Galatine Should Have A New Animation

[Mohavon]

Right now, people are comparing it too readily to the other, older heavy melee weapons. This thing is special, and a unique animation or at least some tweaks on the old animation would really help communicate that in my opinion.

 

Do others agree?

[Brimir]

How is it special, other than it is vastly more powerful than the rest? I don't see why it shouldn't use the same animations as Gram.

[R3leaZ]

I would love if more weapons used different animations. All using one particular animation for each weapon type is kind of immersion breaking.

[-CM-Zura]

new stealth animation kill new ground atack move new jump atack move

[lautalocos]

new stealth animation kill new ground atack move new jump atack move

the stealth attack is the same as the h1 swords, the ground kill is nothing new, and the jump attack is the same. 

[CubedOobleck]

It's a big, heavy, two-handed weapon, why would it not be handled in the same way?

 

I'm ok with a animation set for each type of weapon and I don't see why the galatine needs (further) special treatment.

 

Rather, I think it would be cool if you could tweak the melee animation by choosing a stance like for warframes, it'd require a lot of work for the devs, but still less than making a new set of animations for each melee weapon.

Edited September 28, 2013 by CubedOobleck

[Mohavon]

How is it special, other than it is vastly more powerful than the rest? I don't see why it shouldn't use the same animations as Gram.

 

It's more extreme. Its standard attack is as fast/faster than a lot of longswords, and its charge attack is slower than any other charge attack and hits harder.

[XDeathCoreX]

All great swords should swing differently from Fragor, Axe as well.

[yarash2110]

Right now, people are comparing it too readily to the other, older heavy melee weapons. This thing is special, and a unique animation or at least some tweaks on the old animation would really help communicate that in my opinion.

 

Do others agree?

its a a melee weapon, making it unique will just stranght the feeling that it just wiped out every other heavy melee weapon

[Phoenix86]

agree, it could use a new animation set...

[Ceres666]

After using the Orthos for so long, the swing style on Galatine feels very stiff and awkward.

 

Tweaking the animation slightly would suit me just fine.

[AuroraSonicBoom]

Get in line behind the Prova, plox. But agreed, the way the frames are wielding it doesnt make it look like it a really heavy weapon. Guild Wars 2 for all its flaws has great animations sets for greatsword wielding casters, rogue and heavy classes. Can't find good videos showing them off, though.

[PeripheralVisionary]

It looks weird holding the sword like it's not heavy.

[Fundance]

I would definately like to see overhauled animations for this. Make it feel more like a heavy weapon. It should be swung like the greatswords in Dark Souls instead of like a baseball bat.

 

You guys are also forgetting that animations can be used as a method to tweak hitboxes/futher balance the weapon. What if it was balanced out by giving it a different charge animation that covers less of a full circle compared to Gram? Be a bit creative.

Edited September 29, 2013 by Fundance