21 hours and still not 1 finishing kill animation : V

» Sat May 26, 2012 10:12 pm

I have been playing now for 21 hours and have yet to have one of the awesome finishing kill animations that I was so looking forward to. Can someone please help me figure out what the problem is? Love the game but am severely disappointed with this.

» Sun May 27, 2012 6:05 am

You have to kill someone.

» Sun May 27, 2012 2:37 am

I believe they only apply to melee attacks. Ive gotten plenty of them, specifically the animation from cutting enemies throats from behind with a dagger when sneaking up to them. 12 or 15 times damage, cant remember, but it only does it when its an assured kill.

» Sun May 27, 2012 3:05 am

my first animated kill i saw was in the dungeons in the beginning.. dont know what activated it..

» Sat May 26, 2012 9:59 pm

You have to kill someone.

lol

Yeah i seem to get them fairly often - almost too much.

» Sun May 27, 2012 3:41 am

I use a war axe most of the time and finishers are quite common.
Many in 1st person view though. Not as cool as seem them in 3rd
person view.

» Sun May 27, 2012 1:37 am

ive noticed with swords/axes/maces i get it fairly often but with daggers....i think they left the killcam for the stealth atks for daggers. was the only weapon thats melee that i couldnt get a killcam on.

» Sat May 26, 2012 10:54 pm

I have the same problem. Does anyone have an answer yet?

» Sun May 27, 2012 7:22 am

Mine increased significantly when I leveled up and increased one-handed enough to add the corresponding perks (check the descriptions on the perk tree for one handed).
I seem to get them all the time now - decapitation happens quite often it seems.

» Sun May 27, 2012 4:31 am

Personally, I wouldn't mind if my game was that way. The finishers take away control in a way I just can't tolerate in my PC games :/

And most of them end up looking ugly anyway, with the ragdoll clipping into things or flopping around unrealistically.

» Sat May 26, 2012 11:46 pm

I play an archer for the simple fact that they have no kill animations.

» Sun May 27, 2012 6:13 am

This is odd as i get finishers very often, i think it happens if you do an overkill, for instance if the enemy has very low health and you activate a power attack. Of course it helps if you have put perk points into your weapon of choice so it does more damage.

» Sun May 27, 2012 1:31 am

Hello,

I had this problem early in the game as i was using the left hand for my weapon and right hand for spells...then i switched hands and i get kill moves regularly now. I guess it only works if u have a weapon in the right hand as if that was the default setting. Hope this helps.

» Sun May 27, 2012 9:18 am

You can also change the regularity of the killmoves via console:
type "set killmoverandom to X" without the ", x being any value from 1-100. with this value on 100, i obviously get quite alot of finishers. Also, i've noticed that finishers seem to happen either as a counter attack (e.g. when your enemy is really close to attacking, but it's hard to do by watching them) or if you sprint and attack. both only works if the enemy is on low health.

» Sat May 26, 2012 8:27 pm

As others have said...they only apply to melee weapons, and then only if they're equipped in the right hand. No left-handed finishing moves for us. Possibly as part of Bethesda's continuing conspiracy to annoy the heck out of lefties like me.

I had the same problem--never saw a single finishing move--until I finally threw up my hands and swapped my character's weapon into her right hand.

You might also notice that you can't poison weapons if they're equipped in the left hand; the game stubbornly insists you haven't got a weapon equipped. http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/630730982034873860/7C8A48E3914A5DE51B175DCE37616D30839FED7D/ :rolleyes:

» Sun May 27, 2012 6:28 am

Standing power attacks seem to have a much higher chance of triggering them.

» Sun May 27, 2012 2:32 am

The hardest ones to trigger are the unarmed ones.

The worst are the dragon kill animations since I have yet to successfully get one where the physics engine didn't just make my character float off to the side of the dragon's head so I ended up "mounting" the air next to the dragon's head and stabbing downwards at nothing.

» Sun May 27, 2012 1:06 am

~Show KillMove in your console should return a 1 unless a mod is overriding that global. If KillMove == 1, the death blows should be happening for the last foe standing, but only periodically.

» Sun May 27, 2012 10:00 am

Make sure you are not out of Stamina. Finishers do not happen when you are out of Stamina.

» Sun May 27, 2012 6:14 am

Hello,

I had this problem early in the game as i was using the left hand for my weapon and right hand for spells...then i switched hands and i get kill moves regularly now. I guess it only works if u have a weapon in the right hand as if that was the default setting. Hope this helps.

This guy is right - it doesnt seem to work if you use the sword in the left hand. Took me 20+ levels to realise it.

» Sat May 26, 2012 11:47 pm

Yes the solution is in your hands. Bethesda has told us over and over how cool that ambidextry thing would be but it actually doesn't really work. Yes you can have two weapons but your left hand is like a "bad" hand when you're wielding only one weapon (no finish, no poison as stated ealier). It also took me 20 levels to figure this out...

» Sun May 27, 2012 12:51 am

Hello,

I had this problem early in the game as i was using the left hand for my weapon and right hand for spells...then i switched hands and i get kill moves regularly now. I guess it only works if u have a weapon in the right hand as if that was the default setting. Hope this helps.

Ahhhh. I do this exact thing (I'm a lefty). I guess I'll swap and see.

Many Thanks.

» Sat May 26, 2012 9:08 pm

You can also change the regularity of the killmoves via console:
type "set killmoverandom to X" without the ", x being any value from 1-100. with this value on 100, i obviously get quite alot of finishers. Also, i've noticed that finishers seem to happen either as a counter attack (e.g. when your enemy is really close to attacking, but it's hard to do by watching them) or if you sprint and attack. both only works if the enemy is on low health.

Thanks for the tip! I would love to increase the regularity of the kill animations, especially throat slashings! Any idea what the default x value is though?

» Sun May 27, 2012 2:19 am

From another Thread:

[...]Default is 50 for killmoves and 40 for decapitations, meaning you have a 50% chance to trigger a killmove and a 40% chance for this killmove to be a decap.I made a small plugin for myself with TESSnip upping those values to 75 and 50, as I'm not sure whether or not changing it via console will store it in the savegame.

» Sun May 27, 2012 5:30 am

I have been playing now for 21 hours and have yet to have one of the awesome finishing kill animations that I was so looking forward to. Can someone please help me figure out what the problem is? Love the game but am severely disappointed with this.

Few notes I've found:

- Magic and bows have no finishing animations.
- If an enchantment or poison is responsible for the fatality no animation will proc (An enchanted weapon can still kill, as long as the damage is sourced from the weapon itself. And not the enchantment proc that follows)
- Dual attacks and power attacks do not appear to proc animations, decpitation notwithstanding
- Dual sneak attacks do not proc animations (Right hand sneak attack almost always results in a throat slit animation done from behind)
- Attacks from the offhand rarely proc animations.