Dual Wielding Sneak Attack Animations

Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:19 am

Are there no special animations if you sneak attack with dual daggers/swords swinging both at once? It just hits the guy like a normal attack and never does the fancy animation. Now, I have seen the special animation for "normal" dual wield attacks. He stabs them with both swords. However, I have yet to see one while sneak attacking with two swords. On the other hand, if I sneak attack from behind and just use my right weapon, he does the slit throat animation quite often.

One time I did a sneak attack with just the right weapon from near the front and he actually used both swords to cut the guy's head off. But like I said, attacking with both weapons just gets me a very unexciting normal attack for every sneak attack from behind.

Does the sneak attack with just the right weapon still count as a dual weapon attack, or are there just no special animations for dual wielding attacks from behind?
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Solina971
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:31 am

I have seen a kidney stab that looked pretty cool, but that's the only other one I've seen, and I only see it when I "roll" and stab them.

If you're playing on Pc you could turn up the odds of this happening with the console.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:54 am

Why don't you just press both buttons down at the same time and he does that fancy spinning multi-attack-power-attack-thingy?
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:47 am

I've never gotten a special animation from dual wield sneak power attacks, and I use them all the time. What bugs me more, though, is the ridiculously loud shouting and grunting my character does when performing this attack. He should be silent if he's sneaking.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:58 pm

I have seen a kidney stab that looked pretty cool, but that's the only other one I've seen, and I only see it when I "roll" and stab them.

If you're playing on Pc you could turn up the odds of this happening with the console.



I've done some rolling kills, but I don't remember that move. I have the ps3 version (unfortunately...), so I can't adjust the settings. I'll try it again to see if I can get him to do it.


Why don't you just press both buttons down at the same time and he does that fancy spinning multi-attack-power-attack-thingy?



Do you mean do a full power attack by holding down the buttons? I do that sometimes if the enemy seems tough, but I've never seen a special sneak animation. It's just like the normal dual weapon power attack.
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