(04-14-2015, 01:29 PM)YMelkire Wrote:(04-14-2015, 01:25 PM)Kayllen Wrote: What we do see in the cinematic, at the point of the links provided by Zelmanov, is a person shooting into the air, literally arresting or transferring all the momentum of that jump and altering their direction. He wasn't at the peak of his 'arc', he shot up, practically stopped with some acrobatic stuff, and shot down like a lightning bolt. Of course when he leaps off the dragon again he's caught in its mouth. Dragoons may be elite and specialized but the job is still dangerous otherwise there'd be a thousand dragoons all over and no dragons.
The drop in those pics is barely a meter. Maybe two at most. The camera then cuts to a different dragoon altogether. It's a different dragoon that's getting caught in the mouth.
The first dragoon is not "shooting down like a lightning bolt." Yes, there's a sudden change in momentum (speed, velocity, acceleration, jerk, the interesting thing we're seeing here is jerk).
EDIT: Or maybe I'm wrong.
EDIT 2: After multiple viewings, all I can say is that the only odd thing is how the sudden forward momentum is completely halted. It's a little jarring. The downward motion in and of itself is not that startling, given the supposed weight of drachen mail combined with gravity and a clear intent to drop. Neither is the leap off the dragon's back, assuming that it's the same dragoon.
I refer yet again to slope-soaring gliders turning over into a nosedive. I'm just not sure how dragoons manage it (that it can be done without aether is plausible).
I was about to grind my face into my desk lol. I've been told to "rewatch the video!!111!!oneone so many times now. I've gone through the bloody thing frame by frame and I think I may be at that breaking point of frustration where I start cutting frames and drawing diagrams lol.
ANYWAY, if we're on to 'how are these things possible' then we're at the same place everyone who is done trying to prove/disprove the validity of is at: "Okay it's a thing but how is it a thing?". This is a good place to be and the conversation on this topic is probably due for a fresh thread with a little less, albeit thankfully dwindling, vitriol.
