A game of survival, trade and exploration in the universe of Fallen London
So I finally died
An Individual
Posts: 589
1/11/2015
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When I picked up the game back in November the one thing I knew to expect from the reviews was that I was going to die a lot. So I booted up the game and then... didn't. I guess those warnings made me overly cautious. Apparently, I've logged 25 deathless hours into the game since then in which time I achieved a lot story wise.
But of course as the title says, I died. I was in my merchant ship on a large loop of the map that was meant to end in me turning in the last color at Venderbright (a quest I had been dragging my feet on). Things were going great when I accidentally attracted the attention of that mountain that hangs out by the chapel of light. This wasn't a problem as I had done this many times before but this time I was at full hull and in high spirits so I decided to keep it just at the edge of my gun range and take pot shots at it with my aft gun to see what happened, figuring I would just speed away if anything went wrong. This continued for a little while with the mountain roaring or something but taking no obvious hostile action towards me since it couldn't get close. I was considering driving away anyway because this was taking a long time when suddenly I was dead. I hadn't even noticed that it was hurting me (presumably by roaring). Kind of an anticlimactic end really. And given how long it took me to get there I'm having trouble getting motivated to start up the whole process again.
I'm sure that it's already on you guys' list (or already done) but having some damage sounds that play whenever you get hurt would be a great thing. I'd also like to recommend a visual component as well (entire screen briefly flaring red for example) that occurs when ever you lose hull regardless of context. Given the catastrophic consequences of death the more cues you can give us that we're dying the better.
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