Death animations and other things

[Kemisti]

I've been playing Mount&Blade for a bit over a year now and got some suggestions to do.

1. Death animations
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Have you ever noticed how stupid people look when they die in M&B (especially when they die while riding a horse), I bet you have. A solution? Ragdoll death animatíons. This also could be used for many other things too.

2. Hitting
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When you swing your blade towards several guys that stand in a nice line, have noticed that you can hit only one guy and then you receive several hits back. So I suggest that when you swing a weapon it should hit all enemies in that swing area.

3. Modules
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Doing good here, altough I hope next versions give you more freedom in changing the game.



And a small hint to mod community, be afraid of the things coming in future!

 

[KaL]

The main problem with moding and Ragdoll physics is the way in which the game has been programmed, many things are hardcoded and would require massive overhauls would be costly in time which is something that shouldn't be wasted. Ragdoll is also either expensive to license or extremely difficult to program thus being overall very difficult and not worth bothering.

The hitting could probably be changed but at the moment it's set to encourage you to avoid being swarmed. If you were to allow hits on everyone I think the damage to people after the first impact should be systematically lessoned.

 

[Ilex]

Yeah, it shouldn't get to the situation where you gather all the enemy infantry and hack them into pieces (like in D2 with a WW barbarian ).