Great news for fans of death animations: More death animations.
about The Callisto Protocol, but we today we learned more about its several bits of expansion content on the way post-release.
One of those things is that the game's DLC packs will include lots of additional gross-out death animations for both protagonist Jacob and the nasty monsters he fights. They're sort of like skins for his armor—they actually come bundled with armor skins—and there are 25 of them in total: 13 new Jacob deaths in the Contagion Bundle, and 12 enemy deaths in the Riot Bundle.
There are of course many perfectly reasonable explanations, other than just a blatant cash grab, for selling death animations as bonus content. Animators and artists and that entire pipeline of developers need something to do, or else you just, what, fire them? That kind of cyclical hiring and firing has been awful for the games industry in the past. These animations are probably what they've been working on since the game content was finalized to polish and look for bugs.
Indeed, Striking Distance Studios CEO Glen Schofield offers up another reason: They think this is what fans want, so they're making more of it and they haven't started on it yet. To be clear: We’re not holding anything back from the main game for the season pass. We haven’t even started work on this content yet. It's all new stuff that we’ll be working on in the new year. Fans have asked for EVEN MORE deaths, so we’re making it a priority next year.It's actually kind of nice that the developers think their gruesome murders are so cool you'll be happy to pay for more of them. It's a kind of confidence in their work.
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