Gather Herbs Animation HELP

[Brainspasm]

hi,
Please can u make a option to turn off that gather animation?

i see it now arround 200 times, it realy sucks, i dont want gather herbs anymore.
please make a option to turn this animation off and let us grab the herb like all other stuff. this 3th person view and animation is annoying :(

[BoogieMan]

Yes please!

[RangerChad]

After getting to level 8 Herbalism and finally got tired of watching the animation, I agree it is not needed.

[akki]

This animation is killing me...

[Canteu]

But you gotta do that squat for that sweet 1 str exp. Everything in this game is slow and has an animation, but yeah it is weird that this is the only one that goes to third person.

It's not really so bad once you get past 10 herb, as you do it once and it picks almost every herb of the same time in a few metre radius.

[Ayar]

I'm at level 11 Herbalism and I do see your point.

I'm flower-scummer in these flower-picking games. I describe Witcher, Dragon Age, DoS, even Technomancer, to my wife as flower-picking games, with visual proof that it's key gameplay element and nudges towards playing a "florist class" character.

KC:D doesn't miss out, also having many many flowers and the typical RPG emphasis thereon.

What I like about KC:D is that I recognize the damn (can I say damn?) flowers as I wander around, including novel ones. Yay. Nettle looks like what is on my property (ouch), as do dandilions (duh), but valarian, mint (fidge it looks right if hard to see), marigold, poppies. Great stuff, not like every other RPG where it's largely some fantastical Floris magicus devmadeupicus

So in other games, it's nothing to pick a flower as Geralt sprints through a field (admitted a lower caste field compared to Czechia fields).

Thus, the Godwoken florist ends up with multiple piles and piles of 99 flowers.

And all these games don't have valentines day.

But they do have traders. So I make small bits of money early early on to fund...mistakes or nice-to-haves. And embarassing amount even later on to get rid of the stacks of 99 Jellyroom. KC:D has been no different, depsite the animation.

In fact, KC:D promotes the florist specialization by giving you a perk for increasing strength (from the squats the animation makes clear you're doing) as you pick flowers. Wow. Sensible, but the teleportation based picking method Geralt does fails to reward for such exercise, and that's also sensible.

I noted that I wanted to curb my flower pick scumming somewhat due to the animation. But as Herbalism goes up you pick more per animation--seems to be a radius thing, with higher skill picking from larger radius at once. So I also now target "flower rich" environments where a single flower harvest will be productive. So the animation becomes even less intrusive.

That's kind of interesting result of "art of the nudge" meta that the animation engenders.

Given that tale, I kind of appreciate the animation, which I find very short and well-balanced (for me), unlike certain other annoying-but-not-breaking bits of the game (saving). For me, a serial flower murderer, its effect on my character's behavior has been subtle and oddly more sensible than normal "magic instantaneous teleport pick" I normally abuse.

To put the player in charge, I think an opt-in option to disable the animation makes sense. But user-control and optionality may be contrary to the principles of opinionated software.

[BenDingo]

Originally posted by Brainspasm:

hi,
Please can u make a option to turn off that gather animation?

i see it now arround 200 times, it realy sucks, i dont want gather herbs anymore. ..(

Only 9,800 more times and you'll get the achievement.

[JonWoo]

Yeah I'm at like 18 herbalism now and I still haven't got used to it. It wouldn't be bad if it didn't go to third person. That's bugged me from the first time I grabbed some nettle.

[DeLastOne]

+1 this is so annoying ... bad gameplay choice. Kill this stupid animation. Replace it by a small timer of some sort.

[Darkside99x]

+1, I dont mind the animation staying if the camera stays first person but ideally let us turn it off.