Fast Tactical Combat

Disable tactical/world animation?

from Elemental Forums

While I love engaging in the tactical combat, I find it to be frustratingly slow after I have gone through a couple of fights.  I would love to see some option to disable the combat animations (and/or all tactical animations), with the intent of being able to issues commands faster, and combat to execute faster.  This could also reduce the performance requirements of low powered systems.

This could also be applied to the world map with army movement/city animations.  I find much more often than not that I play with the cloth map to try and recreate this.  This means unfortunately, that I miss the nice models that have been created for everything.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

One of my worries about TC is that there will be units that are vastly superior in TC to quick combat.  Hopefully QC in FE will be TC that is AI vs AI and unseen.

 

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I agree, an option to speed up movement would be nice.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Holding the shift key in battles will increase all animation speeds x3.

 

It makes us animators cringe, but it's defiantly welcome on those long games :)

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

So now we are just making stuff up? 

Very well, if you hold ctrl and push F, all attacks will go into cinematic mode. 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Boogiebac, any chance you can make that a toggle instead? Like caps lock? Holding shift is going to be very tiresome. Or it could just be a checkbox somewhere in the tactical ui.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Anything is possible :)   Probably a UI toggle, since too many hotkeys can hide these features.

seanw: The shift toggle is a feature in FE, not WoM (we're in the FE wishlist section).

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Actually I had already added a requirement to have a + and - button to the tactical combat screen to speed up the battles.