Bringing back face animations

[Osred]

Hi there,

Used to play WAR from closed beta to its near death in whatever year that was. I remember characters used to have facial animations and eyes that weren't painted on. I remember being deeply disappointed when Mythic removed the animations and meshes and made everyones face souless. I was wondering if if its something that could make a return?

[Ridduk]

Any knowledge of why they were removed?

[Dary]

There are still some facial animations on at least some characters (such as when a DoK has an enemy targeted). But yeah, for example, the female WP used to look angry and battle-ready in combat but that's gone now. I never hear anyone else talking about it, but the painted on eyes bothered me a great deal, especially because it introduced problems with some models. The female WP's eyes aren't quite right when she's wielding a 2h, and the female SM has one eye much more closed than the other, also when wielding a 2h. I assumed it would be too difficult to revert the change, but I don't know.

I would guess that the facial animations were removed to eliminate problems with the new 2d eyes. I don't know why they changed the models but I assumed it was either for compatibility for the newer "pretty" heads they added, or because they just couldn't get those damn eyelids to behave (female WP's eyelids were messed up in 2h stance even before the change). It felt to me like they just gave up and didn't have time to properly fix the problems with the models.