I don't think there's any argument for the animations, or the sound.
I think that a lot of the animation problems stem from the movement of the characters. There's no locking on your target, so you're constantly trying to maneuver around, and with two players both doing it, it looks pretty funny.
Just the same, after seeing fights without target lock, I'd never want to go back to target and mash games. I'd stick with goofy looking, but challenging.
animations are the weakest aspect of the game. some are bad (human female is the worst), most are just 'ok'.
note: there is a slider in the game for animation quality - when set to high, animations are more than fine.
i have no issues with sounds. a couple of sound effects are 'meh' but generally i find the sound aspect of DF to be quite good, especially as it relates to gameplay - footsteps, stealthing, nearby fighting are all very well done.
Truth be told ingame they look ok, especially with good armor on. naked on youtube looks like crap
Of course this could be bc most are not looking at animations, but looking to see where the next PK is comin from to axe you over the head.
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
Truth be told ingame they look ok, especially with good armor on. naked on youtube looks like crap
Of course this could be bc most are not looking at animations, but looking to see where the next PK is comin from to axe you over the head.
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
Truth be told ingame they look ok, especially with good armor on. naked on youtube looks like crap
Of course this could be bc most are not looking at animations, but looking to see where the next PK is comin from to axe you over the head.
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
Have to say after watching that footage it does look like there could be some good fun to be had in this game, it also appears that you need to have loads of potions to stay alive too. I hope they put some restrictions on the use of potions to some extent, though it is difficult to see what effect they had on his character other than a short sharp fix as he had to sit a few time to prevent death I assume.
Would be nice if they dropped the NDA so we can see more of this tbh, I am looking forward to this game more so now but I do hope they put it back another month to allow more time to fix any issues they still have, though from what friends have said they are doing daily patches.
Truth be told ingame they look ok, especially with good armor on. naked on youtube looks like crap
Of course this could be bc most are not looking at animations, but looking to see where the next PK is comin from to axe you over the head.
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
The actual animations don't seem horrible when he is in melee mode. Certainly better than without armour on ..... curious. It does seem somewhat jumpy/laggy, substantially less than other videos I've seen on YouTube. Is that attributable to the recording software?
Sure it's all relative to the computer that the game is being run on and the settings of the game, but, are the animations in game smooth or do they un-naturally skip frames to speed thing up ...... like it seems in that video.
It's also my understanding that Aventurine claims to be running client and server side debugger. If that is the case things will certainly change when those are no longer running in the backround. Perhaps things will end up looking like the 17 minute video.
It's the human animations that look bad. Especially a walking female as could be seen in one of the leaked videos.
Equiping armor would surely help a bit, and when actually playing the game you would not continuesly look at the animations, unless you are obsessed with how bad they are and can't keep your mind of it.
But really, AoC also had very bad animations for the female characters. This is not a specific darkfall problem, and isn't something that can't be fixed if the game does turn out to be a success. However, if sales are a bit disapointing, then they may never bother to fix things like this.
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I don't think there's any argument for the animations, or the sound.
I think that a lot of the animation problems stem from the movement of the characters. There's no locking on your target, so you're constantly trying to maneuver around, and with two players both doing it, it looks pretty funny.
Just the same, after seeing fights without target lock, I'd never want to go back to target and mash games. I'd stick with goofy looking, but challenging.
Asdar
animations are the weakest aspect of the game. some are bad (human female is the worst), most are just 'ok'.
note: there is a slider in the game for animation quality - when set to high, animations are more than fine.
i have no issues with sounds. a couple of sound effects are 'meh' but generally i find the sound aspect of DF to be quite good, especially as it relates to gameplay - footsteps, stealthing, nearby fighting are all very well done.
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
Is this how the game looks in beta???
~Hairysun~
http://www.straightdope.com/
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
Is this how the game looks in beta???
~Hairysun~
looks like this in general
www.youtube.com/watch
but this has sounds off
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
Is this how the game looks in beta???
~Hairysun~
looks like this in general
www.youtube.com/watch
but this has sounds off
Have to say after watching that footage it does look like there could be some good fun to be had in this game, it also appears that you need to have loads of potions to stay alive too. I hope they put some restrictions on the use of potions to some extent, though it is difficult to see what effect they had on his character other than a short sharp fix as he had to sit a few time to prevent death I assume.
Would be nice if they dropped the NDA so we can see more of this tbh, I am looking forward to this game more so now but I do hope they put it back another month to allow more time to fix any issues they still have, though from what friends have said they are doing daily patches.
Bandit.
Asbo
Heh ........ perhaps you are correct. I re-watched the 17 minute video of in-game footage and to be honest the animations look pretty good. The mounts seem very well done to me, especially the orc pig thing around 6 minutes in the vidoe. I do realize this is a creation of Aventurine and they just arn't going to put shitty animations in the video. It just looks so night and day compared to the beta leak videos.
Is this how the game looks in beta???
~Hairysun~
looks like this in general
www.youtube.com/watch
but this has sounds off
The actual animations don't seem horrible when he is in melee mode. Certainly better than without armour on ..... curious. It does seem somewhat jumpy/laggy, substantially less than other videos I've seen on YouTube. Is that attributable to the recording software?
Sure it's all relative to the computer that the game is being run on and the settings of the game, but, are the animations in game smooth or do they un-naturally skip frames to speed thing up ...... like it seems in that video.
It's also my understanding that Aventurine claims to be running client and server side debugger. If that is the case things will certainly change when those are no longer running in the backround. Perhaps things will end up looking like the 17 minute video.
~Hairysun~
http://www.straightdope.com/
It's the human animations that look bad. Especially a walking female as could be seen in one of the leaked videos.
Equiping armor would surely help a bit, and when actually playing the game you would not continuesly look at the animations, unless you are obsessed with how bad they are and can't keep your mind of it.
But really, AoC also had very bad animations for the female characters. This is not a specific darkfall problem, and isn't something that can't be fixed if the game does turn out to be a success. However, if sales are a bit disapointing, then they may never bother to fix things like this.