Thank you for your response, Zentai; it’s appreciated.
I’m quoting a comment from 2022, but it seems the issue is still present. You’re telling me that their running behavior was adjusted, but I can’t 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.
You’re telling me it was worse (I’ve been playing for a week), which I find hard to believe. If this was the case, then this doesn’t 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 !!!
It’s absurd and ridiculous, especially for this game and at this level. Even in worse graphically designed games such as Banished villagers don’t run but walk around.
What I’m 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 it’s 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:
- let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room and say that those villagers are running.
I don’t know if you’ve 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 they’re supposed to.
Now, the story: the worst part is (and I’m being genuine, this happened exactly as I’m 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 don’t get me wrong—your 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, “Hey bro, why are those people all running around like crazy?” You lost a customer right there, and I’m not even joking. You went from +1 to -1. It’s like food spoiling in your game if you don’t preserve it correctly. And this is a guy who only watched 10 minutes of my gameplay, and I couldn’t blame him because I would have made the same choice knowing about this major issue before purchasing the title. Please, I’m begging you, really, please make it so that the animation of movement actually depicts walking and not running.
I’m sorry if I’m 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 it’s 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 won’t say it to you since you already promised a fix and delivered something that wasn’t what was expected. Maybe they’ve lost hope or can’t be bothered to argue about it. But for me, this is an elephant in the room and it’s 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 you’ve lost two, but I can’t refund mine. Do all the people finding this ridiculous and not having purchased the game for this reason also report it to you? Because I’m doing this for the sake of having already purchased the game. I love it, it’s great, but… and with this ‘but’, I’m positive you’re losing some people here and there without even knowing about it, maybe for this reason, and they’re not reporting to you, they just don’t purchase. It’s 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: “I am waiting for a walking animation before I will buy this game. It’s a big immersion breaker for a game that normally has a relaxing pace and atmosphere that my people are always in a hurry.” It’s from 2022, but I still don’t see this walking animation as he’s still expecting too… and if he’s not buying it, and with my friend, those are already two certain people, who knows how many more.