Starwars Outlaws Has The Most Immersive Experience Ever

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

It's evident that armor is less effective than cycling helmets.

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

Either that, or they have no skull and the helmet holds their brains in.

[@planexshifter]

You may be on to something First time I saw that backhand I was like wtf z as d then wait- did that even fucking hit? And no, that is the most glancing blow if it even connects at all And the stormtrooper falls over AND How much fucking noise would that make? Hitting a helmet With your hand That’s gonna fucking alert anyone nearby

[@Moosedpig]

The main character has hands of stone🤣

[@faidzeelhisyamhattar2133]

Cardboard boxes over the head absorbs shocks better than the helmet...

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@Moosedpigmatches her statuesque demeanor

[@michaeltalpas]

The fact that this woman grasps his helmet, and then gently lays the man on his face is entirely secondary to me. He's holding a gun under his right arm. Presumably, it is attached to his right shoulder by the strap you can see over his shoulder. When she grabs him, that strap vanishes, and the gun ends up under his left leg. ???

[@michaeltalpas]

Running it back, it looks like he's holding the gun in his right hand, but his left hand moves in front of it for several frames. So the gun is floating behind his left hand, but his right hand is holding it. What is this?

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

Reminds me of animations when you have to hold the interact button in Far Cry, another ubisoft game. Both models stop whatever they are doing to go into a "Takedown animation". The player model even teleports closer to the enemy model if the takedown is pressed early. But Far Cry hid it way better.

[@MC-wh3xm]

@@michaeltalpas it looks like it goes to the "holster spot"

[@Utrilus]

She just hypnotized him to put his gun into the holster before laying down to take a nap. A smuggler's mind trick, you could say.

[@faiir]

AI generated animation

[@Snakedude4life]

My favorite feature is when you do something to alert the imperial troopers; a large “WANTED” flashes over the entire screen. Very subtle. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@TheGraveyarder]

if u ask me i think it was very ingenious a large exclamation mark or a music cue isnt enough stimulus for the average star wars audience the star wars fans love that obnoxious flashy slop and they clearly know their audience

[@juan0808]

I mean... it's Ubisoft. You should be grateful that at the same time a star level counter doesn't appear, along with a timer that shows the time until the troopers stop looking. Along with a minimap with the troopers field of vision and 100 way points signaling possible hiding spots.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

Modern game devs consider that subtle.

[@notneb82]

Are you playing this game? If so, why? The warning signs were all there months ago.

[@Snakedude4life]

@@notneb82 Bro, the game isn’t even out yet, and I ain’t got money in the budget for a subpar slop game.

[@gamerguy6990]

I don’t care how bad storm troopers are painted as, nobody should be incapacitated by simply being grabbed by the helmet and thrown to the floor. Making this character stick people with a taser before throwing them down would’ve made more sense.

[@stigmaoftherose]

It's like the idiots who made this game forgot storm troopers are not aliens but wearing an outfit. Grabbing the mouth of the mask wouldn't stop him from yelling in surprise and alerting everyone.

[@darknessvamp]

Ah but you forghetti these are Disney Stormtroopers! They are that incompetent that a women pushing up or pulling down their helmets is enough to disorient them. Almost as if it completely invalidates the point of wearing armour. Yes the Obiwan Disney Series is shit.

[@WildBandit300]

The stormtroopers are really that weak, because they represent your run of the mill white incel frustrated gamer who didn't buy the game, while the protagonist represents the average, normal woman who can take any of these unruly, republican-voting incels down in a flash. -Some land whale writer, probably

[@faiir]

​@@darknessvamp Yeah, he was like "OMG a female touched me! I'm not standing up or she'll try that again!"

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

​@@stigmaoftherosewhat are the odds these animations were asset flipped from a stock pack or different game and we're too lazy to see why it doesn't make sense?

[@SnowRaver-p2v]

Ah yes, stealth! As you walk around getting shot and one of the enemies is frozen in place. Stealth!

[@bartsanders1553]

Way more challenging than Hitman.

