Some of the attack animations

[Josue]

The Venomancer attack animation for DotA (in WC3) is superior to the current hydralisk attack animation. And it's not even very good.

Hydra's attack animation would be greatly improved if they just made the attack shoot out 3 or 4 small spines instead of one larger spine, and maybe colored the spines acid green with a bit of a glow (similar to the Roach's attack only in spine form). The Hydralisk's attack looks so lame because it's just shooting out one quill. If it shot out a volley of acid-quills it would be much better.

Also, the "pfft" noise it makes is pretty weak. I really liked the original SC attack noise for hydralisk's a lot more (not to mention the sound they made when they died).

So true...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVv6gPy_BY

[flabortast]

You guys do know that a lot of units in WC3 Beta had crappy or no attack animation which was remedied in release. Beta isn't really the time for art changes, that's usually done between end of beta and release.

[Wankey]

But they're not wielding rapiers. They're wielding short blades mounted to their arms. Clearly slashing weapons, not stabbing weapons.

Rapiers are slashing. Short blades are usually used for stabbing.

[Triceron]

wtf? Were you joking or something?

Cuz Rapiers are fencing swords. They're mainly thrusting weapons...

[moosh]

animations prob arent top notch because they dont know if all the units will stay...

[Wankey]

wtf? Were you joking or something?

Cuz Rapiers are fencing swords. They're mainly thrusting weapons...

Oh, my bad. I confused Rapiers with Scimitars or the ones that mounted cavalry use.

[Nicol Bolas]

Also, when a Marine dies by Zealot, they are (at least sometimes) sliced in half.