Dead bodies in space

[BlackSpaceCowboy]

When I was a kid, I remember playing Star Fox on the SNES. One of the coolest things I remember is sometimes when you blew up an enemy ship, you saw the dead body of the enemy floating past you in the debris field.

Shouldn't dead bodies be part of the debris in Elite?

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Pegi 7+
There are numerous fluff bits I would like to see . Bodies were in concept art but I doubt they will be allowed unless FD up the age rating

 

[ethelred]

I'd like a warthunder style damage model too.

Sadly, I shan't be holding my breath for either.

(In a more serious answer I think seeing dead bodies would probably raise the certificate of the game and be hard to code)

 

[EUS]

What with smellyprescence, and the fact we don't die in game, no bodies.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Only PF members are invincible none members and crew are OOL

 

[Stealthie]

Pegi 7+
There are numerous fluff bits I would like to see . Bodies were in concept art but I doubt they will be allowed unless FD up the age rating

Bullseye.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I'd like to see dead bodies floating.

Oddly, it'd add a bit of life to the game. Lol

 

[Old Duck]

I'd like to see dead bodies floating.
Oddly, it'd add a bit of life to the game. Lol

I could live with this. If I start seeing severed limbs and heads floating in space, I'm done.

 

[Craith]

Not sure about dead bodies, but I'd like to see an escape pod come out of the wreck. Allowing me to scoop them up and sell them into slavery set them free

 

[BlackSpaceCowboy]

Not sure about dead bodies, but I'd like to see an escape pod come out of the wreck. Allowing me to scoop them up and sell them into slavery set them free

After some people mentioned the age rating, I started wondering how a kids game like Star Fox had dead bodies. It turns out I remembered wrong. I found a video and they're not dead bodies, they're like floating out in ejector seats.

I'd also like to eject in Elite Dangerous. If you successfully eject your rebuy cost should be lower since you don't need to clone a new body. When I play WW2 flight sims, the decision to eject is thrilling.

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

In the video "the fall of the oracle" there were dead bodies floating outside the attacked starport, however in game those were not present. Lore/RP would say the rescue frigate would have scooped them up with limpets, but they would have been a nice touch to have seen them.

 

[Nihila Vex]

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[Wargfoot]

At least give us dead Thargoids - scoop 'em up to sell the parts.

The thing is, if you put dead human bodies in space it would cause the age rating to go up.
If you put dead puppies in space a crowd of angry people would burn down FD HQ.

 

[BlackSpaceCowboy]

At least give us dead Thargoids - scoop 'em up to sell the parts.

The thing is, if you put dead human bodies in space it would cause the age rating to go up.
If you put dead puppies in space a crowd of angry people would burn down FD HQ.

There are dead bodies in games like Skyrim and Fallout. Even in Fortnite when you shoot someone with your gun they die. The dead body disappears quickly but it was there.

And I would be shocked if there were many kids under 12 playing Elite Dangerous.

 

[babelfisch]

Pegi 7+
There are numerous fluff bits I would like to see . Bodies were in concept art but I doubt they will be allowed unless FD up the age rating

They could simply release a Pegi 18 DLC that optionally adds some visuals. IIRC Creative Assembly usually does that with the Total War games.

 

[Rubbernuke]

There are no dead bodies in ED, simply because they are turned into meat.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

I don't really think that dead bodies are going to be realistic since the explosion that rips apart a ship on destruction doesn't seem to leave much of anything.

Passenger liners in federation systems that drop plenty of escape pods to scoop and sell - now there's something I can get into.

 

[Nihila Vex]

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[Vasco Sapien]

Pegi 7+
There are numerous fluff bits I would like to see . Bodies were in concept art but I doubt they will be allowed unless FD up the age rating

Would it matter if that happened though.. What 6 year old plays ED?
I wouldnt imagine many if at all so it couldnt make a difference to Fdevs bottom line.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Dead bodies would go mostly unnoticed by children, unlike the sound of running out of oxygen, which is creepy for adults. Lol

I'm completely desensitised to blood, gore, dead bodies, etc.
I grew up playing Duke Nukem 3D, and watching 1980s horror movies.