Combos + Animation Lock

[captainpicard]

I would rather my character just be unanimated, like a cut and paste sheet of paper just moving around the screen, than be glued/bound everytime I do a weaponskill. It completely kills "fun" battle mechanics, and introduces an alternative mechanic called fighting the game.

Content's difficulty level should not be determined by the dangers of animation lock, but rather by smart design.

[Answa]

I would rather my character just be unanimated, like a cut and paste sheet of paper just moving around the screen, than be glued/bound everytime I do a weaponskill. It completely kills "fun" battle mechanics, and introduces an alternative mechanic called fighting the game.

Content's difficulty level should not be determined by the dangers of animation lock, but rather by smart design.

Animation lock can be part of that smart design. And it is.

[Dreadnought]

Animation lock can be part of that smart design. And it is.

actually the devs said animation lock is not part of their design. they said animation lock will be completely fixed in 2.0 and theyve opologized several times for its existance.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

actually the devs said animation lock is not part of their design. they said animation lock will be completely fixed in 2.0 and theyve opologized several times for its existance.

Yeah, whoever feels that it's smart design still lives in the 1998-2000 MMORPG era.

[Dreadnought]

Animation lock can be part of that smart design. And it is.

heres just one of the few times its been stated that animation lock is a flaw that will be fixed

RPGSite: With the new server systems, will the major game breaking issues such as animation lock, server lag latency, positioning imprecision, and interface lag be greatly reduced?
Yoshida: Yes, all of these things will be fixed.

http://pc.rpgsite.net/interviews/327...-naoki-yoshida

[Answa]

heres just one of the few times its been stated that animation lock is a flaw that will be fixed



http://pc.rpgsite.net/interviews/327...-naoki-yoshida

Hmm. I stand corrected. I still feel that animation lock, notwithstanding latency issues, can be used as a strategy on fights, like on the Ifrit fight someone mentioned. We've built strategies around this, which makes it fun and not just a hack and slash until it dies.

Guess it's just me.

[Blarp]

Animation lock can be part of that smart design. And it is.

Should make PVP as melee great amounts of fun.

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[Buddhsie]

I would rather my character just be unanimated, like a cut and paste sheet of paper just moving around the screen, than be glued/bound everytime I do a weaponskill. It completely kills "fun" battle mechanics, and introduces an alternative mechanic called fighting the game.

Content's difficulty level should not be determined by the dangers of animation lock, but rather by smart design.

Oh how wrong you are. Animation lock, especially in the fight which people complain about the most (the Ifrit fight), makes it so that you need to time and plan your weapon skills so that you aren't locked in place when plume or eruption happens. Taking animation lock away from the game takes away from realism, as well as some form of difficulty and extra level of strategy. Nobody wants to make this game any easier.