[@LedoCool1]

STELS ↗

[@JAOResnik]

In real life the stormtrooper would flinch a little since he wasn't expecting, clench his fist and punch her in the stomach, since she has both her arms up. And she's done.

[@rps215]

Compare this to Jedi Fallen Order, at least it is nowhere as this bad.

[@Dasistrite]

Or if he is a bit more hardened veteran im sure he would have a vibroblade hanging on his belt and use that to open up her abdomen.

[@LedoCool1]

@@rps215 maybe you just got used to shittiness.

[@terrynieuwoudt8586]

The funniest thing to me about that clip is how his blaster teleports from his hand into his holster as soon as she makes contact

[@Matixmer]

While keeping its orientation and the smoothly glides into position 😂

[@gvii]

So he's holding a blaster in his right hand, which then magically zens itself to a holstered position on his left hip the second she grabs him. Ok then.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Not even holstered on inspection, but rather sitting ON the tip of the barrel, perfectly balanced. (As all things should be)

[@treelineresearch3387]

He never made it as a Jedi but he had enough force attunement to learn a couple flashy rifle tricks.

[@CheeseOfMasters]

@@treelineresearch3387 Well the Jedi didn't recruit anymore during that time period. Still this reecks as standard Ubitrash, I'm gonna pass hard.

[@inadvertanly86]

We should have protested harder when Bethesda gave us horse armor.

[@monk3110]

I was a foolish child and bought all the oblivion dlc lol

[@inadvertanly86]

@@monk3110 we all have our moments of weakness, even I have hundreds on loot boxes and shark cards. Just gotta stay strong, and keep away from the trendy stuff and nostalgia bait.

[@gewuerzwanze5627]

I had some points for the microsoft store left over on my 360. Bought pretty much everything but the horse armor

[@ricardotaut7498]

Realism only matters when it comes to female characters...!!! You are SO RIGHT about this! It's utter hypocrisy. They need to bring back sexy characters - Korean games show how it's done.

[@TheMrToxin]

Don't forget Chinese devs too, look at recent Hoyo game ZZZ and characters like Jane Doe and Zhu Yuan. Also it's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

I just wish the studios et al would stop bleeding us dry. They're ALL predatory AF. It turns me off immediately.

[@SomeCanine]

female protags are garbo

[@JadeRiese]

Imagine for a second, they created a game in the star wars universe, and there are stun blasters, shock staffs the size between a pen and a small flashlight, vibroblades, etc... and they make the small smuggler lady beat down the enemies (including the ones wearing armor that can withstand a one or two shots from a regular blaster) with her bare hands

[@bmack1708]

Remember that Obi-Wan show? They had a little woman incapacitate 2 stromtroopers at once by gently slapping their helmets. This gives the same vibes.

[@StrangeCreed]

Hell, Cad Bane in the cartoon had a shock glove.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

When you realize the stun gun was used in the first 10 minutes of the first (chronological) movie.

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

Is it that troublesome to just have a tazer or collapsible stun baton with an animation of placing it in between the gaps in the armour or exploiting the stormtroopers armour's "stuns wearer when hit with laser or blunt force" feature? Oh wait it's probably because these animations were taken from another game or stock assets and were meant for unarmoured mooks.

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

​@@StrangeCreedso you saying a short spark effect when the hand makes contact with the helmet would've fixed the problem? Man that shows dispassion in the industry.

[@victims5820]

Can't help but remember Tenchu. A game where, depending on where did you approach an enemy from (from the back, the side or even falling on them) you would perform a different takedown. 1998 by the way.

[@irispaiva]

That one Rikimaru stealth kill is fucking brutal, the one were he breaks a guy limb by limb

[@victims5820]

@@irispaiva That game was awesome. With a level editor too! I remember buying an extra memory card to store my levels and exchange them with friends. That's from back when devs really cared.

[@harlannguyen4048]

​@@irispaivaI'm pretty sure that was done by Tessu from the third game.

[@Zerker6064]

Man hard to believe that Ubisoft made far cry 2, far cry 3, and all the Assassin's Creed games Black Flag and before.

