NPC defeat animation changes
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Codewalker,
Posted on: 2012-02-01 10:49 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
This happened when they updated the Physx codex. Apparently the ragdoll effects are connected to that in some way.
It's a bug, not WAI.
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I was cool with it myself, until I saw one of the guys I pummeled into defeat *twist into a bowtie at the waist*.
It was pretty sick. Cool, but sick, and wrong. Sickwrong. No. Wrongsick. Definitely.
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Originally Posted by houtex
I was cool with it myself, until I saw one of the guys I pummeled into defeat *twist into a bowtie at the waist*.
It was pretty sick. Cool, but sick, and wrong. Sickwrong. No. Wrongsick. Definitely. |
Are the bodies supposed to float off at a 45 degree angle after being defeated? 
I think I preferred it when they just evaporated/sank in to the ground...
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They used to just fade out after a while, but lately I've seen a few either sink or float away while doing so. Very weird.
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Originally Posted by Kallandra
Are the bodies supposed to float off at a 45 degree angle after being defeated?
I think I preferred it when they just evaporated/sank in to the ground... |
Well, I like it better than the "bend over backwards and thrust out your junk" defeat post EVERY NPC seemed to have prior to this.
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Funny, I never saw this.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Well, I like it better than the "bend over backwards and thrust out your junk" defeat post EVERY NPC seemed to have prior to this.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
It's a bug, not WAI.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Hey, IRL if someone with superhuman strength bopped you on the dome as hard as they could, you'd be LUCKY to wind up looking this good.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
See? Clearly buggy.
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Having enemies' brains and blood squirting out their ears and nose, body parts and other gibs flying all over the place and sticking to things, and enemies screaming like babies in a fire when you nuke them would probably NOT be acceptable.
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I don't know when the NPC Defeat animations changed (I only noticed in I21), but the new animations are disturbing. The defeated NPCs fold in half, the head spins, limbs rotate into impossible positions and sometimes the middle revolves so much that they look like hourglasses. I liked the old ragdoll style, but the spinning heads and folding are very off-putting.