Animation Lock: Why don't you like it?

[Zantetsuken]

I think perhaps what the game needs is more of a Dark Souls/Monster Hunter System with cancellation windows in each move (use the jump button perhaps).

Cancellation is a tried-and-true method that serves as a good compromise between the restrictions of full-locking and the absurdity of roaming around while performing a multihit WS.

Also, I suspect that the animation lock didn't cause half as many deaths in 1.0 as the LAG did. It was the murky combination of the two that made players blame the former over the latter.

[Shougun]

I think perhaps what the game needs is more of a Dark Souls/Monster Hunter System with cancellation windows in each move (use the jump button perhaps).

Cancellation is a tried-and-true method that serves as a good compromise between the restrictions of full-locking and the absurdity of roaming around while performing a multihit WS.

Also, I suspect that the animation lock didn't cause half as many deaths in 1.0 as the LAG did. It was the murky combination of the two that made players blame the former over the latter.

As a mage I was more annoyed by the locks / lag combo - amazingly annoying to try and cancel a spell because you see a fireball coming.. you move an inch, character says "screw you" and stops to finish casting after moving for ~1.5 seconds, fireball smashes you in the face (luckily it took two spells to kill you lol).

Though my favorite are the lag deaths, cracks appear you run far away, some how they destroy you and you die on the other side of the arena far away from the cracks. Those were the worst, no reason you should have died but lag.. lol

It happened sometimes when the chameria did the dragon roar.