Digging and moving with loot should be faster. no reason it shouldnt me. everyone is on same playing feel and the risk is still involved
Faster Shoveling and Movement
Anyone else still double tap X/B?
I adjusted to slow bucketing pretty early after the animation-cancel was removed, but I dig so infrequently that I sometimes forget it's gone.
I feel that Rare should have replaced the exploits with a skill-based mechanic. Something like the "active reload" feature in Gears of War.
If you hit the window just right, you get a speed boost. If you miss, you suffer a penalty. If you do nothing, you play out the animation as normal. This could make digging less tedious. Add it for reloading ammo too, to replace that animation-cancel.
As for moving faster with loot, I don't really see a need. And I'd only be okay with this if we buffed speeds for moving faster without loot, accordingly. Someone unencumbered should be able to catch up to someone else running with an object in hand.
Things are fine as is, IMO.
The whole reason the system is how the system is, is designed for crew help and support.
It is slow to dig? Call for back up from the crew and have them help you.
This is a design element that is throughout the entire game.
I'm staunchly against changing elements like this.
I feel like a risk/reward mechanic for digging would go a long way. A while back, I proposed a shoveling "combo" similar to the sword. The reward would be that if you're on the right spot, you get a 3-dig combo that's twice as fast as just normal digging. The risk is that the combo cannot be cancelled. If you spam RT/M1, and you're not on the right spot, you're stuck with the combo dig animation.
Regarding loot sprinting...ehh...the speed trade off is not that great. I mostly do it because I'm fidgety lol. I wish they would eliminate that "exploit" so I wouldn't do it anymore. That said, I do think they should allow for carrying two small items instead of just one.
@ottyman8687 said in Faster Shoveling and Movement:
Why though
It's fine as it is
Yes, and no. Mechanically, it's fine, but visually? Not so much. Every time I dig post-fix, it feels absolutely jarring to me. I just want 1 dig animation to flow seamlessly into another, and it no longer does that. There's a slight pause in-between the animation that just makes me absolutely hate digging now. Rare needs to fix that.
@nismoxlifestyle said in Faster Shoveling and Movement:
If you're on sloop you can dig up things faster compared to galleon and i like it that way because it makes the difficulty leveled.
I don't think that's necessarily true anymore. I used to be able to dig things up solo with like 3 digs; now it takes like 5+.
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