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Lobby animations and emotes for killers and survivors

Yords
Yords Member Posts: 5,781

I think giving lobby animations and emotes for both sides would be a cool thing to add purely for looks.

Maybe even a minute long animation of themselves just living in their world of the entity. They could all walk up when you select them as a character. For example, just imagine pyramid head walking up to where he normally stands while dragging his knife in the ground in midwich and then he starts to pose. I think it would be really cool and add more depth to each character. It could be different for all survivors and killers.

For survivors, you could have Kate sitting down for a second playing the dbd theme and then after a bit, she stands up. Quentin could just be sitting down and fall asleep (like he already does in the main menu apparently), then jerk back up and stand when he realizes he almost fell asleep. Kate could be sitting on a log in the forest, and Quentin on a bed or bench in Springfield.

It would give each character more depth and just be a nice thing to see.

What I mean by emotes is allowing maybe a new universal emote for survivors to help more than tilt the killer. Like an animation to hold out an item for a survivor to grab and it can show how much left of the item there is so people don't trick people into taking used items.

For killers, they could be given at least one emote each. Ghostface could just wave hi. Pyramid head could just make an intimidating grunt and drag his knife leaving a trail as he does in the reveal trailer and so on.

Comments

  • Yarheeguy
    Yarheeguy Member Posts: 101

    isn't their idle animations pretty much enough?

    also the matchmaking take a minute long and usually it to get ready to go into a game, nobody would waste their time making emotes.

    also the Survivors will not see the killer in the lobby so having emotes for the killer would be pointless because the only person who would see it is the player with the emote.

  • Yords
    Yords Member Posts: 5,781

    I meant this as more of a decorative thing and their idle animations just are meh. The emotes for the killer would be seen in-game. I know this is a thing that everyone probably wouldn't even want in the game, but I thought it would be just something to add to make the game more lively. This was just an idea I had to maybe give survivors more personality and killers more depth.

  • Phasmamain
    Phasmamain Member Posts: 11,531

    Would love to see survivors do their idle animations in the trial while standing still

  • SOMENINJANAME
    SOMENINJANAME Member Posts: 294

    This would be a fun addition.

  • Karao_Ke
    Karao_Ke Member Posts: 1,221

    This would definitely give survivors more personality, but I don't see how killers would have an emote for anyone other than yourself to see, which is honestly kind-of a waste (considering they'll probably cost shards or something).

    But nonetheless it would give the game more "aesthetic" and detail.