Ooh, neat. More roleplaying is always nice ^^
So does this mean we can emote murdering bandits left and right now, or do we still need confirmation for kills?
Regular Bandits, and no I don't mean a slaughter fest. Because thats unrealistic.
Regular Bandits means the low level ones, without a modifier to the name, if its just called Bandit, Falmer, Wolf, Skeever, Mudcrabs, frost spiders.
Rabbits, deer, foxes and stuff are only instant kill when close, if you have to show some prowess to kill it, then I determine the outcome, so Ranged attack will always require an outcome in combat, as long as the target is at a good distance, also if there are things in the way of the target, say you shoot at a bandit others are locked in combat with for an unknown reason(Not having good combat skills also prevents insta-gibs), so the difficulty of the shot prevents you from determining the outcome.
If I surround you with 100 skeevers, I still expect you to die.