Old Storm Kick animation?

[Spaghetti Betty]

Me and one of my friends got into a discussion about how many changes Martial Arts has received to become what it is today. Honestly quite a few if you think about it.

 

I had mentioned that one of the first changes I remember the set got was the spin kick animation for Storm Kick. I remember the power being pretty bad because of the ridiculously long animation it used to have. He had no clue what I was talking about. I don't blame him, that change was hella early into the game's lifespan.

 

However, I can't find any video proof of the old animation myself. Does anyone else have some?

[voyager2001dl]

No, but I do remember an SG mate (MA, SR Scrapper named Zareth) being excited about this change around issue 5 or 6.  he probably doesn't have video either as this was not as common back then.  If YouTube even existed it was still new, and not yet owned by google.

[Greycat]

Was that the infamous "smell my foot" animation?

[Shred Monkey]

I'm remembering something about council still use old animations... but I may be wrong on that.

[TheZag]

I havent made a martial arts since being back.  Thinking about it now,  i havent seen any player use a parricular kick in a long time.  Is this the one where the character does a flip in the air and stabs the enemy with their foot in slow motion before doing another flip back to the ground? 

 

And ive certainly seen council bosses do something similar to this.

[Aurora_Girl]

1 hour ago, TheZag said:

I havent made a martial arts since being back.  Thinking about it now,  i havent seen any player use a parricular kick in a long time.  Is this the one where the character does a flip in the air and stabs the enemy with their foot in slow motion before doing another flip back to the ground? 

 

And ive certainly seen council bosses do something similar to this.

 

That's Eagle's Claw. 

[arcane]

Did it used to be a DoT kick? I have a vague childhood recollection of such a thing. Could be making it up.

Edited October 17, 2021 by arcane

[Haijinx]

3 minutes ago, arcane said:

Did it used to be a DoT kick? I have a vague childhood recollection of such a thing. Could be making it up.

It was basically a kick version of shadow maul

 

A 3.3 second DOT

[Haijinx]

After the dot the spin replaced it, and later BAB sped the spin up to increase DPA.

[El D]

The original Storm Kick was a DoT where the character did repeated kicks with one extended leg. Basically the classic Chun-li kick from Street Fighter (except really really slow).

 

 

Sadly, even if the animation is still somewhere in the game's code, I imagine that it (along with the original panicked flailing animation that Claws and Spines used to have for T1 attacks) couldn't be implemented again anyway due to all the animation time changes powers have undergone since then. Even if they got sped up they'd still be miserable to use. x.x

[Spaghetti Betty]

Yep. Way back when the animation for Storm Kick was a flurry kick followed by one big kick. It sucked. Cobra Strike also did very little damage and Dragons Tail was a cone. MA wasn't all that great in the early days of CoH.

Edited October 17, 2021 by Spaghetti Betty

[Spaghetti Betty]

2 hours ago, El D said:

 

Sadly, even if the animation is still somewhere in the game's code, I imagine that it (along with the original panicked flailing animation that Claws and Spines used to have for T1 attacks) couldn't be implemented again anyway due to all the animation time changes powers have undergone since then. Even if they got sped up they'd still be miserable to use. x.x

I have no doubt in my mind that pretty much no one would use old Storm Kick if it was available. I'm just looking for some sort of proof that it existed in the first place.