Where did he say that? I can only find his post saying the issue is not a loading screen but due to delays in match-making. He obviously means network delays.
Mu77ley is the only one who has said anything about differences between open and solo (
here), so naturally I thought you were referring to him when you started talking about differences in animation between open and solo (note that I never said there was any difference, and I wouldn't know since I never played solo).
Err that's a whole lot of words for saying absolutely nothing.
There's network delays and tricks in hiding it in almost every gameplay element of multiplayer games.
In fact there's tricks to compensate for latency every time you push a trigger in an online fps game.
Is that also a loading screen?
What happens when you compare high bandwidth connections with practically no delay, to low bandwidth connections where the first practically have no delays streaming content and the latter do?
Does that mean the developer used or didn't use "loading screens" according to you?
There's plenty of other examples I could give you about why I don't really think you can call all network latency shortcomings "loading screens".
Yes there are a multitude of different tricks to dealing with delays. Playing a semi-canned animation, and partially removing control from the player, is a trick that is commonly known as (a type of) "hidden" load screen. Seeing as that is exactly what happens in Elite with supercruise, it is only fair to call that a "hidden" loading screen.
Honestly if you won't understand it at this point I really don't know how to explain it any better to you, and either way I can't be bothered to explain it any further to you seeing as this is the SC thread and not the Elite thread after all.
I never said any such thing. I said the delays caused by match-making don't exist in Solo.
You said there was no delay in solo, and seeing as the delay is what causes the animation, then obviously the lack of delay would also lead to a lack of animation, which I would dare say is a fairly fundamental difference.
Either way I only mentioned your post since Voivod asked if there was a difference in animation between open and solo, and up until that point, you were the only one (as far as I can tell) who had mentioned anything about differences between open and solo (delay, animation or otherwise). So naturally I referred him to your post since I never played solo and thus wouldn't know.
If Voivod was referring to something else, then I apologize.