Hey guys,
I'm going to get started on some taunts pretty soon, and I took a whole lot of video reference today to prepare for that. I'm not at all suggesting every single one of these is a good idea, it's more of a live action brainstorming.
Note that these are all for what would be a Generic Male character.
But unlike the past where it was just pretty standard generic taunts, Epic has been discussing the idea of more context sensitive things. For example: Weapon taunts. taunt(s) for when you're using the rockets, flak, shock, etc. This doesn't have to get too crazy, but it certainly could be. And we can all have a lot of fun with it!
And lets be honest here, there are a lot of room for all kinds of taunts if we wanted them.
Weapon/flag Context Sensitive Taunts:
Here is an example of some ref I took for myself:
Note: Sorry for the vertical video. it's not because I don't know how to use an iphone. it's so I could get my feet in the shot.
Also suggested was taunts with holding the flag. I didn't take video for this yet because quite frankly, I'd smash my pole prop into the ceiling swinging it around (and my camera ran out of batteries). Need to maybe do that outside. But I'm thinking stuff like: Spinning the flag in hands like a baton, planting it hard next to yourself as a "I claim this!" type of motion, Swinging it like a baseball bat and miming a home run, pole vault flipping in place, dancing with it like it's a cane, smashing it downward on the ground like a club, waving it in the air back and form as a signal. and etc.
Generic New Taunts:
I always felt like the choices of taunts in the game was pretty thin for what I REALLY wanted to do after a match, so I explored a whole bunch of other ideas in this video. Broken into what I define as: Celebration, Mockery, and Instigation. My thoughts were you could have a sort of cheering "I'm the man!" type motion for celebration, Mockery would be more like.. well, mocking the player. Anything from laughing at them to telling them to get lost, and so on. And then Instigation is more like "bring it..." type things. Anything that if you did to someone in person, would rile them up.
Negative Emotes:
While thinking about all these taunts, I thought about how it might be fun to give animations for what ends up being the losing players. Normally when you lose a match, you just get to act like you won. dance, thrust, cut throat.. Thats fine, but what if you could face palm, throw a temper tantrum, shake your head in defeat, and so on? I think it would be hilarious to see someone dancing as a winner and the rest of the server is face palming (especially if that dancing is awful...)
Dances:
Epic would like more dances than just the good ol pelvic thrust, and let me tell you guys.. I can't dance. But I can youtube search. So here are some I was considering:
Wobble- http://youtu.be/8vTIY0xHBUg?t=3m20s
"Bring it"- http://youtu.be/eRXKYNQVc5s?t=1m56s (right around the 2 min mark Kevin hart does a pretty great dance I think for this game)
Spongebob- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mNCJduS4I (try and tell me this isn't perfect for dancing on the corpses of your enemies. Regardless of what anyone says, I'm totally making this)
I haven't spent a ton of time but I KNOW there are a ton. make some suggestions
Old Taunts:
Pelvic thrust, Cut throat, *** smack, these are all pretty much guaranteed to make it in. There is really no discussion here, but I figured I'd show you guys I filmed 'em anyways.
I'll soon be posting some actual animations going with some of these ideas, but it would be really helpful if people gave their thoughts on what they like, don't like, and want to see. I captured a lot, but there are infinitely more out there to explore. Also, I'm not a big bulky killer like the characters in the game. A lot of the natural sloppiness (being unable to catch the gun after tossing it for example) can and will be much more refined and streamlined.
Let me know!
I'm going to get started on some taunts pretty soon, and I took a whole lot of video reference today to prepare for that. I'm not at all suggesting every single one of these is a good idea, it's more of a live action brainstorming.
Note that these are all for what would be a Generic Male character.
But unlike the past where it was just pretty standard generic taunts, Epic has been discussing the idea of more context sensitive things. For example: Weapon taunts. taunt(s) for when you're using the rockets, flak, shock, etc. This doesn't have to get too crazy, but it certainly could be. And we can all have a lot of fun with it!
And lets be honest here, there are a lot of room for all kinds of taunts if we wanted them.
Weapon/flag Context Sensitive Taunts:
Here is an example of some ref I took for myself:
Note: Sorry for the vertical video. it's not because I don't know how to use an iphone. it's so I could get my feet in the shot.
Also suggested was taunts with holding the flag. I didn't take video for this yet because quite frankly, I'd smash my pole prop into the ceiling swinging it around (and my camera ran out of batteries). Need to maybe do that outside. But I'm thinking stuff like: Spinning the flag in hands like a baton, planting it hard next to yourself as a "I claim this!" type of motion, Swinging it like a baseball bat and miming a home run, pole vault flipping in place, dancing with it like it's a cane, smashing it downward on the ground like a club, waving it in the air back and form as a signal. and etc.
Generic New Taunts:
I always felt like the choices of taunts in the game was pretty thin for what I REALLY wanted to do after a match, so I explored a whole bunch of other ideas in this video. Broken into what I define as: Celebration, Mockery, and Instigation. My thoughts were you could have a sort of cheering "I'm the man!" type motion for celebration, Mockery would be more like.. well, mocking the player. Anything from laughing at them to telling them to get lost, and so on. And then Instigation is more like "bring it..." type things. Anything that if you did to someone in person, would rile them up.
Negative Emotes:
While thinking about all these taunts, I thought about how it might be fun to give animations for what ends up being the losing players. Normally when you lose a match, you just get to act like you won. dance, thrust, cut throat.. Thats fine, but what if you could face palm, throw a temper tantrum, shake your head in defeat, and so on? I think it would be hilarious to see someone dancing as a winner and the rest of the server is face palming (especially if that dancing is awful...)
Dances:
Epic would like more dances than just the good ol pelvic thrust, and let me tell you guys.. I can't dance. But I can youtube search. So here are some I was considering:
Wobble- http://youtu.be/8vTIY0xHBUg?t=3m20s
"Bring it"- http://youtu.be/eRXKYNQVc5s?t=1m56s (right around the 2 min mark Kevin hart does a pretty great dance I think for this game)
Spongebob- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mNCJduS4I (try and tell me this isn't perfect for dancing on the corpses of your enemies. Regardless of what anyone says, I'm totally making this)
I haven't spent a ton of time but I KNOW there are a ton. make some suggestions
Old Taunts:
Pelvic thrust, Cut throat, *** smack, these are all pretty much guaranteed to make it in. There is really no discussion here, but I figured I'd show you guys I filmed 'em anyways.
I'll soon be posting some actual animations going with some of these ideas, but it would be really helpful if people gave their thoughts on what they like, don't like, and want to see. I captured a lot, but there are infinitely more out there to explore. Also, I'm not a big bulky killer like the characters in the game. A lot of the natural sloppiness (being unable to catch the gun after tossing it for example) can and will be much more refined and streamlined.
Let me know!
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