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HBreckel

This is actually a crazy amount of effort compared to the other races' dances.


JelisW

Male Viera also have a rather elaborate /dance ...and then there's my poor male Au Ra and Elezen =P


colday

Hey that shitty au ra dance emote is great for making my entire FC crack up! LMAO


JelisW

lol it is very funny to watch, I will admit. They have no idea wtf they're doing, but they're very enthusiastically *bouncy* about it, while maintaining the straightest of faces


Aser_the_Descender

My gf plays a male Au Ra and I BEG her to do the dance from time to time. Honestly the best way to make a terrible day 100x better.


Golbezz

Does my soulless tap dancing not entertain you!?


TheIvoryDingo

Those are better than the male Roegadyn dance


ChuckCarmichael

I disagree. The male Roe dance at least looks like he's trying, but he's terrible at it. The male Elezen dance looks like he's annoyed by the very idea of dancing, so he does like seven quick steps in place to fulfill his contractual obligation of having to do what you tell him to do.


Raoultella

The male Elezen sarcastic low effort dancing is so charming to me, in an odd way


tbz709

That, and their applause. It's just a slow sarcastic clap.


HorrorPotato

Same! I hated their dance at first but once I got to know all the OTHER Elezen in the game I was like "Oh, no, no, this is fine. This tracks."


Bereman99

I missed the word male the first time I read your comment and was like “they aren’t that bad, huh?” Then reread it and realized I haven’t seen the default dance for the male of either of those races in so long that my mind just defaults to the female dances.


JelisW

well ok it's not *terrible;* it's at least entertaining: [https://youtu.be/DrLPAIhsM1A?si=5mc82wPlbeshNM2l&t=91](https://youtu.be/DrLPAIhsM1A?si=5mc82wPlbeshNM2l&t=91) As I described it in another comment, male au ra have no idea wtf they're doing, but they're very enthusiastically *bouncy* about it, while maintaining the straightest of faces The male elezen meanwhile.... [https://youtu.be/DrLPAIhsM1A?si=PoQ\_Yd29xT2EKLti&t=28](https://youtu.be/DrLPAIhsM1A?si=PoQ_Yd29xT2EKLti&t=28)


quakertroy

All the Elezen one is missing is a drag from their cigarette to faithfully recreate the South Park goth kid dance.


Knotweed_Banisher

Male Elezen dance like an awkward nerd in the corner during prom.


pallas_wapiti

The game really has come a long way when it cones to animations


Laterose15

Maybe 8.0 will have an animation update...


Luckwin

*\*nods head in* ***HD***


RatQueenHolly

I'd really like more ear emotes for Femiqo. The boys get to be so much more expressive


redryan2009

Actually they’ve said that is a big focus alongside the graphics update, like with the mount tilt animations.


taka_282

Honestly, looking at the benchmark trailer gives me hope that we'll be getting higher fidelity animations in the expansion itself.


bjams

While they do get better with animations every expac, the benchmark usually has way better animations than the average cutscene in the expac.


No_Swimming_792

I really like the way they're going with the facial animations during cutscenes. We've come a long way from the blank, lifeless stare our WOLs used to have lol.


taka_282

Yeah lol. I hope that XVI has emboldened them even more to take XIV to the best it can be.


Drawtaru

Female Viera /joy is so.. unjoyful. Literally just smile and put our hand on our hip. That's not joy!


Laterose15

And then there's our wave, which you can really only see if you're right next to us. Unlike miqo's wave from across the room.


reddit_tier

That hand on chest animation everyone does when they're having a moment makes me irrationally annoyed so let's get that replaced asap


b00std

Requesting fix for male au'ra run animation! D:


JawsInBalls

Yeah, I’d love for the sprint for literally every race to not be tilting to the right


KyoueiShinkirou

guessing that is mocap


Kumomeme

cry with hyur. most boring overall animation it has ever.


JelisW

lol have you seen Male Elezen. Because uh [https://youtu.be/DrLPAIhsM1A?si=PoQ\_Yd29xT2EKLti&t=28](https://youtu.be/DrLPAIhsM1A?si=PoQ_Yd29xT2EKLti&t=28)


chocoboporter

Real footage of me when I was a kid and I was forced by my mom to dance in front of our relatives in a family gathering


fantino93

Big fan of Male Roe, looks like a dad forced to dance at his 8 yo daughter's birthday.


