Even though I feel my question won't be answered, No one yet has asked about the animations, but it's a HUGE subject in the forum's since the rebuild. We've "been told" that there we're still animations to transfer from one build to another.

Question: Even though beta phase 3 hasn't started, from the content we seen & from the updates on the blog or this website or gameplay previews, there still isn't that particular bulkiness from 1.0 for the sake of fluidity between animations.

That is the transition between running to standing, jumping to standing/running( that could look à la shadow of the collossus).

Right now it really feels like we play with puppets, wait even puppets have inertia in their movements due to their WEIGHT*