General Immersive interactions on-foot

[NathanKerbonaut]

While playing with Odyssey with friends I've thought of a few ways of interacting on-foot that would add a lot to the immersion. Small things, like

• Being able to sit in chairs
• Leaning up against tables at the bar
• Picking up and looking at objects like glasses, boxes, materials, and goods
  • Also the ability to drop inventory items on the ground
• Player emotes and poses
  • Waving, sitting, laying down, dancing, saluting, etc.
  • Maybe customizable voice lines?
• Admiring my weapons

 

[indust]

This. We need emotes. For use in social gatherings, team playing and for screenshots.

What OP suggested is a good list of things to start with. Definately sitting on chairs, squatting (Heels on the ground!xD), leaning on railings, stuff like that. Make us feel part of our environments.
Diddling with our weapons, for sure. Varying idle animations.

Yeah, let me lean on the bar counter and drink some of that famous Harma rum.

Sea of Thieves makes money with purchaseable emotes, as well as having plenty for free by default. Red Dead Online 2 also has a huge variety of emotes, purchaseable and unlockable by gameplay. So not only is it something that allows us to express ourselves, but it's a source of revenue.

Edit: As for FPS emotes, Escape from Tarkov does a good job at this. Pointing at things, gesturing to move towards something or towards yourself, gesturing to stop etc.