[@ToyokaX]

enshitification at its finest

[@lesewing]

The talent got slowly replaced with activists. Like an infection.

[@Chronomatrix]

D E I

[@Taffer-bx7uc]

You forgot Far Cry the first one lol

[@Zerker6064]

@@Taffer-bx7uc far cry 1 wasn't that made more by crytech the same people who made Crysis

[@fredfuchs5600]

Its the most immersive game for one who didnt played any game before.

[@Al-xq4ec]

It is immersive for journos who are still stuck in Cuphead tutorial purgatory.😂

[@DarthChrisB]

Storm troopers aren't paid enough to endure this.

[@TheLeadElite]

I am thankful everyday that smellovision hasn't been invented because my nose needs spared from the grime-covered stronk induhpandant wahmen protagonist

[@Blaze_Shadowflame]

I regret to inform you it has been invented. I am pleased to inform you that it was abandoned decades ago.

[@Mojinator101]

I got an ad for SW outlaws during this. 😂

[@Chronomatrix]

hahaha how can you animate that takedown and be like "Yeah, that's believable." Bruh.

[@TheRoflcer]

So happy to see Fleekazoids stream appear here.

[@taz31999]

except no credit is given that's coming from his stream.

[@jormilos]

I'd recognize that Siegal corner from anywhere. God bless you all Pimps

[@chadosama5399]

"It's just the way it is!"

[@easilyjoe]

​@@taz31999*no shout out from a smaller channel* It's just the way it is

[@biddaminesquire3007]

the capture from fleekazoid has me in stitches.

[@jon131]

I hope the shills got paid up front. There might not be any money for them afterwards.

[@armi999]

Don't worry, it's all about access, so they don't even have to pay them.

[@TheN1ghtwalker]

I lol'ed when I saw this chick knock out a stormtrooper with a superman punch.

[@leandrotarsia7212]

MGS V sat the bar so high for stealth mechanics in triple A games that they don't even try anymore.

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

We need to get more immersive sim styled damage in games, where it takes an enemy 10 minutes for an enemy to die from a stab wound.

[@robbylebotha]

That would also mean one bullet from an enemy will instantly kill you. Are you sure this is what you want lol? You'd probably never get passed the 1st level or any 2v1 situation. But I also want such a game, perhaps make it a optional mode, ultra realistic mode. If you get punched in the eye, half your screen loses focus for the rest of the level. Get shot in a arm and you one handed the rest of the level. Get stabbed on shot in the torso then yoh slowly bleed out and the screen gradually fades until you just fall and die. Guns jam randomly You only can carry like 60 rounds of ammo at a time Frag grenades shoot actual fragments instead of just being an explosion. Jumping from height sprains your ankle and you limp the whole level

[@Zaczac111]

@@robbylebothaI’m sorry to say but it’s evident you don’t know terribly much about guns lmao.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

​@@robbylebothatbf, a gun is your ONLY hope in a 2 v 1 scenario of almost any kind.

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

@@robbylebotha Literally STALKER on that first and fifth point. The rest, sounds kinda neat. Tho, if you're running a carrier and backpack, you can have anywhere from 120 to 390 rounds, or more if you're running 30 rounds mags (double layer x3 front shingle = 180, two on side places = 60, four in the backpack = 120, loaded in the weapon = 30+1). Consessions would have to be made if you're running a sidearm, but that's case by case.

[@rps215]

That is the infestation of RPG Elements where they don't belong. Remember Suicide Squad? It gets overshadowed over the DIIE crap but if you go to high level area by accident, these "Normal Humans" can suddenly stomp these supposed supervillains. How immersive.

[@dcb6113]

I would like a new Tenchu, those stealth kills where awesome.

[@saberknight2474]

Man, I watched that Fleekazoid stream. Quality stuff, though none of that quality came from the game previews.

[@InquisitorNocturne1]

i see someone watches fleek too lol hell yeah pimp

[@khiryhelms]

I see that Vee is also a Fleekazoid enjoyer...

