Why are the silent strikes animations on burrower/machines so bad.

[EisenZahnWolf]

I loved playing Zero Dawn mostly via silent strikes and with a stealth approach. Hitting most machines looked awesome since you saw both aloy struggling to put enough force into the strike while the machine struggles to get free or get rid of the spear. Now the machines just insta freeze while the animation is happening and only kinda twitch around after the animation has finished before going limb.
I hope the issue only persists with the burrower's but man they look bad.

[Vuthenghihi]

Yeah me too on pc, is weird they just freeze and all the components on it just disappear and flop to the ground, hopefully they'll patched it soon

[Exquisite]

It's not like that on the PS5 version. It's probably a bug they'll fix.

[EisenZahnWolf]

Originally posted by Exquisite:

It's not like that on the PS5 version. It's probably a bug they'll fix.

I just saw some footage from someone called I.Eat.Games on youtube about a silent strike trial 2 years ago and its the exact same issue, doesn't matter if strike comes from above or a normal silent strike. Most others seem to make a silent strike vs human enemies compilation or showcase the first mission where you should silent strike the burrower but they just shoot it.
Guess I have to take your word for it, at the moment those animations are just awful and seemed to be an early issue plaguing Playstation as well.

[Exquisite]

Originally posted by EisenZahnWolf:

Originally posted by Exquisite:

It's not like that on the PS5 version. It's probably a bug they'll fix.

I just saw some footage from someone called I.Eat.Games on youtube about a silent strike trial 2 years ago and its the exact same issue, doesn't matter if strike comes from above or a normal silent strike. Most others seem to make a silent strike vs human enemies compilation or showcase the first mission where you should silent strike the burrower but they just shoot it.
Guess I have to take your word for it, at the moment those animations are just awful and seemed to be an early issue plaguing Playstation as well.

I just booted up my PS5 to check, based on my 2 kills, the issue is not present.
I bought HFW on PS5 well after it was released, so it's possible it was an early issue they had fixed by the time I played. I agree it looks like ♥♥♥♥ on PC, hopefully they fix it.

[Voidchack]

every pc video review i seen have this Issue

[EisenZahnWolf]

Some seem to be working now but only outside of the daunt after the embassy mission. But its not all the time. Haven't put enough attention to what I'm actually doing different to trigger the right animation, might be shooting off resource containers and other external parts and then going for the silent strike but haven't tested this yet. Maybe my brain is foggy as well and those were just the critical strikes after you knock a machine down, but I could've sworn I saw some scrounger variants that I was able to take down with the animation played correctly.