Troopers heads as bulbs instead of candles

[pearpah]

This came to my head when I heard the soul-denial sound. Makes me think of broken glass.
Still the theme of guardians and walkers is related to fire but somehow lightbulbs fit the esthetic more for me.
Or the heads could be oil lamps. Or if they stay as candles then as they die they could start burning up / melting.

 

[AppleTank]

They kinda already do the melting thing? The lower their health, the shorter their candle heads, and also they glow brighter.

 

[joeinky]

Yeah the heads do melt as they lose health which is a cute little way of visualising their health

Also candles make way more sense than bulbs or oil lamps because the whole game is about the occult and rituals and summoning, what do people most associate with that sort of stuff? I'd wager candles are pretty up there

 

[Cetsuo]

ok, fair point to candles, but faulty lightbulbs can be associated with a Noir aesthetic so i dont think it's fair to disregard lightbulbs as a theme. Looking into anti-electricity propaganda you find stuff like monsters made out of power cables, and if im not mistaken seven went through an occult-buffed electric chair.

 

[sam.louro.monteiro]

ok, fair point to candles, but faulty lightbulbs can be associated with a Noir aesthetic so i dont think it's fair to disregard lightbulbs as a theme. Looking into anti-electricity propaganda you find stuff like monsters made out of power cables, and if im not mistaken seven went through an occult-buffed electric chair.

you're performing a ritual, as you can see many ritual cirles accross the rooftops. so while the lightbulb does fit the start of the century style. so does the juxtaposition of electricity with the eldritch nature of magic and ritual. black candles, ritual circles.

 

[elias7]

Both fit the game's aesthetic. I think candles are a bit more relevant, but I definitely think light bulbs would look better. Their lights could flicker as they're near death.

 

[Cetsuo]

I guess just as there's radiant and dire in dota, there could be candles vs lightbulbs

 

[Ragnaman]

shooting lightbulbs might be more pleasant, with a *pop*
and I think the setting allows early electronic solutions

 

[Jud Judson]

Or the different sorts of creeps could be different sorts of light? (light bulb, candle, oil lamp, fire)

 

[PanSpakivna]

I prefer that each side has unique soldiers, like in Dota 2 light and dark. For example, one side has a candle design, the other has a light bulb. When health is low, the light bulb shines very brightly or, on the contrary, goes out

Я предпочитаю, чтобы у каждой стороны были уникальные солдаты, как в Dota 2 light and dark. Например, у одной стороны дизайн в виде свечи, у другой — лампочки. Когда здоровья мало, лампочка светит очень ярко или, наоборот, гаснет

 

[supremejester28]

I prefer that each side has unique soldiers, like in Dota 2 light and dark. For example, one side has a candle design, the other has a light bulb. When health is low, the light bulb shines very brightly or, on the contrary, goes out

Я предпочитаю, чтобы у каждой стороны были уникальные солдаты, как в Dota 2 light and dark. Например, у одной стороны дизайн в виде свечи, у другой — лампочки. Когда здоровья мало, лампочка светит очень ярко или, наоборот, гаснет

If you have a suggestion like this you should put in the "Art Feedback - General", not in the community hero section.

 

[PanSpakivna]

If you have a suggestion like this you should put in the "Art Feedback - General", not in the community hero section.

Я просто выразил мысль что было бы прикольно) Не я автор темы)

I just thought it would be cool) I'm not the author of the topic)

 

[supremejester28]

Я просто выразил мысль что было бы прикольно) Не я автор темы)

???

 

[sam.louro.monteiro]

I guess just as there's radiant and dire in dota, there could be candles vs lightbulbs

that's a skin idea

 

[sam.louro.monteiro]

Or the different sorts of creeps could be different sorts of light? (light bulb, candle, oil lamp, fire)

this too. much is place holder so i do expect we will get a model for each rank of neutral and then even depending where they are. and early electronics is a easy fit in

 

[PanSpakivna]

this too. much is place holder so i do expect we will get a model for each rank of neutral and then even depending where they are. and early electronics is a easy fit in

The trick is that the game intertwines occultism and technology, so it would look just perfect on soldiers. On the one hand we see mysticism, on the other hand electronics, the struggle for the right to exist or dominate over others.


Фишка в том, что в игре переплетаются оккультизм и технологии, поэтому на солдатах она смотрелась бы просто идеально. С одной стороны мы видим мистика, с другой электронику, борьбу за право на существование или доминирование над другими.

 

[gibnewitems]

I think troopers buffed by rejuv should be light bulbs to signify their strength.

 

[sam.louro.monteiro]

While there is a war on occultism and they could be using electronics, but traditionally the occult is fought with the occult.

Not that the game doesnt already do this with warden, he is very much not an occultist type but he was created and trained, and the way he fights and gadgets are very much more contemporary. Yet you see a hand in a cage on his belt, just to show that you always need to dabble in it to fight it, its kind of the nature of the setting, its not that it can't be done otherwise either.

For now in lore its a fight of two patrons, until this is changed to one being a patron and the other being the occult fighting forces like the group vindicta is hunting I think they will keep the very same aestetic. Patrons have very similar power levels and standing in the world as ancients in dota, they are like wish granting gods, the big tuna kahuna of the mystic realm.

I do enjoy the lightbulb troppers idea. i jsut wonder how the visual of damaged would look like. i quite like the head shrinking its such a good visual.