Currently, you have to watch an animation of the weapon folding up and retracting before you can continue using the UI. While it does not actually take that long to complete, it is very frustrating to watch when selling a weapon loadout for whatever reason.
Please remove the animation when selling weaponry
- Thread starter CMDR Vectura
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Optional is a good idea. I don't like it.
I'd prefer it if they never forced us to watch the animation. I just want to move on to the next module please and thanks.
I so hate these damn animations... I combed the menus to disable them but no go. Optional, if you wish, but please let me make them go away!
Nobody minds the animations. What we don't like is being tied down and forced to watch them. Again. And again. And again.
Absolutely agree. There's no need to lock the UI while you watch that. Add onto that that the next weapon coming out is a bit jaggy anyway.
^ Yep. If you're paying attention (who does anymore? According to some we should have messages popup every time you buy a lower grade module just in case you're not smart enough to figure out that's going to affect your ship performance), there's a spinning data transfer icon indicating it's completing the transaction in the top corner of the screen. That's the delay, the animation is just eye candy.
Optional or permanent removal...
There's a third option: cut the animation as soon as the client got updated on the change, so weapon changes don't take longer than changing other modules.
Either is good with me: Most game developers recognize, that its a negative to take control away from the player without a very good reason. ( like cinematics or unavoidable technical limitations)
A feeble animation of a weapon folding behind a hatch certainly is not a good reason by any stretch of the imagination...
There's a third option: cut the animation as soon as the client got updated on the change, so weapon changes don't take longer than changing other modules.
Either is good with me: Most game developers recognize, that its a negative to take control away from the player without a very good reason. ( like cinematics or unavoidable technical limitations)
A feeble animation of a weapon folding behind a hatch certainly is not a good reason by any stretch of the imagination...
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What you say sounds plausible, but isn't actually so: Weapons take significantly longer than modules without animation to get the client updated on the change.
I like it to. Makes outfitting feel less arcade somehow. Perhaps we can have that for all parts we change? 
That was a joke... But I really like the weapon animation anyway. Perhaps it would be better if all weapons change at once upon leaving the hardpoints screen. Would make it less annyoing when changing lots of guns at once.
That was a joke... But I really like the weapon animation anyway. Perhaps it would be better if all weapons change at once upon leaving the hardpoints screen. Would make it less annyoing when changing lots of guns at once.