I’m a little new to the game, but I have come to notice something.
In my opinion, the current default attacks are really kinda awkward, and feel like nothing is happening. They lack power, not in damage, in looks and feel.
This is not, and I make emphasis on not, because the attack animations don’t have enough particles or enough snazzy sounds. It makes the problem worse.
On to the real stuff!
I suggest this; that the animation for the third attack in the mandatory combo for the “press 1 all the time” attack be left out or radically changed.
Look
The look is really irritating because it looks like it would do lots of damage, when it doesn’t, it only does about 10% extra than normal in my experience, and takes way too long.
Feel and timing
The time it takes to complete the third attack is too long and breaks the rhythm of the previous attacks. All the attacks should have the exact same time of completion. Opinion only, but that’s just how I feel.
Sound
The sound (for swords) is like a medium pitch screeching noise, it should sound like a sword.
Same same, been there done that
Because it’s the fundamental attack of pretty much anyone with a melee weapon, it gets really, really old. It’s so much that I actually dread the few milliseconds of my life when that sound plays and I lose some of my sanity.
It’d be much better in my opinion, if all the “press 1” attacks were just generic SWISH SWISH animations, with accompanying sounds of course ;)
I recognize this post won’t get anything in terms of results, because you guys wouldn’t want to redo all the animations for all the characters and weapons, (hell, I wouldn’t) but I think it’d be great nonetheless. And I just want to throw it out thar!