Reload animations for cannons and muskets?

[Lord Shadowscar]

Greetings fellow Legendary Lords,

So with Warhammer coming so soon, I've been watching a lot of Youtube battles in hopes of getting an early feel for the game.

However, I've noticed that there aren't reload animations for the cannons and muskets, with the faction in question being the Empire.

I just wanted to ask if that was an optional or graphical tie-in that comes with higher settings, or if indeed this is an across-the-game decision.

Thanks,
Shadowscar

[KAM 2150]

Animations are same on lowest and highest settings. There is a lot of animations missing, like cavalry still using lances in melee instead of swords or human heroes having only single attack animation in which they jump in the air and then slam their weapon to the ground.

[Frost, colonel]

Interesting as to why their missing.
Better optimisation perhaps for higher FPS, or bugged? Maybe we will see more animations later on in the series?
If it was for FPS, then for highest settings could they not of had more animations, even if the feature was turned off if needs be for MP?

[Skowdey]

Artillery has reload animations, just not the infantry guns.But either way that is pretty dissapointing

[Frost, colonel]

Artillery has reload animations, just not the infantry guns.But either way that is pretty dissapointing

It is considering we have been on the warscape engine since Empire, and that had reloading, but it still may be down to FPS and CA deciding on cutbacks for performance?
No one mention DLC as a bad joke please!

[The Despondent Mind]

Correct me if am wrong, but older tw titles had a lance-spear charge and then switching to a sword or axe or something. I mean the cavalry of course, is it possible they don't have that here?

[Chris P. Bacon]

Correct me if am wrong, but older tw titles had a lance-spear charge and then switching to a sword or axe or something. I mean the cavalry of course, is it possible they don't have that here?

They don't, its to differentiate between the regular cav with sword and board and shock cav with lances. I just wish knights would actually couch their lances and not just hold them the same way melee cav did in Rome II/Attila.

[The Despondent Mind]

They don't, its to differentiate between the regular cav with sword and board and shock cav with lances. I just wish knights would actually couch their lances and not just hold them the same way melee cav did in Rome II/Attila.

Actually I am fairly certain knights in mtw2 couch lances for a charge and switch to close combat weapons when in melee.

[♔atthias♔]

Actually I am fairly certain knights in mtw2 couch lances for a charge and switch to close combat weapons when in melee.

he means probably that they in TWWH don't have switching animations like MTW2

[Markas]

Correct me if am wrong, but older tw titles had a lance-spear charge and then switching to a sword or axe or something. I mean the cavalry of course, is it possible they don't have that here?

Brettonian mounted yeomen switch from bow to sword but knights don't have a secondary weapon, instead they have poking to death animations. Seems to be playing into the separation of shock and melee cav dynamic. Looks odd and meh to me. In the next total war I hope they find a way to have lances as devastating one-shot weapons on the charge before switching to hand weapons.

[kamikazee786]

to be fair, i think one of the reasons CA wanted to do a fantasy setting was so that they could skip out realistic stuff claiming that its a fantasy setting so you dont need to reload or switch weapons

[KAM 2150]

Except it does to go with Warhammer world, where those stuff actually matter

[The Roman Republic]

I've seen reload animations for a unit of dwarf crossbows.

[KAM 2150]

Only gunpoweders units do not have them. It is really awkward when someones dedicates time and money to make a butt scratch animation but not reload animation (which was already in previous games and they reuse spear cavalry animation from Rome 2/Attila for Knights in this one);

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

Brettonian mounted yeomen switch from bow to sword but knights don't have a secondary weapon, instead they have poking to death animations. Seems to be playing into the separation of shock and melee cav dynamic. Looks odd and meh to me. In the next total war I hope they find a way to have lances as devastating one-shot weapons on the charge before switching to hand weapons.

Which seems an odd choice, doesn't it? It's not like the different weapons have different stats. In Rome II, the pikemen switches to swords in melee, but it didn't change their stats.

Frankly, the idea of knights being split between "Charge" cavalry and "Melee" cavalry is asinine. Are they trying to sell the idea that knights had to pick one specific thing at Knight School? Did he not have enough money to take both a charging class and a melee class?

"Sergeant, what about when we get stuck in? Should we switch to our swords?"

"Swords? SWORDS!? Nonsense! Foolish thing, a sword. It's made entirely out of metal, like some sort of... Dwarf woman! No no, Ser, we have something much, much better than a sword. We have a long, unwieldy stick with a point on the end, to jab awkwardly towards our attackers. Leave all that sword-flailing to the fools who think they don't need awkward-jab-sticks.

Be a man. Poke things."

[Markas]

Frankly, the idea of knights being split between "Charge" cavalry and "Melee" cavalry is asinine.

And unnecessary. We have cav with swords and cav with lances... but they can't fight with both? I'm sure there's a reason beyond the one I suspected but I've drawn a blank.

Are they trying to sell the idea that knights had to pick one specific thing at Knight School? Did he not have enough money to take both a charging class and a melee class?

Haha well I guess they picked who took what class with those born between January-June were Lance trained and the July-December lot got sword training.

[Emperor Arcturus Mengsk]

Because then the game would have 1 unit of cavarly that can charge and do extended melee, 1 unit of infantry that shoots muskets/bows and then uses swords for melee and everyone would cry how limited the unit pool is

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

Well, I mean... A unit of archers can suck at melee even if you give them swords. CA isn't making all the archers thwack orcs about with their unstrung bows.

[KAM 2150]

Because then the game would have 1 unit of cavarly that can charge and do extended melee, 1 unit of infantry that shoots muskets/bows and then uses swords for melee and everyone would cry how limited the unit pool is

Total misfire with those arguments ;P