Can we get the old walking-backwards animations back? The old Pandaren animation was super fun and expressive. The new one is generic and boring.
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Seems like most of them are just “I’m walking forward while walking backwards.” Not sure why they felt it was necessary, but I also wonder why they do things all the time.
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I hate them. I look like I’m prancing backwards now instead of just walking.
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Yeah Pandas especially used to hold their arms out for balance and kind of glance backwards in their direction of travel. It looked great.
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Its f***** terrible. Looks like im doing a cheap version of the moonwalk.
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The goblin one looks really weird too, like they be floating or drifting back in space… Really Blizz. Really would be nice if they had the Vulpera walk animation while we are on the topic of moving around.
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Small indie company remember.I figure someone in blizz decided that it looks good now and aligns with their “artistic vision”. Never mind the fact it’s one of the dumbest looking things ever.
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I’ve had a look on some alts and it seems like every backwards-moving animation is now just a slowed down version of the going forward animation. It looks awful.
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yeah I noticed that, it’s very messed up
in addition - some speed buffs appear to be disabled when walking backwards
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Did Blizzard ever mentioned that they intended to update the backwards run animation? I wonder if this is just an odd bug, somehow the run forward animation got linked to backwards as well? It’s hard to imagine that this is intentional when it looks so poor.
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wow they’re just gonna remove some of the best animations of any race huh? damn, pandaren have always been my favorite animation wise for p much everything
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Blizzard: “FUN DETECTED! INITIATE PURGE!”
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ikr? watch them be like “yeah we’re removing the two-handed sword animations, they were too unique, let’s just have them swing it like a human”
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Those animations do still exist … just only when you’re walking backwards. If you’re “running” you get these weird animations where you look like you’re running in reverse.
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Yeah… I think I saw it on a goblin. Looks like they’re walking in slow motion
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I don’t understand why they’d do this. It looks ridiculous.
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I guess because somebody wanted to differentiate between “running” backwards and “walking” backwards, but got REAL lazy when it comes to the “new” animations they made for the “running” variant. Just put it in reverse lol!
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I don’t see why that even matters… most good players will tell you to unbind “S” since walking backwards is slower anyways?
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It is interesting that the “walk” backpedal is the old animation, which makes me a bit nervous to think that perhaps this -was- intentional afterall - though I haven’t seen any mention of it being something they were doing.
It may not matter a whole lot in the grand scheme of things, but it is a change I do hope they revert.
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Its super unnatural too. Like who the heck walks backwards like that?
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