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I'm not an animator so I'm kinda just parroting what they told me on it but yes, some parts can be mostly reused. It is however not so simple as just doing half of it because you still have to split, setup and adjust the other half of each. This is one of those things that most of us just don't know that we don't know.

I love the saying don't let perfect be the enemy of good as much as the next guy. The quick and dirty version doesn't look even close to good. We aren't interested in adding janky junk to the game.

it's good, not great. Big update to the skill targeting system for controllers coming in 1.2

haha yea, it's all a balancing act of cost/benefit. I hope that we can get to WASD soon and I expect that PoE2 and D4 having it will get people more interested in it and we will see the potential benefit rise.

I also didn't understand why when we started looking into it. The way that our character animations are set up, the torso and legs are one section. They are always acting in the same direction. If you add WASD support, the torso needs to be able to act forwards while the character walks backwards. I know this seems like a little thing but it's a unique animation for each weapon combination for each class and each transformation multiplied by each ability and modification of those abilities which change animation in the skill trees or from items. So the bulk of it is animations but also dev, design, testing and sound need to make changes too. This is a very major feature implementation which also adds a significant amount of tech debt that needs to be paid every time we add a new skill, weapon or class. I hope that clears it up some.

Source: am the person who answered the question on stream.

edit: please don't downvote people for asking questions like the one above. ...

Love it when the paperwork takes longer than the bug fix itself.

We don't have plans to remove it but we won't keep it just because that's the way it is. I really like having the shorter boss fights that it brings, especially on characters that might be struggling a bit.

Apology accepted, Brau. Lol ;)

We’re lucky to be a part of a genre where some of the biggest titles are made by studios, like EHG and GGG, who were driven to create them because of a deep love for this type of game themselves. LE will continue to improve and evolve while we listen to our fellow ARPG players who are passionate about the experience. I have no doubt this will be the case for GGG and their new title as well. We have a huge amount of respect for their team and what they’ve achieved - genuinely nice people, smart, passionate people that we’ve had the pleasure of chatting with on numerous occasions.

What I love is that we’re pushing each other, finding what makes these experiences the best they can be, and passionate about our creations and fans.

Also, we have improvements coming for a number of things on your list. Long live ARPGs!

Next reset is April

Yup

Well, more good news there, lots of dungeon improvements coming that will make "getting good" a lot less frustrating.

Yea, the UI still isn't quite optimal on steam deck yet but it's getting better.

It's displayed on the health bar as an up arrow type ornament pointing at the spot where it will happen.

Why would locking us into one universal pattern be ideal?

It's variable based on the boss.

No and there isn't now anyways.

It's getting removed from most places. Will only show up on major bosses and the decay rate increase speed is being increased so it will not last as long.

There are people with two installed. The version of the project they have in 2019 is the version just before the engine update so it has a ton of changes that aren't on live. So they still have to do a massive import which is where the big time investment is.

It's all going through asset bundles so those have to be rebuilt. It might not even have anything wrong though. Actually fixing the issue is the fastest part. Most of that 10 mins is actually just waiting for it to compile and load in to test. It might have just been a git issue on the build machine. It's possible that nothing actually has to be done other than rebuild.

The biggest part of the time required is still the testing of the entire build before it's able to be released.

Also the size on disk of the project files makes it extremely cumbersome to have two versions of the project. Not impossible, I sometimes have two versions going.

TL:DR Can't do it that way and it's a way bigger total time investment to fix than it seems.

Oh if it were only so. This isn't something that can be sent out individually for people to manually add to their files and have it work. So a hotfix would be required.

Let's do a deep dive into what goes into the 1 minute fix that this seems to be. The live build is currently made using Unity 2019. Our entire development team has moved over to Unity 2021. In order to replace the file, we first have to get someone to revert their project back to the 2019 state. This is a 6+ hour process. So we're over the 1 min mark by several hours and we haven't actually made the change yet. The build machine also has to be reverted along with the staging servers. This can happen simultaneously but it does require someone to actually do it and it takes each of the dev, dev machine, build machine and server out of the normal development pipeline so we're slowing down 1.2 at the same time.

Yea, the texture for the smoke used in the particle effect animation is missing from the current live build. It'll be fixed in the engine update patch.