No, that is not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that SC is the only game that requires that the developers unify the first and third-person perspectives because their entire game engine has to run at this level of fidelity. No other games do this because no other games need to do this. They can cheat all day long and the player won't even notice. In SC, however, they devs need the game to work properly, not by cheating, but by doing exactly what they need it to do.
No, that is not what I'm saying. Those games have no need unify the first and third-person perspectives. It does not benefit them to even attempt to do so. SC needs to do this because your character is moving through transitions that occur on a massive scale and are completely seamless without loading screens. Your character goes from a planet to a ship to orbit and then jumps to another star system as one continuous game world. The only way for that to work with the character animations and overlapping physics grids and everything else was to unify the perspectives so the game is rendering only one set of animations for everyone. Otherwise the game would have layers upon layers of distorted perspectives, flat-out cheating to show one person one thing and everyone else some approximation of that viewpoint. That does not work when everyone needs to share the same universe at the same level of fidelity at all times.
Battlefield 4, which is probably my favourite fps game, does not need to do any of this. It can cheat all day long showing me one type of first-person perspective reloading animation and everyone else a completely different animation that is approximately similar. No one will notice or care because it doesn't require that level of fidelity and does not have to do what SC does in terms of the game engine.
The entire game has been produced with minimal effort. I don't see why space legs should be any different.
No one actually expects FD to do this any more, despite concept art and Braben videos that clearly described that level of detail.
There are more than enough real and serious problems that FD is dealing with that no one needs any "excuse" to discuss them. You literally can't play the game without the various problems smacking you right in the face.
