BANKING! who remembers it?

yes.. Banking, the short lived animation that was added in issue 8 for those who flew.
I miss it when I think back, I also find it shocking that my friend who has been playing as long as I have doesn't even remember this little feature they had put in. thats how quickly it was removed due to complaints from people who prolly don't even play anymore to begin with.


Sigh.. I would persoally love it if they put it back in, I always enjoyed it and flying in general, a good portion of all my characters have fly anyways.


anywho, I was wondering if anyone else remembered it and if so have any screenshots or videos of it. I have nothing and I can't find anything on it in youtube which oddly enough has videos for everything on coh XD. Anywho, I didn't know where I could post this but this section seemed the most fitting.

It was awesome - it was a a real "look at me mom!" animation

I wasn't around for i8 beta, but I remember the furor that flypose emotes caused when they were introduced without banking.

I remember the banking emote you'd use when turning. Personally I liked it but I think it was taken out for technical reasons.

I have a handy macro that switches through the specific flight poses I like for all my fliers!

Curious: Are you talking about actual banking in flight, or are you talking about the gradual turn used with the Goldbricker Rocket Pack (or while flying using the Goldbricker Halloween costume)?

I'm not so sure about that. It was pretty darned clunky-looking. It was an exaggerated version of the arms-bent pose. The problem for me was that it didn't really seem to work with the other poses, and that it was just a rather clumsy pose in and of itself, that looked like it was too drastic for the amount of turning that you were doing.

Now if they had made it a more graceful roll to the left or right, that would have been great.

Awful is subjective, but it certainly wasn't to my tastes. Others obviously differ on this.

I remember it. I thought it looked pretty ridiculous, and it suffered from the same weird animation bug that squid Kheldians have had since their release - it takes extra animation time to return to a forward-facing position. Interruptable, but if you're cruising around, it was really incongruous to go from a hard bank to a slow turn to face forward again.

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wow, Im surprised anyone remembered it. Though I'm not surprised that so many didn't like it as opposed to those who did.
Either way, Yeah there were 2 versions but uhh It's good to know I'm not the only one who remembers this. As I think back there were a few things that came and went without to many people getting to actually check it out.

A Perfect example of this is actually costume related. At one point during the adding of trenchcoats we were allowed to put stuff over them. we no longer can so those who knew of it like myself have a costume that can never be duplicated.

My Main brute has a chain wrapped around the outside of his trenchcoat. Though it seems trivial now, It makes me stand out because noone else can do this. So with such a thing removed I feel like at least one of my costumes is truely Unique.

But uhh yeah, Tobad all that replied had no videos or screenshots to offer, Even if it was terrible how they animated it, To show that somethings were here and that maybe now can be made better and put back in would be great.

As far as the one person who mentioned their game account time with their forum time, Yeah I joined in june of 04, which was err I think 2 months if even that, that coh went live. I was here before capes, before arena, before cov, before alot of stuff people take for granted now.

lol, I remember when an sg was just a box that popped up on your screen with names of other people in it =P.

Anywho I thank all that replied to my little thread, It's great seeing how some haven't forgotten the things that have come and gone from this game