I keep forgetting to elaborate another important point.
As said, this is a pure speculation. I wish I’m wrong. Precisely, what I’m most worried of when they say fix – is simply double down the concept of Cinematic Animation.
For instance, the killing animation of a human originally last for about 5s, starting with the human tripping down while running. They may “fix” it by increasing the length of the animation to about 8s – to which the starting point is pulled backward 3s to include a “Cinematic” chasing sequence. In that way, both the freezing time and degree of jerkiness may decrease dramatically but obviously this is NOT a fix. This is HIDING the problem. This is MUCH WORSE. Previously, a human faith is locked down about 3 yards away from a Ceratosaurus (fairly unrealistic already); now, he/she is locked down much further about 15 yards away. Do you see the problem?
The same case can apply to the Spino flipping-killing animation as said. Obviously, again, this is purely a speculation. I’m bringing this up to let people understand that there is reasons to rethink/re-analyze the problem we are facing here. If I’m correct, if the problem do lie on heavy reliance on Cinematic Animation, the solution is NOT to double-down in that direction; in contrary, Frontier may need to step back, re-construct the entire mechanism from the root – conceptually. One of the better ways is to consider the OPEN-ENDED NESTED BLENDING MODEL (this is just a make-up name) that I suggested above.
P/S – I know the clip I shown above may not illustrate my point in the best way possible. If any of you feel any doubt, please let me know. I may find another clip or even better I will make a good-quality video myself. The point is – I played that game for years. For sure I know how seamless it is deep down to the bone.