[@jormilos]

We're all pimps around here. Long live the big budgets

[@phyrexian_dude4645]

"It is what it is!" - Fleekazoids

[@rodrigghost]

3:05 you're wrong, Vee: Ubisoft is a quadruple A studio ☝🏻🤓

[@Booma4142]

Anybody wondering how masses of people could be propagandized into committing atrocities need only use this example of supposed experts bloviating about how good the videogame is while onscreen footage proves the exact opposite.

[@sertokesalot]

Don't forget Vee this is now a AAAA studio not AAA.

[@PyroCatus]

The extra A is for in-game Advertisement.

[@rps215]

AAAA as in WILHELM SCREAM

[@faidzeelhisyamhattar2133]

Depicting a regular woman with no super-powers and no weapons taking down big men with sheer muscle strength is what makes modern women thinks they can take out men. Children are especially vulnerable to these lies and they are their true target audience.

[@Rosales3269]

I didn't know you watch Fleekazoid.

[@LordInquisitorHectorRex]

Dev told the ones streaming are the authority on this game and not to believe what i see in the gameplay.

[@Zaczac111]

This could’ve been an opportunity to have a skill system for take downs. Normal enemies dressed like the MC would be taken out with this, whereas armored enemies would shrug it off. Spec points into the take down system and you get a different takedown method for armored enemies. This is a staple in Ubislop like games already.

[@MatthewCenance]

Please tell me they have this kind of system in the game. Sly Cooper 2 and 3 had an advanced takedown move used to silently take down enemies you needed to unlock in game. So it would make sense to have a skill like that to eliminate heavier enemies properly with a stealth takedown move.

[@Ramsey276one]

They didn't have to show subpar unfinished gameplay... But they needed visuals while commanding the Consoomers, to pre-order the Deluxe Offering, and didn't make any effort

[@Klaisak]

"Angry Joe at the time had a lot of integrity...." that must have been around 3000 years ago then....

[@emperorarasaka]

Normies will buy this in droves just because it's "Star Wars" and the journos said it was "Immersive"

[@dragonknightleader1]

Disagree. Normies aren't interested in Star Wars anymore except to make fun of it. And it looks meh to me.

[@Mirthful_Midori]

I doubt that. Star Wars used to be a big draw, but there's a reason Disney stopped making big budget movies.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@Mirthful_Midori unlike big budget TV shows for their streaming?

[@Mirthful_Midori]

@@denkerbosu3551 There's a significant difference in publicity when a movie fails vs. when a show on a streaming service flops. It's a lot easier to obscure the numbers with the latter, as ticket sales are available immediately.

[@DosonTheGreat]

@@denkerbosu3551 False equivalence. TV shows have a lower barrier for entry. Turning on a show where you can get up and move around is a lot different than expecting people to buy a ticket, find a seat, and sit there for a couple hours.

[@mikefloyd3152]

Gman was flown in to play the game and gave it basically a 10/10. I assume the other reviewers were also flown in.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

It's funny because Gman made a comment on twitter like "People who end civilians in GTA shouldn't be allowed on a plane" unironically

[@codenamenazareth2892]

Gman is just another typical youtube shill. Just like the critical piss drinker and the act maam.

[@mikefloyd3152]

​@@Klongu_Da_Bongu i looked at his twitter after and unsubbed from him

[@progste]

Who is Gman?

[@harlannguyen4048]

​@@progsteGmanlives. He's most known for his reviews on shooter games.

[@usov656]

Its the usual ubisoft slop: open world assassins creed map with loads of markers and meaningless collectibles with the plot stretched across repetitive gameplay segments involving stealth and combat with random rpg stats thrown at it and tiered loot. The enemies will be spongy and barely react to regular weapons but mysteriously die from multiple aneurisms if you perform a stealth kill, even if the animation only involves pushing them over. The gameplay reveal was very telling. One moment she's on a speeder and hits a rock or something full speed and it just slides back like its one of those bump cars. The physics are pretty basic ala the new saints row game.

