Thank you for your response, Zentai; itâs appreciated.
Iâm quoting a comment from 2022, but it seems the issue is still present. Youâre telling me that their running behavior was adjusted, but I canât help but wonder how, since they are running like crazy around the town as it is now. To be honest, they all look like junkies on amphetamines.
Youâre telling me it was worse (Iâve been playing for a week), which I find hard to believe. If this was the case, then this doesnât seem like a solution to the problem at all. It appears more like a quick fix, where a running animation was simply slowed down, but nothing more to address the core issue.
They are still running.
In the current animation, they are running.
At 1x they are running.
At half speed the they are still running and taking giant steps forward !!!
Itâs absurd and ridiculous, especially for this game and at this level. Even in worse graphically designed games such as Banished villagers donât run but walk around.
What Iâm trying to convey here is that we might as well add flying monkeys at this point, and it would be more believable since this is already dragging the whole game down to a trash level. I understand itâs under development and there are a lot of bugs, but this, in my humble opinion, is drastically impacting the game right away and breaking it to its core. Allow me to share a story in a second if you have the patience for it but first please:
- letâs acknowledge the elephant in the room and say that those villagers are running.
I donât know if youâve seen Age of Empire, Anno, or FrostPunk, etc. but NONE of these games have this ridiculous animation, nor do they have characters running around; they walk as theyâre supposed to.
Now, the story: the worst part is (and Iâm being genuine, this happened exactly as Iâm telling you): the other day, I invited a friend of mine to glow about the game and show him the title I had just purchased and was so excited about. I was hoping he would buy it as well because you know, when something is nice and very well done, it advertises itself, and donât get me wrongâyour game is. Now, he was all super excited and about to buy it right away, and you would have gained a new customer when he saw me playing, until after a couple of minutes, he said to me, âHey bro, why are those people all running around like crazy?â You lost a customer right there, and Iâm not even joking. You went from +1 to -1. Itâs like food spoiling in your game if you donât preserve it correctly. And this is a guy who only watched 10 minutes of my gameplay, and I couldnât blame him because I would have made the same choice knowing about this major issue before purchasing the title. Please, Iâm begging you, really, please make it so that the animation of movement actually depicts walking and not running.
Iâm sorry if Iâm being annoying in any way, but it seems obvious to me that those legs spread apart are not the movement of someone who is walking but actually running. This is the issue, and itâs huge. You can clearly tell they are running just by looking at the way they animate their steps. I mean, I was even able to catch the guy in mid-air action, he was literally jumping around, with his second foot half a meter in the air. Also, the girl is not doing any worse than a pro long jump athlete pre-jump run. I hope I have expressed myself clearly. Thank you so much, really.
PS: Maybe the majority of the players are too lazy to report it, or maybe they wonât say it to you since you already promised a fix and delivered something that wasnât what was expected. Maybe theyâve lost hope or canât be bothered to argue about it. But for me, this is an elephant in the room and itâs hard to ignore. What I can tell you for sure is that I told one person about this game, and it had a 100% approval rating for purchase before this issue arose, and then you just lost a customer. It makes me regret playing, so technically youâve lost two, but I canât refund mine. Do all the people finding this ridiculous and not having purchased the game for this reason also report it to you? Because Iâm doing this for the sake of having already purchased the game. I love it, itâs great, but⌠and with this âbutâ, Iâm positive youâre losing some people here and there without even knowing about it, maybe for this reason, and theyâre not reporting to you, they just donât purchase. Itâs bad from a company marketing profile of a product that strives to set a stone on the genre, and then a guy like this guy nails the issue to the core: âI am waiting for a walking animation before I will buy this game. Itâs a big immersion breaker for a game that normally has a relaxing pace and atmosphere that my people are always in a hurry.â Itâs from 2022, but I still donât see this walking animation as heâs still expecting too⌠and if heâs not buying it, and with my friend, those are already two certain people, who knows how many more.
28 Nov, 2022 @ 11:41am
