Death Emotes.

First of all, I'd like to point out that I only did a cursory search of the forums for previous suggestions of this nature. I couldn't find anything, which surprised me, because it seems like an obvious idea. That being said, forgive me if this has already been suggested, or subsequently shot down by the devs(although that last one doesn't really seem like much of a guarantee, looking at the past several issues).

So, I was watching my teammates die the other day and I noticed something. Death animations are very bland and boring. I mean, it gets the job done and all, it's obvious you died. But it's all so generic. With the selectable costume change emotes we got last year, a logical choice in the direction of fleshing out one's character concept would be to have selectable death emotes.

Perhaps your character is a cyborg, and it wouldn't make sense for him to simply fall on his face and die? So you use a death emote that shows him short-circuiting before collapsing, or something along those lines. Maybe he's an angsty anime vampire? He could drop to his knees, then scream at the heavens in rage/dismay before falling to the ground. I mean, there are a countless number of things one could come up with for a death animation, I'm just throwing these out as examples.

What I'd like to know is what you guys think of the concept, if anyone knows if this has been discussed before, and it if seems like a feasible suggestion. As far as I know, the act of dying doesn't seem to interfere with any other animations, at least no more than a standard emote would. It just seems like a no-brainer, a little thing to add some flavor to player characters.

Yeah, your right. I'm hoping for a change for that. There's a robot animation where it gets dizzy and falls over kinda. I was surprised that was never added to ours. I'd be happy if we had atleast 3 solid death animations

I would like it if our bodies could lay in other positions once dead, maybe just letting us ragdoll to our deathpose.
Based on the poses enemy corpses get laid out in, it could bring much hilarity to death

You know, we don't actually die

Ragdoll animations for being defeated would be pretty funny though

I'd love a Street Fighter 'defeat' emote with Chun Li's screaming on female toons!

Yeah, it was in my head, but I forgot to mention that simply allowing us to turn on ragdoll deaths for our characters(albeit stationary ragdolls, wouldn't be fun sliding down a hill into a mob or something) would be a welcome addition. Thanks for bringing that up!

/signed for ragdolls! They make it so much funnier.

This will be great. Just as some of you have already said, we need more death emotes/animations. In the past additionally of the falling to our face death animation we have the falling back if we been defeated by a knockdown power. Now it has been bugged or they changed it. I have reported that like two times and nothing for now.

Rag Doll will be perfect or an payed animation package will be better for multiple choices. Thanks for posting this and i hope sometime this can be notice.

I could get behind new death animations. I especially like the ragdoll idea.

How about one that makes you just be a transparent ghost standing there, waiting to be revived?

I'd suggest something where you go "poof" in a cloud of smoke with nothing left, but your allies need something to target...

Well as said above we don't exactly die do we.

However there is already one "death emote" or sort of - self destruction.

When I'm defeated and select go to hospital, I kinda wanna see some medics turn up and put me on a stretcher

Good idea
/signed

/signed as long as it is an interruptible animation. The last thing that I want to do is wait on a defeat animation before I can rez myself in battle.


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It is true that we never die and we just get defeated. I like the idea of a transparent ghost form and super natural look death/defeated animations. Glad to see more people that are interested in this petition.

/signed

Though there was a thread on this a while ago and BAB kind of shot it down if I recall.

And though it may never be, though we don't actually die...

I would still like one that has our toons, falling over backwards while clutching flowers upright over their chest and a little tombstone pops up above their head where they fall.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Actually, this has been suggested before but one of the devs came to the thread and had to shoot it down, I believe it was BaB (don't quote me on that). But yeah, similar to before, everyone was all aboard the idea, even myself.

I personally asked for the death emote of you fall to the ground and recieve a chalk outline around your body . If things have changed since then, they may implement it, if they haven't, well then chances are, not.

Actually, this has been suggested before on many occasions. In fact, I suggested new defeat animations (including unique ones for some of the monsters/AVs) in the All Things Art: Animation Edition thread, not that long ago. I'd suggest bringing it up more often over there since the devs are looking over those threads quite a bit.

Yes i have hear before about the thread was closed. I really don't care to get into that now since we can make suggestions in a new one.

Rylas: Thanks for posting that link.
Rowdy: Thanks for being all aboard this great idea.

I've suggested this before, and I'm still for it. It's not just a question of "might as well." This could be made to fit a variety of concepts. Like, say:

Robot: You blow up like so many Tarantulas, possibly leaving a pile behind to be resurrected.

Ghost: You fade away, leaving only an artefact of some kind behind to be targeted and resurrected. Why not a comical tombstone like in Worms?

Insane: You can't be killed, but once you've suffered too much pain, you crumple to your knees, clutch your head and scream for the voices to stop, until someone resurrects you.

Omniscient: You can't die, but you feel you should give your enemies a fair shot, so you sit down and wait to be tagged back into the fight, like a gentleman should.

Coward: You don't die, because you don't stick around long enough. When you're hurt bad enough, you take off running (think Mercenaries dismissed), leaving only a landmark tombstone to be resurrected, whereupon you come running back into the the fight.

And that's just off the top of my head.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Sure I've always wanted cool purpose-built death animations/emotes with this game for RP purposes.

But barring that I'd be willing to have the couple of "lying on the ground unconscious" emotes we have access to in the Mission Architect be made available to our characters. Changing the game to allow us to use those emotes should be a very trivial thing for our Devs to do.

William Shatner Death: along similar lines to Eiko-Chan's suggestion, I'd like to see a Shatner death emote. Clutching the chest, arms out in supplication, a fading monologue...

But seriously, that would be awesome!

I haven't paid much attention to it since i17, but do our characters have the random KO sound effects, the same as NPCs?

And a big YES to ragdoll deaths.