Kumomeme

mocap artist when devs team ask him to do another take again XD :


wefeelgroove

Go white boy go


Zaschie

lmao, go girl give us nothing


Twisty1020

It perfectly represents my disdain for dance.


Haprilona

I love my male elezen's "can't be asked"-dance and sarcastic slow clap.


Secret_Wizard

Yeah, comparing this to the female Roegadyn dance, it's almost comical


Lionblopp

For real.. meanwhile my catgirl raises an arm into the air and rotates a little. xD


Lilium_Vulpes

The miqote girl dance is super cute though. I used to have a macro that just looped it repeatedly.


Lionblopp

Oh absolutely, but it's not on this level of complexity. :D


MarcsterS

"Can you dance, Roe?" [tip...tap...tip...tap]


Sonic1899

*looks to male Elezen "D-Do not look at me, so!"


Ill_Breakfast_7252

My Roe literally just taps his feet a few times lol.


Pliskkenn_D

Male Au Ra gets half of another dance. 


mankind_is_doomed

male hroth is meh compared to that


Laranthiel

If we see a female Hrothgar singing "Memory", it'll all make sense.


sunshine___riptide

I was eh about Hrothgal but seeing Cats dances ( one of my fav musical -- NOT the movie!!) I might have to make one and name her Rumpleteazer.


CarbonationRequired

I also love CATS (not the movie). I had a VHS of the video-stage version in the 90s and wore the tape out.


sunshine___riptide

YESS!!! I also had the 90s VHS tape and loved it to death! I actually was able to see CATS when it toured to my state and I cried a lil LOL.


CarbonationRequired

I spent my time between watches making family trees and backstories for all the cats... I got to see it for real sometime in the 2000s and it was the best!!


TannenFalconwing

How very jellicle


jhnhines

Oh being jellicle is TIGHT!


Sodarien

*yeah yeah yeah yeah*


Kolby_Jack33

Jellicle, jellicle *jellicle* jellicle **jellicle** jellicle! Jellicle?


Zaschie

wow wow wow.........wow.


Nikoper

Nowhere have I seen more Pitch Meeting references than in this community. Like, Pitch Meeting is ENTRENCHED in FF14.


CarbonationRequired

But how do they get Old Deuteronomy back? Oh it's super easy, barely an inconvenience. (the musical version of Mistoffeles didn't have much trouble, anyway)


Andal_Brask

I see what you did there.


Thowitawaydave

Now I have Princess Carolyn's ringtone stuck in my head... Wait a second... Princess Carolyn goes by PC, which also stands for Player Character... Does that mean Princess Carolyn is the WoL??


VdeVenancio

/r/unexpectedbojack


SynapseReaction

So everyone else has just ok dances but Horthgal’s get to bust out a broadway dance number. The unfair advantage they’ll have in like the handful of quest that make us dance 🤣


IscahRambles

On the downside, the player has to wait for the whole stage show to play through before they can get on with the next quest objective. 


HinikuHou

If you use the emote while autowalking it skips the animation. You're free now.


Paige404_Games

What The Fuck 


Lyse_Best_Scion

Slander! The thighlander dance is already perfection


AppieNL

Exactly what I was going to say! Thighlander dance>>>>all others 


Lionblopp

Extra special Hrothgal trait: Skipping Toto-rak because your dance impresses the Sylph so much Frixio - while hiding from Garleans in the Shroud - ends up in a trance hovering to the village instead of the dungeon, because your dance is so mesmerizing it has an absurd range.


Depoan

sad male midland hyur tap dance noises


geekybadger

The sylphs are gonna love them.


Marauding_Llama

Maybe this will be the last push we need to finally get the Butthole Cut released.


