I know that this is not the most important thing right now for 343 to be working on but I think it would be nice. I would think it would look cool. In the past halo games when you switch weapons it just appears in your hands (3rd Person) I think that there should be animations for it. It can still be as quick as other halo games. It would just be nice addition for machinimas. So my question is, do you like the idea?
These are things I would like to see but, they are not the most important thing in the game for 343i
Please Dont rash out saying that The ideas are dumb and it will never work, try to be positive and give back more feedback on how things could work. Also What would you like to see done with the animations?
That’s actually a pretty cool idea, I hope they have the time to do something like this. Maybe also do something with the magazine when you reload a gun, instead of your spartan just moving his hand up and down.
I don’t get what you’re saying. Do you want the weapon switching animation to be shown in 3rd person? Because if that’s so it’s a very bad idea. I might have misunderstood though. Please correct me.
> I don’t get what you’re saying. Do you want the weapon switching animation to be shown in 3rd person? Because if that’s so it’s a very bad idea. I might have misunderstood though. Please correct me.
He wants weapon PICK-UPS to have an animation. Like, when you pick up a weapon off the ground.
I am trying to say that when you are looking at someone else who is playing the game you can see an animation of them switching the weapon. Instead of just watching a weapon somehow appear in their hands. I weapon pickup animation would be nice too! I am not saying that when you pick up a weapon you would go into 3rd person. Hope you understand I have a hard time explaining things sometimes.
I think it’d get in the way of the flow of the game. An integral part of combat is being able to change weapons on the fly. If that is slowed down to allow more realistic animations, it won’t be good.
I would think that taking out a weapon for a spartan would feel as natural for them as touching their nose. Doesn’t John say in one of the books that he feels naked in his armor? Im pretty shore that spartans would be able to take weapons out in really fast speeds. It would fit well in the amount of time it takes to pull out a weapon in reach.
> I think it’d get in the way of the flow of the game. An integral part of combat is being able to change weapons on the fly. If that is slowed down to allow more realistic animations, it won’t be good.
Who’s talking about realistic?
Gears 3 style is fine, you’ll change weapon in less then a second, just as usual, but instead of a weapon magically appearing in your hand, the character reaches for the weapon on his back. No time delay, just a nicer animation
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A good idea OP, it does look a lot better changing weapon in Gears 3 then it does in any Halo
How about when you get in a vehicle as well? For example, your Spartan pulls himself into a Warthog with hand and slings his weapon across his back with the other.
And I’ve always wondered what happens to your non-equiped weapon in vehicles…
It’s a good idea but if it were to be very realistic then it mite not work.
Think of it like this:
if there was a weapon was the ground in front of me I would duck down to grab it but if it was high above my head there should be a different animation.
Now think of this:
The weapon could be in an infinite amount of places so you would think there would be infinite animations, but that would be impossible, Right?
I would like to explain that I do think there is a way to make this work, it’s just that it would be hard to do. So if you think of a way it would work let me know.
I think that it would be nice in vehicles too, but you never really notice it when you jump in a vehicle. I would like it if you could get in and out of vehicles like the warthog faster though.
Ever wonder why the vehicles in halo dont have doors? I mean it seems like you would save a large percent of warthog drivers lives in battle if you just had a door! And who designs the turret! Least amount of protection as you can get! I mean whats the deal with airline food???
Oh I dont really care for the weapon grabbing animation. I dont think I ever brought it up in my original post I dont know how it would work, but it could somehow… not really important to me!
> I know that this is not the most important thing right now for 343 to be working on but I think it would be nice. I would think it would look cool. In the past halo games when you switch weapons it just appears in your hands (3rd Person) I think that there should be animations for it. It can still be as quick as other halo games. It would just be nice addition for machinimas. So my question is, do you like the idea?
It’s a bit excessive and unnecessary.
Plus, the animation would have to be rushed since the weapon needs to appear within a few seconds.
Now if you would like the animation you’d get the spartan’s arm going through it’s entire body.Now that’s weird.
I was also thinking that it would be nice if magazines and ammunition appeared on your body after you pick up ammo. I know it isnt the most noticeable thing but if you look at the reload animation you can see your spartan move his hand somewhere and ammo appears in his/her hand.
> The main thing here is, it’s unnecessary. Cool but unnecessary.
If we all used your way of thinking, we may as well have all the halos have halo 1 graphics since better graphics don’t change gameplay.
I would like some actual weapon swap animations. In most fps’s it is unrealistic for the soldier/whatever to be switching weapons so fast but these are spartans were talking about.
I would also like for ammo/grenades to show up real time, strapped to the belt/on the legs of the pants or wherever.
I have a hard time explaining things sometimes.
I dont know how it would work, but it could somehow… not really important to me!