[dev1008] About Jumping

[Alleyia]

A jump feature isn't really nessecary in my opinion. The game is designed to work without it.

[Rhianu]

A jump feature isn't really nessecary in my opinion. The game is designed to work without it.

No, actually it's not. You can't design a 3D RPG that can work well without a jump function of some kind. It simply isn't possible. At least not unless you want to have perfectly flat environments with no cliffs, rocks, ledges or obstacles of any kind.

Navigating the terrain in FFXIV is incredibly annoying and cumbersome, as you're frequently having to go around knee-high obstacles that really shouldn't be obstacles at all.

This was a big problem in FFXI too, as well as several of the other RPGs Square-Enix has made in the past 10 years. 3D environments by their very nature necessitate 3D character movement of some kind, which usually means being able to jump.

SE can either give us auto-jumping like in Zelda or FFXIII, or they can give us a designated jump-button like every other MMO on the market. Either way works fine, but they need to do something.

[Rjain]

No, actually it's not. You can't design a 3D RPG that can work well without a jump function of some kind. Navigating the terrain in FFXIV is incredibly annoying

SE can either give us auto-jumping like in Zelda or FFXIII, or they can give us a designated jump-button like every other MMO on the market. Either way works fine, but they need to do something.

I take it you never played Final Fantasy XI.

[CSLionheart]

I take it you never played Final Fantasy XI.

I played XI and it was an issue in that game too. We got used to it and accepted it, but that doesn't mean we'd be better off without it.

[ShadyLurker]

A jump feature isn't really nessecary in my opinion. The game is designed to work without it.

This game seems designed to work without a lot of things, most importantly, fun. I'm for a jump, maby it lowers your movement speed after consecutives jumps or an auto jump where the animation could changed based on the hight of the jump. They also need to remove alot of the invisible walls, i cant step up or down a 1 foot drop is it isent the "designated ramp" area, annoying.

[Hitoriki]

This game seems designed to work without a lot of things, most importantly, fun. I'm for a jump, maby it lowers your movement speed after consecutives jumps or an auto jump where the animation could changed based on the hight of the jump. They also need to remove alot of the invisible walls, i cant step up or down a 1 foot drop is it isent the "designated ramp" area, annoying.

We WANT jump! The game feels so detached without it. Yes it may seem useless, but the game still feels so lame being rooted to the ground and not being able to get over the one foot cliff.

[DNO]

A jump feature isn't really nessecary in my opinion. The game is designed to work without it.

Yes but its not designed well without it. Jump is a great feature and will work well in this game because we can jump over those invisable cliffs that seem to stop my character every 2-3 seconds

[Abriael]

Yes but its not designed well without it. Jump is a great feature and will work well in this game because we can jump over those invisable cliffs that seem to stop my character every 2-3 seconds

To fix a wheel, you don't need to buy a new car. Instead of taking a roundabout approach implementing a new function to get around a flaw of the game, they should just remove that flaw. IE: remove the invisible walls and allow players to just drop down.