What does being on life support even mean in this context? Relic are implementing a lot of changes with the new warspoils system, balance patches etc how is that different from DOTA2?
I would guess that the simple animation isn't so simple, since all the animations were updated using mocap, adding a new one might not be so simple.
Mocap data can be editted and recycled. You don't just take Mocap data and directly apply it to 3d rigs. You still need an artist that interprets it and edits the mocap data. This is often becasue not all mocap comes out perfect and you have to adjust it. My point was that you could of easily just copied another animation and slapped it in rather than having no animation. Just something that could be done..
Generally all of their humanoid models would have the exact same skeleton/3d rig. So every animation should be able to work across any model in the game. An ostruppen could fire a rifle nade if they wanted to because the animations are transferable between all the rigs.
This makes me believe that they have no support from the art team to make these changes because they are busy. It wouldn't require to do mocap all over again just to add it.
Life support, I'm saying this because the changes they are making don't feel that significant. Does nobody remember the earlier days? Theres over 20 commanders of SU and OST and yet there are very few commanders for any of the newer factions. Plus we all know some of those commanders are junk, both old SU/OST and new ones, USF has some crappy ones, OKW, and Royal Artillery is still pretty garbage when you look at the others. It's not down to " complimenting playstyles" Is your play style to lose? because thats what Royal Artillery is.
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I guess I was basing it off what they said, and how they reacted to the questions. Brad doesn't have to be rainbow and sunshines, but a lot of their answers were " We have the mod tools, if you don't like the game go make the changes you want yourself and play that way " to things that are clearly bugs, or broken. If anything it should be embarrassing if the community can balance a game for them. The fact a lot of these bugs have existed for well over a year is gross. Does anyone here use the bundle grenade from panzer grenadiers? no? Still crap compared to all of the other grenades in the game? Even partisans chuck way better grenades (which is a carbon copy of guards). Or the fact all soviet tanks get to vet and cap territory, or almost all soviet units get to place trip flares... yet every other army gets interesting vet abilities.
Besides, if you think RELIC getrs a lot of flak on this forum. Don't even bother looking at what reddit thinks of them. Especially the MWNL event where Kyle screwed up the dates for everyone.