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Originally posted by garbage_water

youre probably completely right here, ive never developed an fps, making this an unnecessarily magnified issue. i just know how quickly misinformation spreads and like, perception of action is valued. i know wolfenstein enemy territory devs had to dampen the audio of one sides starting gun from nonstop complaints of it being OP when they had identical stats. the gun just literally sounded more bad ass lmao. the inconsistency between the skinless, ready to fire anim (which i cant say ive personally ever felt didnt fire when it felt 'ready' but again, anecdotal small data bullshit) and singularity skin shown in this example just you know, feels bad and looks like shoddy work.

im gonna defer to your input on it, being involved in the process and privy to the feedback, but just like, i guess the inconsistency is the issue. i think deciding on one approach and conducting a normalizing pass with a simple explanation in patch notes would be best. but again, the f**k do i know i co...

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Originally posted by nickwithtea93

Correct, WFH until further notice or proof of vaccination. Now get back to the JIRA log before I blow a gasket.

Originally posted by garbage_water

if this is true you guys should really consider culling all animations by ten frames. that is completely counter-intuitive and an unnecessary burden of knowledge that isnt a reflection of mechanical skill. almost like a bad trivia question.

also id like to apologize for the tone of my popular post in here. if anims are 10 frames long across the board this definitely pushes the issue from bad animation work to questionable animation decision making in visuals vs clarity

Originally posted by Adventurous_Sea_4287

It's truly marvelous how great minds are being combined in order to deliver such a finesse skins! Can't wait for the next release skin lines <3 have a great day!

Originally posted by Timely-Philosopher17

Thanks for the best skins you make. 100% Elderflame fan:)) looking forward to other skin bundles

Originally posted by Asomboy4

Hey so I went ahead and re-recorded the video. I also found a video editor (but it put a damn watermark over the video, hopefully it's still readable)

https://streamable.com/cy5e2f

The equip animation looks to be on par with the default skin. However, I think the issue becomes more apparent when you hold down "fire" when equipping the rifle:

https://imgur.com/a/5MultWu

It leads me to believe that instead of the animation being longer, it's just not communicated properly as to when you can shoot, as seen in the 3rd last frame - the default phantom is primed and ready while the singularity still looks like it's forming.

On a separate note, the "black hole" appears two frames before the actual bullet is fired, and jumps to the muzzle.

Originally posted by Nyteyes

Credit to Myth, true sportsmanship from him. Gg 100T let’s goooo

Originally posted by its_The_B00

dead game btw

Originally posted by Asomboy4

Huh that's interesting. I noticed there being a "cut" in the animation if you hold down fire with the singularity phantom. Is this intentional?

Originally posted by oniram177

u/Asomboy4 i took a quick look at your video, cropped out both sections and displayed them ontop of one another. On first look the timing of them are pretty close, with some minor differences being caused by the floating rocks on Singularity. i tried to get both to show their first frame of equip, or rather the first frame available after your knife is gone, and I noticed each Ion equip had you firing almost immediately making it difficult to capture the true end of that base equip. I'll take a look more in depth tomorrow at the files themselves to confirm.

Here is the video of them both displayed at the same time

https://imgur.com/1rhsqyP

Originally posted by Riot_Preeti

<3 No worries. We hate when you all feel bad about stuff. Like actually feel super bad. This job is a passion, so we all take it to heart. :(

Yup, I'll provide an update when I have one. I don't know if it'll make it to patch notes since that takes localization time (it has to be translated into lots of languages), but I can post a reply to this thread at the very least. Investigation can take a little while though, so don't be surprised if I don't have an update right away.

Originally posted by Asomboy4

Thank you for taking your time to look at it!! Love the work you're doing with the skins :)

If there is/isnt a problem, would it be possible to let us know before patch notes drop?

Originally posted by Riot_Preeti

Hey, all! It's Sunday night, so the cosmetics dev team is enjoying their weekend. I'm going to have them take a look at this tomorrow to investigate when we're at work.

If this is an issue (even though OP says you can actually shoot before the anim "completes"), please trust us that it was unintentional and we'll try to fix it. We never intend to make things pay-to-lose or pay-to-win.

If it's not actually an issue after we investigate (some of you below have pointed out the videos aren't side-by-side, so some of this might just be "feel"), thanks for still reporting it. We make these skins for all of you and we honestly do appreciate bug reports, general feedback, and "feel" type feedback we get. This is why custom anims are very tricky--it can be the same exact timing but sometimes "feel" slower, or even "feel" faster. We test extensively for this, but sometimes we will screw it up. Not saying we did here YET (still gotta look at this with the team)!

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