Sorry, I just feel vindicated
Not an excuse to be an ass ¯_(ツSorry, I just feel vindicated
_/¯Yeah he's flat out wrong, they acknowledged long ago that it was a bug...and of course it is, how do you defend that every action in the game plays an animation, except for drag-looting? How is that a fair mechanic? How does that make any type of sense that they would spend all that time making actions a risky endevour due to the associated animations... and then turn around and come up with a mechanic to bypass all of that and teleport items into your backpack?
...but they did agree with them, no one wanted a delay on drag-looting, they wanted one version of looting to not be completely trivialized by the other 2 methods of looting, and that's exactly what they've done by removing the animation for F-looting as well, now everyone gets the benefits of drag-looting until they can properly fix it in a way that feels fluid, and rest assured, drag looting will play an animation by the time the game releases.
no one said it did, just that it was better most of the time
In the sense that it's instant? I suppose if that's how you're gauging if it's better or not, but in terms of being appropriate is pretty subjective. If they removed bullet travel time and bullet drop, it would certainly make shooting "better" in the same respect, but I don't imagine that's the experience they're going for.
It's a skill for anyone who's ever used a mouse with any kind of proficiency. Really more of an accessibility concern than a skill one.
lootin' ain't shootin'
Feeling worse to play is a weird one because is it worse in that it simply takes longer? To go with my earlier example, bullet travel and drop make the shooting "feel worse", but they're part of the deliberate nature of the game. They could remove the acceleration from all vehicles and give them perfect handling as well, there are a lot of things that would make the game feel worse if we're going by the metric of raw efficiency, but does it fit the intent of the game? That's really up to the dev to ultimately put their foot down on, but given how the game handles otherwise and how it's more a reaction of the backlash to revert the changes they attempted, it seems against that intent present elsewhere.
No, a video was posted earlier. It felt worse because the slowed speed actually made it less reliable in that items would fail to get transferred / equipped etc. It was glitchy.
Glitchy is one thing, a thing they can fix, but the matter (at least last time this happened as well) is more to having it be instant versus taking any amount of time to pick something up.
We're probably playing different games here if the change either way is a huge playability issue.
Vocal types in gaming communities tend to be hyperbolic as well.
It's not entirely a matter of interface, it's an interaction within the world and one where it seemed their idea was to add the delay to the pick-up to go along with eventually wanting some animation grounding in everything.
It's exactly how I expect people to give feedback, but it's also not something I'd interpret entirely at face value as making mountains of molehills is something gaming communities are wont to do -- which is to say I do believe people would find it less ideal, but the gravity being attached to it is something I don't.
Think about how you would implement that in software though. For example, someone quickly clicks and drags two items. Or, someone double clicks two items quickly.
I honestly don't believe he'd be faster than anyone else intent on dragging icons quickly with it being one of the most basic skills for anyone familiar with using a visual interface, or that it really makes much of a difference to his play either way.
Would you say that the current state of recovery items are glitchy?
I think the user experience is awkward for healing items if using them from the menu. I'm not sure I would describe it as glitchy, but I am afraid to move or pretty much touch anything while a healing item is in progress, so in that sense I suppose I am afraid a glitch might happen.
I ask because it's just a matter of interface familiarity rather than being glitchy, to that end it could work similarly but in respect to looting in terms of seeing the progress, cancelling out of it, etc.
Hmm, I see what you mean. You're suggesting healthkit style feedback? Maybe that could work.
Sorry, I just feel vindicated
