Still running into broken animations here and there. Sad stuff :'(

Worst update so far.

Can you guess what weapon I'm holding? That's right! It's dual wield Iceshard maces!

I have Iceshard ice staff on my back bar, and swapping to front bar keeps me in the ice staff stance, but makes my Iceshard maces invisible. Glad that the weapon style I spent hard earned money on 2 years ago is now broken thanks to an update that had 0 internal testing and pushed out with hundreds of known bugs, completely making the purchase worthless. Am I supposed to expect some form of compensation? I don't know. It's like the whole grim focus perma glow again.

It's time to roll back this update and abandon it. It has made combat feel terrible, so many things no longer have animations (remember when your character would do an animation when taking the purify synergy? I remember it like it was just last month), and it's only making people upset. It's time to sit down and have a real, company wide discussion about abandoning 12 year old consoles. In no future will the game continue to be profitable if it keeps being broken to support outdated hardware.

Now the assassin personality is broken like the thief personality where it defaults to the standard animation unless you toggle it off and back on.

KapiteinBoterham wrote: »

Now the assassin personality is broken like the thief personality where it defaults to the standard animation unless you toggle it off and back on.

That has also been happening with the Maniacal Jester personality for years.

Combat feels weird now too, i dont know how to explain it but the movements feel jittery, weaving bugs out a lot and sometimes the character just refuses to keep up with my button presses

Thank god that Writhing Wall is over, i really hope this is the first thing addressed

I just noticed how many frames are missing from the backwards hand movement in the Healthy Offering cast. It almost seems like some other frames were duplicated to fill the full duration of the animation. It looks like the character either suffers from severe gout or he activated janky bullet time.

I want to come back to this thread for a second.

We were told that the point of reducing the frames in these animations was to conserve memory "to ensure that future features will run on every supported platform."

And yet... the new Moons over Orsinium crates come with 2 custom actions, 2 skill styles (one of which decently changes the animation), a polymorph with a unique equip animation, 4 unique new emotes, and a memento.

While emotes and the like can be fun, it does beg the question of if those animations are affecting storage space in the same way that combat animations are. And then by extension, are the additions of things like more emotes and mementos actively preventing the teams to add things like new skill lines or Classes?

Also, are there possibly any performance issues from these? We already know mementos are turned off in Cyrodiil, but is there a chance that adding loads more emotes could be adversely affecting performance? I do love emotes and taking screenshots, but even I wouldn't notice if half of them disappeared overnight since there are so many at this point, and the idea that the team would eschew combat look and feel and new combat content in favor of letting our characters dance in a certain way for two days before we forget about that emote doesn't feel good.

imbue weapon and morphs still have animation delay

The weapon drawn idles look awkward and unnatural. Standing with the destruction staff drawn makes my character look like a crab: her legs are too far apart and are bent in an unnatural way. It looks weird, and you never quite shake the feeling that something is off about the way they stand.

If ZOS has reduced combat animation quality to make room for the memory requirements of purchased animations, then obviously as responsible Tamrielites, we should never again purchase any mounts, emotes or other customisations with new animations. To, you know, aid ZOS in saving memory.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I do love emotes and taking screenshots, but even I wouldn't notice if half of them disappeared overnight since there are so many at this point, and the idea that the team would eschew combat look and feel and new combat content in favor of letting our characters dance in a certain way for two days before we forget about that emote doesn't feel good.

Exactly. Having good combat animation is essential, I don't know what ZOS is thinking by reducing the quality of something so crucial.

The big four-legged cats in the Sunspire trial now just float in the air when doing a jump attack. It looks hilariously bad.

And the aura memento cast animation makes my character look like she is twisting her ankle in a horrible way.

A lot of the bosses right before they heavy attack (with a 2h weapons) turn their back to you at the very last second after this update.

Very confusing for tanks, it makes you think you lost taunt.

ESO feels downgraded. The strange stances and jittery disconnected combat just feels crazy. So odd the devs have let combat get like this...Players are skipping in Craglorn. Jittery animation and invisible abilities. Hope they lower the price soon...