Riot - Cassiopeia's Death Animation

Oleandervine·8/25/2017, 6:08:14 PM·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

Oleandervine8/25/2017, 6:11:18 PM34 votes

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

Brascus8/25/2017, 9:48:07 PM22 votes

Mordekaiser - "Get in line bitch"

Baron Von Bangin8/25/2017, 6:34:14 PM17 votes

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

DatFatman8/26/2017, 1:46:08 AM13 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.

forist8/25/2017, 9:11:57 PM6 votes

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

Riotmoonstones8/28/2017, 6:31:39 PM6 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. :)

Kloqdq8/25/2017, 6:53:00 PM4 votes

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

PePsiLemoNN8/25/2017, 7:42:50 PM4 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

Ravore8/26/2017, 2:08:09 AM3 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.

no to toxic8/25/2017, 7:56:42 PM3 votes

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

Weathered8/25/2017, 9:02:49 PM3 votes

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

ZeroAgainst8/25/2017, 7:25:45 PM3 votes

i like it for the nostalgia

Swaid8/26/2017, 1:14:11 AM2 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.

invisiblecat18/26/2017, 11:20:40 AM2 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

Flemman8/26/2017, 3:47:13 AM2 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

Glory978/26/2017, 8:00:21 PM1 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.

King of Demons8/28/2017, 8:38:02 PM1 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

Elikain8/26/2017, 1:51:24 AM1 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.

HonestJohnTheCon8/30/2017, 10:42:02 PM1 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

jama6558/26/2017, 3:46:52 PM1 votes

an homage to the old cass?

SlashStriker8/26/2017, 3:56:16 PM1 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