Upcoming Animated Short ?

[ADM]

A friend asked me what were my thoughts about Klei doing an animated short for the upcoming update. I think it was a good question cause so far all content updates came out with animated trailers regarding the update or story snippets especially for character refreshes. But we're getting something new here... so what do you think Klei's cooking this time on their YT ?

Personally I kind of expect either nothing (all good) or something a little different than the usual when it comes to DST shorts. Maybe a bit like those Oxygen not Included cartoons that are goofy fun to watch :

Could be nice to see the characters selected in these Skillset updates in some peculiar situation... especially considering that Wolfgang, Woodie and Wormwood aren't quite the usual suspects put together but they sure do sound fun the more I think about it ! I can imagine some wood gathering competition, Lucy vs brawn... or a murder spree for someone ? Hopefully he's distracted doing something else only to come back for an unexpected twist.

Anyway, could be a lot but I think there's potential with this sort of vids knowing how many of us have been looking forward some animated series of the game, not that this would be it but still a novelty getting closer to it than what we had so far.

[MadMatt]

I will KILL for more animated Woodie. Although I don't have any concrete desires for potential animated shorts I hope it ties into the story instead of something goofy, maybe something related to affinities and alignment with the chosen characters...?

Feels like we're reaching a sort of climax with the characters specifically being at the center of it now.

[goatt]

I wanna see fw tremble in front of woodie and his treeguards army.

[EthanTheMime]

1 hour ago, ADM said:

A friend asked me what were my thoughts about Klei doing an animated short for the upcoming update. I think it was a good question cause so far all content updates came out with animated trailers regarding the update or story snippets especially for character refreshes. But we're getting something new here... so what do you think Klei's cooking this time on their YT ?

Personally I kind of expect either nothing (all good) or something a little different than the usual when it comes to DST shorts. Maybe a bit like those Oxygen not Included cartoons that are goofy fun to watch :

Could be nice to see the characters selected in these Skillset updates in some peculiar situation... especially considering that Wolfgang, Woodie and Wormwood aren't quite the usual suspects put together but they sure do sound fun the more I think about it ! I can imagine some wood gathering competition, Lucy vs brawn... or a murder spree for someone ? Hopefully he's distracted doing something else only to come back for an unexpected twist.

Anyway, could be a lot but I think there's potential with this sort of vids knowing how many of us have been looking forward some animated series of the game, not that this would be it but still a novelty getting closer to it than what we had so far.

honestly some animated shorts where nothing in particular is occurring and its just the survivors getting up to shenanigans would be really fun. i seriously enjoyed the musical animation for that reason--it's cool to just see them interact with the world.

[Ohan]

I want to see woodie and wolfgang getting killed by bramble traps.

[abrocator]

7 hours ago, goatt said:

I wanna see fw tremble in front of woodie and his treeguards army.

You’re more likely to get a max cap on idol treeguard summons which makes such tactics unfeasible.

[Szczuku]

I hope there will be no animation. There was none for the 'A Little Drame' and this update is even more meaningless. Ani mation takes time and effort; a time and effort that I'd rather the devs used to make new vignetes with some lore for us to enjoy. Not a happy-go-lucky montage of the 3 showcasing their new skills, all ending with Charlie/Wagstaff for some reason

Of course that's just my wishful thinking. If the devs decided that this update is getting a trailer, then it's most likely already finished now

[Squidyfoo]

I want to see my buddy Wormwood. I think them doing funny antics could be cool kind of like Woodie's first animated short. As much as I would love new lore on the characters I doubt we'll get an entire video for each character again. I could see them doing a short where Charlie is noticing their new powers and starts to think if she should recruite them like she did Maxwell. Canon choices for the survivors could be shown off here...? It's not very likely because I think they wouldn't make a canon choice for the shorts because then people will go, "Oh I'll join shadow because it's canon for my character." I think they want people to have a lot of freedom and not be under the influence of the shorts. Anyways I'm excited to see if we do get one.

[Wonz]

Woodie lore except being canadian

[goatt]

33 minutes ago, abrocator said:

You’re more likely to get a max cap on idol treeguard summons which makes such tactics unfeasible.

I'm not sure how this can be implemented. Just spawn treeguards at location A and bring them to location B where A and B are far apart.

[D_Good_Fellow]

Idk this seems like an insane production/turnaround rate for shorts if we're going to be getting them this frequently. I don't know how Klei's animation team schedules their work, but whenever I see a lot of high quality animation coming out of the same place in quick succession I worry about the risk of crunch. I worry especially because of the fact that these shorts are tied to gameplay releases, which could definitely serve as a source of pressure to produce them faster. 

I love, love, love the animated shorts and certainly wish we had more of them, but imo an off-the-cuff update designed to balance characters for future content doesn't warrant a whole production (unless someone has a particularly strong concept for it).

 

[goatt]

5 minutes ago, D_Good_Fellow said:

to balance characters for future content

sorry, very off topic, I just chuckled.

[D_Good_Fellow]

32 minutes ago, goatt said:

sorry, very off topic, I just chuckled.

Lol I mean that is more or less what they said in the Terror Below stream. Vito reiterated how Taking Root & Terror Below were only part of the overall endgame picture and went on to say that characters like Wolfgang and Wanda would have to be balanced to account for the new endgame features, implying that this was a decision they made after the From Beyond beta began and they saw how Wolfgang interacted with the new content.

The thing is, I don't actually have a problem with spreading the character tweaks throughout From Beyond. If Klei is going to touch up characters to buff them for new content, I don't want them to wait until all that content is out before integrating the buffs. I just don't think animated shorts accompanying every one of these updates is realistic. On-the-fly scheduling changes and additions are fine (even encouraged) for game updates, but to schedule this level of animation production that way would probably be somewhere between unfeasible and unethical.

[goatt]

7 minutes ago, D_Good_Fellow said:

Vito reiterated how Taking Root & Terror Below were only part of the overall endgame picture

It's not you. I just saw the word "balance" and remembered how they disrupted that balance recently (against planar damage system). Planar system was made to prevent power creep. But obviously, this update breaks that balance.

[D_Good_Fellow]

5 minutes ago, goatt said:

It's not you. I just saw the word "balance" and remembered how they disrupted that balance recently (against planar damage system). Planar system was made to prevent power creep. But obviously, this update breaks that balance.

No worries, that came across! I just felt the need to provide the full context to clarify that my issue was less with Klei's approach to spot-checking balance and more the possibility that Klei would push their animation team to keep up with that. (Also I wanted folks to know I was referring to dev comments and not general forum consensus.)

[Jakepeng99]

Let's go, woodie lore.

[Danila6300]

Maybe we will see how Wilson persuades people to take the lunar side, and Maxwell persuades them to take the shadow side? Wormwood, Woody and Wolfgang above responded and joined one of the parties.