About the new crafting animations

They're horrible.

Don't get me wrong, the fact that it takes a lot less time to finish a synth is great and that should stay. There's two ways to fix the animations. There's the common sense way which actually looks good and then there's the "quick fix" which looks absolutely awful and completely unnatural. They took the latter approach. I am hoping this is temporary.

The better approach would have been, instead of sawing maybe 4 times you saw twice, at the same speed. Have you guys seen armorer? I am hitting metal like 10 times or more a second. It looks ridiculous and outright silly.

Please bring back the original speed to the animations by 2.0, just cut down the length of them. This is a major put-off to crafting, considering one of the biggest charms of this game is the eye candy in its graphics and animations, and this is a complete step backwards.

I like the new animations ._.

I am legitimately scared for how the carpenter rapid synth looks like since it was fairly odd already.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

I am legitimately scared for how the carpenter rapid synth looks like since it was fairly odd already.

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*wood bursts into flames from saw blade overheating* xD

Could we get some kind of confirmation if this is planning on being changed in 2.0?

I don't mind the animation.

I'm almost certain that they're going to be putting new animations in for all of this in 2.0, I remember reading something about how the sped-up animations were a quick-fix stopgap to make the game playable until then, like many other things pre-2.0, but I cannot find where this was stated.

Let's bitch about every subjective thing. By all means.

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Originally Posted by Answa

Let's bitch about every subjective thing. By all means.

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No one is bitching, its just a simple question.

I also think it looks silly, on arm my character looks like she has a robotic fast pace arm when I do rapid, it looks so silly, so unnatural.

I must agree, I'm glad my character wears gloves, cause the speed she files things on rapid is fierce.

I'm not even sure why they sped it up in the first place. I don't craft much, but I never was concerned with how long it took to synth something. But now I really don't think I care to start a synth anymore. I've only seen a few so far but it's absolutely ridiculous. They might as well take that entire feature out, have you sit there and the results of your actions are immediately shown. I know 2.0 is coming around the corner still yet these fixes are just awful. I remember when they first sped them up, it seemed unnatural until they went back over it to make it appear more fluid. It still looked a little odd, but worked. I'm hoping they follow that same approach again, but with how faster everything reacts now I can't see it looking any better.

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Originally Posted by Mihana

I'm not even sure why they sped it up in the first place.

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Well for one... crafting is a huge time sink. And two.. imagine lv. 75 cap. Sure it'll be fun leveling to lv. 75 on a DoW/DoM but for DoH and DoL? ha... it's going to be dreadful if they don't find exp bonuses.. even speeding up the animation over time is better.

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Originally Posted by Teakwood

I'm almost certain that they're going to be putting new animations in for all of this in 2.0, I remember reading something about how the sped-up animations were a quick-fix stopgap to make the game playable until then, like many other things pre-2.0, but I cannot find where this was stated.

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I certainly hope so. This is horrible lol.

Personally I'd actually rather have the slower crafting pace back if it means actually looking decent, but that's unnecessary as you can fix crafting speed without ruining the animations.

With an entire graphics engine overhaul in 2.0 planned I think you can rest assured things like this will be fixed

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Could we get some kind of confirmation if this is planning on being changed in 2.0?

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Crafting is being pretty much revamped so I would assume the answer is yes.

I'm sure they considered just shortening the animations like you pointed out, but maybe they ran into some trouble with that. It does look a bit ridicolous I agree, especially Rapid Synths which were already really fast.

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Originally Posted by Ricky

With an entire graphics engine overhaul in 2.0 planned I think you can rest assured things like this will be fixed

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Multiple entries in the Miracle 2.0 Patch before we even hit the second page. The more I read on these forums the more I'm certain that a massive portion of the playerbase is going to be extremely disappointed when they get their hands on 2.0 and it's not the miracle cure to all of the game's issues that they expect. I'm paying for and playing the game now, not killing time until 2.0 is released.

With that out of the way, I'm in agreement with the OP - simply speeding up the animations was not the best way to do it. It now looks silly, bordering on absurd in some cases.