Loot the bodies

[screwtype]

Here's one minor suggestion. Instead of just going to the screen where you get all the booty at the end of a battle, I think it might be fun to be able to hang around the battlefield, go and look at your kills and actually loot the bodies for your booty. Then just ride off or press tab as usual to exit the battlefield.

 

[logan]

might be an idea then to atlest give people a notice when there are no more enemies

 

[JohnathanStrange]

The end of combat is a bit abrupt; you just get switched to the inventory screen.

Maybe it would be cool to hang around longer and retrieve some weapons from the fallen.

 

[Effidian]

But please don't force us to loot bodies. If we don't loot them, just take us to the loot screen as it is today.

 

[Keemo]

Sounds nice but that I think it would get really boring and time consuming after about 5 battles. I like the way it is now.

 

[tsuken]

There is much more left on the battlefield then you get to see in the loot screen. And who wants to run/ride back and forth to his baggage? And you would only be able to loot weapons, since you can only use your weapon slots in battle. And you won't be able to find goods like potterty or linen which often show up after a battle. And what about looting unconcious people? Would you be able to loot the black armor off borcha and marnid every time they fall? And you would get a lot of black armor from only fighting one party of dark knights. It would make trading goods not very rewarding compared to looting it for free from every person you kill (with one headshot).

I think this would change the game too much and make you too rich if you can loot everything off everyone. But I would like to be able to stay on the battlefield longer too sometimes.

 

[Keemo]

I woulden't mind if you could walk around as long as you want and to end the battle you had to press tab and select "end battle" or something. But I don't want to loot.

 

[slavetrader]

i'd really like to stay in the battlefield. just to admire the kills

 

[Laurence of Arabia]

you should be able to pick up equipment from those wh ohave fallen whilst still fighting the battle.

 

[logan]

i think you would get to rich to fast if you could go around just looting every body on your own. atlest the amount of money you get when selling should be a lot lower and the items should almost always have suffered damadge of some sort.

 

[Mehrunes]

I don't think I'd want to do this even once.

 

[weltonia]

i wish at the end all your soldiers raised there weapons as if they were chanting, wouldnt be hard to do, just set a animation to go once the battles over... some battles get large and epic and a nice little chant from your soldiers would make it that much cooler

 

[Destichado]

you should be able to pick up equipment from those who have fallen whilst still fighting the battle.

Now THAT is a good idea.
Reading Illiad, you run across all kinds of instances where one guy kills another, then grabs him by the ankle and starts dragging the body back towards his side of the line to strip all the loot from the body, or sometimes doesn't bother even with that -just throws up a shield and starts looting right there!

It would be SO cool if we could do that -not just the player characters, but the bandits and our solders too!
It would add an entirely different dynamic to the game. And perhaps better-paid units would be less inclined to stop killing to loot.

 

[logan]

hmm... when i first started playing, i often tried to grab the enemies shield when id knocked it out of his hand (or so i thought ^^ ) maybe make it break out of his han while your at it so n00bs dont accidently stand a few precious secs trying to loot a "dead" item

knows its very close to offtopic but still only very close ^^

 

[screwtype]

I never suggested being able to take every piece of equipment from every slain soldier, I was thinking more in terms of the stuff that you normally get in the inventory screen just being distributed randomly amongst the bodies, so you don't get any more than you would normally.

Also the idea would be that after the battle is over, your inventory becomes accessible as normal, so you don't have to ride back and forth with your looted gear.

I'm suprised at the negative reaction to this suggestion as I think it adds to the immersion factor to be able to do stuff like loot bodies. And I really don't think it would take too long to do.

However regardless of that I agree with the guy who said you should at least be able to hang around the battlefield until you press Tab to leave. I'd like to look at the bodies and see where they were hit and so on. Even more so if later on there are going to be decapitations and stuff as Armanag has hinted

 

[logan]

well, one of the things about looting in battlefield is that you will be able to se all the things that the slain soldier has such as a cool armor and a cool sword but for some reason you can only take the few arrows he has or somthing similar, since you probably share the loot with your soldiers normally.

 

[Santtuvaltteri]

Being able to equip yourself with the weapons of your slain enemies: cool.

Having the option to manually loot the same items, that show in the inventory screen after the battle, from your slain enemies: slightly pointless. Cool for some, but maybe not worth the extra effort.

Perhaps we should get a minigame for sharpening the sword, patching the armour and tending the horse as well?

I do not intend to say that the idea is bad as such. I think it just needs to be something more than an alternative way of getting the stuff.