Better Physics

[Jeraphon]

so it would be weird to have a custom message for that.

Okay, well maybe it wouldn't say "You fall down the stairs' but I do believe that there should be a measure of falling damage. If you jump off the roof of the tavern I expect you to - as they used to say in Quake - "crater" or at the very least take damage. So I'd accept "You take X falling damage." for whatever.

In regards to animations for things like "sit" and "greet" the dwarf greet works okay, but the dwarf sit seems awkward. You hit z and you sit, then you stand and you can't move (as if you're frozen sitting from a standing position.) If you hit z again, you sit and can move once more, even while the sit animation activates (so you get a sort of butt-sliding animation.) Has this been reported?

[Karyuu]

The stand animation interrupts the sitting one sometimes because there are supposed to be two basic animations - sit, and sit idle, which is a variation. Since there are no sit idle animations at the moment, for some reason the stand is used. I would much prefer that the sit just continues all the way through. The sit-and-can-move thing has been reported, yes.

[dying_inside]

The only quarral I have with it is the stairs falling. I think that its becuase of the jerkyness and model of the stairs. This could easily be fixed with a few invisible planes on the stairs which would:

A: stop the jerkyness of going up and down and smooth it all out
B: fix the need to walk down stairs instead of run and jump down themthen fall flat on our faces and break our necks.

[ThomPhoenix]

That would be the best soluton, yes. I play Guild Wars and there they handle the stairs problem the same. There is simply a flat invisible plane above the stairs. You don't really notice it, only if you turn the camera a lot you can see that you "float" a tiny bit above the stairs.