They’re small impish guys, mischievous, not very brave, little voices that talk really fast and seem to only be able to recount the names of other fallen. They’re goofy looking, sort of oddly shaped, tubby little guys running on short little legs. They’re about as far as we want to push any sort of sillyness in the game though. But for that, they’re perfect. I don’t think anyone ever took the Fallen very serious. They shouldn’t be, they’re little annoying imps.

If we push to that extreme too much though then the game’s not taken seriously enough, and if anything this is a dark and very serious game. But, at the same time, you want some breaks. We don’t want to constantly bombard the player with the grotesque or else that too sort of loses some of its punch.

Of course, and I’m quoting our associate producer Nathan on this, “The Overseer rolls seven popped collars deep.” So there’s still definitely some bad-assery to be had with the Fallen.

So yeah, you can see that clipping issue pretty well on the model close up. The shaman was given a dagger fairly recently. From my old avatar you can see the previous model (sans dagger). The dagger was added, along with some slight model tweaks and re-texturing, to give the shaman a bit more of an edge (pah dum chhhh!). Toughen him up a little. The clipping, obviously something we try to avoid at all times when animating and building the item sets and models, in this case is practically unnoticeable at game-cam distance.

We’re not building models, textures, and environments for these types of close up shots. In these updates we grit our teeth and bear it, because it’s cool for you guys to be able to see this stuff.

In closing, I’m more than willing to provide reasoning and discuss observations, just don’t be a jerk about it.