Guild Wars 2

I don’t mind anything else about the Charr, and I wanted to play one to see the way their story can play out. But there is one thing I can’t stand, I realize its very minor yet it still gets to me. I’m talking about the Charr run on all fours of course.

I know it may sound silly but I just wanted to see what others felt about it seeing that Charr seems to be a fairly popular race.

Aren’t Charr the least popular race?

I don’t mind it. We look way goofier when we’re stuck in combat and have our weapons sheathed, making us run on two legs.

Whaaaa…?! I love my Charr running! Probably one of my fav things about them!

You can keybind unsheath weapons, so I guess you could use that to keep pulling them out and stay 2 leg running.

I find their running absolutely atrocious, and even worse when attempting to do jumping puzzles. I really wish to play one, but the running just puts me off.

Four-legging running is great, but it’s kind of odd that Charr NPCs never run that way.

I love the four legged running. The charr bone structure is designed for it, what with the digitgrade legs keeping their arms and legs at a similar length. Also, being top heavy like they are shows the same thing.

But I love the animation. My guild is even called Four on the Floor [PAWS] to represent such awesome running

I made a charr just cause of there running animation lol.

Aseyhe.2948:

Four-legging running is great, but it’s kind of odd that Charr NPCs never run that way.

I agree, and I wish they would. Seems like a lot of work for a little payoff, but it’d be a nice touch if anyone ever finds the time to figure it out.

Vargs.6234:

Aren’t Charr the least popular race?

I don’t mind it. We look way goofier when we’re stuck in combat and have our weapons sheathed, making us run on two legs.

Speak for yourself, I want that animation at all times when I don’t have Swiftness up.

Yeh I want to run along the planes on all 4 fours all day long, I might even run around and try and eat my tail om nom nom.

Got no problem with that animation. I’d say I do like it. Makes out stand out among others, looks nice. I know people who disliked it so much, though, that they rolled norns and not charrs. Oh well.

I love it. It makes them genuinely visually unique as a race. And honestly? All of running animations are utterly ludicrous. Have you seen the norn run animations? I rest my case.

But the charr… they’re doing something unusual. It doesn’t look ridiculous, it just looks otherworldly. I’m completely okay with this. I actually really enjoy it as it makes moving around from point A to point B easier.

So no, you can’t take away my charr run. >:|

Vargs.6234:

Aren’t Charr the least popular race?

On reddit, yeah. However, in Lion’s Arch on my server, I tend to see more norn and charr than anything. Asura and sylvari are surprisingly rare.

Stahngun.4123:

I find their running absolutely atrocious, and even worse when attempting to do jumping puzzles. I really wish to play one, but the running just puts me off.

I don’t mind the running a whole lot, but it does make the jump puzzles a lot harder for me than on my other toons.

GFs comment while playing for the first time together: “kitten, you’re running so cool …”

LOVE. IT.

Edit: Also love that swearing gets replaced by “kitten” here.

Did anyone notice that when running in snow, your footprints are backwards? =D

Love the running animation.

For anyone having trouble with jumping puzzles, bind ‘draw weapon’ (or whatever it’s called) to a key, it will let you get up on two legs to do the jumps if needed.

I don’t mind it, but has Anet ever explained why they chose such an animation for the Charr when they didn’t have it in GW1? Because that must have taken a hell of a lot of extra work to pull off.

:)

Except they did have it in GW1. That’s a common misconception. Except there’s a mission in Prophecies where you see a lot of charr running, and most of them are actually running on all fours.

Great Northern Wall? I assume that’s the one you mean, you have to race them to the wall. I never noticed that.

I love it. Can’t see why someone would hate it so much to the point of avoiding the charr though…

Love running on all fours. My tail is white at the end so its fun to watch when traveling like aforementioned. Like a beagle, haha.

@Tanith.5264

I think it might be, but my mind is telling me that it’s later on than that. I don’t quite remember the exact mission, but I know I saw it. And I saw it confirmed over on Guru, too. There is one mission where there are a lot of them running, and some are indeed running on all fours.

And it makes sense that we never saw them run on all fours, because they always had their weapons out – as they were on patrol. Much like the NPCs in the current game. If we keep our weapons out, we walk that way, too. It’s only when we sheathe our weapons to get somewhere faster do we run on all fours.

I’m wondering if people would be happier if the weapon toggle key would work on a permanent basis. If you unsheathe your weapons via the key, they’re not sheathed again until you press it again.

I love the animation. It’s one of the things that first drew me to the game, when I saw Charr running in a WVW trailer.

My problem is that I’m an Engineer with Speedy Kits. So I switch to kits a lot for the speed boost. When I do, my Charr runs on two legs. So, I WANT the 4-legged animation but I can almost never actually have it.

