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Re: Is it possible to remove the new "stumble" animation?

next patch we will randomly fall over and break our weapons while falling. or even better field stripping every few minutes to decrease a percentage change of having a malfunction wich we then have to do a quick time event to fix mid gameplay...
all for the IMMERSION

9 Replies

  • RMEChief's avatar
    RMEChief
    Legend
    3 years ago

    This has to go, no one asked for this, why waste development time on a new mechanic and animation that is buggy as hell?

    If you just touch a rock the wrong way, you stumble, land on flat ground with a parachute at any speed, stumble. 

    It is a terrible mechanic, again, what is the thought process that goes into adding something like this? The next dev podcast, how does this go from idea to approval, and why does the entire team think something like this needs to be added?

    It essentially prevents you from doing any other action in the game until it is completed. Just black my screen out instead. 

  • Psubond's avatar
    Psubond
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @Adamonic i would have much rather had squad management (let me join/leave squads as i please and play without a squad if i choose)

    i think we are in the "let's develop the next game and use this game to test code" phase of the game
  • DigitalHype's avatar
    DigitalHype
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @PsubondSame thoughts here. Why work on this nonsense animation that isn't fun and seems to add little to the game except frustration. I sure wish DICE could train those animators on UI and infrastructure work and prioritize things we actually need and want like squad management abilities.

    If they want to incentivize team work. Then bring back squad order XP and allow us to muntiny inactive squad leaders (like every other prior BF title).

  • DigitalHype's avatar
    DigitalHype
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @AdamonicThe only possible explanation I could come up with is that someone at DICE sold others on the idea that parachute diving was OP and trying to make Sundance more appealing (She doesn't stumble when landing from glides). Of course this explains nothing when it comes to why they thought it was good to make soldiers stumble on the ground.

    I'm honestly wondering if this was an animation team idea and noone wanted to upset them by rejecting this horrible idea. Maybe they thought it looked cool in third person?

  • EA_Leeuw's avatar
    EA_Leeuw
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hi all,

    Thanks for the feedback on this. Passing it on to the teams.

  • RMEChief's avatar
    RMEChief
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @DigitalHype god I hope not. There is a lot that goes into creating a function like that, with obvious triggers, etc. Now they would have to waste more time stripping it out and retesting it. Just a big waste of time for something that actually makes gameplay worse for everyone.
  • @Adamonic That's the big advantage BF4 had with the CTE that 2042 doesn't have.

    A few thousand players testing is a lot better than a few dozen Dice employees testing.
  • skates15's avatar
    skates15
    New Ace
    3 years ago

    The only animations I want are the revive to be done better and it would be cool to see a teammate reloading.  All the other pre-match animations should go, all of them.

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