Guild Wars 2

Only having a Charr, I don’t know about other Engineer races. But from the bottom of my heart, Anet Thank you for RUINING the mortar shot animation!!!

It was so cool to have a shoulder fired mortar and it made sense. Now it’s fired from a single hand. It is stupid, and so bad it makes me want to not even use it anymore.

I’d say please change it back, but that plea will probably fall on deaf ears. I don’t know who made the decision but it is a terrible one, and I swear the animation is slower than it used to be.

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it,” needs to find its way into someone’s vocabulary.

It.. wasn’t fired from the shoulder before? it was hipfired like rifles normally are on an engineer, shoulder mounted aka horrick cannon was what a bunch of people on the forums were actually asking for (me included).

But yeah, seems like a halfway compromise, I really don’t get why they bothered to change it in the first place if it wasn’t what people were asking for, it looks really imbalanced/doesn’t make sense.

It makes sense for the Charr and Norn. They are larger and stronger and so are able to handle the kickback one handed.

Weird change I agree.

Actually looks like a bug, given how high the quality of animations usually are in this game, the single handed fire animation looks incredibly janky.

Interested to hear what the deal is with this, especially given everyone seemed to be happy with the previous animation.

it looks great on my charr, but awful on my female norn. overall kits need a polish i think.

It looks kitten but so unrealistic and stupid that I have to agree with op.

I think it looks cool on my charr. Also, it’s nice to have the animation be unique (compared to the old one which just looked like any rifle) so people can tell at a glance which kit is being used. A welcome change in my book.

^ well they sorta needed to do that.. given that the mortar itself looks like cheap a lvl 5 rifle

I agree, the one-handed animation looks really unrealistic.
The aimed animation was ok, but the most realistic would be a hipshot.

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I agree, the one-handed animation looks really unrealistic.
The aimed animation was ok, but the most realistic would be a hipshot.

It strikes me as extremely irrational to use realism as an argument for anything in a fantasy game. I like the animations. But sure, let’s plant bombs at our own feet, and turn enemies into birds, then cry fowl for realism on other skills. That doesn’t make any sense to me.

When engineers bathe in their own bomb explosions when fighting no one bats an eye.

But when a charr uses a grenade launcher with one hand everybody loses their minds.

What an utterly asinine thread. There are so many gameplay issues I would so rather be focused on than this. Maybe try not to exacerbate the not-so-fond nickname, ‘fashion wars,’ so much. Realistic grenade tosses and preaching about mortar animation… is it really such a mystery why engi and those that play it get generally disregarded? Cmaaaaaan! Give me reliable cleanse and/or stunbreak, I will happily watch mortar shots come out of toons left kitten.