Today, sweet!

I have to say it looks much better.

It was always annoying to me that the bots feet would slide over the ground when moving.
I hate "gliding" in games it just looks so stupid

Im not often commenting devblogs, but i have to say im impressed. It is very realistic, and finally we are freed from the legs moving like flies wing (unrealistic, it would need a massive amount of energy to move those legs forward and backward so swiftly).  For those who think its more animal like, and not enough "robot" like: care to studie a bit about zoomorphism, youll get all the answers you need there. The locomotion part of the robots are zoomorphs (except the wheels but this case is simple):  spider like legs, lezard like legs, biped like legs.  The true good animation for those is what they came up with = zoomorphist animations. Its 100% logical and they couldnt do otherwise, to maintain the physical and energetic consumption realism.

Thats as simple as that.  You need to make an animation, where the "feets" when touching ground, must not slide too much, but the body goes forward at the needed speed. Logically, the more the speed, the more the distance between two steps (horse trot/galop analogy). But for the old method, they just decided to accelerate the animation, retaining the "ground touching point" spacing. That ended with so fast legs and high frequency of complete movement for light EW, they looked like flies wings, moving too fast for we could see them clearly.

I feel like they made something that looks like lizard movement (due to legs shape and ratio to body height) they will certainly chose something different for different morphologies. Im a bit in modeling/animation, all i can say: great job, very realistic, not too much twitch.  Hope that will be realistic on 45° slopes too, why not.

I always loved object shapes (well except robots heads i feel like too big, smaller heads would help with the "huge robots/world" feeling. Imo the vagabond head/body ratio is perfect, more to the head is too much imo), now i love animations too

I very much agree. But I do hope they make the cameleon move more like a spider than a deer.

I'm especially impressed by the smoothness of the transition from walking to running! I didn't notice the switch at first and had to do some rewinding to actually spot it.

Other than buildings you can pass through, the "leg-blur" was my biggest/only graphical beef, so copious amounts of kudos to the Devs!

It looks very sweet Zoom.

Please don't change Kain walking animation tho, it marches in tune to the Soviet national anthem.

Please change it then.....

When using an Arkhe it looks great but for some reason looking at other Arkhes looks really bad for some reason. It's jittery and the front legs don't reach far enough in my opinion.