[WSE]Allow Dead Players to Absorb Hits Temporarily

[MrShine]

We've all had this happen before:

A group surrounds someone, slashing at him from all angles.
The victim dies, and instantly his body becomes transparent.
An accurate arrow or swing travels through the falling body and connects with a friendly behind.

My proposal would be to allow the dead player to absorb swings for a very brief period of time after death as if he were still alive.  This would help avoid some of these unintentional swings from teammates that were not stray.

There are obvious times where poor aim and/or judgment cause team hits/kills, and there are other times (such as this situation) where it's just a matter of bad luck.  If you and a teammate surround an enemy you can effectively alternate swings and take someone down from 100%-0% by timing swings to keep someone stumbling and unable to defend themselves.   This is a smart thing to do, and requires teamwork. 

However you could have a swing chambered and in the process of being unleashed and a split second before your swing connects the enemy dies.  There is literally nothing you can do to stop the swing given human reflexes and/or an unbalanced weapon, and your team suffers the consequence due to the immediate removal of physical form.

Giving some substance to the corpse for a brief period of time is realistic and would help stop these types of team hits that punish players who make accurate (but unluckily timed) swings.

Agree/disagree/thoughts?  I don't even know if WSE can do this, but it would be pretty swell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgXEQHHdznY

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[Vibe]

+1

[Fluffy_Muffin]

yes

[[ptx]]

This was supposed to have been implemented in some previous Warband patch, you can still look it up in the patch notes, but, like a lot of things, it doesn't work.

[Teeth]

I suggested this too.

Aren't the cRPG team better coders than the Warband developers? I would love this.

[Keshian]

I can't think of a better suggestion to have 100% yesses.

[cmp]

+1
add this nao

[Teeth]

+1
add this nao

Code this now!

[Ujin]

can you also code spitting on the enemy corpses , stomping on them and feeding them to the dogs while you're at it ?

[Paul]

They tried to do it in Warband beta but it fucked everything up so they gave up on it in the end.

[MrShine]

They tried to do it in Warband beta but it fucked everything up so they gave up on it in the end.

So what could possibly go wrong trying to fix it in c-RPG?

[ThePoopy]

indeed, everything is allready fucked up

[Gravoth_iii]

can you also code spitting on the enemy corpses , stomping on them and feeding them to the dogs while you're at it ?

Spitting on corpses? i would like that, add it to the Q menu; Taunts!

Oh and yes i support hitting dead corpses, code it nao.

[owens]

Ganking is a weak point of this game atm team damage is the only thing discouraging it so if it is difficult to implement i wouldnt bother. The Devs efforts should be aimed at importing some stuff from vikingr and fixing the weapon stats problem.

[MrShine]

Ganking is a weak point of this game atm team damage is the only thing discouraging it so if it is difficult to implement i wouldnt bother. The Devs efforts should be aimed at importing some stuff from vikingr and fixing the weapon stats problem.

I don't know, I think team hits and kills come quite frequently from situations where someone dies and swings travel through.  I think it can make a significant difference in the outcome of a round. 

Bad swings and people jumping in front of swings I get; those should be 'punished' by team damage.  Swings that go through dead players?  Those are true swings that wouldn't normally hit a teammate except for the fact the dead player becomes a ghost instantly.

I do say this without any idea how challenging this would be to implement.  Obviously many other things might take priority, but if there was a way to fix this I can only see it as a gameplay improvement for the better.