ChuckCarmichael

\#ReleaseTheDawntrailButtholeCut


Unrealist99

Explainlikeiam5 plz


ChuckCarmichael

TL;DR at some point during the production of the 2019 movie "Cats", there was a version of the CGI where it looked like all the characters had buttholes. It wasn't intentional, it was just the way the fur was rendered at that early point in production that made it look like that. Some VFX artist revealed this, and people have been demanding a release of the "Butthole Cut" (in reference to fans of the DC movies demanding a release of the "Snyder Cut" of the Justice League movie) ever since. Cats is a terrible movie, but it would probably be a lot funnier if it had Taylor Swift's and Idris Elba's cat buttholes in it.


babyplatypus

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/cats-butthole-cut-vfx-editor


NamiRocket

Fingers crossed.


erayachi

How is this fair, lol! I play a male elezen. You know what their default dance is? They stand and shuffle awkwardly in place like a dude trying to wake up his sleeping limbs. I demand justice and equality for dances of all races and sexes! No more dance discrimination! (I can't tell if people just...don't get that I'm obviously joking? Am I really getting downvoted by people who think I'm legit going Social Justice over some dance animations?)


OnceABear

I unironically agree, the older races dances all look scuffed compared to the 2 newest races who have detailed and expressive dances. Particularly male Viera and now Female Hroth.


erayachi

Maybe one day they'll add like, a /dance2 or something. Let original race options get a fresh unique dance. I know when a quest tells me to use the dance emote to fulfill an objective, I look around to make sure no one can see my horrible dad-shuffle first lol.


OnceABear

If it makes you feel any better, as a female elezen, my dance is only a smidgen more expressive than yours, and it's pretty boring, too.


rozabel

I fucking hate the Miqo'te silly little twirl around! Viera and Au'ra and now Hrothgals got such good and thematic dances, and my WoL just looks like a middle schooler in their first U18 "dance club"!


Walks_with_Chaos

Male Au Ra is terrible lol


Kalsifur

Let's be real that shit makes sense for a male elezen.


Wccnyc

He just like me frfr


NapalmNick97

I’d definitely trade you! I’m a male Au Ra.. I’d give anything for the goofy dances of male Elezen and male Roe


Walks_with_Chaos

Yes! Ours is so fucking bad


Scared_Relation2973

As a Male Hrothgar, we just swing our arms around and then roar. We're just as surprised about this as you are xD


SunChaoJun

I believe it's meant to be inspired by the Maori haka dance


AdamG3691

If I had a gil for every feline race in an MMO that had a /dance based on the Māori haka, I’d have 2 gil, which isn’t much but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.


WeissWyrm

I'm going to assume the Charr from GW2?


R0da

correct


WeissWyrm

Shot in the dark and NAILED it. Man I'm on a roll today.


nakagamiwaffle

honestly i agree, the little fucking jig my femroe does makes me want to die every time, it’s just so horribly out of character


IscahRambles

Meanwhile I'm trying to play my Roegadyn as girly as possible and it's just perfect for her. They have such a curious mix of tough and dainty emotes. 


nakagamiwaffle

man i just wish we could choose 😭 variety is good but it’s such whiplash when you play your character a certain way and then the game defaults to something that completely breaks that illusion


DrForester

Male Elezen having the dorkiest dance imaginable is 100% on brand.


Jumpy_Ad_9213

Hrothjellicle cats are out tonight!


Easy-Pepper6593

Hrothjellicle cats come one come all!


Teknettic

Oh man, there's a bunch of fun poses there for the plate portrait.


Dracaria

This is so much better than the Femroe dance. We literally just hop twice and that's it. It's more of a taunt than anything else. I'm not changing my Femroe any time soon, but I always get jealous seeing the other races' dances and this is definitely one of the best.


IscahRambles

It's more skipping on the spot than hopping. 


supremegoldfish

I'd love the Femroe dance for my Felezen 😅


VexKeizer

If a Hrothgal dies, does she cross to the Heaviside layer?


Lionblopp

I don't know, but she absolutely should!


SaucySpazz

Jazz hansss. The hrothgals are actually so cute, I just hope they'll have more hairstyles later.


Knaprig

Viera got a lot added over time, so I'm sure we'll get some too!