[@elitemook4234]

All they needed to do is give the protagonist a space magic stun baton. Or just have her draw her blaster and shoot them point blank with the stun setting.

[@ramigilneas9274]

Of course game journalists who never played an open world game will be amazed by how immersive the game is.

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

Probably only play it for an hour with insane boosters to prevent them seeing the immersion break by the grindathon.

[@matane2465]

They have played open world games. They played Spider-man 2. It's just like the MJ missions.

[@AlisterEmyka]

Lol pay attention to his gun it changes side during the animation Quadruple A gaming quality right there.

[@SaviorMachine84]

"The game really makes you feel like a young avg sized lady man-handling, er sorry, "woman-handling" several men carrying blasters."

[@killerkonnat]

Nonono Vee, you're wrong. It's a QUADRUPLE A studio!

[@bartsanders1553]

The fourth A is agender!

[@damace3838]

The micro-transaction pet realistically just stands in front of the stormtrooper.

[@jUppers]

what a strong powerful whaman grabbing the head of that soldier (probably 2x her weight) and just slamming him hard enough to knock him unconscious. amazing. so believable

[@zaskiaalsakila7248]

That's the thing, in the entire Koei Tecmo games, all 46 or so of em. There's only ONE female character/character type that has the power to slam a full grown man head to the ground. You know who she is? The Female Titans from Attack on Titan games... Such beautiful, big-sized and strong women, the Female Titans... The super ugly Kay Vess has equal powers to those beauties?? They not getting any Attack on Titan fans to buy Outlaws then haha!!

[@RyanEX2000]

A woman that looks like a twig, takes down an armored trooper like they're naked. Immersive! I'm of the opinion half the urinalists have no idea what words mean and just use them because it makes them sound smart.

[@sparkjunem1859]

How many times is she gonna survive getting stabbed by a lightsaber? Take your bets everyone. We already saw her take a grenade right below her foot.

[@tendracalrissian8820]

The opening advert was for SW: Outlaws. How appropriate.

[@jormilos]

Oh yo is that from Fleek's stream. Hell yeah. Big shoutouts to that funny man

[@TheDragonLegacy]

That opening comes off as a paintball setup with the "I stealth ked you! Play dead"

[@srksii]

Feminist stuntwoman: What animation next? Takedown *Takes trooper down

[@newdivide9882]

Truly shaping up to be one of the games ever. Also, I got an ad for the game before this video

[@TheWallforUsefulidiots]

This is a feminist take on combat, she went to one class and it gave her the sense she thinks she can throw a fully grown man that wants to be thrown down she thinks it works in real life

[@codenamenazareth2892]

No. 1 problem among triple A devs. They keep creating animations and designing their playstyle that don't even fit the character's design and personality. They always make nerdy, genius, or booksmart characters do these brawler style animations that look so out of place given their personality. This is like a college girl performing a WWE slam on a military grunt for a stealth kill. As usual they can't stop making Mary Sues who are geniuses but also absurdly strong.

[@troyp9155]

That storm trooper moves as if he's getting ready to fall into her grapple and slam his face into the ground.

[@ItsMeMonkeyDLuffy]

Just started Days Gone for the first time, now that has immersion

[@siggimondo]

Literally got an Outlaws ad, I'm in shambles. 😂

[@illuminahde]

I know the best game ever made when I see it. 😨 Woah! Those journalist are right

[@harkbelial]

They are shameless. Looking you in the eyes and lying.

[@rustymustard7798]

That's because as a guy you don't know anything about the "Girl Boss Helmet Grab of Death" special move.

[@lumicide3_9]

6:00 “Precisely. But that requires the most enormous ingenuity. You’re making flivvers out of the absolute minimum of steel-works of art out of practically nothing but pure sensation.” Brave New World

[@fibonachi90]

Maybe the helmet weighs 100 kilos so a light pull is enough to get the storm trooper to do a somersault. If I had to think of lore for it - stormtroopers kept banging their head on the small Death star doors, so the empire rather than making the doors larger just decided to give them titanium helmets. Fixed.

