Animation Fix: Toxic Dart (Experimentation) & Injection (Medicine)

[Aurora_Girl]

Imagine, if you will: a stealthy, silent assassin tasked with taking down a crew of convicted murderers who escaped from prison. The assassin's arsenal includes tiny, air-propelled darts which deliver a powerful (but not lethal) paralyzing agent, as well as a secondary chamber holding painkillers. The assassin enters the hideout, readies her darts, and...

 

Waves grandly at the criminals, as if welcoming them into her home on Thanksgiving.

 

Or, in another case...

 

Pulls a child's learning tablet from her belt and presents it to the thugs, who are amazed at its soft, green glow.

 

Anything wrong with this picture?

 

I propose: change the animation for Toxic Dart completely, from the grand waving to the 100% perfect animation from an Arachnos Widow's Poison Dart power, sound effect and all.

 

For Injection, add the aforementioned animation to the power's activation when the target is a hostile critter (if this is possible in the current engine, not 100% sure on this part.) If it's not possible to have two animations for the same power, I suggest using the Poison Dart animation exclusively.

 

Why this particular suggestion? Other than the example above, which shows the issue with the powers' current animations, I believe it would expand the number of users of both Experimentation and Medicine as a whole, and Medicine in particular, particularly for those of us who are on the more...nefarious side of things and don't (whether for conceptual or practical reasons) wouldn't take Aid Other, or only/primarily use Injection as an attack rather than a buff. In the interests of many defense-based characters or those lacking a self-heal, Aid Self is desirable! Having one of its prerequisite powers have a silly animation is less than ideal.

 

#FixDarts

[Aracknight]

A million times this.  Add that animation to toxic dart from experimentation too since its the same basic thing.

[Aurora_Girl]

On 8/5/2021 at 10:36 AM, Aracknight said:

A million times this.  Add that animation to toxic dart from experimentation too since its the same basic thing.

 

I did mention that, yeah. 

[Aurora_Girl]

Just now realizing the *good* animation exists outside of Widows, too! Ninja Training's tier 1 Immobilizing Dart. Proliferate the good dart animation, for the love of all things darty!