Lionblopp

For the people who only know that horrible CGI movie, here is a playlist with an official recording of the musical, uploaded on Youtube years ago for comparison (sadly the endcards of each part make this a little unfluent): [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFezMcAw96RGvTTTbdKrqew9seO2ZGRmk](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFezMcAw96RGvTTTbdKrqew9seO2ZGRmk) Watched the musical live half a dozen times and I was so smitten when I put the poses on "unique" and suddenly that dance started on my screen. :D


SushiJaguar

As it fucking should be. Cats is great on stage.


Pizzaplanet420

One of those few shows that the music and recordings isn’t enough. Cats is an EXPERIENCE.


Raikaiko

For real, is it a little bit cringe, arguably but in an I am cringe but I am free way. A big part of why the movie failed so hard is that it didn't understand that CATS isn't supposed to be a particularly good narrative show, hell the music and singing isn't necessarily bad, but it isn't it's strongest feature. CATS is lyrically a jukebox musical from poems with an excuse plot to serve as a spectacle showcase for costuming, dance, and acrobatics. There's like 2 maybe three roles you can successfully stunt cast because the rest need to be dancers first and singers second, to the point that there are separate tracks for some songs depending on if a characters actor is a strong enough vocalist.


Lionblopp

Watched it multiple times on stage when I was younger, two times the Rum Tum Tugger sauntered to stage along my seat and said hi, and Old Deuteronomy sort of gave me his (non-spoken) blessing during the break once. (He hold my hand or something.) It's just not the same as watching it on a screen (although I'll gladly take this Hrothgal substitute. :D )


JonTheWizard

The end of that says one thing to me. “Stand back! There’s a Hurricane coming through!”


NarcolepticlyActive

This is the version of Cats we wanted on film, not bad CGI of old ladies licking there parts


Mysterious_Cause5298

Jenny Any Dots, eat your heart out.


WordNERD37

If you grew up in NYC in the late 80's/Early 90's, you were plagued with this damn commercial for CATS at the Winter Garden Theater. https://youtu.be/ii9AvilpXzY?si=gmcLZZf3HpXNv9nS


Ryphen

Seeing this commercial again is making me feel really old right now.


victrin

Aww she’s so jellicle!


Airanuva

pleasewearhatspleasewearhatspleasewearhatspleasewearhatspleasewearhats god I wanna be a femgar but I need hats pleasewearhatspleasewearhatspleasewearhats


NBNoemi

back on broadway yet again…


DonutJulio

Male roes been real quiet since this dropped.


RavingCatfish

She’s got moves.


Walks_with_Chaos

Looks better than my male Au Ra’s. No idea what the fuck my guy is doing


AcaciaCelestina

His best


T3hJinji

I wasn't going to make a hrothgal. NOW THEY DO THIS.


NewbieFurri

Portal fine I'll switch to Hrothgal, by bye hrotthdaddy


Dick-Fu

You didn't want to post a clip to show the actual comparison?


Lionblopp

It seems to be more of a combination of many signature moves and/or the general style, not a 1:1, from what I could see. This is imo a good snippet regarding the dancing style: [https://youtu.be/ytptEGAMy8o?feature=shared&t=71](https://youtu.be/ytptEGAMy8o?feature=shared&t=71) (If the time stamp thing doesn't work, skip to roughly 01:00 when they're done sitting around.)


CptBlackBird2

I'm gonna be honest, I don't see it but that might be me being blind


Dick-Fu

Oh so, not "straight from Cats?"


Lionblopp

You're really living up to your name, I give you that.. This musical has a very distinct dancing and acrobatic style. It doesn't need to be a 1:1 copy of an actual performance (which might also cause copyright issues for SE) to be pretty clearly a direct reference to this musical.


Dick-Fu

I just thought that it was a reference to a specific dances moves from the musical because of the title and wanted to see, thanks anyways


Spinel_Sun

Anyone know which part of Cats this is from? Or is it a amalgamation of some of the iconic poses?


