I think it was meant to be part of SC 3.0, but I think it's not been even enabled yet.
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I think it was meant to be part of SC 3.0, but I think it's not been even enabled yet.
SC does have walking around ships, ED doesn't. I want to walk around ships in ED, I will give you that. However what I have seen in SC feels very little for 5 years. SC has been on crewing for years, but they have very little to show for at the moment.
Yes, I'm well aware of it, the whole point is 5 years ago, this wasn't even allowed. Now tablet devices are becoming more and more prevalent.
For example look at the rise of the G500 or G1000 in the cockpit of even the 172's of the world. The same thing is happening with the use of tablets.
The FAA approves tablets for nav maps, flight bags and SOME systems monitoring currently. What are they going to allow/support next year? 10?
Hell I learned to fly on a J-3 built in 1947 for sake... there was NO way I could have seen flight nav, flight training and flight control taken to where it is today. So yeah, I can totally see the use of a mobi-glass device for a lot of flight stuff.
I can very much see the future going just this way.
You can, currently, walk around, fit weapons, fly, pew-pew, repair/refuel... that's plenty of interesting stuff. Far more than just walking around your ship. Plus ships like the Starfarer/Gemini, Caterpillar, Connie, Retaliator provide quite a bit of square meter-age to explore. I can currently fly a Starfarer from Port Olisar to Grim HEX (and everywhere in between) in Q-Drive or via standard (and very slow) means and have people on that ship with me. And not just sitting at a console.
Theory crafting makes for a good game. CIG has said they plan on putting it in game, and has said so very recently (CitCon), so it sounds to me as if this is a very important thing to do right and get into the game.
I seem to recall it was being worked on by a third party, which would probably be for the best, but since modules which actually work are not compatible with CIG's core pipeline that means it will be thrown away and replaced with something inferior which is eventually developed in-house, just like Star Marine. It's only money, after all.
Since the display is translucent, it MAY not be a useless arm.
As for why. I don't know. Because it looked cool? Because we, as humans, seem to favour handheld style devices (and the wrist isn't that far away). Also you can wear it no matter how you are dressed/undressed. Do you want to strap on your shoulder or chest mounted device to go everywhere?
Just seems to be poorly thought through to me for a future sci-fi game.
And yes - I've no doubt it's because CR thinks it looks cool - along with the bouncing radar and the iron sighted automatice weapons ..
ETA - and the helmet facelights - musn't forget those!
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so I was right when I said that CIG don't even know what inertia is.
Seems like a lot of "SciFi" use arm mounted devices of similar nature.
Fallout? (PipBoy)
Mass Effect? (they have a few versions in game)
Halo (called the Chatter)
Final Fantasy
That one eyed woman on that Matt Goring show (sorry cannot remember name of it)
Call of Duty: Black Ops
In fact they seem much more common than I thought.
There is a rather large difference between "don't even know what inertia is" and "haven't implemented inertia yet"
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You'll have to forgive me if, based on what they've actually managed to release, I don't believe even they're remotely capable of implementing that.
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So it's just as bad as those then?
Just picture it - Commando Useless off on his special froces stealth mission with his face lit up like a Christmas tree - also ruining his vision in poorly lit areas - stops to put his two handed weapon down so he can use his super-dooper arm enabled comms device only to get bum rushed by a janitor with a space mop who promptly stoves his visor in!
There is, but CR has shown he does not understand inertia.
[video=youtube;fxxlrKlLO9g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxxlrKlLO9g[/video]
Do you have any evidence that they are going to implement it?
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Indeed. But anyone building a game involving something as fundamental as inertia, and then not implementing it right from the start is making a heck of a lot of problems for themselves.
So it's just as bad as those then?
Just picture it - Commando Useless off on his special froces stealth mission with his face lit up like a Christmas tree - also ruining his vision in poorly lit areas - stops to put his two handed weapon down so he can use his super-dooper arm enabled comms device only to get bum rushed by a janitor with a space mop who promptly stoves his visor in!
Or while on a Stealth mission, how about you just don't turn it on. Kinda like you are warned about in Fallout with the Pipboy that its light can give your location away....
…and one thing above what you can do in one particular other game is a pretty thin argument for being “much better” and definitely does not qualify for the supposed “exploration” that was offered as another suggestion. Especially when that one thing is trivially cancelled out by the myriad of other things that all the other games offer on top of what you just listed.
No. Implementation makes for a good game. Testing makes for a good game. Theory crafting makes for nonsensical comparisons between what's real and what's not. Of those three, CIG only does the one that does nothing useful for actually making the process go forward.