Star Exile Studio - Ultimate Hit Reaction System

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📄 Documentation: [中文] | [English]

🎮 Playable Demo: [DEMO]

🎬 Video: [Trailer] | [Animation Preview] | [Tutorial] | [Bilibili]

💬 Community: [Discord] | [QQ: 793132509]

Ultimate Hit Reaction System is a powerful hit reaction framework designed for humanoid characters in Unreal Engine. It allows for rapid integration and brings high-quality, dynamic response animations to your game characters and NPCs. With a rich animation library and data-driven architecture, your combat feedback will become more vivid and responsive.

🔧 Key Features

  • ⚡ Rapid Integration: Integrate within 30 minutes (basic knowledge of animation systems recommended). Setup is fully Blueprint + Chooser DataTable, no coding required.

  • 🎥 Extensive Animation Library: Includes 168 motion-captured animations covering:

    • 🎯 Directions: Front / Back / Left / Right / Up / Down

    • 🔺 Strength Levels: Light / Medium / Heavy / Explosion

    • Includes partial hits, knockdowns, falls, launch reactions, combo impacts, and more.

  • 🧠 Smart Animation Switching: Automatically selects appropriate animations based on hit direction and intensity—no manual setup needed.

  • 🔁 Broad Compatibility: Built for humanoid characters and creatures. Compatible with diverse skeletal meshes and ideal for player characters, NPCs, and Bosses.

  • 📊 Data-Driven Architecture: Behaviors are defined through Chooser Tables for easy tuning, expansion, and full multiplayer replication.

  • 🧪 Physics Control(Experimental): Optional Physics Control module adds physical interaction to animations (experimental and toggleable).

  • 🌀 Motion Warping Support: Fully supports UE’s Motion Warping system to dynamically adjust hit direction and landing position—making reactions like knockbacks and falls more fluid and accurate.

  • 💀 Integrated Death Animations: Includes multiple death scenarios (e.g., instant collapse, knockback-to-death), seamlessly connected with the hit system for unified logic.

⚠️ This product includes the full animation set—no need to purchase additional animation packs separately.

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The Ultimate Hit Reaction System is hands down the best HitReaction asset ever in the whole UE marketplace history!
Nothing else even comes close —— its animations are top-notch, and the logic behind it is seriously smart.
Small hits actually build up into bigger reactions, and it uses Chooser tech to pick from hundreds of animations so smoothly you’d think it’s magic.

Honestly? After checking out every template and standalone system out there, I haven’t found anything that matches up. It genuinely pushes your project to AAA-level quality. I was just blown away when I integrated it!!!

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Lmao this is totally not a friend of the dev or even the dev himself praising his own product :)))))

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Lmao this is totally not a friend of the dev or even the dev himself praising his own product :)))))

Even if so, it does look pretty good. Not perfect, some movement is a bit robotic, and the knockback anims are just bad. Still a better one on the market

Are these things still being worked on (from doc)?

  • Enter the ragdoll state after being knocked down.
  • Stand up after entering the ragdoll state.

And does it work with Mover Comp (not CMC)? It probably doesn’t matter.

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A smooth transition from ragdoll mode back to a standing position has not yet been implemented, but entering ragdoll mode after being knocked down has already been implemented.

I have not tested whether this works with Mover, but since the principle of this system is simply to play a Montage, there should theoretically be no technical difficulty (as long as Mover supports playing Montages).