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Please return the old animation!
I beg you the developers, animators, return this animation! She is very cool and looks much better than the one now.
In the comments, people suggested the following ideas on how to optimize this animation:
1) Reduce the duration of the animation by 1 or 1.5 seconds. That is: the killer grabs the survivor by the leg, the survivor resists and instead of throwing the survivor to the floor, the killer immediately throws him on his shoulder.
2) Remove the opportunity to blind the killer during THIS animation. This will only apply to this animation and no more.
3)Make this animation with a 50% chance of falling for example. That is, there is a 50% chance that instead of the wretched animation that is now, this animation will play where the killer grabs the survivor by the leg.
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When was that in the game? Played since early summer 2017, PS4.
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A good ol 2016 animation.
Also we should bring back the 2018 fast vault animation
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I really want to return at least part of that atmosphere of the game, thanks to the old animations, because they were the best. Please!
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This is a good old 2016. Previously, the game had high-quality, chic, atmospheric animations, but over time, the developers for some reason replaced them with terrible, lame animations. I (and not just me) want to bring back these animations. I hope the developers hear us.
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Nothing like this! These animations are fine. What do you choose: to play a saturated, partially atmospheric game or empty and gray? At the moment, due to broken / modified animations, the game is empty, because it is precisely these moments that fill the game. And in my 3,500 hours I have never met such moments when they tried to dazzle me during such an animation.
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It looks great, but it is quite lengthy.
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Nothing wrong with that. 1 extra second in the animation will not change anything in the game, but will only make it better and more atmospheric.
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One second can mean everything in DbD. The current grab animation speed is fine.
Balance > Atmosphere all day in this case.
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Like I’d rather more stuff like this was in and game got lengthened.
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No, absolutely not. This is just a common misconception. And what kind of balance can we talk about when it has been gone for 3 years? This game cannot be balanced, and therefore, 1 second in the animation will not solve anything. It’s time to understand this and come to terms with it.
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I can understand that 1 second can solve something for the perk, but for the animation? Lol. No.
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Moreover, for the animation that makes the game only better. Remember at last: not the content makes the game better, but such trifles as this animation.
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How often do you earn a window/pallet grab? With dedicated servers Iv had countless on top of countless grabs fail after the animation starts. Gen, totem, window, pallet, any/all grabs are getting rarer and rarer and when I do manage to get one it has NEVER given another Survivor a chance to blind me. So why not make them special?
I do agree that drawn out animations cause balance problems, but this isn't one of those cases. Besides. You can make animations good while keeping them short.
When someone vault into the Killer, he grabs them by the neck and tosses them on a shoulder. Looks good and is fast. To shorten the OP animation you could have the Killer still grab the foot to keep better looks. But instead of the Survivor hitting the ground then picked up, have the Killer just sling that poor fool onto his shoulder like a backpack. That would isntantly cut the animation in half while keeping how the Survivor looks back and being forcibly ripped from the vault.
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Perfectly! Best comment! Am I not the only one worried about this?! Thank you!
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That animation is nice but it won’t be right for DBD in 2020.
Matches are MUCH faster paced now and everything has sped up. Killers hook faster, break generators and pallets faster, grab survivors faster, etc...
The game was super slow back then, that animation would never fit in the much faster more fluent DBD of 2020.
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Right. For this reason, all the animations in the game look ultra wretched. Therefore, they do not need to be changed. Nothing bad would have happened if this animation was in the game right now. Absolutely nothing bad would happen. On the contrary, such animations color the game. Make her better. And the fact that now in the game is squalor, at the sight of which I want to "punch my forehead with my hand."
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The game has evolved to be more fast paced instead of a slow stealthy game of hide and seek which is why the animations have changed.
I prefer the older animation from a pure atmospheric point of view but I understand why they changed the animations. It’s more convenient and time saving for the killer if the animations are quicker.
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Hide and seek is still effective in the game, albeit boring. And the fact that the game has become faster, more active is not a reason to make animations wretched. Yes, they are fast, but they are wretched. I do not understand this logic simply. They do not interfere with anything, what is the point of "destroying" them?
The game, first of all, should attract with its beauty, elegance. To make it pleasant for a person to play it. And all this can be achieved only with high-quality animations and models. And since 2016, the game has undergone such a downgrade of the entire visual one that I can’t even find the words how terrible this is.
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The same goes for lobby lighting. It is enough to compare the 2016 lobby and the current lobby and understand that everything is only getting worse. Yes, new content is not bad, but it’s not at all what the game needs at the moment. Few understand this.
