What is up with the face animation, AI? What?

[Bust-E-Pona]

I am watching a friend play and the facial animations... The way their mouths just sorta always hang open, and jitter. Is this AI animation or just bad? What is going on???

Edit: To anyone saying the dialog is also bad, it is lore accurate to an excessive degree from everyone but the star pilots, which has it's pros and cons obviously.

[siztem]

Its like their mouths move twice as much as normal humans.
Blah blah, but theyre clones, or whatever
That fact is irrelevant. They all look like Sid from Toy Story 1, and they didnt have to.

[Bust-E-Pona]

Originally posted by siztem:

Its like their mouths move twice as much as normal humans.
Blah blah, but theyre clones, or whatever
That fact is irrelevant. They all look like Sid from Toy Story 1, and they didnt have to.

Obviously superior clan genetics means they can move their mouths faster.

[Black Hole]

yeah....it needs work it's weird.

[Dropdead]

Originally posted by Spooky Mawile:

I am watching a friend play and their animations, the way their mouths just sorta always hang open, and jitter. Is this AI animation or just bad? What is going ON?

Facial animations do be a bit wonky at times, it would seem some character got lots more polish on their facial animations than others, I find it a bit disturbing and "unreal" ...... no puns intended.

That being said, while this ain't no "Blizzard" level CGI, it's alright.

[Pyro]

Their speech patterns being stilted and bizarre-sounding is lore accurate - The Clans were founded by a militaristic madman who remade the shattered, self-exiled remains of the Star League Defense Force (think Space NATO for broad strokes) in his own image. Rigid speech codes were only the tip of the iceberg in how much he screwed them up.

They're also not clones - not exactly. They're genetically-engineered test-tube babies, but each is a unique individual. They just whip them up in lots of 100 (generally from the same parents) with some random factors thrown in, and put them through a training regimen that the Spartans would have called insanely excessive.

As for the face animation, it didn't seem badly off on my end, but I agree that the teeth don't look quite right.

[merry_prankster1]

for me it's the female mouth animations that are worse. the lips just hang open when they talk and then flap around with a delay.

[Slap Happy Pappy]

The stilted speech is fine.

It's the I AM GOING TO SAY THIS LINE WITH A FURY OF A THOUSAND SUNS- followed by a polite request flow to conversations which tells me they had voice actors read their lines individually, and before the scenes were written.

And then recorded some stuff in the office bathroom on an iphone 6 for good measure.

[🌟 taipaN-[CE] 🌟]

Game looks amazing, no graphical issues whatsoever @ 4k. Enjoyable game, feels faster than MW5: Mercenaries, more polished. Cut scenes so far are impressive for this studio.

[Broke]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Yep, it's really bad, and these things usually don't bother me. Also, the voice acting is so stiff , and they enunciate their words like nobody really talks.

Can you please stop knowing nothing about Battletech
♥♥♥♥'s sake

[Slap Happy Pappy]

Cut scenes so far are impressive for this studio.

how so

[Slap Happy Pappy]

I think I figured it out: The "flesh" on the bones is like 1 inch thick

[AFatalPapercut]

the dialogue is just as terrible so far

[Bust-E-Pona]

Originally posted by Pyro:

Their speech patterns being stilted and bizarre-sounding is lore accurate - The Clans were founded by a militaristic madman who remade the shattered, self-exiled remains of the Star League Defense Force (think Space NATO for broad strokes) in his own image. Rigid speech codes were only the tip of the iceberg in how much he screwed them up.

They're also not clones - not exactly. They're genetically-engineered test-tube babies, but each is a unique individual. They just whip them up in lots of 100 (generally from the same parents) with some random factors thrown in, and put them through a training regimen that the Spartans would have called insanely excessive.

As for the face animation, it didn't seem badly off on my end, but I agree that the teeth don't look quite right.

I wish other people posting understood this lore lol.

[Atlessa]

Originally posted by mike_hanna211:

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Yep, it's really bad, and these things usually don't bother me. Also, the voice acting is so stiff , and they enunciate their words like nobody really talks.

Contractions are lazy!

This is so funny to me, clans are like "how dare you say I'm, you lazy bastard" and then invent new contractions like batchall (battle challenge), sibco (sibling company), neg and aff (negative and affirmative) and many more.

God I love the irony in the lore sometimes. :D

[Slim_Sumo]

The lip sync is terrible, and the slack jaws are crazy lol.
The script itself is pretty much perfect though. The voice actors however, sound like they're reading words off of a sheet of paper for the first time with no context to what they're actually saying, just monotone it feels weird. And some of your star members, seem way to whiny for clanners imo.