Thread: FFXIV 1.0 Running Animations

Originally Posted by Gurpsmeister

All the rose colored glasses in this thread make me double take. Apparently you're forgetting that the game itself was an atrocious unplayable mess....but yeah, live 1.0 because an animation.....ok.

I think that's missing the point a little, this isn't a request for a graphical update, the sooner our characters can shake off the sometimes wooden look(without breaking stuff of course) the better.

It might even help with in game cut scenes

Originally Posted by CatSyth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRbf0HCAGqc <- you tube video of the animation for those whom never seen it.

I would love to have the 1.0 Running animations brought back. Since it was removed because of gameplay reasons, they should make it available out of combat. Who else misses it? :P

Please no. It was terrible and felt extremely clunky.

I would love to see the graphics and animiations come to 3.0 as they were in 1.0. That's about all I'd like to see be implemented from 1.0. I think DirectX 11 is going to do that I think judging off the videos.

DX11 isn't going to be what you think it will be. DirectX is just a set of drivers designed to allow easier use of graphical assets. Why design for openGL or whatever AMD uses when you can just design for DirectX and let that play with the actual codecs and drivers. There is going to be some optimization, but the game's actual graphical assets aren't changing.

Chaos Thrust looked so good in 1.0, in ARR, it's so fast and doesn't have the same dramatic effect as it used to, and the sound/dragon cry it makes is too quick and garbled that you don't even notice it in the ARR version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ajGiHoO-Y
Stunningly beautiful animation

Also the excess 2.5 steps a player takes after halting movement would screw up some mechanics that require exact positioning. Imagine trying to get to the a specific point and your character adds an extra few steps and overshoots and you eat Heavenfall or something.

NO!

I don't want to have to wait for my chr to stop, then turn, then start running again in this playing environment. Imagine the rage this will produce just cause it looks pretty... Its not functional in the fast paced game FFXIV has become.