Lists of animation cancels

[Ordinan]

How many animation cancels has been discovered and used in the game?

My most used animation cancelling tricks are;

pickaxe cancel - hold the pickaxe button until you hear the pickaxing sound then release then repeat
reload cancel - press ctrl after the ammo count in the weapon changes
grenade spam cancel - press ctrl then grenade button then release both simulatneously
deposit cancel - press deposit button then pickaxe button then repeat quickly

Share your animation cancelling tricks and how to do it

[Chibbity]

I mean...is the game really hard enough to bother doing this stuff lol?

I just don't really get the appeal myself.

More power to you if it makes the game more fun for you though I guess?

[Aratorin]

I have Use/Interact bound to a button on my mouse as well as E, so I spam back and forth between them when building things. Not because it's faster or anything, it's just fun to annoy people with the constant clinking. :-)

[Marmarmar34]

The only cancel I ever use is reload cancel with the pickaxe to spam electric reloads.

[Ordinan]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

I mean...is the game really hard enough to bother doing this stuff lol?

I just don't really get the appeal myself.

More power to you if it makes the game more fun for you though I guess?

complicating simple things oddly made it more fun for me especially if it improves my gameplay even if just a tiny bit

[Frisky]

I only reload cancel and sometimes grenade cancel

Pickaxe canceling makes basically no difference now and deposit spam i don’t care for, looks ridiculous

[Marmarmar34]

Originally posted by Frisky:

I only reload cancel and sometimes grenade cancel

Pickaxe canceling makes basically no difference now and deposit spam i don’t care for, looks ridiculous

Bro's angry

[Bookslayer10]

firing recoil cancel - fire the platform gun then hit the pickaxe button to cancel out the recoil animation. Allows for high firing speed without even taking the modification for it.

[Cor.]

how about that.

more cheating...

[Niczu]

Originally posted by Bookslayer10:

firing recoil cancel - fire the platform gun then hit the pickaxe button to cancel out the recoil animation. Allows for high firing speed without even taking the modification for it.

This is the only one I use. I dunno, I tried it a long time ago just for funsies and it then became a habit.

[Bookslayer10]

Originally posted by Cor.:

how about that.

more cheating...

At this point it's an unofficial feature, like how ledge grabbing cancels fall damage.

[Marmarmar34]

Originally posted by Cor.:

how about that.

more cheating...

Just like wave dashing!

[Cor.]

Originally posted by Bookslayer10:

Originally posted by Cor.:

how about that.

more cheating...

At this point it's an unofficial feature, like how ledge grabbing cancels fall damage.

thats skill, not a bug. Thats one way of dealing with getting tossed.

Thanks for proving my point.

[Bookslayer10]

Originally posted by Cor.:

Originally posted by Bookslayer10:

At this point it's an unofficial feature, like how ledge grabbing cancels fall damage.

thats skill, not a bug. Thats one way of dealing with getting tossed.

Thanks for proving my point.

Well, animation canceling is also skill, unless you use a macro to hit it; because then it's cheating, just like if you used aimbot or something.

[Cor.]

Originally posted by Bookslayer10:

Originally posted by Cor.:

thats skill, not a bug. Thats one way of dealing with getting tossed.

Thanks for proving my point.

Well, animation canceling is also skill, unless you use a macro to hit it; because then it's cheating, just like if you used aimbot or something.

no, its not.

its abusing the game code.

I get it, you like to cheat. Posting cheats to a discussion in frowned upon

[Bookslayer10]

Originally posted by Cor.:

Originally posted by Bookslayer10:

Well, animation canceling is also skill, unless you use a macro to hit it; because then it's cheating, just like if you used aimbot or something.

no, its not.

its abusing the game code.

I get it, you like to cheat. Posting cheats to a discussion in frowned upon

Well, edge grabbing to deal with fall damage is also exploiting the game's code, so anyone who does that is also cheating.

Edit: Pulling off animation cancels, especially in the heat of combat, takes a lot of skill. It's definitely powerful, and maybe overpowered; it probably deserves a nerf on its effectiveness for a lot of weapons and tools. However, using an OP mechanic is not cheating, so saying it is cheating is simply false.