Death animation

[Skeed]

Hello there !
I played FFXI for a long time and here since the V1.

I find it\\'s kinda sad that all races die in the same way. I know they introduce the emote /playdead and has different animation with it.

Like FFXI, they did different death animation for all races. That was really funny to see tarutarus (lalafell from FFXI) falling without their knees touching the ground first. Elvaans (Elezen) spinning before falling on their back. Etc..

Even in cutscene, seeing random npc dying like everyone else is a bit.. dull.
I think it will give more personnality to races.

I would like to share a video but i cannot find a nice one to show you.

[Ath192]

Yeah the death animation is the laziest thing I’ve seen in this game. It’s generic. When I die I want to die in an interesting way, not a drab copy paste animation.

For a game that pays so much attention to detail they really dropped the ball on this aspect.

[Anhra]

Yeah the death animation is the laziest thing I’ve seen in this game. It’s generic. When I die I want to die in an interesting way, not a drab copy paste animation.

For a game that pays so much attention to detail they really dropped the ball on this aspect.

That can be said for anything that has something to do with combat in general, be it animations, class/job design or even dungeons,trials and so on as well. I only hope that Squeenix will slow down on the sidecontent one day and pay more attention to that matter, since there is alot of things that should be adressed.

[Fredco191]

Theoretically, they could change the actual animations to the play dead emote animations. (Well... maybe have the male Lalafells end up in a different pose.)

[Crasherino]

I was thinking about this yesturday as well, why do we have play dead animations when they could of used them as race specific death animations? instead of the boring defaulty as hell single death animation for every race and gender.

[BaconBits]

I'd rather not die ass up thank you very much.

[Bacent]

You don't need a death animation when your healer is a murder hobo with rescue in any fight with ledges!

But in all seriousness, I'm still a bit confused by the generic dying animation being for everyone, and from what I remember many enemies that are humanoid.

[Ath192]

I think it was a cost saving measure back then, but if they have the time and budget to make emotes to sell in the mog station surely they can fix this. I just think people haven't made a fuss about it enough for them to take notice.

It's probably because no one wants to be overly morbid or anything, but dying is part of the game and they should pay attention to it. Just ask the people of Sims 4 what happened to EA when they removed the ability to die by drowning. They threw a giant fit.

[Jin-]

It's pretty bad. And very slow to activate the animation

[XabyTimberwolf]

They should switch to rag dolls. The YouTube compilations alone would be worth the inconvenience of ragdolling off a boss battle edge