Would Like to see Death Animations added soon.

I know it's been said they're being worked on, but I really want to see these added as soon as possible. I feel like my kills need to be more satisfying. Puffs of smoke just aren't doing it for me anymore. xD I understand they're working on a huge range of more vital elements, but once they start adding more aesthetic stuff I'd like death animations to be the first.

The way Terraria handled death animations was great because it had a slight physics aspect to it, making every kill unique, making slaughtering enemies never really seem stale. I have no idea if Chucklefish intends to handle deaths the same way in Starbound, but I'd at least like to see something happen. :}

 

I haven't heard that they are making death animations :O

Maybe they are..

Would be cool with something ragdoll:ish

 

I'd like an option for slain critters to spray gratuitous blood and gibs around. Not necessarily with any gameplay impact (so you could turn it off if you're not viscera-inclined) but just to spice things up a touch.

 

I think the way DFO/DNF handled/handles kills is a pretty good middle ground. Destroyed enemies explode into chunks, roughly the color of their primary pallet color. Upon hitting the ground they vanish. There's no actual blood or viscera to be offensive to people who aren't into that kind of thing, and it doesn't clutter the screen, but it is pretty satisfying.

 

Works for me...

 

Lol Speaking from a veteran DFO player I used to call those chunks potatoes.

 

Before the beta came out, I remember reading somewhere (can't remember where) that when someone commented on a stream/video for Starbound they mentioned how they thought the enemy deaths were very unsatisfying. One of the devs (I think it was Tiy) responded by saying that they were working on death animations but they weren't in the game yet. I hope that's still the plan.

 

I thought the devs were going to go with ragdoll physics in the future

 

someday...

 

Yes, we need disembodied limbs...

Well not really.
Just some kind of death animations would be decent I guess, just something more than this simple "poof" =3

 

We need ragdoll physics when the character dies. After dying the character flops to the ground in whatever pose and then fades out when the respawn screen shows up.

 

We want the option to have blood and ragdoll physics would be an excellent addition.
I despise the way that bodies just dissappear in many games. I want BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!

 

Take a page out of the Souls series book. The death animations aren't lacklustre or gory, it's normally "dramatically fall down and disappear" or a "don't even get back up" kind of thing. A good balance of "yeah that guy just got rekt" and "at least the children are OK".

 

I always liked the Rogue Legacy death animation.

 

Every game needs more dead Teemos.

 

That's gotta be the manliest thing I've seen in any video game.

 

I don't think it's possible to have ragdolls in this game as everything is sprite based, but it could be possible to have physics based gibs like Terraria.

I'd be fine with mere death animations, though... or at least... something other than what it currently is. :B

 

I'm always a fan of spectacular death. Go big, or go home.

 

Terraria deaths were meh...
I want SOTN level death animations :catface2: