Guards and NPCs desperately need to react to dead bodies

Zoltan_117

I just killed every NPC in Kvatch, leaving a trail of bodies everywhere and guards and NPCs are just walking on top of them and no one batted an eye or pretended to care. It feels unrealistic and unbalanced, I feel there needs to be some risk in it, the NPCs should call a local guard, and the guard should be on alert around the body, it can't be that hard to do Devs.

emily3989

Do you want this or the current aspects of the game to actually function?

I mean, they have had a mass exodus of PVP players due to lag issues, they are changing the entire leveling system, oh, releasing an entire new DLC, re-balancing several skill lines, and on top of that re-vamping the entire way enchantments work.

I know it would be great for more PVE solo immersion, but do you actually thing it is a good idea for them to work on this in addition to everything else? My god, their servers might actually explode.

Zoltan_117

emily3989 wrote: »

Do you want this or the current aspects of the game to actually function?

I mean, they have had a mass exodus of PVP players due to lag issues, they are changing the entire leveling system, oh, releasing an entire new DLC, re-balancing several skill lines, and on top of that re-vamping the entire way enchantments work.

I know it would be great for more PVE solo immersion, but do you actually thing it is a good idea for them to work on this in addition to everything else? My god, their servers might actually explode.

To be fair I was actually thinking about this, they are really working on a lot at once which is impressive but personally I feel this is half done, I couldn't imagine designing the ability to slaughter NPCs without an equal NPC reaction/negative aspect to it also.

emily3989

They actually have more than most similar games. At least they have a bounty system, so if you go near a guard, even on the other side of the continent, they will be aggressive towards you.

Other games you can kill everyone and nobody seems to care.

Legoless

What are they meant to do, go poke the body? NPCs already comment if they see a murder being committed.

Zoltan_117

Legoless wrote: »

What are they meant to do, go poke the body? NPCs already comment if they see a murder being committed.

That's if they see it, but if they don't see it they don't care if there are about 20 bodies lieing around them. At least guards should be more on the lookout when crossing near a dead body.

Zoltan_117

I logged in again today and killed half of kvatch, without anything happening.

Can devs atleast put some screams in from passing NPCs? They complain when you break the law or pick pocket, can't we just have some interaction on the sight of a murdered body.

TheDarkShadow

Zoltan_117 wrote: »

I logged in again today and killed half of kvatch, without anything happening.

Can devs atleast put some screams in from passing NPCs? They complain when you break the law or pick pocket, can't we just have some interaction on the sight of a murdered body.

They're just too scared and be like: "Keep walking, keep acting normally, maybe he won't kill me. Maybe it's just my imagination. Maybe if I close my eyes the bodies will just disappear. OH HEY! It's WORK! The bodies disappear and my friends are (spawn) back again! It's just an illusion after all."

phaneub17_ESO

Legoless wrote: »

What are they meant to do, go poke the body? NPCs already comment if they see a murder being committed.

Hmm... yeah. You kill a person in Skyrim, half the town that walks by that path "OH! What Happened??" and hover over the body like they're doing some voodoo to the corpse.

GeertKarel

Haha the old skyrim you shoot a arrow to a guard they try to find you but later naaaahh it was nothing just the wind.

Daraugh

The npc could at least despawn at a normal rate so the trail wouldn't be so ridiculous. It's creepy-silly when the person is standing on top of their own corpse, eww.

STEVIL

Guards and npcs dont respond to spammed aoe either so bodies, not so much a worry.

But if they did it would create a lot of posdible cross player interference possibilities that are likely left alone.