Will animation cancelling be removed from the game?

Fingolfinn01

Will Animation cancelling be removed from the game?

kojou

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

And it shouldn't.

Feanor

Other

What makes you believe it would be removed? They just added a loading screen hint explaining it exists.

mairwen85

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

Isn't this just another veiled 'do you think it should be in the game' poll?

DeadlyRecluse

Yes it left with Eric Wrobel

It's already gone! The end times are upon us!

...this is a silly question. Of course not. Removing animation cancelling at this point would require a significant overhaul of pretty much every major system.

Rikumaru

Other

MikaHR

It should be. Along with heavy attack matching actual duration of heavy attck istead attack lasting 1s while animation plays for 2s.

Temeraire507

What exactly do you mean with 'animation cancelling'? The ability to break an animation while it is running and start a new one is a vital part of most games. If you are speaking about light attacks not being bound to the normal global cooldown that's something completely different

VaranisArano

Which animation canceling?

The one that lets you use a skill and then quickly block an incoming attack without waiting for the skill animation to finish?

Or the one that lets you bar swap to use skills after the GCD has passed even if a longer animation is still playing?

Or light attack weaving, which just got a loading screen tip explaining how to do it to go with the level up advisor tip explaining how to do it?

Right. None of those are changing anytime soon.

frostz417

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

I wish people would quit crying over the most absurd things like animation cancelling

generalmyrick

Other

No clue...but some of these guys.. Jeez....its like youbstart taking damage and you hear something like hyper speed scissors cutting.

You die...

And your death recap amounts to half or less your damage and wonder why you dies so fast!

Im hating and appreciating here! :-)

Jierdanit

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

Rikumaru wrote: »

I agree... too much threads on this topic at the moment.

zaria

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

VaranisArano wrote: »

Which animation canceling?

The one that lets you use a skill and then quickly block an incoming attack without waiting for the skill animation to finish?

Or the one that lets you bar swap to use skills after the GCD has passed even if a longer animation is still playing?

Or light attack weaving, which just got a loading screen tip explaining how to do it to go with the level up advisor tip explaining how to do it?

Right. None of those are changing anytime soon.

Good questions, and no they can not make cast time on all spells. So fun with cast time on healing spells, trying to heal tank as he got hit in the face trying to cast an debuff.
Now talk about PvP then all skills are telegraphed and can be bashed.

Kr3do

Other

I hope people that make useless animation cancelling related threads leave the forums

Emma_Overload

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

There must be dozens (if not hundreds) of MMOs with slow, clunky combat and nice, long cooldowns on every ability...

Why don't you go play one of those games?

SammyFable

Biased poll is biased.

Ermiq

Massive overhaul incoming

The Combat Overhaul is nigh!

Thevampirenight

I don't think it will be remove given that some of the devs themselves might use it. The fact that it hasn't been removed or changed even when they could do it. The number of players reliant on this for dps in content. Plus it would require a overhaul of the system, and changes to how abilties work possibly even cooldowns on abilties to match their animation times. Given individual cool downs is something they don't want to do. I don't see it ever happening and the uproar over this would be a lot worse then the Bosmer Changes with the latest update.

Moonsorrow

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

The amount of these are starting to be trolling level.. :thinking:

JobooAGS

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

Sooner they will delete cyrodiil from the game and advertise it as pve only

Which means IT AIN'T HAPPENING

huschdeguddzje

Other

I just hope it will get smoother. Atm if you do it right it looks like your character is spasming and magic happens to be firing at the same time.

Nestor

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

Last year I sat in on a meeting with the ZOS Combat teams and the community representatives. Guess what they discussed? Making Animation Canceling better. What was not discussed was removing AC.

Animation Canceling is a thing for this game. It will be tweaked, it will be polished, it will not be removed.

Urvoth

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

Why would they remove it? That makes 0 sense.

_Salty_

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

I don't understand the problem with animation cancelling. It blows my mind how many threads I've read about it over the years

Sandman929

No Brian Wheeler will make tweaks to combat, not an overhaul

The ship sailed, reached it's destination, and has made several trips since.

d3adpain

Other

snipe spammer spotted xD

Katahdin

Other

It's not going anywhere

Druid40

Probably not. It does not make sense that cutting off an action lets you reap the full benefits of the action, but a lot of people like it and ZOS seems fine with it.

Numerikuu

Other

No. They tried once and failed, hence why they made it a 'feature'. My guess is it would require a lot of core coding changes that would be far too time consuming and costly. No point.

I honestly couldn't give a damn that it's in the game. What I do give a damn about is content and balancing being designed around the damage numbers that animation cancelling can achieve. If people who abuse it want to do so to reach said numbers, then go right ahead. Just don't whine and cry that content is too easy because of it.

Gilvoth

DeadlyRecluse wrote: »

...this is a silly question. Of course not. Removing animation cancelling at this point would require a significant overhaul of pretty much every major system.

i have to agree with this ^

although, it is possible it will be removed, but that would take alot of recode-ing and money, time, and resources.

redspecter23

Animation cancelling is embedded into the game at this point. There would have to be MASSIVE overhauls to the core mechanics of the game to remove it at this point.

As long as you're not able to bypass the global cooldowns (that would be exploiting) then everything is fine right now. The last thing I ever want is to have to wait a second for my block or dodge roll to kick in. Every mechanic in the game would have to be adjusted for this new delay.