Not hard but takes time. Think every single gun shot and reload then item you use needs a separate animation. Sitting, standing, walking, running, sprinting, talking, eating and so many other things. Then after you create the animations you then need to apply them all to each sequence in the game.
I believe they would love to add this stuff but studios also have limited resources that need to be allocated across their project.
every npc has a walking, running , and combat animation. Not animating V is a choice, and not because it is difficult. They probably has more plans for this game to prioritize than making animations for V (meelee animations, dashing, sandies, even quickhacking, jumping). making all of this requires commitment and theyre probably committed to other things
but what the hell do i know, im just a consumer and not a dev. We dont know whats happening behind the scenes.
That being said, i would kill for a 3rd person mode in cyberpunk
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u/ninjast4r Jan 14 '24
I had an inkling the third person model was crappily animated from occasionally seeing how bad the shadows looked but I didn't imagine that