Kick...ouch

Anyone ever notice this unfortunate tendency of [Kick]?


See it? Look closer:



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even worse if your character is bottom of the height scale. but yeah, it deforms the leg horribly. its also a horribly animated kick, it seems to draw all the force from the extension of the leg with little of a hip push for real force. one of the many things i hope for with alternate animations is to finally have a better kick for that power in fact if they totally removed that animation, i could excuse the cottage rule . yes, that power annoys me immensely, especially since i tend to take it a lot for making most of the punch heavy sets have some form of balance.

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That's been there for as long as I can remember, and people have made threads like this one from time to time. I'm honestly not sure why no-one's ever done anything about it.

That said, I do like the Kick animation, minus the distortion. Sure, the power doesn't do much, but damned if it isn't cool to LITERALLY kick someone's *** and send him flying *** over tea kettle. It's also the perfect power to kick over trash cans, as well as to kick down vault doors, yelling "Little pig! Little pig, let me in!"

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I see your problem. That's not the [Kick] attack, it's the [Keep on Truckin'] attack.

Get down get kicky.

I think that kind of distortion only occurs within one or two frames of the attack itself, which otherwise is not /too/ noticeable during a non-cakewalk fight.

The only thing I'd wish [Kick] got changed would be the trailing uninterruptable animation of putting your leg down after the attack, it feels like it could use a bit of interruptible animation period like [Jump Kick] was given after so many years of being trapped getting yourself steady after the flip.

It bugged me that your foot not only had to touch ground but you needed half a second contact before you could take your next action, doesn't flow too well and I take kick because it adds variety to my character's attacks, if they're melee.

I've never noticed that.

Vanden, you are responsible for making me laugh so hard I woke everyone in the house up at 7 am.

That is so ridiculous it's awesome. I might just have to start picking Kick instead of Boxing on my way to Tough and Weave.

A couple of the ranged attack animations do something similar where instead of standing on your toes (i think that's what the original mocap was) your ankles stretch up about four inches. Looks slightly odd if you're looking closely at the animation, but not very noticeable in combat.

Stretching powers

I'd imagine that Stretching powers isn't so much impossible as it would require the funding of premium-content to get into the game, it could possibly be a melee powerset with some nice AoEs and rely totally on the ability to stretch the model around.

Distortion is the key element to stretching powers, you'd never see Mr. Fantastic stretch into a parachute and then have a normal looking face would you? I'd imagine it could be quite fun and I would pay 800pts to do that for profit or otherwise.