The problem is that you die the moment your dropsuit is breached by a weapon. You don't have health. You have shield hit points and armor hit points. If you show any blood from anything other than a lethal hit, it would basically be saying "we just made that **** up to placate you guys, lol".

The Amarr have a trap that spins at hypersonic speed that shoots out a 5 meter long monofilament wire that cuts people into pieces. It is in one of the books; maybe Templar 1.

Here is the problem. I can give huge details on that or the Normandy Beach landing of people pulling in their guts or fingers getting torn off my bullets and it isn't that big of a deal. It is grotesque but it is PG. Listen to Jaws and Quinn talk about him being in the water with the sharks. It is truly terrifying stuff. If you were to film that scene, instant R rating. That's the problem with showing it. CCP has the game made in such a way that it is rated T.

Same as EVE.

Not sure I understand the point.

Are you saying physical abuse from a weapon shouldn't happen after the moment of death has occurred? Because that doesn't make much sense. A weapon continues to fire into a corpse after the corpse is, in fact, a corpse. A fully automatic weapon user doesn't typically stop at the very last shot that killed someone.

If a mass driver round was strong enough to penetrate the remains of a persons armor and kill them, odds are it was also powerful enough to take off a limb or two.

Templar One, Flayer Mines.

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@Ulysses - you actually have 10 HP of body health (structure HP) I believe, that's why you can still be alive at 0/0.

If I hit a person with a Sniper Rifle twice and I leave no visible wounds, and then I hit them a third time and leave a giant hole in their chest, that just doesn't make much sense. The only two alternatives would be to have the previous shots leave wounds (which violates the precedent set by the game itself) or have the lethal wound not be very graphic.

Secondly, if the wounds really are that bad, they shouldn't be able to be revived, which they usually can be unless they were killed via headshot or very powerful weapon.

It makes perfect sense. The first shot had its shock absorbed primarily by the shields, and the structural integrity of the physical armor. The second shot was again, absorbed by the structural integrity of the armor and the nanites flowing through it, although nearly depleting them and bringing it to a much weakened state. The armors integrity on the third shot was too weakened to fully absorb the impact and therefore shattered before the nanites could repair that integrity. This allowed the round to pass through the armor and cause lethal damage.

Your argument basically just came down to "I don't like gore, please don't have it in the game".

I am burning you with a laser rifle.


I am burning you with a laser rifle.


I am burning you with a laser rifle.


I am left wondering what just happened.

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Do you see a problem with this scenario?

The shield is attempting to deflect the laser, the armor is slowly ablated be the laser, the laser finally finds a weak point then splits the merc in two.

There are videos on YT showing lasers first ablating metal and then over time suddenly cutting it, it isn't cut in two lightsaber stuff....

The Laser Rifle should melt through armor/people and/or cut mercs in half

That's false. The reason you can be alive at 0/0 is because your HP is actually not a whole number and the display rounds it down to 0, but the engine does not. Thus you're alive at (seemingly) 0 HP.

Uh huh, right.


That's not what the OP said.

Are you honestly not seeing a problem? You go from taking no visible damage to having a freaking hole in you from a continuously-fired laser. That's like being on fire and not being burned, and then suddenly turning into a pile of ash.

I dont see a problem.

As long as you are tanking the damage the laser is being kept at bay.

The moment your suit fails, the laser comes thru and due its powerful charge does imediate sushi.

@Sameal

You haven't read Templar One clearly, the Nanite injector injects NANITES that can repair just about anything from shattered bone to internal bleeding.