Tanith.5264:

I don’t mind it, but has Anet ever explained why they chose such an animation for the Charr when they didn’t have it in GW1? Because that must have taken a hell of a lot of extra work to pull off.

:)

In GW1 we mostly faced Flame Legion Charr. They have a more upright posture and even shoulder spikes, which together with their likeness to use magic makes them stand out more from the rest. Perhaps they also consider themselves as something greater that should walk on two, rather than 4.

I love the all-fours running, personally.

I love it. It was one of the (many) reasons I made a Charr in the first place… then kept making them >.>

“I made a charr just cause of there running animation lol.”

this!

Charr looks horrible when running with swiftness up. We need to 4-leg all the time when out of combat

I’m in that camp of people that hate it. I realize there are a lot of people that like it and that’s great, just wish there was an option to move on 2 legs that didn’t involve having to hit my attack button or unsheathe weapon every 30 seconds or so.

I love the run animation as it really pushes the whole bestial nature part of them.

Char Engineer’s got it bad… If you equip any of the kits, you can’t run on all fours you’re forced to run on 2 feet, so annoying. I’m going to make a request in the engineer forum now, asking for engineer weapon kits able to be sheathed. lol

Kirn.3129:

I know people who disliked it so much, though, that they rolled norns and not charrs. Oh well.

How DARE they!
Running on all fours makes us seem like wild, epic, dangerous creatures!
Oh wait- we are.

I’m on the side of I love the run. Was one of the reasons I wanted to play a charr. Plus, given our physiology it seems very natural for such a race to run like that.

Welp, the majority are on the side of loving the run. Good to see, good to see.

As I’ve said elsewhere, sometimes I feel that every unique aspect of the charr, including their juxtaposition between raw intelligence and equally raw bestial power, would be taken away in favour of a flavourless, uninteresting, intellectually small beast race if we let the vocal minority have their way.

Now that I think of it, it would be a great racial skill to have the Charr drop to all fours for a temporary speed boost.

I love the fact that they run on all fours like that – it’s one of my favorite things about them.

If you don’t want a bestial run animation… don’t play a bestial race!

My biggest problem with the run animation is how slow we go during it. When I have swiftness on the animation feels like it’s at just the right speed, but otherwise I always feel like I’m running in slow motion.

davelid.1984:

My biggest problem with the run animation is how slow we go during it. When I have swiftness on the animation feels like it’s at just the right speed, but otherwise I always feel like I’m running in slow motion.

Precisely this. Compared to jumps we seem to hover in mid-air, falling down slower than we should. It’s molasses.

I like it, but I would like an option to switch to 2-leg run animation (just like the NPC’s).

I love the charr running also, it is amazing. Might not look that “kitten” when you have nasty armor on you but still, it is something very funny.

At least it is better then asuras with big ears which “should” have some air resistance when it is running forwards due to the ears are working like sails..

Amphysvena.4275:

I like it, but I would like an option to switch to 2-leg run animation (just like the NPC’s).

I had suggested this during the betas as well. An option to switch to the two-legged running animation like NPCs or keep the current animations. Was met with the same reactions. Even for an option people didn’t want it for some reason.

I love the running animation on 4 legs though I do feel that it looks kind of weird when you are running normal speed. The animation screams speed but you’re moving slowly.

It’s baffling how charr NPCs will always stay bipedal and charr players will go quad.

The run animation could be smoother, as it feels a bit jerky, but I don’t mind it at all. I like Charr, they have such an asura rich diet.

if only swiftness will allow charr to run on all four …. as a charr engineer who have perm swift my charr always run on two which makes me SAD

Shooopa.5632:

It’s baffling how charr NPCs will always stay bipedal and charr players will go quad.

I almost never see an NPC besides cubs run, really. Except in combat, but then a player is bipedal then too.

I’d love to see an option to switch to the two-legged running animation, that would be just fair to all players who don’t want to run on all fours. Arenanet… please, make it happen

I love the charr running animation. Would really hate if it was changed to where they ran on two legs all the time. I have a key binding to sheathe my weapon so that when I cast swiftness on myself, I can sheathe my weapon quickly and continue running on all fours.

SnakeofTrust.4691:

I’d love to see an option to switch to the two-legged running animation, that would be just fair to all players who don’t want to run on all fours. Arenanet… please, make it happen

You already can, sort of.

Way 1: hold your weapons.

Way 2: don’t have any equipped and ‘hold’ your weapons (I think).

Way 3: have a kit equipped (for engineers).

I love it, it’s one of my favorite things about Charr!

Please don’t take anything away that makes them more bestial and unique and less like big, hairy humans!!