OMG what happened to the game? Animations are creeping me out.

StarOfElyon

Everything feels like it's happening at break neck speed. I don't know if Im lagging or what. Also when we respawn in BGs, we rise like freaking zombies or something. The game feels completely broken. It's insane. Take Flight is a teleport now. I don't even see the leap. Did something go wrong with my installation of the game or what?

Joxer61

Share that acid next time...lol.

Beardimus

StarOfElyon wrote: »

Everything feels like it's happening at break neck speed. I don't know if Im lagging or what. Also when we respawn in BGs, we rise like freaking zombies or something. The game feels completely broken. It's insane. Take Flight is a teleport now. I don't even see the leap. Did something go wrong with my installation of the game or what?

Lag on launch day is pretty common. Are you on console? Deleting save game cache is a must for me after an update too.

StarOfElyon

Okay.. I'll try that. This is a nightmare. lol. I might have bad dreams after this.

John_Falstaff

By the way, while the speed might be lag indeed, the resurrection animation indeed have changed...

...and it's hideous. Ugly. Horrific. Atrocious. I cannot bring enough terms to describe this abomination. We indeed rise like zombies. Is that a tribute to necromancy theme in Elsweyr? If yes, then, ZOS, it is not funny a single bit, not all of us fancy death and everything connected to it. Does anyone know if it officially made it into patch notes?

Zacuel

Beardimus wrote: »

StarOfElyon wrote: »

Everything feels like it's happening at break neck speed. I don't know if Im lagging or what. Also when we respawn in BGs, we rise like freaking zombies or something. The game feels completely broken. It's insane. Take Flight is a teleport now. I don't even see the leap. Did something go wrong with my installation of the game or what?

Lag on launch day is pretty common. Are you on console? Deleting save game cache is a must for me after an update too.

Wait. Does that actually help? Tell me more...

VaranisArano

John_Falstaff wrote: »

By the way, while the speed might be lag indeed, the resurrection animation indeed have changed...

...and it's hideous. Ugly. Horrific. Atrocious. I cannot bring enough terms to describe this abomination. We indeed rise like zombies. Is that a tribute to necromancy theme in Elsweyr? If yes, then, ZOS, it is not funny a single bit, not all of us fancy death and everything connected to it. Does anyone know if it officially made it into patch notes?

Its related to the resurrection changes wirh the new Necro ultimate.

John_Falstaff

VaranisArano wrote: »

John_Falstaff wrote: »

By the way, while the speed might be lag indeed, the resurrection animation indeed have changed...

...and it's hideous. Ugly. Horrific. Atrocious. I cannot bring enough terms to describe this abomination. We indeed rise like zombies. Is that a tribute to necromancy theme in Elsweyr? If yes, then, ZOS, it is not funny a single bit, not all of us fancy death and everything connected to it. Does anyone know if it officially made it into patch notes?

Its related to the resurrection changes wirh the new Necro ultimate.

Hm-m, I wonder if it was absolutely necessary to change animations as well. After all, mass resurrection existed in the game before, and it was doing without animation just fine - I mean resurrection sigil in Blackrose.

That's ZOS for you... They didn't even ask if everyone's okay with raising zombies, whether they're necromancer or not.

StarOfElyon

I thought it had something to do with Necromancers. While I can respect it as part of an ultimate, it's really unsettling when it happens when you respawn. I was extremely put off by it.

mocap

yeah, animation is a bit wierd sometimes. 80 ping and stable 60 fps do nothing to prevent it.

jypcy

In early PTS they were going to revamp resurrections entirely, with a 3 second ghost form regardless of whether you were resurrected by another player or yourself iirc. They couldn’t balance it before live so they removed it, but mentioned they plan to do something along those lines eventually. I assumed it was an artifact of that.

Lonnah

Another thing I've noticed is that you no longer bring your weapon out quietly. You instantly fire your weapon instead. Is that a bug?

AcadianPaladin

Lonnah wrote: »

Another thing I've noticed is that you no longer bring your weapon out quietly. You instantly fire your weapon instead. Is that a bug?

Zenimax said it was unintentional and they intend (in the next patch or so) to revert weapon draw to as it was before Elsweyr.

Sanguinor2

They did Speed up all gap Closers but removed the snare they applied, thats why you barely see take flight or other gap Closers Animation anymore.

fullheartcontainer

John_Falstaff wrote: »

They didn't even ask if everyone's okay with raising zombies, whether they're necromancer or not.

Maybe you missed the fact that you've been using the souls of the dead via soul gems to resurrect people since day one of this game existing. That's ALWAYS been there

Cinbri

Sanguinor2 wrote: »

They did Speed up all gap Closers but removed the snare they applied, thats why you barely see take flight or other gap Closers Animation anymore.

Nope. There was bug on pts that all gap-closers miss its charging animation, playing only prepare to cast and after cast. That makes it look like teleport even despite it not. On live thay fixed it for 1 week but it caused even worse bugs with gap-closers to pop-up so last patch they reverted fix back into skipping animations till they find how to fix it properly.

John_Falstaff

fullheartcontainer wrote: »

John_Falstaff wrote: »

They didn't even ask if everyone's okay with raising zombies, whether they're necromancer or not.

Maybe you missed the fact that you've been using the souls of the dead via soul gems to resurrect people since day one of this game existing. That's ALWAYS been there

Then let's make all characters who didn't finish the main quest look like bloody zombies, now shall we. Because that's what they are. Or, say, make bar swaps last five seconds, because who swaps weapons in an instant.

I hope you've given some thought to the notion that we're playing a fantasy game, not a life simulator, there are numerous cases where aesthetics prevails over realism. If templar resurrects the fallen, then game should choose to prefer aesthetics fitting for a templar instead of painting him as a necromancer.