Will our characters have damage states?I don't mean missing limbs, etc. (Although that would be interesting, having limbs replaced cybernetically.)I mean that since there are usable toilets/showers in the game whose use would be optional, would using them maintain a "cleaner" appearance, while lack of use would have you looking like a backwater, unwashed, space pirate?asked by Zengrinn
TL;DRRoberts says there will be damage, including limb damage, and some character aging, but he's unsure about a cleanliness or grubbiness state, though he likes the idea and it would probably be easy to add on the same blend system.
So not really damage states, you're talking about I guess cleanliness states.There definitely by the way will be damage, we have limb damage already part of the system and it's already partially modeled in our first person shooter stuff. So when we show that and reveal it later this year, you'll see a lot of that. But we're also going to have some level of aging for the characters, so as you get older, we'll want them to feel like they get older. The same way that we want ships to have wear and tear.So we'll have that. I don't know about the cleaning, the grubby thing, but I kind of like it as an idea, it's kind of cool.It all would probably be based on the same system because we sort of have a blend system that you set up the pristine thing, and then you have the really dirty, worn thing, and then you just blend between them on a scale of 0 to 1. It actually would probably be not that difficult to do, it would be kind of along the same lines as the ships.I will take that under advisement, because we're already setting it up for the aging and some of the other stuff. you never know, you could be an unwashed pirate, or you could go and scrub yourself up in a shower.