Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

So I've been hitting the tailor now and then as I've been running characters through Mender Jerkface's alpha unlocking arc. Getting rid of the long hated mouth based fire and ice attacks. So I finally get around to my one rad blast character, delighted to be able to get rid of the freaking eye attack and it's.... Practically the same freaking animation, still from the eyes!

Now I have the option of leaning with only ONE shoulder when I eye someone rather then two, wooooo!

/em shakes a clenched paw

The hell, animators? Did you not get the point that a lot of people hated eye and mouth attacks when EVERY other attack of theirs comes from the hands?

/em shakes another clenched paw


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Yeah, you're not the only person who was disappointed by that discovery.

It does make you wonder what they were thinking when the other animations clearly have changed their emanation point.

I'm miffed that I can't fire Gloom from my face

Hamster really just wants Nipple Beams.

The one that made me sad was the discovery that my options for Frozen Sword are a sword, or a BIGGER sword. But I don't want a sword! The reason I don't have that power is that the sword is antithematic for me.

Ice sword doesn't bother me as much as fire sword. Ice is a solid, you can form into specific shapes, fire is not.

I was also never as bothered by the eyebeam attack in the radiation set as I was by the fire breath for some reason, but I can see why others would be.

I have to be honest - I was disappointed I couldn't change all of the other Rad attacks into eye beams.

For some reason this thread reminded me of a classic Fawlty Towers scene:

Colonel Hall: Duck with Orange; duck with cherries; duck surprise.
Mrs. Hall: What's duck surprise?
Basil Fawlty: Er... that's duck without oranges or cherries.
Colonel Hall: I mean is this all there is - Duck?
Basil Fawlty: Yes... done of course in three extremely different ways.
Colonel Hall: And what do you do if you don't like duck?
Basil Fawlty: Well if you don't like duck... you're rather stuck.

Yeah, the new animations certainly were pretty disappointing. I mean, variety is good, but they didn't even provide that much variety for certain powersets. Eeh.

I personally like the newer animation for X-Ray Eye Beams, and I've never understood the hate for the Breath attacks (it's probably coming from all you stuck up humans ), but I too was disappointed with the new animations. It's a good start though.

So which DID get emanation point options?

The breath ones. Mouth or hands.

I was looking forward to shooting for example a darkly colored attack from one hand, and a brightly colored from the other. Nope still the right hand.

I just wanted to be able to choose from all the currently-available animations for each attack. I do like the new animations, they're well done, but we still can't really choose emanation points, handedness, or simulate any sort of "tech" explanation for blasts by making them all come out of goggles/eyes or wrist/single hand etc.

I am so disappointed I can't have this attack.

It's not like these things don't already exist in the game. I for one would really kill for the stationary wrist-gun attacks the Clockwork have.