Bethesda facts about killing children

Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:38 pm

It's a little interesting that Bethesda voiced the children "grunts" when they die and that you can actually loot them.
I assassinated a kid in one of the inns (don't remember which one) and the mother wouldn't talk to me for 24 hours, she just said "I can't talk right now" or something like that with this terribly sad look.
So Bethesda even programmed in the grief reaction. Looks like they were planning for the mod to come out.
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Andy durkan
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:53 pm

Most of that is probably just the result of the framework they developed for NPC reactions. They just didn't make exceptions for those things for children. This is different than programming that behavior specifically for children.

This issue is taboo in this forums though. It will probably be closed.

EDIT: If they voiced children dieing though, you may be right. Either they haven't settled on the policy at the time so they left their options open or they made it easier for modders.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:04 am

Killing children is not allowed to be discussed on the forums.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:17 pm

It's probably voiced for the Sheogorath quest, where a kid gets attacked by a Hagraven. I wonder if the mod breaks that quest.

I wouldn't mind the mod if it gave you a huge infamy hit and sent "hired thugs" after you.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:35 am

Killing children is not allowed to be discussed on the forums.


Agreed! Crap topic and very uncool.
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Tai Scott
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:11 am

Who cares it's just pixels and data. If they didn't want me to kill children, they should have made them less annoying anyway.

Can't RP as an orc pillager or assassinate an entire town and make it my feud because of the kids. If anything, they're a nuissance.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:41 am

This is so hypocritical. the game is ABOUT killing people/things, yet the notion that kids can't be killed in game,, and that its taboo,, is kinda nuts.

Killing a kind advlt who contributes to the world is much worse than killing a self-centered kid who is on a bad trajectory. Like that little bully in Whiterun...
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:48 pm

All kids I tried to hurt were somewhat immune to damage, I saw a mod where you can basically bring gore upon kids - tbh it's a great idea to grab a childs corpse and use it as a human shield against arrows, really fits my dark type of ruthless assasin character that would kill his mom for the glory of Sithis :)
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:37 am

I'm curious, do Dragons target children in game? I've been in some towns where a Dragon was attacking the residents (killing several of them), and children were present, and it occurs to me that I've not seen a child killed by a Dragon. Not sure if the game just makes the kids disappear or what.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:54 am

All kids I tried to hurt were somewhat immune to damage, I saw a mod where you can basically bring gore upon kids - tbh it's a great idea to grab a childs corpse and use it as a human shield against arrows, really fits my dark type of ruthless assasin character that would kill his mom for the glory of Sithis :)


Prepare your flamecoat... Or get a Anti-Warning Shield.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:10 am

I'm curious, do Dragons target children in game? I've been in some towns where a Dragon was attacking the residents (killing several of them), and children were present, and it occurs to me that I've not seen a child killed by a Dragon. Not sure if the game just makes the kids disappear or what.

Someone else was complaining about that a while ago, that kids were attacked by dragons but they didn't die while advlts around them died.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:36 pm

I like how children are useless and essential in this game :P *DLs mod so they can be killed*

"oh look another wanderer here to lick my fathers boots" or some crap I WANT TO STAB YOU BRAT lol
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:45 am

Child killing is not a permissible topic on the forum.
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