[@_Vengeance_]

That's also why they keep missing: the glass in their helmets to look through is so thick that it distorts the light, causing them to see everything slightly shifted

[@Taffer-bx7uc]

The main character has the facial features that reminds me of Michael Jackson.

[@dragonknightleader1]

Also Star Wars guns have the stun setting. They keep using it in Acolyte whenever the plot gets away from them.

[@JohnDoe-vm5rb]

Acolyte had a plot?

[@lordfirebeard8569]

Or, in actual Star Wars, in the first ten minutes of New Hope.

[@ardendragoon]

She has the max stats of a tank. Her blows of air knock the troopers out.

[@weebamf]

Bring back competant male devs with no ideology!

[@darkdawnbringer]

Just watching that clip with out sound has me making the sound up in my head... "huh? whaaaaaaaaa..." *CLANK* "What was that? number 17 report.."

[@bartsanders1553]

"Here, wear this armor." "What's it protect against?" "Nothing. It actually makes you weaker."

[@DanteCrowlley]

Feels like I'm in America

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

It's about as immersive as a swan dive onto concrete.

[@StrangeCreed]

WBStudios was fucking lucky that Shadow of Mordor was actually fun. UbiSoft, however, is baking a turd pie with crystallized piss as the crust. That means they literally went through extra effort and spent more money to make it worse.

[@applejuice2898]

If you ain't cheatin or lyin, you ain't tryin hard enough

[@planexshifter]

Those troopers in the background must be deaf Don’t the stormtroopers have comms in their helmet? So, no one heard that guy go ugh as he slams the floor? Wouldn’t everyone hear that?

[@koffeekage]

Mod Minnie Mouse into this game to highlight how funny this is.

[@theinfidel2143]

My favorite part of Disney Star Wars Outlaws was when she yelled "Come on, you apes! You want to live for ever?!"

[@DeadFishFactory]

If they wanted it to be more gruesome and believable, they could have had her sweep his legs, then pull his helmet off and bash his head in with it. We see them pull their helmets off easy in other media, so it's not unprecedented, even if people will complain that the helmets should not come off that easy. But that complaint would be preferable than watching this, where just gently putting a stormtrooper down to the floor results in instant death.

[@zulzineloso7531]

Jesus that takedown on the video is that stormtrooper a baby hes falling like a leaf no resistance

[@corbor2216]

It’s just stupid on top of stupid. A pencil armed woman one shots a fully armored man barehanded with no resistance from him. They’re not trying in the least.

[@IsaardP]

She grabs the stormtrooper by the helmet and his only reaction is to HOLSTER HIS BLASTER... what the fuck lol

[@eddobh]

If by immersive gameplay they mean that, and that's the best the game has to offer, those "journalists" and "critics" must be from the same school that praised Alcolyte as a masterpiece.

[@sim.frischh9781]

Stun blasters were used in the very first Star Wars movie already, Leia got stunned by the Stormtroopers right after she gave her message to R2. Issue with those weapons however is that they are easily detected with sensors due to their characteristic energy impulse, at least in Extended Universe that was the case.

[@davehug]

I seen the title and instantly knew your amazing comedy style.

[@Sylentmana]

Such immersive, much real

[@DarthChrisB]

A strong independent whaman doesn't need a stun gun to defend herself.

[@Skarvokx]

DISCLAIMER 200 stormtroopers were knocked during the make of this video.

[@SalamiNugget]

slop for the slop god

[@ARandomLetterA]

Remember that Kenobi episode that involved a woman slapping a stormtrooper's face with her bear hands even if he was wearing a fully protected helmet yet it still knocked him down?

[@dawatchng]

Help Vee, have you heard about this EU initiative that Accursed Farms (Ross game dungeon) is trying to get signed so that live service games can not go after private servers and the like? I'm interested in your thoughts on it.

[@ogcipher4967]

No no this is a nod to that god-awful scene in Obi when that Imperial/Reistance chick like lightly taps a Trooper's helmet and he just falls over. Trully the best of fan-service from SW.