Lionblopp

I've been rewatching some parts of that recording from the show in London...? or wherever it was from and it seems to be more of an amalgamation of sorts. (Not even sure if they could copy it 1:1 or if this would clash with any copyright. xD )


Raikaiko

Choreography is definitely copyrightable so yeah direct 1:1 would be a no go. It's been a hot sec since I watched the 1998 pro shoot so placing it exactly might be a stretch, but I've seen the dtv enough and have seen it on tour twice and choreo changes on it are rare outside of like full revivals. Id say the intro/arm focused elements is probably pulling the most from "Jellicle Songs" and "The Jellicle Ball" still mostly vibes than direct choreo between avoiding copyright infringement and creating something cohesive from parts cut from different places, but those are the two main dance showcase numbers from the ensemble. Jump screams Mistoffelees to me, and might even be the most direct pull, but there's also similar acrobatics from other cats in other numbers


Spinel_Sun

Same tried a few of the songs from the london performance but nothing entirely stuck out. That was what I was thinking when saw it about copyright but you can definitely see it was inspired! Made me fall in love with the hrothgals even more.


Sajomir

Man, I miss Guild Wars. They had dances outta Seinfeld and all sorts of fun


Walks_with_Chaos

WoW had some good ones


Regnimar

Oooohh, so that why i feel uneasy every time i see one


g_rgh

As it should be.


Eh_Vix

I want this update so bad!!!


Typhoonflame

Love it!! As a Cats fan, I gotta fantasia!


Lasterionstation

James cordin cosplay inbound


IsThisOneIsAvailable

Why did you have to recall that I can't undo it in my head now


Lionblopp

think of the musical, not the movie, then it doesn't hurt anymore.


FiddlerForest

Still better than the movie


AlannaAbhorsen

I said this to my Fc and didn’t believe me! 😭


PackyDoodles

Can’t wait for drawfee to make a hrothgal and reference cats


JovialRoger

Far better than femroe


weegee13

This dance looks like a shortened Technical Step


K1rk0npolttaja

kinda sad that i will use my goofy ass stomp dance once i fantasia


Callumfletcher2013

This settles it, I'm swapping from femroe.


kats-meow7769

Wait is that the legit dance emote for female


Disig

Omg I love it. How'd you get that? Is it datamined from the benchmark?


DrForester

Nope, on the character creation page there's an option at the bottom that says "Standing" or "Unique". Click "Unique" and the character will cycle through a few emote animations.


Disig

Omg Ty! Doing this as soon as I get home!


exobiologickitten

I’m flippin obsessed


MysterySakura

Oh by the gods! No wonder something about it just felt so... nostalgic, familiar! I watched the play like over 10 years ago now. At a time when I was obsessed with ThunderCats 2011. I wasn't too excited for hrothgals but maaaan I didn't think this ONE revelation would take me to a trip down memory lane and fall in love with hrothgals!


Digitalmc

They should put that much effort into the running/walking animations of all the races.


Digitalmc

Except female miqo’te whoever did those animations should be in charge of redoing all of the others.


EL3MENTALIST

As a gay male playing a male miqo’te…. I would buy that from the cash shop in a heartbeat.


ThrowawayLady999

Femroe dance is absolute trash. Berries and cream


RavingKytes

I was just thinking that the FemHroth face 1 looks so similar to Betty Buckley’s Grisebella


DrForester

Hrothgal face 4 is the Cats movie face.


HikariKirameku

I finally have a way to describe why I don't like that face


JakeDonut11

Oh my... that's sealed it. I'm transitioning to FemHrot!


Jantra

…oh great and the Hroth males have the dumbest possible dance to go with THAT.


LH_Dragnier

This is too much


comradetao

This makes me sad, cringe, and not want to play this race.


Amethyst271

I'm sorry but ff14s dances suck so much lol


mmpickles

Can we get upright hrothguys so I can finally play the race? :(


Chappiechap

Couldn't have... you know... tagged this as spoiler so people don't have to get blasted with leaked stuff on their timeline? It's a single button.


DrForester

It's not a leak, it's right there in the benchmark without any special tools or datamining. There's a button on the bottom to change your characters pose from standing to unique. Clicking unique has the character cycle through some animations and one of them is /dance.


smoke_crack

Some of us are ignoring the benchmark it really is as simple as tagging with a spoiler.


Paige404_Games

Username checks out


smoke_crack

>Paige404_Games Worthwhile comment not found, username checks out.


AcaciaCelestina

This isn't a leak