Normal Brain Crush animation never plays

[Lucid]

Instead only the short one plays no matter what setting I use.
Demonstration here about the difference between the normal and short one.
https://twitter.com/shibainu_kenji/status/1408625152481366020

Here's a video recorded on my PC that shows the issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee-w8ta7uZs

I have it set to Normal yet the Short version of the animation always plays instead.
Version 1.02

[Затылок]

same here

[Shiki Yui]

For me it's random when it plays the normal version like 1 out of 5 times I'd get it to appear

[Crit]

On top of the low chance for it to happen, I think it also depends on the location you are in. Some I think needs to be in an open area and thus brain crush in a corner would not work.

[desertkona]

don't immediately press the brain crush button, wait for 1 sec and it often the normal animation will trigger

[CoffeeKitty]

Yeah im having this issue too, like my last 500 brain cruhses only one hasn't been the short ver

Feelsbad

Originally posted by desertkona:

don't immediately press the brain crush button, wait for 1 sec and it often the normal animation will trigger

tried this, doesn't seem to help

[Lucid]

Originally posted by desertkona:

don't immediately press the brain crush button, wait for 1 sec and it often the normal animation will trigger

I tried that as well, it doesn't work. Seems they trigger for some enemies and very rarely and more consistently when using Brain Field.
But the setting should trigger the Normal animations on every Brain Crush, instead of very rarely, otherwise there's no point to the setting.

[Lucid]

Originally posted by Crit:

On top of the low chance for it to happen, I think it also depends on the location you are in. Some I think needs to be in an open area and thus brain crush in a corner would not work.

Doesn't matter where you are, the game teleports you to a location where there's enough space to play the Normal animation when it happens and then teleports you back where you triggered it. This is a bug, it's not supposed to play the Short version so often.
It sucks because I want to see the Normal animations, they're really cool and all that work the developers put into the animations is wasted like this...

[Gin-chan]

the normal animations are pretty random. though i honestly kinda prefer it this way. i get to see it occasionally while having it fast most of the time without having to change the settings. so if they ever get to fixing/patching this i hope theres an in-between option like this

[Lucid]

Originally posted by Gin-chan:

the normal animations are pretty random. though i honestly kinda prefer it this way. i get to see it occasionally while having it fast most of the time without having to change the settings. so if they ever get to fixing/patching this i hope theres an in-between option like this

Yeah, I get what you mean but I want to see the Normal animations every time I do a Brain Crush, otherwise there's no point to the setting, I reported it to Bandai customer support and got a reply saying the devs will be notifed, hope they can patch it soon.

[CoffeeKitty]

agreed, the other problem is that you dont even know what animations you're missing half the time.

take the paws base mob, i didn't see my FIRST normal brain crush animation untill i was at arahabaki, at which point i've already killed almost 30-40 of the damn things, every single one with a crush attack, i figured "oh theres just no crush animation for it, lame"

Nope, on my like 45th kill game decides to give me a sick ass animation of it being dragged around by kasane - that's a real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shame that i can't see the cinimatic stuff until at point in the game where i -should- be bored of it.

it also sucks that there's no consistency to it, it messes up my flow a lot, i'd rather an option to make all normal or all short, a half and half is fine too but i don't see why its not just a simple as "tap or hold" the brain crush button. glory kills work like that in doom eternal iirc.

of all the things to complain about this is pretty minor but it does bother me personally more than most of the other things people seem to be complaining about, which i guess is a mark of a good game lol

[Lucid]

Anyone found a fix for this or a way to mod it?

[AttemptCreate]

My impression of this is the game will never play the normal length brain crush animation if you will still be in combat afterwards (aka there are remaining enemies).

[Lucid]

That sucks, I don't see much point in the Normal setting then. Funny thing is that it triggers a lot more often when playing as Kasane so I still think it's somewhat bugged.

[Lucid]

Originally posted by Mì gói khô:

if you have multiple enemies vulnerable to brain crush it'll play the short animation instead to kill them all in one go, other than that it just depend on the location and your distance to the target, it's really picky on the location

Yeah, I figured that out since it makes sense to trigger when there's multiple enemies but when there's only a single one or even a last one left, it often still plays only the Short version instead... the trailers advertised these Normal animations so I thought they'd at least be a lot more common, even more so with a Normal and Short setting... this sucks.

[Raiser 💤]

Normal is just the default option, the way it was designed. They added the fast option at launch so that people who got bored of the full animation don't need to see them.
It isn't "normal animations" and "fast animations". It's the normal option were the full animations play occasionally and the short ones most of the time, or the fast option were only short animations play.
There is no setting to play only long animations but they might add it at some point.