[@Mad-Cat_Dan]

Stormtroopers in the EU were terrifying in close quarters. Usually much bigger and stronger than most rebel soldiers.

[@TheHeartThatRunsCold]

Based on the hit T.V series Obi Wan, these storm troopers seem to be working as intended. As I recall seeing a 120 pound woman slapping one of their helmets as they fell to the ground in pure terror of their biggest threat, a woman.

[@napoleonfeanor]

She isn't even hiding in a cardboard box

[@Jean-ClaudeGodDamn]

Ubisoft are too lazy to create the stun baton model

[@LedoCool1]

She just has hand so smelly the trooper chokes.

[@Toliman.]

Yeah, AI animation. Blend Toolsets are used to blend various defaults so that you have less work to process 400 NPCs per player character animation type. Typically they also get reused between games, and replace head/weapon art, but leave the animations untouched. Because it’s tens of thousands of hours to rebuild. Typically because the creation of a new NPC has to modify a default animation due to shape/node differences when you shrink or elongate arm length, armor, body node positions etc. Eg grabbing a neck or a hand, there will be different locations for the joint inside the armor or outside the head. So there will often be attachment nodes so an NPC can be grappled. And the collider animations attach to the grapple node, not the hand. An animation toolkit will guess the grapple location based on the scale and pre-paint the geometry to save time. Someone then does that work for 500 NPCs, to paint weapon nodes and grapple nodes so they can reload a weapon, fall over or flip over, et al. Stealth games tend to abuse this blend process heavily because they need to have interaction with the NPC and environment triggers ie knocking someone into a wall, pushing out of cover, rolling into/out of cover. Cower and shield for range attacks. Et al. If you then add hundreds of NPC types, you need to test every kind of roll and attack, shield. Firing pose. Attack pose. Reloading pose. While standing. Behind cover. Unarmed. Crouching. Cower and alert. Alert and prone. Alert behind cover. Alert while armed and interacting with a door or console. For all of this insane depth, there’s blending. Find the model’s range of motion/spring joints and modify a spline vector buffer to perform 18-480 different moving vectors based on the poses intersecting with the limits of the model. And process this after the first frame of movement so that the blend can be interrupted or bounce off wall/floor colliders as well This is usually why ragdoll is preferred, as it saves work. Especially because they likely rushed the engine development and the NPC aliens are too varied in animation, weapon types, neck/hand/foot styles. You can tell by the pose reset and blend form, the weapon and hand location snaps back to the standing pose so that the body matches up with the takedown reference node/positions. This used to be where games would ragdoll as soon as being shot, because the pose system basically collapses into a mess when you are moving from a fixed animation and pose to a walk/crouch/fire blend, and then you have to react to being shot, which deforms the entire blend position/ set up.

[@DekkarJr]

My favorite move is when she SMACKS a storm trooper on his helmeted head and lands a full KO.

[@acetraker1988]

My Hot Take - The real issue is what is storm trooper armour. You have a guy with a Helmet, these are designed to protect you from suffering injury. You have the insert female protag come and slam a man's head into the ground somehow. I don't think that would be a very effective attack or would she overpower him even if surprised. It made sense when Solid Snake Did it because he is you know god tier. Also, smashing the helmet into the ground would cause a lot of noise, so not very stealthy. I highly doubt you could concuss the trooper in the first place, even if you tried it.

[@defectiveindustries]

As a guy who has crashed in full motorcycle helmet and armour, that Stormtrooper wouldn't have had anything much happen to him He would get back up and beat her to death

[@overlordzetta7410]

it's not even a issue of motion capture any more anyone with unreal 5 tools can ray trace movements from video. and print it on to the model. in 1956 it took animation studio 10 men a month to animete cinderella dancing buy tracing over a ballroom scence from a movie to make the smooth animation of complex dance moves. it takes dev tools 10 minutes to caputre the animation. to do the same. you can't tell me in all off media they can't find a women running into a man on someone hitting someone else from behind to ray trace.