There are a lot of things which are making our combat feel dry. I think one thing that's missing is visual flair. Watch this Doom clip: https://youtu.be/8Wwah3Y1hBk?t=332 . When the enemies are killed, they drop a health particle that restores the player's health. I think we can do something similar in our game since we already have a system where enemies restore the player's health.
Ideally, when enemies die they create a "field" particle around them with some "sparkles" surrounding the enemy itself. If the player is inside the "field," the "sparkles" will fly towards them and restore their health.
This also visually communicates that killing the enemies is restoring the player's health, because all we have in the game right now that shows that is the health bar raising when the player kills an enemy.
There are a lot of things which are making our combat feel dry. I think one thing that's missing is visual flair. Watch this Doom clip: https://youtu.be/8Wwah3Y1hBk?t=332 . When the enemies are killed, they drop a health particle that restores the player's health. I think we can do something similar in our game since we already have a system where enemies restore the player's health.
Ideally, when enemies die they create a "field" particle around them with some "sparkles" surrounding the enemy itself. If the player is inside the "field," the "sparkles" will fly towards them and restore their health.
This also visually communicates that killing the enemies is restoring the player's health, because all we have in the game right now that shows that is the health bar raising when the player kills an enemy.
Feel free to discuss/reject the idea.