Dead ships and dead pilots.

[DoomRide]

So far when you kill a ship, they explode, nothings left. What happened to the promised dead ships, floating parts and exposed ship guts? So far killing things don't leave dead bodies. I wish we had this, you could then tell how bad a fight was with the floating dead.

As well I wish killing the pilot left a ship intact, or just allow us to get parts from a dead ship (weapons, module parts and utility). We should be able to scavenge off them dead ships.

 

[Katkon]

So far when you kill a ship, they explode, nothings left. What happened to the promised dead ships, floating parts and exposed ship guts? So far killing things don't leave dead bodies. I wish we had this, you could then tell how bad a fight was with the floating dead.

As well I wish killing the pilot left a ship intact, or just allow us to get parts from a dead ship (weapons, module parts and utility). We should be able to scavenge off them dead ships.

Technically we/NPCs don't die when our ships explode. We escape in auto-ejected escape pads which are auto-routed to the nearest station with a shipyard where we can repurchase the lost equipment. We will die in "ironman" mode when that becomes available at launch, but in the vanilla/regular mode, we don't die... So dead bodies would not be seen floating around.

 

[Belisarius]

There may not be dead bodies flying along ... but there definitely sometimes are remains after the destruction of an enemy ship

Remains of a Pirate Imperial Clipper I destroyed

Spoiler

Remains of a Pirate Viper:

Spoiler

 

[Psychomorph]

I once jumped until had too low fuel and continued with super cruise for an hour until fuel reached zero. After that I had four minutes contemplating about the unavoidable death while gazing upon the beautiful milky way. I found peace.

I ran out of oxygen and my ship went off in a puff. I was disappoint.

I preferred to be conserved in space and be discovered in 358 years.

 

[nbrado]

do you really want to wake up to this?

[video=youtube;FjNlyWxwCac]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjNlyWxwCac[/video]

 

[Pille]

I ran out of oxygen and my ship went off in a puff. I was disappoint.

Ships just go poof when you run out of oxygen!?

 

[aRtFuL]

I remember back in the older Elite games you used to be able to scoop up escape pods and sell the occupants to slavery

(or if you don't have cargo bay life support, sell them as fertilizers)

 

[Kiffin Rockwell]

do you really want to wake up to this?

[video=youtube;FjNlyWxwCac]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjNlyWxwCac[/video]

That would be awesome. Except for the new disco music and Hawk. Well, and maybe the over sexed villains. That may or may not be a problem.

 

[Pille]

I remember back in the older Elite games you used to be able to scoop up escape pods and sell the occupants to slavery

(or if you don't have cargo bay life support, sell them as fertilizers)

Really? That's awesome

 

[edukainc]

I don't think you will ever see dead pilots floating in space in this game.
A lot of parents let little 'Johnny' or little 'Suzie' play for a awhile and the last thing they need, is to explain to their kids why Dr. Reinhart is floating outside near a 'Black hole'

 

[Loren Lovanchi]

Remains of an Imperial Clipper in Beta3:

Spoiler

 

[ChromolyRex]

I killed some ships earlier today, and flew through their debris. Sidewinder, Cobra, Viper, Federal Dropship ... all had chunks left. Didn't bother taking screenshots though.

 

[Shoklar]

So far when you kill a ship, they explode, nothings left. What happened to the promised dead ships, floating parts and exposed ship guts? So far killing things don't leave dead bodies. I wish we had this, you could then tell how bad a fight was with the floating dead.

As well I wish killing the pilot left a ship intact, or just allow us to get parts from a dead ship (weapons, module parts and utility). We should be able to scavenge off them dead ships.

Yes, I want to see players escape capsules and corpses when I blow them up to collect.

Shok.