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I'm not asking for new animations ... just copy one animation and alter the length of time. Could a Dev tell me if that would take a lot of work. PLS

All the rifle animations are the same, Gun at your side shooting ... it's only how long they stand there and what comes out of the gun. Doesn't sound like a band-aid nor sloppy to me.

I don't think I've ever seen a dev post in this forum, but based on their comments elsewhere in the past, this is a lot of work and/or a poor solution.

1st. A couple red name people have posted here a few times in this forrum in the past couple months

How is, copy/paste/adjust animation time, a lot of work? The most complicated part, I imagine, would be putting in the different animations that come out of the barrel.

If you don't believe me, go look at the animations for the non DP guns. they are NEARLY identical except for barrel animations.

Granted, I don't know the complexity (nor do any of you) of moving the location the barrel animations, but that doesn't change that i want it to happen.

I'm just asking if you support the concept. Yes, or No. I'll even accept a "Yes ... as long as it doesn't take away too much time from ____s development."

In concept, yeah, it'd be great. As Forbin said in the first reply, we all want it.

We're just informing you that it hasn't happened yet despite asking for seven years, and based on dev comments is unlikely to happen soon.

I understand that ... and why they didn't want to 7 years ago ... but now they have an animation that would fit SOO very perfectly with a hand gun swap.

just don't crush my dream :'( ... :P

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I don't know the complexity of having a whole 'Resistance style Heavy Autcannon' set, but I still want it.
I also want a Blast/Armour AT. And a Rikti AT, or body type. And Animal heads with all the details.

That DOESN'T change the fact that it's MORE likely that this sort of stuff won't happen without overwhelming player support AND approval of Dev team time. It's called REALISM versus IwantIwant.

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Please don't feign obtuseness. You know what you are asking for isn't a copy/paste/adjust procedure.

You know very well that not all firearms are held the same way.

Using a pistol requires completely different body stance than a rifle. The devs will have to redo every single power. They will also have to move the location from where the power originates from. Otherwise you will have the weapon at one location and the power appearing at a completely different spot.

The same goes for firing an assault rifle one handed.


These issues are why when the devs finally did give us alternate selections to choose from they only did it for a handful of power sets. And due to the amount of work involved we are far more likely to see alternate animations included in new power sets rather than adding them to old ones.

That IS a new animation. Both BABs and David Nakayama have gone over this elsewhere on the forums many times. Furthermore, you're completely ignoring the issue of activation sequences. Every time your character summons a prop or any effect which lingers on the body, this requires its own activation sequences. That's so you don't jab your sword through your head as you run, so you don't hold your rifle with an open hand and so forth. An activation sequence forces your character model to use an altered version of the basic movement animations. When trying to replicate a power rooting overriding bug, I found out just HOW many things have their own separate activation sequences. Something as simple as Fire Blast attacks do, for instance, because of the flaming hands. You wouldn't think having a power put flames on your hands when you go in combat mode would merit its own activation sequence, but it does.

To this day, no power in this game has ever been made to be customizable in such a way as to change its activation sequence, not that I'm aware of, at least. We can only swap visual effects, but we can never dig into the guts of the animation system. What you're asking for is not just unprecedented, but very likely requires new tech.

No, they are not. Burst has its own unique animation, Slug, Buckshot, M30 Grenade and Beanbag share the same one, Sniper Rifle has its own, Flamethrower has its own, Ignite has its own and Full Auto has its own. That's not to say having the same animations for a lot of Blasts, with just the visual effects being different, is a bad idea. Personally, I find that it's exactly those effects that differentiate each Blast power. Regardless of how you thrust your hands, a fire blast will always be different from an energy blast, which will always be different from an ice blast. Hell, I'd love for all Blast sets to get access to all the same animations, especially the one-handed ones.

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