Lack of animations not addressed in live letter

[casker]

Just some stuff I want to bring up.

1) Even if they don't want to add so many movement animations as they had before, the ones they do have in the alpha need to be improved.

2) No where have they said they are going to improve them so until they do I'm not going to take anyone's word that "they will get better, just be patient, it's an alpha."

3) To compare what I see with the most recent mmo I played (and quit) GW2 does also have rebound and return to rest animations (not as good as FFXIV 1.0, but), and the game runs smooth (aside from, again, lag). The existence of such animations are not necessarily what cause the game to be clunky.

4) Another option would be to render them only for your own character, and maybe others depending on how many are on screen (for example an instance would render for the whole party, but in a crowded city it wouldn't bother)

[Crevox]

I like how a lot of people just assume they know how modeling/animations/blahblahblah works (enough to tell SE that what they did was wrong).

Not only do a lot of people have no idea how it works, they don't know how SE's engine works.

[casker]

I like how a lot of people just assume they know how modeling/animations/blahblahblah works (enough to tell SE that what they did was wrong).

Not only do a lot of people have no idea how it works, they don't know how SE's engine works.

If they did it before, and other games can do it, then I don't care. No excuses.

[Crevox]

If they did it before, and other games can do it, then I don't care. No excuses.

That's called ignorance.

[casker]

That's called ignorance.

Ignoring dumb excuses is a good thing.

[Crevox]

Ignoring dumb excuses is a good thing.

If you ignore SE's "excuses", then SE will ignore your plight.

What goes around comes around.

[whoopeeragon]

I repeat:

Actually, during the live letter I did notice a turning animation.

Quoting this harder so people can see that they're IMPROVING things, and not sweeping it under the carpet.

Is it so hard to see even a hint of silver lining?

[viion]

I repeat:



Quoting this harder so people can see that they're IMPROVING things, and not sweeping it under the carpet.

Is it so hard to see even a hint of silver lining?

Where is the turning that isnt like "woo spinning on the spot!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw2R9Naw9rU

The awesome side moon walk at 25:40
The awesome walking backwards while doing a 180 spin at 25:50

Really improved XD

[whoopeeragon]

Where is the turning that isnt like "woo spinning on the spot!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw2R9Naw9rU

The awesome side moon walk at 25:40
The awesome walking backwards while doing a 180 spin at 25:50

Really improved XD

Just as how you lot nitpick at the smallest lack of detail, I nitpick at the smallest hints of improvement. Is there something wrong with that? Or must you be unneedlessly demanding and sarcastic? Yes, animations need to improve, but not noting that they are TRYING to improve is about as bad as demanding your child do better and not complimenting her when she comes home with an improvement in a school mark.

I have NOT seen one post aside from Rex's that even RELATES to the bit of improvement from the Gridanian alpha video, all I hear is more negativity. I sympathise with you, as I also want improvements, but saying that they're not doing anything, when you have evidence in front of your eyes...? I see it through the video, and I will pinpoint times out after my uni exams, but the improvement is there.

[viion]

Just as how you lot nitpick at the smallest lack of detail, I nitpick at the smallest hints of improvement. Is there something wrong with that? Or must you be unneedlessly demanding and sarcastic? Yes, animations need to improve, but not noting that they are TRYING to improve is about as bad as demanding your child do better and not complimenting her when she comes home with an improvement in a school mark.

I have NOT seen one post aside from Rex's that even RELATES to the bit of improvement from the Gridanian alpha video, all I hear is more negativity. I sympathise with you, as I also want improvements, but saying that they're not doing anything, when you have evidence in front of your eyes...? I see it through the video, and I will pinpoint times out after my uni exams, but the improvement is there.

I asked you to show me where in that video you see an "Improvement" in the "Movement Animations", especially since they said they removed them on purpose, so I wonder where you're seeing this improvement that they're not doing because so far they did it on purpose to not have the fancy animations.

This is why I am nitpicking at you, because you're saying they are making improvements, when they said they took the animations out to focus on other things not movement related. So really you are making people believe it will improve when it might not since it was intentional to remove them in the first place (think i repeated myself 3 times there but you might get it).

Also I dont care about the animations as much, if they stay how they are in alpha it wont bother me because I see it as fast, responsive and animation lock can go die in a fire (that said GW2 proves you can have beautiful movement animations and no issues).

I just don't like people going around telling people it will be fixed and fine when we have had no word from the developers that that will be the case, in-fact we've had quite the opposite.