Hello,
I'm new on this forum and I played Unvanquished for few months now. And I'd like to share an idea with you.
I am french, so sorry for my writing.
In lot's of games, I've been shocked by the sudden disappearance of dead bodies after a certain amount of time.
We should make it more realistic. I thought that they could disappear not an automatic way, and I found a solution for the humans.
Dead human bodies could be "eaten" by the aliens. This could be a way for aliens to gain some life after a fight that they won against humans . Or maybe to feed the overmind, the eggs (to give birth faster)...etc.
This is more realistic than just disappear, but does alien like eating battlesuits or weapons ? I don't think so...
I had an other idea that could resolve the problem for weapons.
When the human is completely eaten, his weapon could stay on the floor (with the same amount of ammunition). Humans could drop or take any weapon on the floor, so that the player could go finding his weapon instead of buying an other one.
A weapon on the floor could be destroyed easily by marauders or more evolved aliens. This is the only way to make it disappear. It could explode like turret does.
If a basilisk find a weapon, he could grab it and take it to a place that humans can't reach, waiting to by destroyed by a stronger alien.
It may not be possible for dretchs to interact with it.
It doesn't resolve the dead aliens disappearance problem. Maybe they could be transformed into some kind of humus that slow down humans ?
I don't now if these ideas already exists in other games. Do you like them ? How do you think we could do something more realistic otherwise ?
PS: could you tell me if I did some writing mistakes please ? Or I will repeat them over and over...