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Will PoE 2 have any of this? Games like Grim Dawn, Diablo 3, Last Epoch and even the ancient Titan Quest already have ragdolls for monster deaths. I realize there is a problem with corpse skills, but you could at least implement something very light, the corpses don't need to fly offscreen. To avoid the repetitive death animations which are just bad to look at after a while.

Also, destructible objects in the environment like in D3 shouldn't create any problems and it would make the combat feel better. PoE 2 looks sooooooooooo good, i love it, but everything is so static, it's like a wax museum :(

Edit: This is what i'm talking about https://i.ibb.co/6DRqW71/Untitled-1.jpg

That looks (to me) extremely bad, nobody said that corpses should fly offscreen, do something very limited so that the body falls in the same position but with different animations and end with their limbs and body in different stances. I specified from the time i created this that flying corpses is not necessary (although, personally, i would love to have that) but if people don't want that, at least something light to have the monsters end up in different poses when dead, that is all.

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4 months ago - /u/Negitivefrags - Direct link

I don't love ragdoll on monsters because I think hand crafted death animations look better. One thing we are doing in PoE2 though is that each monster will have 5 death animations.

One for each direction, and one directionless death. Depending on the damage direction and if the monster is running or not, we play the correct one. A skill like Ground Slam would play the directionless death because the monsters are getting hit from below.

Not every monster has had all the deaths created yet which is why the demos don't often demonstrate it.

4 months ago - /u/Negitivefrags - Direct link

Originally posted by YasssQweenWerk

What about those destructible objects we saw on artstation? I'm referring to these: 1, 2, 3

It looks really realistic and cool.

Those are technically chests that open on damage. We do in fact have a bunch of those.