You know what prevents this sort of thing? Hand-made keyframe animation. If, instead of expensive and slow mo-cap, they hired an actual animator(doesn't even have to be a competent one, give me a day in Blender and I'll do it) things like that could be much more reliably timed and iterated upon, perhaps even with the inclusion of variance as part of balance, rather than as an unfortunate accident.
No. I'm not an animator so I don't have an animation portfolio, I know just enough animation to know where other people fuck up and offer improvement suggestions(and I can set up a pretty neat IK rig). What I'm saying is that the things they fail at are simple enough for even a scrub like me to fix, like the weighting on Eldar butts(they deform when in downed state).
I can try to make a video, but I've never done it before, so the quality will probably be shit. Let me see what I can do and I'll get back to you. Probably will just be some raw footage of entire melee fight encounters. I should note: From what I can tell, it's not an animation cancel, it's a window of opportunity to take an action before the Dbash stun hits. Marine windows are muuuuch larger, ork ones are not.
Made a Plays.TV account and added some "highlight" reels of the Dbash Dodge cheat as seen by Orks. Enjoy: http://plays.tv/video/587d14710a854d370a http://plays.tv/video/587d14a11351792c5a
You're the one in need of acknowledgment here as dbash dodge is fully intended. You even have a patch note for it.
Its intended that 1/3 of the RPS system is completely invalidated? Where is this patch note you speak of? If that's the case, they should just take it out of the game. EDIT: Also, if this were actually true, Orks would be able to do it. As it stands, all the other races can and orks cannot.
Whats the point of D-Bashing if they can constantly roll out of it? Or in the case of JPA's fly behind the person who D-Bashed you and hit them instantly? Is the idea that you make them do it until they run out of stamina?
To add one more layer of skill, you can make mistake 2 times only unless you went for stamina wargear.
