Shield Animations Fix?
By
blueruckus,
Posted on: 2009-06-14 17:53 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
It's not going to be fixed because it's working as intended.
Head of TRICK, the all Trick Arrow and Traps SG
Part of the Repeat Offenders
Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize
while I admit that it would be cool to use emotes with the shield active, I imagine this is working properly. I too would like a 'weapons and shields are always on' option on some of my toons though
That's rather unfortunate. I don't so much want the shield to go away, I just want to be able to go back to a 'normal' stance once it's done. Like right after you've activated the power and are standing still with the shield on your arm, but before you've started moving.
I guess I could make a character that hovered forever, but I probably will just scrap the shield character entirely. I'm a bit of an aesthetics junky.
I am pretty sure you can get the standing upright with the shield out by typing:
/e none
I am pretty sure this works until you start moving and then you drop back into the fighting stance. I suppose though that you might be able to put this in a macro of some sort.
Anyways there you go.
Deus.
Thanks Deus! This will work well enough that I can play the character without my... unique mental disability getting in the way.
I believe they're making some adjustments to this. I bugged the fact that you can't use costume change emotes when changing costumes while shield is equipped. The response I received was that they are aware of issues with shield animations and they are being looked at.
Currently on Virtue:
Jinrazuo - Crab Spider
RWZ All-Pylon Solo Run
BaB alluded to working on a change where normal emotes could override the combat stance without it being a game breaker. This is apparently harder to do than he was hoping for, since it's not in yet.
Arc #41077 - The Men of State
Arc #48845 - Operation: Dirty Snowball
Shield isn't the only set that gives problems with the costume change - my /ninjitsu stalker sometimes has problems as well, not sure if it's hide or one of the def toggles. I have also had similar problems with a /dark corruptor when shadow fall is up - I think any toggle that creates an aura/costume change can have problems. Hopefully if they fix it for shields the same fix will work for the other cases.
Globals: @Midnight Mystique/@Magik13
I have a shield character I am rather fond of, but I cannot stand how, once shield powers are activated, I am forced to always be in the 'fighting' stance, with no method of getting out of it less I turn off my shield powerset.
So my question is, was there any word or hint on fixing this? How much time do you suppose it would take to fix it? Is there any way around it other than turning off a whole powerset that I may not be aware of?