast I’m just imagining grinding for three hours would I really enjoy watching the basic animation over and over again.

I hope someone can see my point of view, I’ve been binge watching aoc content and it’s very impressive and I love what the team are doing they must be very passionate and their doing a great job.

Talents

Not every ability needs to be flashy. When you have 500 players fighting in a siege it would be a visual mess if the effects were like BDO.

Craiken

Personally, I think basic abilities should look basic. That will make special skills stand out more.

Mag7spy

Talents wrote: »

Not every ability needs to be flashy. When you have 500 players fighting in a siege it would be a visual mess if the effects were like BDO.

Attack animations and visual effects are two different things.

I agree BDO has some great attack animations. Such animations help add a lot of weight to combat and help to make things not feel as floaty. IE when you are attacking side to side in basic attack with daggers some people said it looked a tiny bit floaty but still very good. If An added step was involved or the animation tweaked it would help to make that animation be even stronger.

@Craiken

A basic attack doesn't mean there can't be a good animation to it. Then at that point skyrim type combat would be acceptable if a basic attack is to look very basic and attack animation doesn't matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KmhXxbdEA


Dragons dogma has basic attacks and their animations are great having some weight and style to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENIvSvh6Yec

CROW3

I don't need fireworks when I brush my teeth, I just want clean teeth.

I don't need purple sparkles when I slash a snake, I just want a dead snake.

If I'm a god-like beast with the Vorpal Sword of Eversparkle and learned the 5 jump flip skip hop slashing tornado thrust from Shaolin. A few sparkles may be warranted.

Mag7spy

This is what you get when combat animations don't matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clwfGW27sOo

Ludullu

I'd prefer something quite muted. Maybe just a few steps above this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw0lOA1clUM

AoC is a higher fantasy than L2's early versions, but the mass pvp aspect is similar and L2's early versions were quite nice in terms of visibility and readability of action.