When on the salvage quest, if you get a solid crit against the smaller animatrons, and have the graphics set to full violence, blood and bone fly out from them...is this a default graphic visual for the crit, or intentional foig thing? (does my pc actually see blood and bone fly about?)

It's a default visual for crits against organic creatures, which the Animatrons aren't, but we do use standard race models for Animatrons of varying sizes.

Turn off your the special gore level you have set in your client.