[Dev1008] Makeshift Jumping Implementation Poll

[anotherday]

My idea is to make jumping be context sensitive. If you walk up to a cliff, you should see an exclamation mark (similar to when you're near Aetheryte), be able to type /jump or click "Jump" in the menu, thereby having your character jump down the the precipice below.

This is what I want to see in-game also. It would solve both sides of the issues; you can still jump and get over things, but only at a logical point. Even if there wasn't a command to hit, it'd be nice if there was an animation when you ran off a small cliff or climb up a small thing. The game feels too slow paced (not in a bad way or anything) to add in a jump that you can do as often as you want.

[Duelle]

The game feels too slow paced (not in a bad way or anything) to add in a jump that you can do as often as you want.

This ties in to my second point:

Secondly, character movement, despite what some may think, is not smoothed out. Adding jump requires them to smooth character animations and reactions between player input (controller or keyboard) and the character moving. This is big to me because I want to see boss encounters that involve more movement and positioning and I know I'm not going to see that based on what we have right now.

One is precipitated by the other. On-demand jump means they have to smooth out the rest of the things involving player movement, which in the long run will benefit the game because it'll give the creators the freedom to design boss encounters that require movement. Better movement also opens up other things, including better chances of successfully implementing things like vehicles (this is going to be a given seeing that one of the major players in the world is a technology-based empire) and mounted combat. There's so much to gain that to me it easily overrides the people who think jumping annoys them as is not "Final Fantasy".