Binoculars/telescope/spyglass

[Cheese Helmet]

Something used by explorers for ages. The tool used when you go "what's that in the distance?"

We have on foot gameplay and personally I'm a fan. Between exobio and the scanning systems for celestial bodies we have now, exploring is nice.

But while doing exobio I'll jump on my ship to get a better view and consistently find myself wanting a spyglass to see something in the distance.

Fdev, give me a spyglass!

 

[alexzk]

Something used by explorers for ages. The tool used when you go "what that in the distance?"

We have on foot gameplay and personally I'm a fan. Between exobio and the scanning systems for celestial bodies we have now exploring is nice.

But while doing exobio I'll jump on my ship to get a better view and consistently find myself wanting a spyglass to see something in the distance.

Fdev, give me a spyglass!

There is workaround. Make a sniper riffle with zoom, works as half of camera view zoom.

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

Use the external camera.

 

[Cheese Helmet]

Use the external camera.

Yeah I do, but once again, it's the principle of the matter.

 

[thistle]

If you could zoom in to the far distance, the biologicals wouldn't be rendered. They (I'm guessing) render when you are close.

 

[g0oglyeyes]

Yeah I mean we could try doing something about the render distance while we're at it... I don't think anyone thinks that Aleiodea showing up as a cluster of black wedges and popping in as green fronds all at once looks good.

 

[alexzk]

If you could zoom in to the far distance, the biologicals wouldn't be rendered. They (I'm guessing) render when you are close.

Yes, zoom will not reveal what was cut off by the rendering distance.

 

[HRDiagram]

This is an evergreen. Pops up every now and again because it's a sensible QOL improvement.

Yes to binoculars!

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Disclaimer: as title suggested, these are old stuff. Yes, I'm beating a dead, decayed, skeleton of a horse, but after taking breaks and coming back on and off for years, today I felt like posting my biggest current pet peeve with this game. 1. Zoom. Holy guys. Please. Add binoculars to the...

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[Tomke Raczek]

Regardless of if biological or geological features get rendered, i am really missing a zoom function provided by the helmet. Even if, for the time being, it is only to pick out details of the landscape, it would be really helpful already. What is an explorer without a telescope, be it physical or digital?

 

[Red Dirt Nurse]

Something used by explorers for ages. The tool used when you go "what's that in the distance?"

We have on foot gameplay and personally I'm a fan. Between exobio and the scanning systems for celestial bodies we have now, exploring is nice.

But while doing exobio I'll jump on my ship to get a better view and consistently find myself wanting a spyglass to see something in the distance.

Fdev, give me a spyglass!

Ships and SRVs could have a deployable drone that you can operate remotely.

 

[aRJay]

Ships and SRVs could have a deployable drone that you can operate remotely.

If you have got around the bug that is what the free camera bit of the camera suite already does.

 

[Uthael]

I asked for something similar in this topic:

Zooming in during combat

Aiming long range weapons is a major problem when (ironically) your crosshair is in the way. Long range lasers, cannons and railguns would feel much better if one could aim properly with them. The simplest solution would be a FoV toggle while scaling down the crosshair. A later update and a...

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