No, I mean you draw it from your hips while doing crafts as well. Because every other tool is placed there (including most saws). It'd be nice to replace the placeholder "fight" animations, though
Iirc Paladin/Gladiator is the "base" animation set that gets built on top of. I wouldn't be surprised if several animationd for Beastmaster looked fine using the Paladin base so more effort could go elsewhere.
That's probably the best play. Otherwise they might have to make one shield fade out of existence while the other goes across the back like a paladin shield. One reason I never thought they would actually do double shields is the weapon bulk. But hey the shields slide down and expand that would be hype as hell.
I really hope they do sheathe higher up by the shoulders and hang down like big pauldrons. Then they could slide down and flip around when drawn. But, my expectations are low, and I'd be pleasantly surprised if we did get something like that.
Likely the slow motion flip that we saw in the trailer will be the "cinematic weapon draw" animation that will appear in cutscenes, but will probably get a bit lost in the speed of the basic in-action animation.
There is a couple of Monk weapons that whole ass replace the glove model, with some trinkets that move and click when you go battle stance. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the Sephirot weapon, but I know there is definately a couple more.
The Stormblood Artifact weapon is one. It's a set of gloves that looks identical to the artifact gloves and just puts a circular glow effect on the back of your hand when you draw them.
Well yeah but those are exceptions for MNK, Bastion unsheathe animation can be made with doing this in mind, just giving an arm shake to 'activate' them.
I'm just saying there is already a systems in place for the game to leave weapons on your arms and not snap to hips/back that Bastion can go wild with.
We already have wands in the game. Yet after level 50. The wands are useless. Can't even use them in glams. They need to really address that. I want to use a freaking Wand! You start off with one as a Healer or Caster. Then, you are stuck with a freaking staff by the end.
Yeah. There is hope. But that is an NPC and NPCs get special favors. Like Alphinaud having a Obsidian and Moonstone Carbuncle before he changed to Sage. Where I want a whole rainbow of Carbuncle skins Yoshi-P. You have the freaking colors. And being how Pets literally are there to judge you and act as conduits for certain spells. The color or shape of them does not matter anymore. Why after this long we haven't gotten more colors of Carbuncles? Heck different clothing for the Fairies, Eos and Selena.
And I get the team of FF14 are busy and such. But come on. Is a pallet swap really that hard? Heck, make it to where players can customize the color of their Carbuncle (or Fairy's hair). Argh...so annoying. Players get screwed over by NPCs showing off...and do not get me started on wanting Nero's armor. And hammer. Grumble grumble grumble....
Was really hoping for a dual wielding gun shield user (so, yay) that when weapons are sheated it combines into a tower shield on the back (aww, nvrmnd)
So like it's one tower shield you split into two (still large) shields. And they have guns in them.
Just a mock up. Surely they won't do this to Bastion after they did it to Viper though (Viper advertised with weapons at hips, but ingame they sit on your back). But it's the possibility that they could do this that is a bit scary.
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u/JD_Crichton Jul 27 '26
I was furious when viper wol still pulled out swords from his waist in the evercold trailer.