Guild Wars 2

Human female now only has the “Look around and brush hair back” idle animation.

Human females are basic kittenes

No squirmy squirmy “I have to pee or something!” animation? Aww I miss that! I have no idea what it was supposed to be though, no one else did either and it was what was fun about that idle animation everyone was wondering what it was.

No stretch and yawn either

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

No squirmy squirmy “I have to pee or something!” animation? Aww I miss that!

LOL!

What the hell??? I thought something was off. Can this patch get any worse?

Jesus Christ.

I’m afraid that may be a fix to this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Default-Character-Animations-Spoil-It-All …

Arenanet believes that too many animations could confuse new players so they must be unlocked at level 0…. so far no one has reached that level yet

Yes, let’s remove an entire idle animation just to accomodate two NPCs we see for an hour tops.

Anet, what the hell.

Revert that crap, my character is more important than your two lame npcs.

Lishtenbird.2814:

I’m afraid that may be a fix to this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Default-Character-Animations-Spoil-It-All …

If that’s the case, then I have no words… well, a few words: this is the stupidest kittening thing I’ve seen all week.

This patch is an unbridled FAILURE.

Ashariel.8490:

Yes, let’s remove an entire idle animation just to accomodate two NPCs we see for an hour tops.

Anet, what the hell.

Revert that crap, my character is more important than your two lame npcs.

Seriously. The run animation change was bad enough, now they are kicking people while they’re down. ANET, COME ON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING???

I hope they did change them. Human female idle animations were indeed “crap” and incredibly stupid looking. Now get rid of the constant verbage linked with Mesmer Signet of Inspiration.

hopefully its to make way for:

HyruleanHyroe.1473:

a pielord.3127:

The separate idle animations is a good idea and would help the story telling a lot honestly.
It could even be extended to the player by tying it to the personality system they have making the animations which fit who/what the character is supposed to be like.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Personality

Would really make all the characters feel like they had a lot more depth personally as well as improving story telling/immersion.

+1000 to this. I want to feel noble, kitten!

other than that, idk…

Kamui.4038:

Lishtenbird.2814:

I’m afraid that may be a fix to this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Default-Character-Animations-Spoil-It-All …

If that’s the case, then I have no words… well, a few words: this is the stupidest kittening thing I’ve seen all week.

This patch is an unbridled FAILURE.

It sure was/is an EPIC FAILURE it has even killed my GW2 as well as others that can be confirmed from this thread; https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Game-won-t-load-4/first#post4386018

having so many animations was confusing… players were wondering why their characters do that, or that!

This is a PERFECT example of how you just can’t please everyone all the time.

Some people hate the idle animations, other people like them.

Rock and a hard place.

Cavalier.9064:

This is a PERFECT example of how you just can’t please everyone all the time.

Some people hate the idle animations, other people like them.

Rock and a hard place.

IT WAS PART OF THE GAME. THERE WAS NO REASON TO REMOVE IT. JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE HATES THE COLOUR RED DOESN’T MEAN YOU TAKE PAINT THINNER TO NICE PAINTING AND ERASE ALL TRACES OF RED.

Do you understand yet?

Cavalier.9064:

This is a PERFECT example of how you just can’t please everyone all the time.

Some people hate the idle animations, other people like them.

Rock and a hard place.

Well, the problem here is that there’s only one idle left. So it’s kinda silly.

Ltomato.8649:

Cavalier.9064:

This is a PERFECT example of how you just can’t please everyone all the time.

Some people hate the idle animations, other people like them.

Rock and a hard place.

Well, the problem here is that there’s only one idle left. So it’s kinda silly.

Agreed, now it’s the same one constantly on repeat, quite annoying. I just don’t get the reasoning in removing them by Anet.

Mesket.5728:

having so many animations was confusing… players were wondering why their characters do that, or that!

Omg my character is moving on its own, I’m Being hacked!!!!!

Ashariel.8490:

Ltomato.8649:

Cavalier.9064:

This is a PERFECT example of how you just can’t please everyone all the time.

Some people hate the idle animations, other people like them.

Rock and a hard place.

Well, the problem here is that there’s only one idle left. So it’s kinda silly.

Agreed, now it’s the same one constantly on repeat, quite annoying. I just don’t get the reasoning in removing them by Anet.

My head is spinning in insanity as my character just repeats the same kitten thing over and over again. Why even have animations at this point for kitten’s sake.

Maybe you unlock all idle animations at certain point/level?
Maybe idle animation was too confusion for the new players?

The stretching idle animation had issues with shoulders, shoulders would sink into the torso, while some shoulder armor would look very awkward.

I hated that stretch that female humans did, so not seeing it anymore will be great for me. :P

I am confused, why are people just watching their characters sit idle? When I am playing I am normally, you know, playing not standing around.

Nick.6972:

Maybe you unlock all idle animations at certain point/level?
Maybe idle animation was too confusion for the new players?

