Why no swan dives?

AefionBloodclaw · May 2018

So again the poor quality ZoS coders and programmers insult the players again by giving NPCs nice animations, this time a swan dive, but don't allow players to do it themselves. I already made another post about the lack of a proper traversal system, even though there is clearly the animations for them as demonstrated by Quen, so I guess this is another case of the devs not bothering to put in animations for player characters?

Runefang · May 2018

Can't tell if this is a parody or not...

Chilly-McFreeze · May 2018

Would be great at all the times I accidentally jumped of a cliff's edge. Going down in style before I hit the dirt. I can't help but imagine a zerg full of lemmings swan diving to death from an outpost's ledge?

Beardimus · May 2018

I tell you what, insulting the guys that you are trying to get something from is probably a sure fire way to get what you want.

Nice work.

AefionBloodclaw · May 2018

Beardimus wrote: »

I tell you what, insulting the guys that you are trying to get something from is probably a sure fire way to get what you want.

Nice work.

Just stating the facts... if they really do strive for high quality mechanics, then there's no reason why they couldn't put the animations in for players characters instead of just constantly breaking the immersion with lazy programming.

Beardimus · May 2018

My point is are they being lazy?

Or are they working under direction. If they haven't been tasked to build it in as a emote or whatever , and their work package is on designing NPC stuff its not them being lazy. And its certainly not poor quality.

The guys are doing a job. It's their work. And if you after cool extra stuff that might not be in the scope id say being cool and asking for suggestions might be a Better path to get what you want than flat out insulting the dudes.

Approach aside, id LOVE jump / falling emotes. Like cannonballs into water and swan dives. With you on principle - ut some.way more important gameplay stuff needs coding first if we having a MoSCoW rating..

AefionBloodclaw · May 2018

Beardimus wrote: »

My point is are they being lazy?

Or are they working under direction. If they haven't been tasked to build it in as a emote or whatever , and their work package is on designing NPC stuff its not them being lazy. And its certainly not poor quality.

The guys are doing a job. It's their work. And if you after cool extra stuff that might not be in the scope id say being cool and asking for suggestions might be a Better path to get what you want than flat out insulting the dudes.

Approach aside, id LOVE jump / falling emotes. Like cannonballs into water and swan dives. With you on principle - ut some.way more important gameplay stuff needs coding first if we having a MoSCoW rating..

Well the programming is pretty poor quality to be honest... half the time the player character can't walk over ankle-high steps. That's not my opinion, its fact. If they are working under direction not to correct that, that is poor quality direction. And lazy programming.

Plus there's a difference between doing a job and being passionate about it... the artists and writers are the ones who make this game great, it seems their passion comes through a hell of a lot more, its obvious in the work.