Zenless Zone Zero is Adding this but... #zzz #zenlesszone #hoyoverse

Please Keep In Mind that these are All My Own Personal Opinions- not objective views and I understand that many Many May Disagree, and if you do then that’s fine.

Zenless Zone Zero is a free-to-play action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo in mainland China, with global publishing by Cognosphere, d/b/a HoYoverse. The game was released on Windows, iOS, Android and PlayStation 5, on July 4, 2024
#zenless #hoyoverse #zzz

[screemingnott]

Unlike Genshin where character models have body type templates that share the same base model, standing poses, and movement animations for their respective body categories (walk/jog/sprint/etc.)... ZZZ have 3D models that are distinctly unique from one another and all of them will have unique animations as we've seen with Jane and Cesar from the story.

For example, we have Kolda, Lucy, and Corin. Three short female characters that have very different personalities. How will they be animated in the HUB world?
Koleda: stand feet apart chest puffed out.
Lucy: will stand tall, feet togther, and chin up.
Corin: will be hunched forward, head low, hands close to her chest.
Now imagine that they will have walk, jog, run, and idle animations to match the characterization of their standing poses. Now apply that to ALL the agents.
(also take note that all of them will have different selfie poses)

So this means the developers will have to spend resources to have their animators pour hours into what is essentially a cosmetic feature.

And this is the reason why they didn't have this on launch. They had to spend their development time on the essentials first, which is a good call. A lot of AAA games nowadays release in an incomplete state because they spread their resources too thin on features that don't contribute to the game's basic functions. ZZZ did the right call for doing the fluff content after the game's release.

[Amixan]

3 points to make here

Point 1: its just a hub area and not a proper open world

Point 2: ZZZ's story has always forcused on the siblings of Belle and Wise, so the hub area being playable by our chosen sibling makes sense

Point 3: something that you'll see if you bothered to switch to the other sibling and playing in the hub area, the screen fades to black and your character changes back to the chosen sibling and then fades to black again after the interaction is over to switch back to the other sibling

[Orphic]

But we do learn some things about the characters from hangouts though, especially the special events with voice acting. For example, Zhu Yuan is a prude and has never held hands with someone romantically lol

[SplittedCorn]

1. Agents that are big and tall like Ben or Lycaon would have trouble fit into small place like the playstore and HDD room
2. The siblings can't be playable in combat so it makes sense to have you control them in the overwolrd.
3. Animations aren't easy and they are taking time to make every agent actually have different animations when they are in the overworld (not carry weapons) than in combat.

[arienmartinez]

Did you just call this an open world game? I’m sorry I didn’t know all the Pokémon games before Scarlet and Violet were open world games. I didn’t know Call of Duty was an open world franchise!

[WoLF_Chunklord]

Not every character has a slow walking animation, I think it’s just the twins, Jane, and Caesar

[gostsider]

Dev says that they are still working on you can select all the characters you have in in roaming city. Major issue they say is some characters are too large like Ben to fit in some areas like the video store and the HDD room.

[jakkees]

They're either adding idle animations

Or doing something else that's distracting from it

because they still need to make it so both a little anime girl and a 2m tall wolf man could work in the hub, but overall it seems kind of plausible by 1.3 already

[ColgateMann]

Man's truely a serial whiner.
1. ZZZ ain't even semi open world, it's a level based game with small hubs, that frankly after You've explored once there's no reason not to use the teleports
2. I Haven't played games like blue archive but the hangouts in ZZZ are leagues better than anything in hsr and genshin (not hating on them though)

[TheNeon-rhkk]

It's either they bring the important stuff first on launch or they bring these useless QOL that can be done later.

[IngridKen]

"Basic" as a programmer i cri

[hieveryone]

There are a few levels you can pause with characters for their idles, and i want them to let me talk to people as the character im walking around as, not switching me back to wise.

[kyuuketsukikun]

They said they are making a whole new set of animations for the characters for overworld and that they are having to figure out how to deal with Ben biggers bulk

[Aru_Sheesh]

In zzz They didnt intend to have characters to be Usable in open world but when players wants it to be theyre bringing that slowly and creating their own unique walking animation running and their idle,

And animation is not easy 😊

[nanakomatsu]

Some of these characters walk/run in peculiar ways during combat, which doesn't suit much a peaceful environment... Jane literally never walk, she went from run, to running more at basically 95° degree... Nekomiya/Nekomata got a weird walk as well due to how she have to keep and wear her weapons... Also it would be weird to see them walking like they do with their weapons on their hands...

[bruh]

The question "why isn't it out at launch" would make the game never come out. The main point is it's here, it's gonna be all of them soon. Isn't that enough? It's way better than other games that never even do it, take genshin(i know, beating a dead horse) for example, why is reserve resin isn't a thing yet? Have they addressed it?

[lpi]

Apparently it's because some characters got big hitboxes like Ben or Tall female body characters (Jane, Ceasar, Zhu Yuan)

[wrathvarean]

Bro said open world game💀💀💀

Just uninstall already bro

[KiranasOfRizon]

Given we're not getting them all until 1.4, I am hoping we'll have idle animations.

[NynZhan]

They do this for content creators like you to make slop content and milk it 😂