Alpha First Look: Video 2 - Gridania

[Luaq]

Agreed. Such an odd animation glitch (as I would call it) is uncalled for and has the potential to really hurt my level of immersion in this otherwise excellent looking world.

Good, thought I was the only one who felt strange about the animation. I really must say though, it really looks great and they have worked alot on everything. I just don't understand why they took off the natural, subtle and beautiful animation of walking/running. Now you stop walking as if a pupetteer took control of your character's body

[Tiberious]

Good, thought I was the only one who felt strange about the animation. I really must say though, it really looks great and they have worked alot on everything. I just don't understand why they took off the natural, subtle and beautiful animation of walking/running. Now you stop walking as if a pupetteer took control of your character's body

Unfortunately I think the animation (or lack thereof) is a byproduct of the new control scheme designed primarily for use with keyboard/mouse. You will have to option to rotate the camera using the right mouse button, or rotate the character using the left mouse button. Left is mostly used for directing you character while running but if you turn him while standing still he simply rotates around a single axis. I don't know if they CAN change this at the current stage. But I can certainly hope....

http://boredom-inspires.blogspot.com/

[whoopeeragon]

Left is mostly used for directing you character while running but if you turn him while standing still he simply rotates around a single axis. I don't know if they CAN change this at the current stage. But I can certainly hope....

http://boredom-inspires.blogspot.com/

I really don't know how to say this but....rest assured that it's not like that. The footage for Gridania is of an earlier build of alpha.

NDA NDA NDA ;___;

[Atrejyu]

Im just telling the truth. It really look like old Gridania. Smal changes yes, but in the end nothing but same old Gridania. Thats fine with me because i like Gridania as it is now^^

sorry to be a bit rude here but what you saying is totally not true.... the changes are quiet massive.

[Atrejyu]

sometimes you just gotta wonder if ppl even read up information beofre posting.

camera: if you just look at the last live letter you gonna notice that the char doesnt turn with the camera, so its most likely optionale, and sometimes even no bad thing when you play keyboard only. situational that is.

animations: no doubt they gonna get fixed until final release.... this is alpha stage ppl...

lively NPC's : and this got confirmed by yoshi already that they are working on a more lively NPC behaviour.

i can say for me: im pretty much excited and overall love the changes. gogo Yoshi!

[Davy]

sometimes you just gotta wonder if ppl even read up information beofre posting.

camera: if you just look at the last live letter you gonna notice that the char doesnt turn with the camera, so its most likely optionale, and sometimes even no bad thing when you play keyboard only. situational that is.

animations: no doubt they gonna get fixed until final release.... this is alpha stage ppl...

lively NPC's : and this got confirmed by yoshi already that they are working on a more lively NPC behaviour.

i can say for me: im pretty much excited and overall love the changes. gogo Yoshi!

Like I said in my other post. People will complain about a cure for Cancer.

Your my Hero!!!!

[Soukyuu]

I'm (not) surprised how many people haven't learned anything from the 1.x fiasco.

[DGMart]

...and it starts... First it's "guys it's just early alpha." Then it's "guys it's beta,I'm sure things will change/be fixed by open beta.". Then open beta comes around, "guys they didn't fix much but it's going to be completely done and amazing by release." We've all heard this before.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. I have much respect for Yoshi-p and will continue to support his team but ever since I was so let down by 1.0 alpha through release,I don't make assumptions anymore. I'm hoping it's great but going in with low expectations this time around. I will however give it a try with a number of friends who have been waiting for 2 years.

[ZakarnRosewood]

more to the point, turning on the spot will not be what makes this game fail. stop acting like it will. it is a nice feature that would be a bonus if they had, true, but we had all those animations and pretty graphics at 1.0 launch, did that help it succeed?

[hrdndv]

If you look at the Alpha application you will see that players are warned that Alpha is not ARR. It is just a cobbled up piece of software that tests the servers. They put stuff from ARR i it to see what player reaction is.... it is still not ARR. If all goes well everyone will get to take a personal look at Alpha on the 26th of November (Alpha-3). If all goes well Beta will start around the beginning of February (everything is 2 months behind schedule). Beta is ARR. So wait for Beta to gripe at ARR.

I think Alpha is beautiful considering what it is and what it is not.