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Dec 2, 2016 23:49:42 GMT -8 BansheeOwnage said:
I thought the animations themselves were pretty good (an improvement for Bioware at least, probably courtesy of mocap). It would certainly be classic Bioware to have the important hand movements happen offscreen, and while it looks like that when seen quickly, after watching the gif below frame-by-frame, I actually have to give them credit since the grab actually does visibly transition to a good grip in a fluid manner. Her left hand continues to rotate the Carnifex(?) after pushing it away until it's facing the turian, while her right hand grabs the grip, then her left hand comes to steady her aim.

But you're right that the interrupt had a couple of logical issues. The most obvious is the fact that not one, but two krogan bodyguards failed to do anything to stop her - shooting, hitting, biotics, tech - something. Sloane is obviously wasting money on them, unless they're actually not supposed to have itchy trigger-fingers for some reason This is often an issue with disarming scenes across all media. I feel like it should have started a fully-fledged fight just by nature of people's reflexes. But it doesn't bother me that much.

Her staring directly at Sloane instead of at the turian and the gun she's grabbing looks a bit odd, too. While it's possible it's on purpose to show how skilled Ryder is (doesn't even need to look!), I think it might have something to do with her not seeming to have any upper-facial expressions yet, so maybe that includes where she's looking and it's just not done yet.

And a couple of random thoughts: First, I just realized how unergonomic most weapons are for turians (and other 3-digited species). Take a look:

That's only one finger to hold the gun with, opposite to your thumb! The other is reserved for the trigger. That's not much grip, if you're holding it one-handed anyway. So not to be speciesist, but maybe it's easier to disarm a turian?

Also, this scene brings up something common to the whole series: A seeming lack of remembrance of how combat works in the ME verse. Now, I'm not saying this scene did it wrong, but it made me think about it and the fact that they did in many previous scenes in the trilogy. What do I mean? Well, in these sorts of tense situations, our minds tend to think of them how we would in real life. Very dangerous. And while they're still dangerous ingame, we have to remind ourselves that everyone there has shields, for one thing. Numerous superheroesque abilities, for another.

So even if that turian shot Ryder, it would be more analogous to a warning shot than anything else. And it might not be a smart thing to do, since it wouldn't put her down; she could Nova the whole room, say. Come to think of it, I suppose I may have just explained why no one did anything when she disarmed the turian, ha. Not sure if that was what Bioware had in mind, but it works well enough for me.

I made a gif of the disarm for everyone's reference:

It's not sped up. As you can see, she moves the muzzle away from her, not towards her chest, and I'd say she does it pretty fast.