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

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DocTheGamer
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
Here's an example from ME2.
Legendary Edition:
Original:
Mrgaby95
5 years ago
@DocTheGamer this is something i did not like to see too it made me a little angry not too much but still its not nice better to not place there hand there at all if it can't be done right, but this are small stuff, i love the game as it is with the small bugs like this but it would be great to fix them.
mcsupersport
Hero+
5 years ago
LOL, it's not wrong, remember in ME3 the tech for your blade is in your hand/arm...so you are just lifting your arm so you can talk into the microphone and hear from the speakers in your fingers/palm area.......😉

Ummm....yeah, how could they have messed up a simple put your hand to your head/helmet animation by updating the game....???
DocTheGamer
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
@mcsupersport wrote:
Ummm....yeah, how could they have messed up a simple put your hand to your head/helmet animation by updating the game....???
It looks like the finger position changed in the ME2 animation, perhaps they were syncing animations between the two games and someone just messed up. I have no real idea. In any case it looks awful.
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Man this is, this is terrible. @holger1405 if this is what passes for a "Legendary Edition" Remaster (ME1 was wonderfully remastered) then I don't want any more in fact, are members of this patchwork working on the new ME game?
tinybham
4 years ago
@DocTheGamer Another reason why me3 is the worst of the trilogy.

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[BUG] Hand placement for every call animation is incorrect

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