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An option to use the old view bobbing in the Video settings menu

I noticed that as of the new 1.13 update, the "view bobbing" setting has changed. Before the update, view bobbing only did 3 things: make your view sway slightly left and right when walking, make your arm on screen sway left and right when walking, and make your arm on screen move up or down when falling of flying. These few additions make walking in the game feel a little more realistic and less like sliding or hovering over the floor. After this update, view bobbing no longer sways your view left and right but up and down (to simulate the drop between steps when walking). Personally, I don't like this change but I could get used to it eventually, but the other new change is what ruined view bobbing for me. The other new change is that everything after a certain distance that you see sort of sways when you jump, and even more so if you're jumping while sprinting. I personally don't like this change either, as it's too much movement on screen for me to enjoy the game. While I don't have motion sickness or feel it from this change, it is certainly an unpleasant experience.

My solution? a simple option in the settings to use the old version of view bobbing. It would work as a slider in the menu with 3 options: view bobbing off, view bobbing (old / legacy), and view bobbing. Until this is added, or if never, I'll just stick with view bobbing turned off.

Thanks for listening.

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    I totally agree. It is so much harder to play the game and it may take some time to really get used to.

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    I totally agree. It is so much harder to play the game and it may take some time to really get used to.

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    I totally agree. It is so much harder to play the game and it may take some time to really get used to.

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    dude i hate how it doesn't sway anymore when walking it annoys me so much. literally have no idea why anyone would make such a change i feel like thats why they added a no bobbing option in the first place.

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    The new updated bobbing when walking literally makes me feel physically ill and is limiting my game play (because, if I play for more than half an hour now, I feel like I am going to throw up).  The old bobbing never made me feel this way no matter how many hours I played.  I turned off the bobbing to stop the drunken sailor walk that was making me feel nauseous, but now I just sort of "glide" everywhere, which feels very unnatural, because who glides when they walk?  It's weird and kind of uncomfortable.

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    I totally agree. The new bobbing feels WAY too much like no bobbing to me. I am used to the old animation and appreciate your post.

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    Plz implement

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    The new view bobbing is not intentional. It's a bug and the developers are working on fixing it.

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    Yeah, I really don’t like the new view-bobbing

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    This is exactly what I want in the game, hopefully they pick up this idea.

     

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    PLEASE implement. we have 1 computer in the house and it’s my moms work computer, and i have the nintendo switch which is the only thing i can play on basically, so i can’t downgrade. the new view bobbing made me so violently ill after just 2 minutes the first time i experienced it and i had to lay down for hours. when i went back i had to turn off view bobbing which essentially makes it the same as creative mode, which is not only super disorienting thinking i’m in creative mode when i’m in survival, but that creative mode floating gives me motion sickness as well, even if it’s not as bad. i haven’t been able to play minecraft since it first updated to 1.13. this is the most intense disrespect of the sake of accessibility on behalf of developers and it’s really upsetting after all the strides they’ve made to make minecraft for everyone, and now i just can’t play it anymore. minecraft is my life and this is no exaggeration that the view bobbing update ruined this part of my life for the time being until this option is implemented

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    I miss my hand going up when falling and such, please add this back. OP also made a good solution for it, a 3 way slider. Hopefully it returns in 1.16

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    I don't understand why Microsoft has to keep fiddling with and altering the core game play mechanics that have been more of less fine since the beginning of minecraft :'(

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    there was really no reason to change the view bobbing at all. It looks really badly animated and they should just bring it back to how it was before 1.13. Literally NO ONE complained about how the view bobbing worked since 2009. 

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    Strongly agree, I thought I was the only one who hated the way animations changed in 1.13, the result of an annoying and buggy game, something additional. Why does animation slow down when jumping? Everything was perfect, with a little luck they will return it to how it was, if not, I suppose that there will be nothing more to play than the badly optimized java edition

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    I Really like the old view bobbing in 0.15.9 I hope they will bring it back

    Edit:and I like the java edition view bobbing

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    Yeah this would be great, for people that like the new view bobbing can have it, and people that like the old view bobbing can have it.

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    I am not the only who HATES this change because it makes the game unrealistic, even though some may say you should just switch to an old version to fix this, but that makes you miss out on lots of features, also on Bedrock Edition switching to an old version is impossible which just makes this change even more annoying, Bedrock Edition used to have the old bobbing aswell. The thing that bugs me the most is the view swaying while jumping being removed, I liked the jump sway because it is extremely satisfying in my opinion. To be exact the version the view bobbing was changed was 1.14- prerelease2 for Java Edition, I'm not sure what version this was changed in Bedrock Edition, besides that, I HOPE Mojang Studios adds an option for the old view bobbing in both Java Edition, and Bedrock Edition, I would be very grateful of this feature if it ever gets added.

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    Seriously, the bedrock edition bobbing is so low.

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    sience 1.13 came out it was pretty much clear that you can throw the new versions of the game in the trash

    as its still not in and obviously they just do some random shit to get some kids to buy the game a second time cuz they just deleted the access if you had a mojang account and they gave no shits and gave you a bot that said the exact same thing over and over again in the support

    and not only making wierd changes that neither fit to the place the vanilla game is supposed to be nor fit in the basic system mojang has created for the game when it was still themselves

    big companies ruin good producs by buying them and making everything for kids

    and minecraft was called the lego for adults back in the day there was nothing for kids here

    yeah i cant add anything to this tho