Thread: 2.0 Movement inertia: Removed

Originally Posted by Soukyuu

I don't see how realistic inertia animations oppose PvP. If anything, it adds a new dimension of skill, namely playing predicting the delays your body needs to get into position.

If this was in PvP, I would never play it. Radnar explained it pretty well, it is a big advantage tool for the offensive team and can be used unfairly.

As for inertia, I don't care honestly, all I care about are the game play mechanics overall. I don't care if they have to sacrifice a thing or two to make the game play as smooth as possible.

Originally Posted by Velhart

If this was in PvP, I would never play it. Radnar explained it pretty well, it is a big advantage tool for the offensive team and can be used unfairly.

As for inertia, I don't care honestly, all I care about are the game play mechanics overall. I don't care if they have to sacrifice a thing or two to make the game play as smooth as possible.

You could also use it as your advantage. The walking standing in between animation really made final fantasy an MMO that exceeded all the others in immersiveness, and for now that "reality" or "fluidity" is absent. Hope they put it back there

Originally Posted by Warlock

locked in place [no thanks]

If done correctly, this shouldn't be a problem.

Originally Posted by Warlock

If they do it the 1.0 way you will be locked down doing w/e you want ...and if they don't do it 1.0 way people will still complaint it looks fake.. 1.0 's movements work in a single player game but this is a MMORPG..movements of your char is the last thing you worry about.. seriously all this people complaining all the time i think they are on the wrong genre ..they don't understand the basics of a RPG

They got rid of the 1.0 way. But that doesn't rule out animation blending and smooth inertia animation. Take Guild Wars 2 for example. The animations themselves aren't all that great, but they still have it implemented with no trouble. Imagine if Square could pull it off with good animation. I know they could do it, they're clearly skilled enough.

Originally Posted by Warlock

If they do it the 1.0 way you will be locked down doing w/e you want ...and if they don't do it 1.0 way people will still complaint it looks fake.. 1.0 's movements work in a single player game but this is a MMORPG..movements of your char is the last thing you worry about.. seriously all this people complaining all the time i think they are on the wrong genre ..they don't understand the basics of a RPG

Those so called basics are just things introduced by a 8~9 years old game that had an almost completely different style to this company's games, which had features that worked despite not being the same as said 8~9 years old game. Contrary to some people's belief, games that don't mimic said game's features CAN work.

And it's been said quite a few times before: Movement inertia and such animations shouldn't have anything to do with animation locks at all. Animation lock happened when performing actions or weapon skills, not while moving. The two things have nothing to do with each other at all. Need I repeat that again? They have nothing to do with each other AT ALL. They should be able to fix that issue without degrading the movement animations.

Originally Posted by Radnar

There is absolutely no possible way to use movement inertia to your advantage in any gameplay scenario, be it PvE or PvP.

Yes there is: fooling your enemy into running in a wrong direction, thus making them waste time on turning. You're not using your imagination, people.

Originally Posted by Linkurrra

With players with 200ms pings this can be hard for players that are overseas.

There is no "overseas" with regional servers. Since we're getting them anyway...