Hyocoz Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) Ok so our main damaging move involving tapping/slapping the enemies chest with your rifle that does more damage than our bullets / lightning / grenades. Then I remember this video > yeah great animation except our counterpart BH have taken a page out of street fighter and have ryu's SHORRRRRRRYUUUUKEN. Redesign plox. Edited January 29, 2012 by Hyocoz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamautqt Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I tend to agree, our abilities are so lackluster in comparison to the powertech. I've even considered rerolling powertech :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_FLIPmode Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Our animations are lackluster compared to Powertech, but I find their armor looks meh compared to the trooper armor and blaster rifle > puny blaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jancro Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 But I feel really cool on my Vanguard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylriana Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Running up to a Sith Lord and smashing them in the face with your rifle >>>> Pretending to be Ryu from Street Fighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordPorkins Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Couldn't disagree more. I feel like a special forces army guy running in firing my assault rifle throwing grenades and smacking people at close range with my rifle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cordo Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I'm with the post immediately prior to my own: I love being a vanguard; while in PvP as well as PvE. I guess it's all up to preference I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonaho Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I agree somewhat. Almost all of our abilities come from the barrel of our rifle, meanwhile Powertechs shoots fire and rockets from their wrist while pistol whipping and punching people and hovering on their jetpacks. We also constantly run with our rifle up which looks somewhat awkward when you strafe/turn in PvP. However i think that the Trooper has better aesthetics in the long run. You can get yourself a neat Republic Commando look from as early as lvl15 onward. For a Bounty Hunter all the decent Mandalorian armors start appearing only after lvl35~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakmonster Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Rocket Punch is one of the lamest looking abilities I have ever seen. My vanguard is using the tallest female body type and I'm smashing my rifle butt down on people's faces, not their chests. And you're a soldier, not a flashy gun-for-hire. You're trained to kill people, not to show off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheldras Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Rocket punch is a manga.move laugh... i love Stockstrike... its the Image of a "Shut up, Citizen Sith". And a rifle > some pistol. Vanguards are cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonaho Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Rocket Punch is one of the lamest looking abilities I have ever seen. My vanguard is using the tallest female body type and I'm smashing my rifle butt down on people's faces, not their chests. And you're a soldier, not a flashy gun-for-hire. You're trained to kill people, not to show off. Rocket punch is a manga.move laugh... i love Stockstrike... its the Image of a "Shut up, Citizen Sith". And a rifle > some pistol. Vanguards are cool! The point is not which is cooler, Stockstrike or Rocket Punch, but that Bounty Hunter Powertechs have a much wider array of animations in their skills, and thus is a more varied class in playstyle visually. Meanwhile the Trooper shoots 90% of their skills from the barrel of the rifle from the same position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebek Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Pfff i just rerolled my Powertech 2 days ago and im happy to be Vanguard! I prefer trooper animations, gear and especially RIFLE (1 pistol is soooo gay ;p). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Findulidas Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Animations and such is just for looks and as most people are pleased with them but of course would like an improvement its hard to take this thread completely serious. Especially when there are more serious issues with gameplay and etc. Not saying looks isnt important because it clearly is but most people think the trooper animations are alright and some are cool, which means they probably wont work on them right away. If something needs improvent on its looks its clearly some of the sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okinky Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 First time I saw the spinning flying uppercut I started laughing. Vanguards use an actual military assault technique while Powertechs use something an untrained person would come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotm Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I don't care for Ion pulse which all specs will use 100 million times. I don't understand how when they put together the conceptual meeting for troopers they came up with ten meter tazer spam and grav rounds. Troopers shoot blasters the main attacks for both ACs should be blaster fire. Even a shotgun I could deal with better for the guns in melee idea but the lighting is just out of left park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gretha Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 First time I saw the spinning flying uppercut I started laughing. Vanguards use an actual military assault technique while Powertechs use something an untrained person would come up with. Who needs training if you punch with the force of 2 Rockets? ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggs Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Harpoon is the most baddass animation in the game and gives me serious giggles. Vanguards are cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debrad Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 ^^ This. There is a great feeling when in PvP someone is running away thinking "Phew I got away from that!" and then all of a sudden find themselves hurtling back to the group. Also When I am tanking a Boss or running around an arena I must admit that I am not really looking at the animations. Sure they are cool and all but I am focused on my rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dargor- Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Wouldn't mind having more skills that don't shoot out of our rifle. Soldiers are trained to use their bodies/armors as weapons too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fentz Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 if there's some animation which is lame, it's the interrupt strike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyrune Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Rocket punch is a manga.move laugh... i love Stockstrike... its the Image of a "Shut up, Citizen Sith". And a rifle > some pistol. Vanguards are cool! This The blaster rifle >>> pistol. Though, Rocke Punch is better with the sound than I expected. It is not a Shoryuken but a damn strike powered by a jetpack (and jetpacks are cool, aren't they ?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyonne Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Grass is greener on the other side of the fence. I'm a powertech and I am always envy when I see a vanguard in full trooper armor, the armor actually match and doesn't look like some junkyawd pieces put together. Not to mention that riffle... I want a riffle!!! Why do I need to use such big armor with a stupid silly blaster pistol? Shockstrike > Rocket Punch and for pvp, spammable flame thing covers your whole target for a moment, sometimes you can miss them in the crowd when more people are together and you spam that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvhausen Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 The only problem with Stock Strike is that WE USE IT TOO MUCH, especially if shield spec (potentially every 4.5 seconds I think). I like the way the vanguard plays, but damn it'd be cooler if we could fire a shotgun as our go-to attack in CQC. Take it away from those pansy operatives; they don't know how to use it from the front any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liathan Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I'm ok with stock strike as an occasional ability, i.e. it serves a specific purpose, heck, it could have been our interrupt or a finisher, but as ability that I'm pretty much using twice in a 5 second window, it is very meh. Honestly I think they should have made gut a baseline ability, or give us a gut like ability that's used instead of stock strike, thats much better then what we currently have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaManoNera Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I don't care for Ion pulse which all specs will use 100 million times. I don't understand how when they put together the conceptual meeting for troopers they came up with ten meter tazer spam and grav rounds. Troopers shoot blasters the main attacks for both ACs should be blaster fire. Even a shotgun I could deal with better for the guns in melee idea but the lighting is just out of left park. x10 I must have missed the scenes in the movies where Stormtroopers ran around shooting lightning at rebels and sprinting through blaster fire to butt them in the face with their gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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