Dead bodies

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Am I the only one that thinks it'd be realistic to find the bodies of dead crewmates in various places. Some in the Aurora, of course, but some just floating in the ocean. They might have basic supplies on them, like a battery or a welder, but mostly they should be there for aesthetics. I mean, we as the player are the only survivor, fine, but where are the bodies of the others? Without bodies, or even body parts to be found, it's like we were the only person on the Aurora at all.

[siztem]

Depends on how the devs want to go about the whole energy-pulse that screwed up the Aurora in the first place - was it some kind of EMP and only affected machinery, or did people actually disappear as well? We'll have to wait and see.

Although it should be taken into account the scale of the explosion of the ships' core could very well have liquified any organics that would have been on board.

But I do see where you're coming from - having an environment similar to, say, System Shock 2 - being one of the few (or only) left alive and finding nothing but bodies (and gear) would certainly add more creep to a game that is already ripe with creepy

[BushiNeko]

This is creepy? When?
Not being a butt.. I mean really.. I find it very cartoony, yet appealing. Creepy.. no.

[AllSurvive]

Originally posted by Hillbilly_Dave:

Am I the only one that thinks it'd be realistic to find the bodies of dead crewmates in various places. Some in the Aurora, of course, but some just floating in the ocean. They might have basic supplies on them, like a battery or a welder, but mostly they should be there for aesthetics. I mean, we as the player are the only survivor, fine, but where are the bodies of the others? Without bodies, or even body parts to be found, it's like we were the only person on the Aurora at all.

maybe not.
The bugs on the Aurora and sea life allready ate the bodies ;)

[Phaota]

That was one of my viewpoints from the early days of the game. Where are the bodies of all those that died onboard? Sure, some would have been completely obliterated in the blast, others eaten by creatures, but there would still be skeletons and body parts.

[AllSurvive]

Would be something when you die in the game due to an attack
from a creature and ur own skeleton drops to the bottom or some body parts
floating arround haha

[Gear Ratio]

Didn't the bodies basically desintegrate after the radiation explosion on night 2?

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Originally posted by Rayman:

Didn't the bodies basically desintegrate after the radiation explosion on night 2?

Not all of them would. Some would, but not all.

[Phaota]

The explosion wouldn't destroy the bones.

[Grey Lil Helper]

It's intruiging that there are no bodies around, but if we consider that the Aurora is a colony ship and keeping all the colonists awake is a huge waste of resources.

Then they maybe are still somewhere inside the Aurora in cryostasis capsules? Maybe even in an sheltered compartment that somehow sustained the reactor blow? It would be an easy explanation for a later on introduction of NPCs: The player has to locate these stasis chambers and securely wake up the colonists after restoring the energy supply needed for waking them up?

Either way I doubt that there would be a lot of corpses around. The leviathan reapers would devour all bodies around the Aurora and it is unlikely for bodies to be found elsewhere. Falling without proper gear from a heigth of several hundred feet during the crash would smash any human body. -> Yummy fish food.

Heavily damaged (Try dropping your cellphone from a sky scraper!) gear like flashlights, air tanks (for space, not diving) or other belongings is something else but bodies. Doubt it.

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Originally posted by xen2001:

It's intruiging that there are no bodies around, but if we consider that the Aurora is a colony ship and keeping all the colonists awake is a huge waste of resources.

Then they maybe are still somewhere inside the Aurora in cryostasis capsules? Maybe even in an sheltered compartment that somehow sustained the reactor blow? It would be an easy explanation for a later on introduction of NPCs: The player has to locate these stasis chambers and securely wake up the colonists after restoring the energy supply needed for waking them up?

Either way I doubt that there would be a lot of corpses around. The leviathan reapers would devour all bodies around the Aurora and it is unlikely for bodies to be found elsewhere. Falling without proper gear from a heigth of several hundred feet during the crash would smash any human body. -> Yummy fish food.

Heavily damaged (Try dropping your cellphone from a sky scraper!) gear like flashlights, air tanks (for space, not diving) or other belongings is something else but bodies. Doubt it.

Are you just wishful thinking the addition of NPCs or have the devs mentioned something?

Also, your little personal computer voice thingie says no lifesigns aboard the Aurora, so the assumes stasis pods must have all fried and killed the occupants. Unless you're putting them into a cryo freeze type situation...

[Grey Lil Helper]

Originally posted by Hillbilly_Dave:

Are you just wishful thinking the addition of NPCs or have the devs mentioned something?

Also, your little personal computer voice thingie says no lifesigns aboard the Aurora, so the assumes stasis pods must have all fried and killed the occupants. Unless you're putting them into a cryo freeze type situation...

Just my wishful thinking. No need to get your hopes up.
Would be cool though. We can build rather big sea bases and there is no one to welcome us back after our shocking encounters with the reaper leviathans.

Well, regarding the "no lifesigns" remark... Maybe this cryo stasis / cryo freeze completely halted the colonists body functions to ensure the bodies wouldn't age during their year-long sleep? Colonizing an alien planet with only well-aged ppl could be kinda difficult imo.

[Hillbilly_Dave]

I know what you mean about the seabases. It's like, why bother making a big base? A moonpool and a room for lockers, fabricator, workbench, and fragment analyzer is all you need. There's no point to building anything else.

[Grey Lil Helper]

If there were some bigger structures like fish breeding tanks or elaborate researching facilities then we could have the need of bigger bases. But we live there alone and there isn't much to customize the rooms with like recruiting-posters from the Aurora, debry and samples from the ocean floor, trophies to hang on the walls etc.

Well there is no bigger meaning in decorating our rooms if there is no one to see it in Co-op or even NPCs [They could make remarks to the different trophies/samples and suggest to make an upgrade/item from this or that...They could tend to the yet-to-implement breeding-tanks or craft simple items and repair the base if equipped with an welder... endless possibilities!].

[Rotiart]

Wait
What if the Aurora is actually thousands of years old, and something went wrong (Food stores, maybe), and you were the only colonist that got missed during a mass-evacuation, and the Aurora has been drifting on an "Auto-pilot" ever since, and the Warpers brought it down.
But hey, that's just a theory.

[Miami_BaT]

Guys I'd just wait for the story to be done, it's being worked on, I'm interested to know the story they are creating. loving the progression.