What happen to the combat slide

[sh0tyme]

Last night me and my girl was like let's play GTA IV one time for 2014. So I agree. We get into public rooms and to surprise we were not alone a full room quiet until you turn on the mic..oh the good ol days.. Then we went to everyone's favorite spot the airport same ol sh*t building glitchers and helicopter geeks. I had got into a intense rocket battle and I went to cover behind this fixture and I remember I could slide and roll to it...I had always wonder why Rockstar took out this feature. I would love to use it now days. In survivals and free mode . Check out the vids I found on them they were sorta hard to find. Anyone think if we made noise about it Rockstar might bring it to GTA V? Or do anyone not care as much as I would?

 

Source GTA Wiki http://gta.wikia.com/Cover_System

Grand Theft Auto IV dramatically expanded this idea into a system with a simple press of a button. The cover button can let the player automatically find a nearby object to hide behind. A great number of animations are available just to approach the cover, including running into cover, rolling into cover, sliding into cover, and going from cover to cover.

 

Once behind cover, the player can strafe left or right if there is room, hugging close to the cover. At the edge of a cover, the player can blind fire without exposing the major parts of the body to receive minimal damage. A major disadvantage to this is that accuracy is dramatically reduced. The new system allows the player to throw projectiles and explosives without damaging oneself in the process. The player can shoot out of cover instead and after the player stops shooting, the character will automatically hide behind cover.

Videos of technique http://www.monkeysee.com/play/9325-grand-theft-auto-iv-gun-and-combat-tips

 

 

[slvrcobra]

I wondered that too. Even Red Dead had a slide animation, but now it's just a simple "tiptoe to the wall" sorta thing. It's really slow and I often get headshotted before making it to the intended cover. Perhaps that was the point of changing it?

[Hereiamhereibe]

Im gonna put my finger on engine limitations. Particularly animation transitioning which if you look at ANY instance between animations there is a significant delay, hell even pressing "cover" isnt immediate, as said above. The characters seem to go into an "autopilot" mode just before commencing an animation and something like a slide would need to be instant and be controllable somewhat.

 

TL:DR Engine Limits

[sh0tyme]

Lol. Theory is plausible but didn't they just build a ps4 more powerful than any commercial system for nothing. Everytime I hear performance tech about nex gen systems there always comparing grass and trees instead of things to make the game smoother and enjoyable They just know I would be unstoppable with that kind of power. Ever play wwe that game is nothing but technical im sure if they wasn't player haters they would never took it out.

[Dottie]

The animation was not added.

Id like proper cover animations instead of looking like a fool twisting out of cover and fully exposing themselves to shoot

[REDDICE]

I loved the cover animations form RDR and IV. The shooting from cover is better in V, but It would be better of you could slide/roll into cover. Plus its a dumb move to stand up and expose yourself just to take cover somewhere else. Wouldn't mind crouching either.

Edited January 3, 2015 by REDDICE0818

[Red Lynx 23]

Let's hope they get around to changing it to a slide instead of tiptoeing to cover in the PS4 and XB1 versions.

[Kylemessup]

Yeah that tiptoeing thing is BS. Why did they take out crouching .