What happened when they made Crysis Wars? The quality of the animations went way down. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, see this video of Crysis 1 MP. Watch how fluid/languid the players seem



^There's a beautiful sequence at 0:44, 1:12, 1:54... the way the guy dies at 2:05 and 2:23.... the strafe battle at 3:10. Never mind the beautiful wall jump and minimal fall damage at 1:30 and 2:42. These are the moments you don't see in Crysis Wars anymore...

then compare it to this or any video of Wars. Everyone looks so stiff.



I and a few other players I know, and maybe even more players, loved the animations in the Crysis 1 MP. I feel like it made fights as artistic or dance-like as they were violent. I want to bring the original animations back to Wars. The animations work correctly in Crysis Warhead... so there must be some pak files I can just copy paste into the Wars folder, right? Maybe a DLL file?

Any thoughts on the subject?

Here's another way you can tell the difference

In Crysis, Crysis 1 MP and Crysis Warhead, the NK and USA nanosuits look monotone/washed out/grayer, while in Wars, the suit colors have more contrast/brightness/colors

Crysis Warhead:



Wars:



I know the Crysis Warhead example isn't the best because they're covered in ice, but if you look for this difference in the videos you'll see it as well.


Here another vid with a great animation at 0:27, where an enemy wall jumps up the energy site and pulls out his gun...., and another great animation at 2:25 of a great strafe jump and fight combo in the proto garage. none of this in Wars.

Thats what crytek likes to call "optimization"

ROFL.

I figured and agree... they must have blocked animations from occurring with some code.

I'm looking in Scripts/Entities/Actor/player.LUA I will be looking at more code, but it would be helpful if I could get a reply from someone with more experience digging into these files or who knows what happened to the animations in the first place.