i submitted a ticket to help address this issue REMEMBER WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US.

Hey guys just checking in to let you know I sent in probaly my last bug report about the BROKEN and UGLY Walk Cycle. I still encourage anyone that hates what they did back on Wed, April 27, 2022 update to voice your displeasure with a bug report. One person can be ignored, but not a legion. 

ALSO: If you are really bothered by the Walk Cycle, take a break from BDO, clear your head, play Jedi Fallen Order (only $10 in Steam), and drop their player numbers. If they see that they are NOT the only game in town (literally), maybe something will change? We can hope. 

As usual, what i wrote is listed below. Hopefully they will come and read what we are saying. Take care guys and hold the line! 

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Hello,

I’ve written multiple times about this issue, so I won’t rehash everything ad nauseum. The fact is despite many the updates sense the Wed, April 27, 2022 update/patch, the Walk Cycle has been utterly destroyed. It completely kills the immersion for me and many players like me. I’ve reached out to the forums and many players do indeed hate what you have done to the elegance of the Walk Cycle. I know it probably seems petty and unimportant (and it probably is with what’s going on in the world around us), but the escapism that BDO used to provide is nearly gone. Not only is the Walk Cycle absolutely UGLY now, but its buggy and inconvenient as heck! Please fix it?

I’m going to be stepping away from BDO because of this and encourage anyone that will listen to me to do so also. Its just not worth beating my/our head against the wall hoping something will change on your end. Ill check in once or twice a month to see if anything has changed (I highly doubt that it will), but I think that’s it for me.  

You had an amazing / immersive / beautiful game that’s no longer amazing or immersive….its still visually beautiful though…

Thanks for your patience in receiving my Bug Reports.

Forum Link: https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Forum/ForumTopic/Detail?_topicNo=22260&_page=1

I just watched one of my characters walk today........

So lifeless......

So empty..........

Kinda wondering why anyone thought this was a good idea to bleed the soul out of our characters and rob them of individual expression that they had for so very long........

Hey, PA, dig up those old animation files and restore them in this next patch.  Work a little copy and paste magic, ok?

And rework Drakania, so her walk will make us cower in her presence.

Not just the animation, but the startup sequence is broken too.

And one thing everyone here seems to have missed :

You can't interract with anything unless you get out of Zombie walking (i.e stop moving totally, release the walk method, move again normallly then interract)

Don't know if I tried interacting with things while walking before: perhaps it is a "mode" of behavior that one has to leave before interacting with anything.

Don't know if that can easily be changed, but these new animations should be.  I don't want to say this, but it feels like they're trying to make everything generic so that they don't have to spend time customizing things and making things unique.  They can roll out new content fot the lowest time, effort and cost, for the same or higher price.  A law of business, unfortunately makes a business thrive for a time.  In terms of art, big-time downgrade.  And those that appreciate the art, will someday move to greener pastures.  This game is losing those small, beautiful details tht make it great, the random music and zombie walk is just a couple, but they're HUGE.  They remove the uniqueness that one might not take notice of, because in this great, big, beautiful world of ours, EVERYTHING is unique.  But when things become copy/paste, and all unique expression is gone, the soul of everything disintegrates, and all becomes bland and blah.  Once the magic of the world dissipates, all you have left is the other content of the game.  The story is sub-par: it's getting much better, but other games have it beat.  The fighting in this game rules, I have yet to see a smoother, better system, but one can only fight so long.  PA should make us want to live in this world.  In the long run, it will keep their customers and attract new ones.  The best law of business: spend the green to make the absolutely best product so that people will buy and buy, because it is beautiful, not because we're mindless junkies who need to have more because we need to have more.

Modern capitalism is killing the world.  Sure, it's the best system we have, but it's easy to inject greed and laziness.  Put in less to get more.  It results in disgruntled customers.  PA is a business.  But they don't need to go down the less to get more path. 

Keep the art great, PA.  Your customers will love you for it, and you'll win financially and players will love you.

Peace

I have three complaints with the female walk animation in BDO:

1. It's immature. The hands don't move in opposite directions with the legs. The BDO walk is that of a two year old toddler.

2. It's ungraceful.

3. You cannot move in 360 degrees with it. You cannot walk toward the camera even when out of combat in slow walk.

I made this film not long ago capturing my Sorceress' walk, but I just confirmed my Guardian has the exact same and ungraceful walk.

I love BDO, but I very much dislike the female slow walk.

It would be nice if OP or anyone could rephrase this into a proper suggestion "restore previous walk animations".

If it gets the upvotes this topic got then they can hardly ignore it. This is NOT the way to push crappy mobile bdo by downgrading PC bdo graphics bit by bit!

Yes, please! PLEASE!

Yes! This post needs to be reformatted to fit the template that they've provided, plus update the title to include the desired outcome:

"A Setting To Toggle Legacy Walk Animations."

Also, bump <3