Death message please - how death occurred?

[Atzala 1]

Enjoying this game and I accept it's alpha and I accept we live with perma-death, but it shouldn't be a whole lotta work to add a message at the end to state how one died.  Having built up a character and lots of good gear (without server hoping) it's a let down to be one shot out of the blue and get a black screen. I want to know what happened! My minimal suggestion is that there should be a notice "You were shot by X using a Y". Obviously combat logs would do this better but even if these are not planned for this type of game, we get in-game messages for all other activities and status changes.

[-Se7eN- 874]

The whole death message system was removed due to its lack of realism, i believe the concept of "you don't know what hit you" is something the development team actually wants, not just something they havnt got round to.

 

personally i prefer it, alot more immersive than seeing "XxX420ALLW33K was killed by AS50" in the bottom left of my screen all day. 

[doublebrain 255]

I think he wasnt suggestin a death message like in the Mod but a "personal" death message on your deathscreen.

[Atzala 1]

I think he wasnt suggestin a death message like in the Mod but a "personal" death message on your deathscreen.

That's it. Not a global announcement, I go along with immersive. Just nice to have a personal 'why' to go with the WTF???

[-Se7eN- 874]

Even then that's actually quite over powered, if when you die it tells you what killed you, how far away and there name, if your in a squad that is a HUGE advantage, now you know exactly how far away he is and what weapon he is using.

 

this to me breaks immersion and gives a disadvantage to solo players.

[doublebrain 255]

If the "study body" will make it into the game again you could walk to your corpse and see what killed you. ;) I think they wanted to improve it so you could see if you got killed by 9mm or some 5,56mm or just a hatchet in your head.