Thread: 2.0 Movement inertia: Removed

Originally Posted by Miliant

I'm glad it's gone tbh. It took forever to start running or shift direction radically when already on the move.

Now it's as simple as turn the mouse, you're going the way your camera's pointing.

Thank God.

If "forever" you mean less than half a second.

I just played the game. Starting, stopping, and shifting direction works just fine, at least on the controller. It's just the animation that shows momentum which I think is a nice touch for the aesthetics and I think it would be a shame to lose it. Square said they're working on improving animation for ARR and I hope it has a nice blend to keep it from looking mechanical. Maybe not 1.0's stuff, but something that gives it a nice, more natural grounding.

Originally Posted by Soukyuu

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.

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

Well that entirely depends on if you select a regional server close to you . I know I'm in a bit of a pickle, with a lot of my guildmates being in Europe or Japan.

However, since we now have the option, it is now your choice! So if you complain about the latency after the fact it is more than likely your own fault not the Server's.

Originally Posted by KiriA500

You have to target enemies in Final Fantasy XIV to attack them, so the sluggish inertia animations don't do a single thing for strategy. Every single skill (unless the PvP exclusive skills are different, which they won't be) are cast/used directly on the target. The only "strategy" involved in moving would be to avoid having them hit you from a specific direction, which the inertia animation has nothing to do with.

OH, HE STAGGERED TO THE LEFT! GOOD THING I AM STILL STANDING STILL AND CASTING MAGIC!

It's almost as if none of you have actually played this game before!

ROFL, totally agree with this. With the ability to target lock onto characters there really isn't much point. The only thing you can do by moving is get out of range, or take advantage of line of sight.
in PvP the common tactic is to jump over a caster's head or melee's head so that your no longer in front of the character attacking.

When this happens you can't attack the player till you turn. If both players do this it looks pretty ridiculous with a lot of bunny hopping over the other characters head! :P However, this is how most PvP matches are won. By whoever has the most skill in rapidly turning around repeatedly to attack the character that is behind them after jumping over them.

I would prefer other strategies, however since ARR now has jumping, this is how it's probably going to be .

Originally Posted by Rau

If it means I won't have to mash C to get my character to stop faster to cast spells, I am okay with it.

100%, fully, with out a doubt, agreed.

Originally Posted by Zumi

Didn't they already post about this. Some of the over exaggerated animations were taken out to have better gameplay.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...375#post821375

Which is absolutely unacceptable on so many levels.

Originally Posted by KiriA500

No, the condition of the game at launch was unacceptable. The removal of the inertia animations is just unfortunate.

And avoidable.