ulti slows down combat too much

[hearty stirrup]

It takes 3 minutes battle time to equate to 5 minutes of real time. 2 full minutes just to fire off ultimates.

Make the ultimates stronger and stop stopping time to fire them off to make up for it.

[snow tulip]

But then they will increase ult speed for bosses and other enemies as well

[hearty stirrup]

Which doesn’t matter if hero Ulti is sped up, it all balances out. It shouldn’t take 5+ minutes for 3 minutes of combat at 2x speed, it’s horribly slow and zooming in on characters constantly and the other animations is disorienting

[snow tulip]

Technically it be the same as now, so instead of changing ult speeds to faster which changes nothing, increase the 2 X speed to 3 or 4 instead as that is more logical

[hearty stirrup]

Nah if ultis no longer stop the flow of combat 3 minutes irl is 6 minutes of combat at 2x
The problem isn’t that the ultis are slow it’s that they stop the clock and everything else going on while they are cast

[dense oyster]

are you talking about the ultimate cgi animations or just ultimate abilities in general...? because the animations you can turn off. i havent seen an animation since the first week of play...

[zenith garnet]

I’ve also had that setting on basically since day 1 and Ultimates still stop the clock for a time when they are going and still slow the animation

The Battle Skills (the middle ability) don’t with that setting

[dense oyster]

yeah but they arent extending a 2 minute battle to 5 minutes with animations off... maybe tack on 30 seconds at most

[hearty stirrup]

No not battle skill animations, I’ve got that off already. The ultimate animations.
Go time the vortex battle and see what happens. I’ve got low power mode timer set to 5 minutes and it kicks on within 3 minutes of battle time

[dense oyster]

i dont think this means battle skill as in actual battle skills; i think it means skills used in battle - the ult animations; there are no battle skill cgi animations i know of. toggling this off to never means you wont see those. anyway you must mean that the actual delay from the ults is your issue, and i understand. some do lag a bit. on 2x speed it can actually affect which activates first if you have some close together... like say a half a second apart voresh animation followed by a sigrid ult... sometimes sigrid will fire off her ult first because voresh is still going. that type of thing. i was told by other players to knock it down to 1x speed to address that (in arena, which are quick battles anyway not 5 minute affairs)...

[zenith garnet]

It seems like a very deliberate stop of the timer and animation while it activates an Ultimate even with that setting, the timer and other heroes stop during that time while the Ultimate animation happens, and the focus is on the hero that is casting the Ultimate. Checking timing in Vortex, 4m50s in-game time (at 2x speed) takes 3m55s with no Ultimates or 5m22s with Ultimates. Places like Goblin where you hit Sigrid Ults more frequently makes it proportionately longer. I don’t think I have enough cell service to upload a video to show the example, but I’ll check

[zenith garnet]

Short clip to show the animation that stops the wall clock at least