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Any Way to Turn Off Bleed Effects?
broadnax
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Is there any way to turn off the FX for bleed?
I'm getting really tired of seeing my characters covered in blood any time I'm fighting an enemy with blades. If my character were to really bleed that much, he'd be dead in no time. The FX in this case are a little silly. Getting a wound would not cover your entire body in streaming, dripping blood.
I didn't notice this effect until a couple of days ago. Either I was just lucky or it's something new. My wife just ran across it today, and was even less pleased than I am.
I'm getting really tired of seeing my characters covered in blood any time I'm fighting an enemy with blades. If my character were to really bleed that much, he'd be dead in no time. The FX in this case are a little silly. Getting a wound would not cover your entire body in streaming, dripping blood.
I didn't notice this effect until a couple of days ago. Either I was just lucky or it's something new. My wife just ran across it today, and was even less pleased than I am.
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character model has a 15 second texture effect applied you are up in arms?
I think your priorities are a bit off if some video game effects has your family upset.
Maybe try meditation or some other anger management.
Calm down.
I thought my post was fairly straightforward, not "up in arms." My apologies if it came across as more than that.
It's mildly gruesome to look at and doesn't make much sense in general. I've been playing for one month (as of today) and have never seen the affect before. I liked the idea that this game is a bit more lighthearted in nature and not gory. The effect of your entire body being covered with streaming, dripping blood instead of just the point of the wound is rather odd, unnecessary, and out of sync with everything else I've experienced in game thus far.
It's true, I prefer games with no blood effects. In LOTRO, they have a toggle to turn off what little they've got. CoH had no blood effects. To this point, I'd not seen in it in CO. I would prefer not to have it. We play for fun and adventure, not "realism" (and the bleed effect misses on both counts, because doesn't add realism either).
Yes, not having blood in video games played for fun is a minor priority. And that's all right. If it had been just a little effect, I wouldn't have given it a second thought. But since it's a bit over the top (albeit short in duration), I thought I would ask.
The effect isn't that new, you were just lucky enough to have not noticed it before. When it was still new, it was definitely the most ridiculous visual change of the time though. I've never liked the full body effects you can't avoid via just not using x power, though. I made my character how I wanted it to look through costumes and powers, I don't want someone else's powers to make that completely impossible to even see as the effect in question here can. The temporary nature of the effect does not make it any less desirable during the time it is happening.
I agree that it also doesn't even look appropriate for the setting. Yeah, okay a dude with a sword cut me. I'll bleed, but I won't look like someone wrapped me in barbwire and dragged me behind a car for a while.
To answer your question, though: there is unfortunately nothing you can do about it besides not be hit by bleeds. I wouldn't mind an option to toggle it back to the old animation for yourself only. The original effect wasn't really great looking either but it wasn't quite as bad as the present one. If I remember correctly your whole body simply had a red glow as the visual cue then.
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