In line with the above, and in order to further strengthen the feedback provided to the designers, the question is simple:
How do you feel about the new Explore Animations?
I understand what they were trying to go for, but this slows down Explore battles too much.
I’m aware of the psychology behind all the flashy animations and little dopamine hits to keep players engaged. However, having the option to disable them would go a long way toward appeasing players like me who don’t need those things to remain engaged.
I mean slower animations can be fine, but at least:
-Give out better rewards (side quests)
-Remove genie / daemon (even the merchant is totally avoidable without deeds)
-Give at least 4 trophies on 13-16 difficulties
They have to go, the path is always the same.
I may be in the minority, but the breaks doesn’t bother me, it fits more my chill type of play. But I can understand the frustration players may have when Gnome Events hits.
They should add a toggle for players to choose whether to enable animations, instead of forcing every player to sit through a two-second animated cutscene at the start of every match as it stands now.
Watch the animation. It’s fun
Its annoying please remove it in time for next vault
we dont need animations to figure out next battle, , we all know speed is essential for gnome events, and the lighting of dots to the new battle in explore is only going slow players down in gnome events as well as gaps. Devs if you need animation go to a casino so you can play a slot machine and watch your money go down the drain. If I where you before making any animation i would concentrate on fixing old bugs that seem to keep reappearing
Returning to this topic with receipts after some Gnome-a-Palooza (GaP) testing to better quantify the losses to players:
My typical GaP routine is to run the full 15 minutes in one kingdom at Explore level 1 using the Sister Superior, Dust Devil, and 2x Ironhawk team.
Prior to the Explore update, my best runs were roughly 74 battles over 15 minutes.
After the update – and without using any tricks to cancel the animations between battles – my best run was 66 battles over 15 minutes.
So, from my experience, we’re looking at a minimum of a 10% reduction in the number of Explore battles we can complete in a given timeframe. In the 15-minute span of a GaP, that’s 90 seconds spent waiting for dots to move across the screen, which, for me, is a hard pill to swallow.
I’ll reiterate that I’m fully aware of and understand the “value” of these things. And I acknowledge that this outcome may be desirable to IP2 and/or 505 games (and any other companies involved). However, I have to express that this change is a net negative to players’ acquisition of resources and, potentially, their continued enjoyment of this game.
Somewhat unrelated, but on the topic of animations in general, I’d like to highlight the egregious waste of time that is the Token → Badge → Medal upgrade process. What should take no more than 100ms to change in the database is a frustratingly protracted series of screens that can’t be skipped and happens so frequently in my usual play.