Cavalry Battle Animations.
Ahoy.Remember how all the early show-off footage of R:TW showed elephants throwing little people about, flaming pigs, archers firing burning arrows, Romans endlessly marching and so on? The few times they gave us infantry/cavalry combat, it was a rather quick affair where the camera would show one tiny battle sequence for one precious second, before the camera would change scene?
Well, I found that rather stupid, as I figured normal cavalry/ranged/melee infantry would be a much more normal sight on the battlefield than huge elephants, and I wanted to know what the motion-captured soldiers looked like when fighting. Once the demo came, a friend of mine who downloaded it before me told me it looked really great, in fact, so great it was pretty much the most realistic ones he'd ever seen.Once I tried it myself, I quickly realized it was pretty normal stuff, as the men would wait for turns when attacking each other, (I slap you, you slap me... etc.), only that here, the little 3D warrior who's turn it was to be attacked would sort of make like he was raising his shield, sword or whatever in a fake attempted parry. Now; there's not much wrong in that. It would be perfectly acceptable. (After all, in most other games, they didn't even do that!), if it wasn't for the fact that the attacker would wait for ages before slashing at his enemy. It made the whole "After you" kind of fighting very obvious.
Now, this mod, I've heard, changes this, and makes the attacking soldier have a shorter pause before lunging at the man he is obviously trying to kill. And, to be true, I've noticed much more action at the front ranks in this game, as there's almost constantly swords and spears waving about. Just look at that trailer for 6.0!Also, this makes screenshots better looking as there are more people fighting and less people just standing there with their shields in that akward angle. Now, this is all great and stuff...
But!
That does not seem to be the case with the game's cavalry!It is particularely easy to see with cavalrymen armed with lances or any other spear-shaped polearm. Or could it be just me? They stab/chop, draw the weapon back in a relaxed manner, waiting for a little too long, and repeats. Is it not possible for you to fix this? Or have you, and I'm just making a fool out of myself? Please enlighten me!
Also, I'm not demanding anything here, only enquiring. Thank you for understanding. :original:
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Originally Posted by InferiorBeing
I'm sorry, but it's a little hard to put it right. Well, I know they're turn-based. They are like this in every RTS I know of, only in R:TW, the "Victim" of the attack will lift his shield or whatever right before he's struck. It won't make a difference, (I think, allthough I'm not quite sure I undersand the health system in R:TW.), but it'll look a lot better. So that's okay. They chop in turns, but the game sort of tries to conceal it, right? However in vanilla, they seemed to wait for too long before they stroke a blow. The guy who gets attacked responds like he should, that is, he pretends he's parrying. (Allthough sometimes they don't react at all!), and this mod kinda increased the attack-rate of the soldiers, so all is apparently as good as they can get it. My point is that the mounted soldiers seems to attack youst as slowly as before! Now, am I right or not? 
