Are 2H animations still bugged in 1.2 ??

**Old Geezer** · 08-13-2008, 16:28

My other 2-handers seemed to work ok. The Scottish Highland swordmen and the HRE Forlorn Hope I clearly remember doing well and not having slow movements. The Varangians seem to have fast movements when attacking pikemen. Now others such as axemen just stand there and seem to parry the pikes and get in almost no swipes. Maybe the Varangians armor helps them get through without taking a bad hit so that they get swings in.

**amritochates** · 08-13-2008, 18:20

Faction Heir: *points at signature*

Actually I did download your 2H animations before posting this, I just wanted to be sure before implementing them. Will try out tonight and report back.

Maybe the Varangians armor helps them get through without taking a bad hit so that they get swings in.

Yep, you got that right, with their armor/defence ratings boosted up, they perform as expected as long as on the defensive.

Still I have to comment that it is truly a sad state of affair, if a company is incapable of patching a problem that was reported when the game was orignally launched, that too after 3 patches till date.

It just confirms that my approach is right: buy TW games at least a year or more after release, once they enter the bargain bin. I mean 10$ is exactly what the game is worth at vanilla. I will probably buy Kingdoms then next year after the christmas rush is over, and they are looking to clear out the shelves for new releases.

**rvg** · 08-13-2008, 19:12

Originally Posted by amritochates

It just confirms that my approach is right: buy TW games at least a year or more after release, once they enter the bargain bin. I mean 10$ is exactly what the game is worth at vanilla. I will probably buy Kingdoms then next year after the christmas rush is over, and they are looking to clear out the shelves for new releases.

My approach is to not buy any more TW games until CA cleans up its act. I won't be shelling even $9.99 for E:TW.

**Old Geezer** · 08-14-2008, 12:37

I closely watched a combat between 2-handed axemen and pavaise crossbowmen last night. The axes were swung about just as often as the swords were. A lot of parrying and poking however; it looked rather stupid at x1 speed, but I guess the combat and animation are working.

**FactionHeir** · 08-14-2008, 13:49

Pavise crossbow swords don't swing as often as swordsmen swords I think.
Also, the thing that is problematic about the 2H anims is that their fast anims cannot kill (non lethal) and their slowest two anims are lethal and those get interrupted most of the time pre-fix.

Against mounted enemies, they only use fast anims and those are lethal agaisnt cavalry only

**Zajuts149** · 08-14-2008, 14:39

Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Pavise crossbow swords don't swing as often as swordsmen swords I think.
Also, the thing that is problematic about the 2H anims is that their fast anims cannot kill (non lethal) and their slowest two anims are lethal and those get interrupted most of the time pre-fix.

Against mounted enemies, they only use fast anims and those are lethal agaisnt cavalry only

Hi FactionHeir,

Can you give a brief description of what you have done to fix the 2H bug?

**FactionHeir** · 08-14-2008, 14:50

Here you go:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...00&postcount=3

If used in a setting of my mod, there's also added balancing, but that's not absolutely necessary as the files alone should do a lot to fix it even in an otherwise unmodded game.