Can't really fix something that ain't broken. What are you really suggesting though? Punch a hole in your opponents body or slice them in half, wouldn't that be a bit silly? New animations that are more fitting would have to be made, and that would be a hell of a lot of work, so I don't see it happening.Soviet Travolta said:
Fallout 2 Restoration Project 1.2 (Unofficial FO2 Expansion)
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Soviet Travolta
First time out of the vault
I was thinking Fist of the North Star, but of course, it doesn't properly fit a restoration project... Too bad nothing was implented in the first place. I'm not for the all out gore, but it's a nice distraction now and then.
Claude Frollo
It Wandered In From the Wastes
I played Fallout 3 a bit, always the same gore business. It is so boring, almost every headshot, head goes away the same way. If you launch teddy bears, they also take the head off.
Soviet Travolta said:
I do personally think it is a bug/flaw in the engine that melee weapons like the cattle prod (which does electrical damage) don't cause the appropriate electical death animation. I've looked into it and any kind of melee attack (punch, swing, thrust whatever) are all set to never cause crit deaths. Only an engine hack could solve this, methinks.
encinodude
It Wandered In From the Wastes
rogerg2 said:
While we're somewhat on the subject, did anyone ever figure out if it's possible to make it look like a melee weapon (eg. the ripper) is slicing an enemy in half a la the laser critical? I remember Magus trying to do that with Weapons Redone and failing.
encinodude said:
There is a way, though it's rather clunky: you have to set the melee weapon attack to 'single' (as in single shot) and give it range 1 (or 2) and no projectile graphic. Effectively you have to make it a very short ranged gun. Visually it looks fine but there are some minor flaws with it, such as corpses occasionally blocking your attacks.
Speaking of which - does anyone else think it's a bit ridiculous the way corpses block firing?? Is there a way to stop the engine taking corpses into account?
martynas.t
First time out of the vault
Any hint? Is it one week, two weeks, four weeks?
I hope it will be before the end of this month. 
Claude Frollo
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Restoration Project 1.3
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kungfujoe
First time out of the vault
Not quite. Initially, he said August. Then it was September. Then after focusing on his classes for awhile, the end-of-December date became his target.TJ07 said:Kinda month over due soon, isn't it. Let's just hope when it does come out, it'll be super cool
I'm not saying that to criticize Killap, and fully appreciate that this is a "spare time" effort, and that we have no right to demand anything.
On the flip side, I have to wonder if some of this may be an example of the old engineering cliche, "'perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough.'" The idea there is, more or less, that no project will ever be perfect, and an effort to make a project perfect will cause its cost to balloon and its schedule to extend out indefinitely, with nothing to show for it. On the other hand, if goals are set that are far short of perfect, but which are good enough to serve the needed function, the project can potentially be finished on budget and on schedule.
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