Either remove children, Make them incapable of alerting, or Allow children to be killed/knocked out
As it stands right now, children act as invincible security cameras that the player cannot act against. They will alert guards without the player being able to do anything to prevent it.
1) Remove Children, replace them all with young adults.
2) Make Children incapable of reporting crimes/events (make adults not believe them, etc).
3) Allow players to knock out or kill Children.
IMO #3 is most in-line with the game's premise of "go anywhere, kill anyone". But if that is in poor taste for the developers, then #1 is probably the best option. #2 is a compromise that'll solve the core issue.
Comments: 10
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02 Apr
NokYea the kids in the Mayor's mansion were just so obnoxious. They constantly hung around him, acted as walking alerts and were immune to damage and being knocked out. I still completed it, but they were a constant annoyance.
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03 Apr
MetzliIMO murder is murder. If it's fine to murder adults in so many ways, I don't get why so many games still give children immortality. It breaks immersion, and in cases like this it legitimately breaks game mechanics. This is especially unnecessary since there are literally child ghosts in the cannon of the story. Obviously children can die in this universe.
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04 Apr
Rui CarrerWith all due respect to my fellow foreign commenters I firmly believe child violence (verbal or physical) does not belong on games. However, gore and dismemberment to adult characters models is a must and there is room for improvement in Weird West.
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04 Apr
JimmyOr simply have then run away terrified to the edge of the map upon spotting the player? No alerts. Just run away and hide.
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05 Apr
ConThere is already dead children in this game *spoiler alert* I believe if you release the trapped spirit from a side quest, it kills a random family in their home at some point if you travel to one and you can see the child dead in the home
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05 Apr
BaldieThe way they solve it is very secondary to me, but yes, this definitely needs to be taken care of, because the undying children/sentries in the game REALLY breaks the immersion, which would be a shame in any game, but is double so in an immersive sim like this.
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06 Apr
MarkChildren should be allowed to be killed, it's a damn video game, I'm tired of this censorship.
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09 Apr
oPingerthey would have to get it by the game Censor boards and that isn't happening any time soon if they want sales world wide. Germany/Australia would outright ban the game, UK and most of europe would slap a 18+ flag on it if they allowed it. So just make the kids scenery with no triggers other than running away.
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26 Apr
Julien Roby AdminWe are looking into this but yeah most likely children would not be accounted for detection etc as we cannot kill children in games for ratings reasons.
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17 Aug
Franckthe game generated to mz a bounty on a kid...so let me knock him out, handcuff him and take him to the sheriff!