Riot - Cassiopeia's Death Animation

Oleandervine··143 votes·9,714 views

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lw-pvjaAUYw/VBAjiBePocI/AAAAAAAAYEs/SAn-ZfRfy6A/s1600/cassase.jpg Hi Riot, Remember the old texture of Cassiopeia, which is pictured here on the left? I do. And I'm constantly reminded of it to this day, a whopping 3 years later, after her texture update in the Shurima event that launched Azir. These textures STILL show up when Cassiopeia dies in almost every skin she currently has. She turns to stone, falls over, and the moment she strikes the ground and cracks, she reverts to this ancient texture. It's off putting, irritating, and it's been a graphical error for 3 years running now.

I get that you might not care a lot about Cassiopeia because she's not Ahri or Ezreal, but that's no excuse for this to remain as it is. This seems like it would require some of the simplest work to correct (just replacing the affected model with the new texture, in gray), and yet another year has passed and it's still a thing. Please fix it. Now that she's getting a new skin, it would be an utter shame if it was marred by this oversight, and our snake lady deserves better than this.

Edit: Thanks to Weathered below, here's a video of what happens: https://youtu.be/-mhmmcaloxk

34 Comments

Oleandervine34 votes

Why would you downvote this? This is a legitimate concern.

BØLT2 votes

You've got all of our attention now! (#2 spot on front page)

rtbf2256182411 votes

Is there a way to see how many downvotes you have beyond just seeing -1; -5 ; -11...etc?

I sometimes see posters saying "Wow 23 downvotes" as they have 50+ upvotes...i know time has passed but still. Just wondering.

Also, +1.

morris11 votes

Forum Enhancing Kit or something.

Skorch21 votes

If i had to guess i would say that you sounded somewhat condescending. Most likely because of this line: "I get that you might not care a lot about Cassiopeia because she's not Ahri or Ezreal, but that's no excuse for this to remain as it is."

revliledpembroke4 votes

Well now it's because you're asking why you were downvoted.

Brascus22 votes

Mordekaiser - "Get in line bitch"

Baron Von Bangin17 votes

Wow, this hasn't been fixed? I assumed it had since it was brought up literally the day of the texture update.

DatFatman13 votes

I think that this post was perfectly fine before you started insulting Riot. You can make a perfectly fine suggestion without resorting to talking down to them about their other development decisions.

forist6 votes

Easy solution for you, just don't die when you play Cassiopeia. yw :)

o brigid o2 votes

or actually spend your death timer doing more productive things than staring at your dead corpse, like shopping, keeping an eye on the map, checking rotations, checking vision... literally anything other than staring at your dead body

Nut on my Butt1 votes

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Easy solution for you, just don't die when you play Cassiopeia. yw :)

And if playing with/against her? Let's not pretend cosmetics don't matter.

Edit: sorry, I realized this was a joke and mostly just replied like this in response to that other person x:

Riotmoonstones6 votes

Hello, hello!

I've been looking through her file structure this morning because I was genuinely curious as to how her death state is set up. She's wicked old, and isn't the most... organized.

Cass has a couple states - obviously her living form, and then a death. The animation only plays until she falls over, and then the remaining cracking/breaking apart and dust are all VFX in conjunction with a texture file.

Given that context, a fix is a tad more complex than assumed, BUT, I've been talking to a couple disciplines this morning to see what kind of fix would be needed and the dev work that would be involved.

I don't have a ton of info for ya right now, nor a definitive 'hey, sure, we'll fix it next patch', but it's on our radar and is being tracked in a ticket. :)

Oleandervine1 votes

Awesome! Thank you so much! Glad you guys are gonna take a look at it :)

Kloqdq4 votes

I didn't even notice this before. To be fair I never play Cass (I want to but it's just difficult)

PePsiLemoNN4 votes

get that you might not care a lot about Cassiopeia because she's not Ahri or Ezreal

Seriously? Are people gonna bring this ''argument'' everytime? Nobody actually cares if Cassio turn to the old texture when she dies. If Ahri/Ezreal had this problem you probably wouldn't say anything

Oleandervine9 votes

No, because if Ahri or Ezreal had this problem, it would have been patched immediately.

PePsiLemoNN1 votes

Sure , w/e you say lmao

ZeroAgainst3 votes

i like it for the nostalgia

no to toxic3 votes

The old Cassio looks thicc and evil and old. New one looks hot young and snakelike. I would smash both.

Weathered3 votes

For those who want to see a video representation of what happens, here you go.

Ravore3 votes

This complaint is the same as the jhin complaint about the barrel's on his arm going down per shot of his ult. It doesn't matter and it's hardly noticable and it doesn't effect gameplay or clarity. This is very minor and isn't worth pulling someone from anywhere to focus on.

Swaid2 votes

Since Cass is like my new favorite mage, I'd like to see this fixed. Played her a lot on my smurf during her free week, addicting shit.

Flemman2 votes

They need to recode the death animation to stick to the skin like all the other champ. It's not a texture problem imo but just really old coding

invisiblecat12 votes

It is something so minor that Riot probably hoped the community wouldn't recognize. If you look at the face from a distance you would say "Yup that's a dead Cass," but would fail to notice that it uses the incorrect texture, so Riot probably didn't feel the need to fix it

Elikain1 votes

Can you actually post a picture of this because i haven't ever noticed this in any of my games. Just play a practice game and try it out. It might be completely your computer that's the problem.

Oleandervine1 votes

It's not a computer issue. There's no way this would be a computer issue. I've posted a video link in the main post of what happens and what has been happening ever since 2014.

jama6551 votes

an homage to the old cass?

SlashStriker1 votes

what i notice is that Cassiopeia turns into stone, Bounces for some reason and then she shatters. That shatter is quite delayed and i don't think is how physics works

Glory971 votes

Additionally, if you play cassiopeia with jadefang skin (i dont know about other skins) you'll only have a skin portrait while beeing alive. When you die, it turns into the classic portrait for the time you're dead. Super weird.

Riotmoonstones4 votes

This should be fixed in 7.17. :)

King of Demons1 votes

Cassio is my most played champ over the past 5 years and I have never even once noticed this since she got changed lol

HonestJohnTheCon1 votes

They fixed it:

"Fixed a bug where—when playing with a skin—Cassiopeia’s portrait would revert to her base portrait while dead"

Yay

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