Make Mortar Shells Extremely Bloody

ITypedThis · September 29, 2014, 02:20:33 PM

Recently in my colony, a large group of raiders decided to attempt to siege us. They had brought five-too-many snipers for me to feel confident in the idea of sending one of my own. As such, I had some non-essential colonists man a couple of mortars to try and whittle them down for a while before a frontal assault.

I suppose I must have been quite lucky as many of the shells scored fairly direct hits on the raiders, and often killed them instantly.

However, after the siege was over I was looking around at the ruins of the siege and some of the past siege camps and saw a few skeletons and some scattered sandbags as the only remains. The reason being that mortar shells usually completely destroy the body of the pawn that was hit. In my opinion, this makes siege ruins rather underwhelming.

I think that when a pawn is killed by a mortar shell, if the body is destroyed, there should be massive pools of blood splattered on the ground where they were to add to the visual effect of a past battle.

TL;DR: I think mortars should be very bloody. Especially considering someone got hit by an explosion powerful enough to rip their body apart...

Johnny Masters · September 29, 2014, 02:36:45 PM

+5 for added gore in rw

Ink. · September 29, 2014, 02:59:03 PM

Could be as simple as having it off by default but in the options menu have a gore setting. Those who do and don't want to see it are both happy and we can get to making bloody messes out of people. Y'know, sane things.

Johnny Masters · September 29, 2014, 03:06:18 PM

Wait, are you implying there are people who dislike gore? I'm shocked.

ITypedThis · September 29, 2014, 11:15:16 PM

Quote from: Anarak on September 29, 2014, 02:36:45 PM
+5 for added gore in rw

Quote from: Ink. on September 29, 2014, 02:59:03 PM
Could be as simple as having it off by default but in the options menu have a gore setting. Those who do and don't want to see it are both happy and we can get to making bloody messes out of people. Y'know, sane things.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I would like to see "meaty chunks" strewn about the area, I mean mostly to say a lot more of the blood splatter on the ground. Same as when a pawn gets shot and blood splatters appear on the ground. Just a lot more of it.

It also helps to have some sort of "physical" evidence that there was every a pawn there in the first place.

Wex · September 30, 2014, 05:51:34 AM

Meaty chunks are great for cannibal colonists!

JimmyAgnt007 · September 30, 2014, 08:47:00 AM

Buy from Ex-Mil Explosive Emporium! Our shells will butcher your meat for you!
Ex-Mil Explosive Emporium is not responsible for it's shells being used to hunt anything but wild game.

ITypedThis · September 30, 2014, 07:55:17 PM

Quote from: JimmyAgnt007 on September 30, 2014, 08:47:00 AM
Buy from Ex-Mil Explosive Emporium! Our shells will butcher your meat for you!
Ex-Mil Explosive Emporium is not responsible for it's shells being used to hunt anything but wild game.

Haha!

ITypedThis · September 30, 2014, 07:56:15 PM

Quote from: Wex on September 30, 2014, 05:51:34 AM
Meaty chunks are great for cannibal colonists!

Even better for the surviving prisoners!