The same guy, because one of the headshots was actually a body shot. You fire two headshots, then follow up with a body shotĪnd quickly turn around to fight a new threat …only to be killed from behind by Differently coloredĭamage numbers let you know immediately if you did pull it off. Regular hits (aka body shots) and special, more damaging hits (aka headshots,Ĭritical Hits, Precision Shots – these go by many names). Some games, Witchfire amongst them, differentiate between Imagine Dark Souls without the poise system. For most games it won’t work, because fast-firing weapons would immediately stun-lock the enemy and thus make the game devoid of any challenge. only human enemies with generally low HP pool). Some games play hit animations instantly when you damage the enemy and that is a very good indicator, but it’s possible only in rare cases (e.g. The hit sound usually gets buried under more impactful sounds like the shot sound itself. The crosshair change is too fast and, by the very nature of crosshairs being non-obstructive, hard to notice. The effect might get lost among dozens of others (and shooters are usually full of smoke and fire).

Game developers use many techniques to emphasize a good shot: extra particle effect, crosshair change, hit sounds – but they’re all not enough often enough. The heat of a frantic battle, when juggling multiple targets quickly, things After all, the player knows where the crosshair was at the moment of firing a shot, right?Ĭorrect, but only if you’re fighting a single slow enemy. One might think that no indication of a hit is necessary. (You might want to turn on HD, full screen and sound for these GIFs below) Problem solved? Maybe, but here are five reasons why you Witchfire offers a customizable HUD, and you will be able to turn the health The other thing I already said multiple times is that I said it about six times already, there are health bars andĭamage numbers in Dark Souls and Bloodborne, and somehow no one claims these A smooth jazz music plays during the conversation between the detective and the femme fatale, but when the detective opens the door, it turns out that all this time it was literally a guy with a saxophone. The very idea of a movie soundtrack was nicely parodied in 1993’s under-appreciated comedy Fatal Instinct. It’s not like there’s an orchestra following you around in the world of Skyrim. They must ruin the immersion, right?īut …so should, say, game music. These are external, non-diegetic elements There’s a group of people who truly despise damage numbers and health bars. Until we got this work-in-progress video out, I had no idea

Skyrim floating health bars