Client Release 0.4.3 - Tiger Style!!

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[quote author=MrGuarnere link=topic=3942.msg32676#msg32676 date=1340871042]
[quote author=Pandabomber link=topic=3942.msg32621#msg32621 date=1340846988]
It still looks bad and doesn't function well for us upon delivery or upon receiving it.

You're doing it wrong.
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Mind elaborating on that? I assume most people melee in the third person. I find it difficult to see where I'm aiming my thrusts, particularly when I'm aiming for the head, because I don't notice the weapon, well, moving at all. As for the bots thrusting, I can't tell where they're aiming or actually about to hit me either because of my body blocking the view. First-person melee is suicide because we don't have peripheral vision, so that's out of the question. The two-handed overhead swing has the same sort of problem, since it looks like it's about to come down on you at any moment, and then it just suddenly does with little to no time to react. With an animation like that, it shouldn't be doing as much as then native animation looks like it does. These animations were the reason I can't even touch Floris. At least those ridiculous side-slash flourishes aren't in.
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I don't seem have the same problems you encounter. If I see a bot's sword go up, I block up, if I see him pulling his sword to his side I block down. The attack from up to down has a different timing, but that is the part I think you should get used to. Now the thrust I find indeed more difficult because it is a quick lunge and it's quite hard to see when there's another bot standing next to it but I'm willing to die maybe a few times more because of that since the animation just looks sharper. When there are multiple bots that close it usually means I'm fucked anyway. At aiming the thrust I find no difficulties, I can see where my weapon is headed clearly enough. Maybe I just see it better because I have my camera zoomed out to the max all the time?