morale is something i don't think i've ever seen modeled in a shooter the fact that after a certain point of catastrophe, soldiers just say "fuck this shit," throw down their weapons, and run nothing makes goon npcs more nonhuman than their utter lack of self-preservation
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Hell, even after taking a couple bullets or blows the goons just keep fighting, as opposed to collapsing and being disabled enough that you can book it. It's weird and artificial-feeling for unarmored enemies?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @perdricof and
Like this is a world where any serious injury will probably put someone out of action for days, weeks, or longer, if not lasting disability, and they're all 100% gung-ho about facing it?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @perdricof and
And doubly so because like... if they're disciplined enough soldiers to have that level of morale and focus, then you wouldn't expect them to express anguish over casualties. Hell, they never stop to *help* each other, pull wounded friends back into cover, or anything!
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my hot take is that the reason npcs don't do stuff like that is that if they actually implemented basic infantry tactics they would be too difficult for one person to defeat solo
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
the wlf: "okay, we only move in tight groups of four, team 1 will sit in cover and wait for her to pop her head out while we move to a superior position. nobody charge in by themselves. keep it frosty and we'll all go home today." ellie: "....shit."
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Hell, I'm less asking for "basic infantry tactics" than "if you want me to see my enemies as people whose deaths have emotional weight, have them be as or more interested in surviving a fight, even wounded, as in killing me."
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Replying to @loudpenitent @perdricof and
And I'm *still* bothered by how every stealth kill in this game is executing a prisoner explicitly after Ellie tells them not to struggle, like that's just kinda fucked. and yet there's nothing else you can do to them. Can't disarm them, can't injure them, can't try to KO them.
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I mean you can let them go, they just all try to kill you if you do This notably happens as a character moment with PlayStation Vita girl, Ellie really wasn't going to kill her
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
I take Ellie's saying "shut up, shut the fuck up" as actually being part of her process of dehumanizing them herself. It only starts after you hit the kill button, she's expressing contempt for them
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Oh yeah this is totally a thing You hear about murderers' sublimated guilt coming out as *irritation* Someone struggling and screaming for help and they're just like "Shut the fuck up already Jesus Christ"
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Yeah that's exactly what Ellie is doing She doesn't want to hear them beg for their lives
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Abby, being the more professional killer who already textually isn't bothered by killing, generally just says "ahh"
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