Every time the "finger to ear" animation plays for a character communicating to someone else their hand is noticeably far away from their head. It looks terrible and it's distracting every time I see it. I've linked a 30 second video from the beginning of Tuchanka: Turian Platoon below as an example, but this happens whenever any character does this animation in Legendary Edition's ME2 and ME3, and is different from its appearance in the original games.This is on Xbox One.Example: Legendary Edition: https://streamable.com/d9vbz9Original: https://youtu.be/7KwNMEJ--m0?t=130EDIT:Added an image example from a subsequent post for an easier comparison than watching the above videosLegendary Edition:Original:

Bumping with another example of what this looks like. They look like they're trying to communicate by checking the wind direction.And the equivalent shot in the original game:

@dominolabustier Of course it's a bug, or at least an unintentional downgrade as a result of other changes made for the Legendary Edition. Compare the animation in the video I linked in the first post to how it's supposed to look in this video of the original ME3: https://youtu.be/7KwNMEJ--m0?t=130This isn't just bad motion capture or manual animation, it doesn't look as intended (as it did previously).

Bumping with another example. This occurs in both ME2 and ME3, but the animation is used far more frequently in the latter.Legendary Edition:Original:

@dominolabustier I'm sure! This thread is about a specific animation that is consistently and markedly worse in the Legendary Edition than it is in the original games, though, which is evident when comparing the linked videos.

@DocTheGamer You're right, and the video comparisons speak for themselves. It's somehow gotten worse in all instances. I knew Miranda doing that animation was weird at the end of ME2 but it's somehow reverted to an uglier state in development or via a patch.Whatever it is, add it to the growing list of immersion breaking issues.

[BUG] Hand placement for every call animation is incorrect

16 Replies

dominolabustier
5 years ago
@DocTheGamer

Yeah, it’s not a bug, it’s just bad motion capture or, if manually animated, bad inverse kinetics management. It may be that the same posing and animations were sort of an in-between set that would put both male and female models in a close enough state that each was imperfect but tolerable. I’m with you, though, especially when Shepard’s hand clips his/her face in Mass Effect 3. I don’t think this is something they’ll fix, though.
DocTheGamer
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
@dominolabustier Of course it's a bug, or at least an unintentional downgrade as a result of other changes made for the Legendary Edition. Compare the animation in the video I linked in the first post to how it's supposed to look in this video of the original ME3: https://youtu.be/7KwNMEJ--m0?t=130

This isn't just bad motion capture or manual animation, it doesn't look as intended (as it did previously).
dominolabustier
5 years ago
@DocTheGamer

I played the originals as well and I DO remember Shepard’s hands in silly positions when putting the hand to the ear. Anyone who played them can easily recall the terrible IK issues when Shepard did this during the Bay D24 / Blue Suns / Aria conversations when Shepard’s hand would clip through his face while his elbow would disjoint due to IK chains tolerances being to restrictive.
DocTheGamer
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
@dominolabustier I'm sure! This thread is about a specific animation that is consistently and markedly worse in the Legendary Edition than it is in the original games, though, which is evident when comparing the linked videos.
Chrissycole
New Vanguard
5 years ago
@DocTheGamer You're right, and the video comparisons speak for themselves. It's somehow gotten worse in all instances. I knew Miranda doing that animation was weird at the end of ME2 but it's somehow reverted to an uglier state in development or via a patch.

Whatever it is, add it to the growing list of immersion breaking issues.
dominolabustier
5 years ago
@DocTheGamer

Ok, I see your point. Just so you know, I didn’t have that occur in my play through, however, bugs don’t always manifest on every instance or on every platform so, such a thing is not unheard of. Then again, I’ve only played through Mass Effect 2 LE once.

With that said, make sure that when you’re reporting this as a bug, that you tag a community manager or moderator, otherwise, they probably won’t notice your post and, it will eventually get buried in the forum.

@EA_Mako could you please pass this along to the developer team, thanks.
DocTheGamer
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
Bumping with another example of what this looks like. They look like they're trying to communicate by checking the wind direction.

And the equivalent shot in the original game:
dominolabustier
5 years ago
Lieutenant Kurin: “By the Goddess, that’s a huge booger”!
JLawsonFh
5 years ago
This has been really bothering me too, it looked way better in the original games
DocTheGamer
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
Bumping with another example. This occurs in both ME2 and ME3, but the animation is used far more frequently in the latter.
Legendary Edition:
Original: