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Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
Community animation feedback
Eathan
Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
Steve asked for community feedback on the animal animations within freeholds. I personally am okay with a more violent animation than the one currently in place. As mentioned in todays livestream a game is good when it is both fun and realistic. I wanna do more than just pet a sheep for its wool, or pet a pig and see it fall over. What are your all's personal thoughts?
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I specifically have Diamond Knives with Fire Aspect so that when I backstab the cow it dies and becomes a steak and leather instantly instead of literally fleeing in terror while on fire.
I'm sure there are players out there who would feel squeamish or weird about this, or moreso because the animals look more realistic?
But for me, it's all the same.
Lamb instead of Mutton, Veal instead of Beef, etc.
Calling PETA! lol
As for the shearing animation the AA one is better as the character actually snips at the sheep's wool with a scissor.
Extra: Adding visual example of said animations in AA
Slaughtering at 29 sec :
Shearing at 5min 16sec:
Aren't we all sinners?
Careful, they kill more cats than anyone else on the planet.
Actually, there is often a reason to do this.
Lets say you have the space and resources to raise 5 more pigs, but your sow has a litter of 9 pigs. You have 4 that you need to dispatch of at some point. While selling them is sometimes an option, it is also sometimes not an option. Killing them young is - in this case - the most humane thing to do, you are doing right by all of your pigs by ensuring they have enough food and enough space.
"Leave it in there. It's fine, the hamburger I had this afternoon came from somewhere.
You could modernize it though. The animals are stunned, and rendered senseless, first these days. Around 2 percent of the time (the stats tend to vary) the animal is not stunned due to a thicker skull or whatnot (so the industry could try to eliminate that).
The point is, instead of a throat slit amid loud screaming (which is not how its done these days) do an animation that stuns then stabs. The stun renders it senseless, the stab kills it. Clean, but deadly. The meat comes from somewhere and we eat it every day after all."
A necromancer however could lift the pig like a Jedi and separate the blood for later use. Attacking the necromancer during this process would make spilling the blood onto everybody nearby.