Blood!

see-you-in-disney-land · August 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">do you agree?</div> I personally like the blood squirts they've added in, it gives me a sence of accomplishment to ACTUALLY see the pieces of marine I've been ripping off thier helpless bodies. But I am sure some of you may feel it detracts from the atmosphere of the game. Please post your opinions <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Iced_Eagle · August 2003

It goes great with the atomsphere! You have alien blood sure but then why wouldn't you have marine blood? Flayra originally didn't implement marine blood cause he didn't want NS to become a horror game (but i still get a few jumps in 2.0 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> ) but it is working on great... I highly agree with it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> (splat) <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'>

Protoman · August 2003

I love it.

Especially all the blood that flys around as an onus is digesting a marine.

Seeing sprays of green and red on the walls is immersive to see after a large battle.

see-you-in-disney-land · August 2003

The one thing I do find a bit questionable is the death noise marines sometimes make. I swear I've hear sort of muffled scream/moans as they die, and it annoys me. They shouldn't compremise something like that, either the marines should scream like they mean it, or not at all.

Iced_Eagle · August 2003

turn up your speakers <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> they are there.... but for some reason i dont hear it alot/enough as i would like

see-you-in-disney-land · August 2003

Nice idea Briguy, but if I did that I'd probably go deaf! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'> my poor ears are allready suffering from the strain of trying to hear the little patter of deadly feet.

Umbraed_Monkey · August 2003

Blood neither adds nor subtracts from the experience, I dont see why so many people see the inclusion of blood in games as such an important matter. It doesnt make the game more 'realistic' nor more 'violent'. To add to that, HL blood is one of the worst blood in gaming history...Those sprites just dont cut it anymore.

I too am disappointed at the lack of the much hyped pitter-pattering, I gotta strain myself to hear myself as gorge. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Monkeybonk · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Umbraed Monkey @ Aug 12 2003, 07:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Blood neither adds nor subtracts from the experience, I dont see why so many people see the inclusion of blood in games as such an important matter. It doesnt make the game more 'realistic' nor more 'violent'. To add to that, HL blood is one of the worst blood in gaming history...Those sprites just dont cut it anymore.

I too am disappointed at the lack of the much hyped pitter-pattering, I gotta strain myself to hear myself as gorge. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Half-Life 2 NS: Featuring GHOUL3 Technology! See realistic exit wounds and fragments of bone spray from your enemies!

Novis · August 2003

In most games I see blood more as a means of hit-feedback and usually I don't care if it's blood or sparks on impact.
But I admit that blood <i>may</i> add to the atmosphere of something like zombie shotgunning <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

DarkRage · August 2003

yes i have to admit blood does add quite alot to the atmosphere.

i never strain to hear the foot steps i lock my self in my 10 foot by 6 foot room and have the speakers to the max. gotta love those screams <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Novis · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Monkeybonk @ Aug 12 2003, 07:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Half-Life 2 NS: Featuring GHOUL3 Technology! See realistic exit wounds and fragments of bone spray from your enemies!  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Sounds exactly like the SOF3 announcement <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

LHarm · August 2003

hmmm in that amor, blood, Strange.

JimBowen · August 2003

In the sticky, in the suggestions forum, they have already said they will never add more blood/gore/gibs game. Personally Im not really bothered, as long as the game play is good, there is no need for gore.

kingmob · August 2003

i like the blood
more as a hit indicator
i often thought there should be blood on the teeth after a hit

Umbraed_Monkey · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Monkeybonk @ Aug 12 2003, 07:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Half-Life 2 NS: Featuring GHOUL3 Technology! See realistic exit wounds and fragments of bone spray from your enemies!  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I must be bad with my wording...there was two different points there:
1- having or not having blood in a game is not important
2- right now, the blood is the only thing that reminds me that ns is using a 5 year old engine

see-you-in-disney-land · August 2003

True monkey, while the sprites are looking aged, red goo is still red goo, sometimes it's just a little prettier (that must be an oxymoron, pretty blood?). I'm surprised you don't feel that it had any effect on the atmosperic value of the game. I cant help but feel it's more rewarding to see that their actually in pain, cybernetically speaking of course <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> , but maybe I'm just a little wierd.

Protoman · August 2003

Blood is not vital, but it is also not useless.

It's like saying there was no reason for them to show all that gore in "Saving Priate Ryan."

For some games, like some movies, it just cheapens the immersion if you don't portray things to a certain level of realism.

Like the lighting, sounds, and music that immerses you as you walk through a map in NS. Seeing the blood splattered on a wall from where the last raiding party failed is yet another facet of that immersion.

CBD-Ikariya · August 2003

The blood really helps with feedback. Many times in 1.04, I'd be like WTH, I hit him like 4 times, how's he not dead! Now, I know how close, or how not close I was in actually killing him.

mojojojo · August 2003

The blood was added for feedback, I think it says somewhere in the feedback (I can't be bothered to check).
I would like the sparks from Heavy Armour to be a bit more noticable... it feels like I am back in the 1.04 situation where you have no idea whether you hit them or not.

monkeymaster · August 2003

the blood helps me out heepz cause of my 400 - 700 ping when i bite, now i know when i see blood spurt i can run and hide and wait for the bite to register, then run out there again =)

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'> !!

smokingwreckage · August 2003

Well, the blood was useful feedback for me as a marine last night. Let me know I was dying <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

SuB · August 2003

Yeh it provides good feedback and isn't gorey in any way...

BarxBaron · August 2003

yeah we needed that feedback

the dmg sound in 1.04 did not cut it whatsoever
they need to make sparks on HAs a bit larger though imo as well like someoen else mentioned

Majin · August 2003

I find that it not only adds to the realism, but also can freak you out or alert you to danger.
you walk into a room covered with blood, you know something bad has happened in the past few mins... maybe you might want to run!

MMZ_Torak · August 2003

Yes I agree it is just the right amount of blood to give feedback and leave a nice mess where a battle has occured, warning you that this is a hot zone. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Corporal_Hicks1 · August 2003

I personally agree with the blood squirts. At least you can tell now when you've scored a hit instead of relying on the presence of stains on the walls which is no where near as reliable.

Minstrel_Knight · August 2003

The blood sprite can block your view when biting so I dislike it.

sekdar · August 2003

all i personally care about is that it tells me i hit the guy.

Trancer · August 2003

It's very satisfying to be a skulk and bite into a Marine and watch the blood gush out of him! Mmmmmmmmm!!

Maveric · August 2003

before blood was implemented i, too, was like "WTH I HIT THAT GUY 6 TIMES!"

now i know i only hit him twice. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Diablus · August 2003

i have a cutom marine death scream and it Fits PERFECTLY wirh the game, its not a bloddy or gory long scream, its at least 1.5 seconds, its a scream of hopelessness im currently looking for another death sound but this one makes my games 2 times better after a big battle, the scream is pretty loud so u CAN hear it in a room next to you, it guives me a good idea of where an alien is and it also adds in amazing atmosphere, if you want to try it out jsut IM me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Blood!

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