You know I logged on my 80 to see if that was the case. She just stands there now like a lifeless doll… I never thought something like this would be so infuriating but it is the last straw for me. This patch is a nightmare through and through and now they are killing off my favourite race/gender choice (after screwing with the run animation). What’s next ANet? Are you going to lop off her breasts, squeeze her hips together, and give her a kitten?

kratan.4619:

I am confused, why are people just watching their characters sit idle? When I am playing I am normally, you know, playing not standing around.

It gives you the sense that your character is alive. Just that sense adds another dimension to the game. There is a reason why idle animations were introduced into games at all, and many years ago mind you. It’s not a new thing and they are pretty important (as are all animations).

EDIT: Bad info, sorry!!!!!!

I can’t believe that they removed these for a feature patch. It’s a FEATURE PATCH; it’s supposed to add features not remove them.

AFKing will never be the same again.

Ltomato.8649:

This just in- female asura no longer do their ear scratch

I hope this is all some kind of bug and not intentional..

I had the idea that this was axed as a performance booster for people, given that animations can be synced in tune with other people.

kitten the explanations of “I got my feelings hurt because Kasmeer didnt look sad when she should have”

unless this is a performance enhancement for the large influx of new players you are expecting, put the anims back.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

kitten the explanations of “I got my feelings hurt because Kasmeer didnt look sad when she should have”

unless this is a performance enhancement for the large influx of new players you are expecting, put the anims back.

Nah this is no performance enhancement, not a chance. It won’t even effect frame rates on a potato.

If this was because of a ridiculous complaint by a nobody that they were upset about some stupid characters I don’t give a flying kitten about then I’m only going to be that much more infuriated at ArenaNet’s actions. This better be a bug that will get squashed.

Ah, asura still do the ear scratch. had some bad info from a friend. Double checked it. That’s still there! Yay!

I hope this is not intentional.

I sarcastically said in a thread about the new leveling that maybe their goal was to make the game more boring. Removing animations would certainly add to the boredom factor.

Mala.3861:

I hope this is not intentional.

I sarcastically said in a thread about the new leveling that maybe their goal was to make the game more boring. Removing animations would certainly add to the boredom factor.

Boring and lifeless. My toon is akin to paint drying now.

To be fair, it is weird to see an NPC yawn while listening to her lover talk about the death of her sister.

Too bad they couldn’t just have a way to stop idle animations during those NPC dialogue moments.

yay that female human idle animation was horrid i’m glad they removed it

Gibson.4036:

To be fair, it is weird to see an NPC yawn while listening to her lover talk about the death of her sister.

Too bad they couldn’t just have a way to stop idle animations during those NPC dialogue moments.

Man, WHO CARES. You see this crap scene for a few seconds and then you’re off to do other, more important things. My characters are for how long I play and have played this game, and that road is nearing its end the way things have been going this patch.

This nerf was to bring the aesthetic power level of humans down to be more in line with other races. Previous to this, the other races were at a large disadvantage, as they were largely the same except clipping/stretching/mega shoulders/oddly fitting skirts/etc. This resulted in an unfairly low aesthetic power level of non humans.

This nerf to human idle animation is simply part of Anet’s vision for game balance.

Surbrus.6942:

This nerf was to bring the aesthetic power level of humans down to be more in line with other races. Previous to this, the other races were at a large disadvantage, as they were largely the same except clipping/stretching/mega shoulders/oddly fitting skirts and other features on non human gear unfairly lowered the non human aesthetic power level.

This nerf to human idle animation is simply part of Anet’s vision for game balance.

I can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not.

Kamui.4038:

I can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not.

I don’t blame you. Everyone’s faith in Anet has plummeted so far, and they make such bizarre decisions, that this very well might have been the reasoning they came to after a night of LSD assisted brainstorming.

Well, foo. Those animations sparked a whole character schtick for my human necro, when combined with her large chest and narrow waist: she has a bad back and keeps trying to ease the pain. They were canon for her!

I guess she’s finally sewn herself a decent backbrace. Or something.

More bad news, great.

Anet, please bring back the idle animations. Everyone in LA is totally lifeless now. It feels like a zombie flick.

Were human females the only ones that lost animations? That sucks, but I don’t have any female humans so…

There was another thread about this and that got moved to ‘bugs’ so lets hope thats how they see it and that they fix it.

And while they do that I hope they also fix the female walking animation that has been gone for a long long time now.

SuperSpicyCurry.2415:

Were human females the only ones that lost animations? That sucks, but I don’t have any female humans so…

Yes I think only the human female one lost its animations. The animation bugs/missing animations effecting it now are driving me insane because it’s like something I was attached to was just robbed and no dev to reassure us is making me so uneasy.

Everything I liked about this game, specifically the character I created, is just going away at this rate, and me with it unless they restore what was lost.

It’s just been confirmed to be a bug that they are looking in to.
Lets hope they also fix the walking animation when they are working on this.

See: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Female-human-only-has-1-animation-now/page/2#post4392079

Female sylvari seem to do only two idle animations – (1) swaying on heels and (2) putting their weight on left leg. I could swear they had third, but as with most flavor things – you don’t notice them until something is off.