What's wrong with the Nightelf archers?

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Something is wrong about the new Nightelf archers. I’m not sure what it is, but its wrong somehow.

In classic they looked sneaky, crouched down and stealthy.
Now they somehow look like they have backpain or something.
Like they need a walking stick.

Anyone else has this feeling?

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Iv felt like there is something wrong with most units in the game.

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yep,they look like they are about to die of crippling lumbago.

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They are from a specific temple of the moon in notre dame’thalas.

Wc3 lore is complicated.

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too much clothes

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Yeah:

  1. they don’t have a cape over a shoulder
  2. they tried to make a simmilar crouch animation on a much taller and thiner archer and it looks rather like she has health problem related to her back
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Simple, the movement doesn’t fit the new model. Classic archer is petite. From above all you can see is the head, the cape and the massive bow in oversized cartoonish proportions. The reforged version is a tall, slender figure, but the movements is the same.

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I’m gonna be honest. With their backs like that, I don’t mind. It’s honestly how I walk with my dog irl.

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I don’t think it’s the same. The classic archer looks actually crouched down. Knees bent.

The new model is sort of bowed down. Like someone who has bad posture…

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First time I saw them I immediately grabbed my back in reaction.
They look like troll headhunters with better dental and more clothes.
I also feel what you’re saying. In classic they really did feel sneaking or like they were tracking prey or something, now they need walking sticks xD

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Like male orc in wow? Or the males of all four horde races in classic wow? That’s one reason I dislike the horde even though their racials are so good.

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Like male orc in wow? Or the males of all four horde races in classic wow? That’s one reason I dislike the horde even though their racials are so good.

I never played WoW so I had to look it up, but yes. The orcs in WoW also have this ‘‘old man’’ posture.
Even though they are muscular their posture makes them look weak.

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Yep, she looks very much hunch-backed and not so much crouched. With the way her arm hangs forward over her knees it looks especially awkward, almost simian.

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Cathedral of Eternal Night.

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They added new skeletons in BfA. They look very proud but lose their cool clapping animation.

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In W3 the pose fits her well but now with the new model, she looks like a troll. she need to be like the high elf/blood elf archer

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Yeah it’s so weird seeing a back hunched like that, the old one looks more fitting but with this new model, its like those archer possessed by a murloc nightcrawler or something

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Yes, I cringed the first time I saw the hunched back. I hope they fix it, even if they just reuse Shandris’ or the high elf archer animations.

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Hunchback of notrearcher

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Too much cloths 2

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