Update 48: The Discount Animation Update

SnakeDodger · November 18

Another day, another complaint about the new animations.

ZoS i am begging you to acknowledge the issue, ESPECIALLY considering the official wording of "virtually undistinguishable."
Not only that is completely false, but the new stances are so wrong that they feel like unfinished files that made into live.

I had just began another zone story, but this change literally sucked out my will to play.

KapiteinBoterham · November 19

Still running into broken animations here and there. Sad stuff

KapiteinBoterham · November 19

KapiteinBoterham · November 19

Worst update so far.

Apollosipod · November 19

Found on Reddit. This animation "update" is breaking so many things in this game. Geez

Estin · November 19

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 In no future will the game continue to be profitable if it keeps being broken to support outdated hardware.

Arunei · November 19

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom
Can you guys possibly find out why the devs are actively taking away from the game to keep running on older/weaker devices? It's like that saying about banning adults from eating steak because babies can't chew it; constantly degrading the game to stay running on older/weaker consoles and computers is taking things from everyone else. AwA was done because the game needed more space, we've been told new things like Classes or Housing slots would take too much memory or whatever it was for older machines, now hundreds of animations have been changed.

How much more is going to be taken to keep accommodating older or less powerful machines? How much is going to be kept from being added for them? There has to be a point where increasing minimum specs comes because it's just becoming more and more detrimental to everyone else.

KapiteinBoterham · November 20

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.

mdjessup4906 · November 21

We updated over 900 animation files in order to support this effort, including animations that are used outside of player combat. We have gotten many fantastic reports of animation issues from players on PTS, but tracking down reproductions of these issues and the appropriate fixes on our internal realms takes time.

Maybe edit only a few of the most used weapons and a cosmetic or 2 so as an easier to revert if needed test run?

Most used means more inconvenient if it breaks but you'll also know sooner when it does. And less overall edits means less wondering what fix broke what, and should mean a faster fix.

Does this really need saying???

And say what was specifically edited in the patch notes so we know what to watch for.

Radiate77 · November 22

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.

blktauna · November 22

Varana wrote: »

frogthroat wrote: »

XBox Live has 130 million monthly users.
XBox Series has sold 33 million units.

Not sure how reliable this is.
I have an XBox Live account (for playing multiplayer Grounded) and I have never owned a console (or used a controller) in my life.

This account comes with windows boxes now. I have one that I never even take.
ZOS really needs to move forward with the baseline if they have any intention of keeping this thing running.

SnakeDodger · November 23

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

KapiteinBoterham · November 25

Just fought B'Korgen for the Summerset daily and instead of doing the headache animation your character just walks back in slomo.

Vaqual · 3:18AM

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.

Vaqual · 3:23AM

I really hope you have a back-up of the originals saved somewhere, because whoever made the new versions butchered it.