I hope that someday the developers will come to their senses and begin to fix the game visually.
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I wanna see that animation at the end gates. You grab them off the ground by the leg before they crawl out. They can even clutch the barrier.
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BHVR removed and changed so many cool animations for crappy ones. No freaking clue why, but they also ignored EVERY SINGLE POST I saw about this topic. A team which cares about the community would at least respond and explain why they changed it (and eventually if they want to bring them back or not).
But they dont care. It's a classic move from bhvr at this point. Just ignoring.
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Yeah, of course. I totally agree with you. I have been ignored for 2 years. And all this ignore is directed towards posts with a request to return the old animations.
And I do not understand why I (and not only me) deserve such an attitude.
Is it really so difficult to answer such a post:
Hello, "nickname". We heard you and reported to the animators about this problem and received an answer that everything will be fixed soon. Thank you for helping us improve the gameplay!
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@Peanits @not_Queen Hey, are you here? Can you convey the request to the animators? To return the old animation and correct the animation when the killer breaks the pallet?
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Just bring back the old survivor running animations at least, those actually look better in my opinion
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Almost all of the old animations look much better, juicier and more attractive than the crap that the developers slipped us.🤢
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uh i like it :D
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Yeah, they are really good :)
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I do miss the old animations on a lot of things like the grab animations, but there's a reason why they were changed. They're so long and overdrawn.
No argument about how cool they look, they were 100% better-looking and very cinematic and fluid.
I miss the old Trapper animation for when you put down a trap. Back when I started playing, his full animation when you pressed and held M2 to put a trap down was like this: stop, look down, put a trap down, put your foot on the trap to hold down one jaw while pulling the other one open.
It was very slow, but very realistic.
Something about the new trap-setting animation just looks so... off.
The new animations are still better for gameplay - the old ones are better-looking. Oddly enough.
Also, the old sounds for when you hit a Survivor.
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Don't forget the old vaulting animation too.
Don't have it as fast as it was back then tho XD
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I believe that all the old animations would fit perfectly into the current gameplay of the game. You just have to try and everyone will like it. For the sake of interest, the developers should make a PTB with all the old animations and old lighting in the lobby and then have a poll. Live poll on the forum.
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Just bring back 2016 DBD as its own game mode. ;)
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2016 dbd as a gamemode.
Would this mean that you can only play
Dwight, Meg, Claud and Jake
Trapper, Wraith and Billy.
Or would it still involve everyone?
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I do not know. Maybe. But I would just like to return all the old animations and that's it. And the old lighting in the lobby )
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@Peanits @not_Queen Hey, are you here?
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I hope so.
I love old dbd
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I want this is my life.
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There are several aspects of old dbd that many people want back.
Old animations
Old graphics (especially old lobby, old lobby was amazing)
Old sound effects (Especially Billy and Bubba's hammers upon hitting a survivor)
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@Peanits @not_Queen As you can see, many players want to bring back old animations. I believe that this is quite an occasion to convey this to the animators of the game, so that they return the old animations in the best possible way.
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Old Spirit Vault o: it was unique and strong unless you were smart enough to realize the red stain shifted sides the moment the vault button was pressed.
Ya a lot of the older stuff was pretty chill.
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We want these graphics back!!!!!!
These old graphics really gave the game that Horror/Dread feel to it. Especially as it's meant to be the Entity's realm, it should be dark and haunting
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I'd love for the old fast vault animation to come back
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🤤🤤🤤
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Same. There is a lot of the years that DBD has changed that I personally didnt like.
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The male vault animation rn is bearable
But the female vault animation as it is now? They put their hands on the vault and then float over it!!!
The old one made both the males and females look like they were being chased and not just showing off their free running skills lol.
I really miss the old vaulting
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I nvr even noticed I'll check when I get back on dbd later.
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Lol.
I'm kind of a sucker when it comes to paying attention to animations. All the old animations for vaulting and throwing down pallets were much better and looked intense compared to the ones we have now.
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But now, developers must hear us. So many people spoke out in favor of bringing back the old animations, as well as the old lighting in the lobby!
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I mean, they could just make the animation faster. Would still look cool if he drags you by your feet in 1 second. I think the variety would make things more fun as killer
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If this all does manage to happen
I cannot thank @Animator enough. I've always wanted BHVR to revert some things especially to make it look like a horror game again.
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Just an HONEST acknowledgement would be so great for every member in the forums, and taking our suggestions serious will benefit every player. These aren't balance suggestions but just animations and I haven't faced a single player who prefers the new ones over the old ones.
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