Diablo 3 Boss Damage States
Whipper: I think it would be cool if we could see marks on boss when a mellee character slice him with a sword or an axe etc....
We can see that the boss have sword marks and axe marks or that he look tired and he walk slower etc. till he die... I think it could add some realistic aspect to the game and more fun killing bosses
Bashiok: For boss fights we don't really want to just start throwing "damage decals" on them. It can very easily be too subtle if you're fighting a smaller boss or one that has odd geometry to it, and it can also end up that no matter the flavor, style, and cool look to a boss you just end up fighting a big gory mess.
Also we think that we can go a lot further than just simple decals and get something much cooler out of a boss fight. So what we hope to do for at least the bosses where it makes sense is to show more apparent and visually noticeable damage states. Instead of a blood splatter they may actually lose a limb, or a piece or armor, or - like the Thousand Pounder - may transform in some dramatic way changing how the fight progresses. We want to go a lot further than just showing sword slashes and instead use dramatic and noticeable (which can be difficult in a game like this) ways to indicate a boss' current state.
Speaking of battle damage though, and I don't think this came across in the gameplay video or any of the screenshots as of yet, but when an enemy dies a critical death it actually drenches your hero in blood if you're within proximity of the spray. It's awesome.
Thanks, Lagovardos
ALL THE SIGNS ARE THERE!
*jumps into abyss*
*long pause*
IDC how "cartoonish" it will look now - gore and blood > color of barbarians hair.
Monster + explosion = AWESOME(ted nugent)
I think this would be good if u had no health bars.
If there was an option to get rid of the health bars of bosses/monsters you would notice cuts on them, an arm/armour falling off and this would indicate their current health. I knoe it be alot tougher not knowing their health but it be more challenging.
Limbs flying with severed arteries spraying blood wildly will not happen I would think.
In my country, we have draconian censorship for computer games that goes way beyond that for porn due to an anomaly in our outdated pre-computer era laws. Same in some other countries.
But I do want nice effects when a monster dies and a blood splat will be great. I just hope that there is the ability to hack the game to turn it "on" as it will ship in Australia disabled if it is too nice.
Falling armour or a bloodless limb dropping off the undead - skels don't have blood - would be good (but not great).
A real clincher is a total transformation from a behemoth into a hundred zombies for example or a bloated boss exploding and covering our heroes in slimey poison.
Whatever. Just get it past the censors!
They could incorporate this into the Thousand Pounder with his summoning. Say if you kill one of the sacrificial girls, he would come to life missing an arm or a leg or something, also symbolizing that he has less heath than normal.
Good job Blizzard. Way to go above and beyond!!
Stolen from Age of conan much lately???, good feature but.
Bashiok: For boss fights we don't really want to just start throwing "damage decals" on them. It can very easily be too subtle if you're fighting a smaller boss or one that has odd geometry to it, and it can also end up that no matter the flavor, style, and cool look to a boss you just end up fighting a big gory mess.
To me this is exactly what i want to fight in a huge gorey mess of the blood and guts of my kills.
That's actualy what came to my head, you know, Khalim's Brain and such. They sort of did that with the 'ubers', but so far what they are doing with the games sounds pretty awesome.
On the other hand, given how the Siege Breaker performed, I wouldn't rule out such death animations
Are u crazy ? first Mario Bros, when u hit a turtle then its just his back on the floor +P
Yeah - that would be nice - or grab up a leg or arm and bash them with their own limb.
because hack n slash is for the arcade, not for something with 125 different buttons...
buuuut blizzard is the only company that can make a hack n slash in current times so the others just have to lay in wait to see diablo 3 and starcraft 2 kill their games in preparation for the coming of WoS
pmsl .. reminds me of a scene in the film lock, stock and two smoking barrels .. lol except that was rubber, and i presume a great deal smaller than you might expect on a monster boss such as diablo or the siege breaker...lol
i don't mind chopping bits off , but im not picking it up without any gloves on:thumbsup: ....lmao