Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Suggestions Death animations and crit strikes

I thought to write it in the post on voting, but I think this idea deserves it's own post.

Death animations and critical strikes.

Those of you who played Fallout 2, will understand me and will need no further explanation.
When just kill the mob it dies. There is animation of his death and this was well implemented in DD.
What I am thinking is to start using critical dmg skill.
Lets say at lvl 1, there will be 5% chance that each hit will do additional 30% dmg.
If the mob is low in hp and you make crit dmg, there will be something like finishing move, with it's own animations.
And this finishing move animation will vary if you use different spells of applied your sword/bow modifiers. I mean if you used freeze spell (or you had +freeze in your sword and it applied) then there is death animation of mob freezes and falls apart.

How do you like the idea ? pls. Share your thoughts.

sounds good, maybe sth for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> II or RRR <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

good idea, i loved it in fallout 2 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I remember this was also implemented in Planescape.
When hitting sometimes you heard, bang ! you applied successful crit strike doing x3 damage, and finishing move also ripping mobs to nice little pieces <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

top idea maybe apply it to bosses only as would get boring if occured too often during normal game maybe when a boss gets to 0 hit points a critical move/special skill/death move of some sort with its own animation could be used as a finishing move a la Mortal Combat

The critical death animations of Fallout were brilliant and WAY over the top sometimes. And I will have to admit it still is one of my guilty pleasures. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Quite honestly I dont see the need for more gore in games.

Just my opinion. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

i thought that in Fallout they died a "special" way, when the damage you have done made their health go below -10 (or some other -number)... so in the begining you only saw it when you used burst fire against a creature with only a few hp, but in the end everyone died that way, because you had sniper skill and every hit was a critical and every hit made monsters go below -10 (hp, not %)...

There is a perk you can pick that shows the "gory" critical shot animations. For the life of me I cannot recall what it is called. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Reinmaster. I donno the formula for finishing moves in Fallout2. Was that based on hps, -hps, strength or crit chance or all together, but it was very cool to see. If there is game about war, there should be other aspects of war rather then shooting. Bullet is looking for it's goal too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Don't forget Fallout 2 had traits and perks.
Look at PsT it has not traits but excellent system of crit strikes. Finishing moves rocked in f2.

its spelled Kombat goddamnit!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />

i loved the traits and perks system <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

To implement crit strykes, developers have to bring just two new skills in the game. More criticals (more often) and better criticals (more damage with each crit. strike) That's all <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
And, of course - death animations for finishing moves.

totally ripped from fallout <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
but still cool <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

and slayer if you are melee, and sniper if you are a bowwielding kinda guy

and another fallout2 player <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

ha-ha, very funny.
I shouldn't have sayd theese more crit and better crit. as theese were used in f2. Now you have sticked to those F2 traits and ruined this discussion. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />


But, the idea of crit dmg is used in many games. I am writing about concept, giving theese examples just for easier understanding.

i agree with you <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
but you say I ruined this discussion??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

well id like the kama sutra perk <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

lol, never tried that one, did it work?
i liked 300% unarmed skill <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />