I know how close an enemy is because the targeting area tells me to nearest meter. And when the enemy is behind me, the target hologram already shows me which way the ship is veering, not that it matters because I'm too focused on evading or repositioning my ship behind the enemy ship. Somehow this is enough because I've only lost one engagement against an elite NPC. A rear-view mirror makes sense in a car because a car operates in extremely close quarters and doesn't have shields. No need to fantasize about rear view mirrors and fuzzy dice. You're flying a ship in the vastness of space not driving a car to the drive-in theatre.
Even my car has a rear view camera
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I know how close an enemy is because the targeting area tells me to nearest meter. And when the enemy is behind me, the target hologram already shows me which way the ship is veering, not that it matters because I'm too focused on evading or repositioning my ship behind the enemy ship. Somehow this is enough because I've only lost one engagement against an elite NPC. A rear-view mirror makes sense in a car because a car operates in extremely close quarters and doesn't have shields. No need to fantasize about rear view mirrors and fuzzy dice. You're flying a ship in the vastness of space not driving a car to the drive-in theatre.
This, we already have all thats needed to "see" behind us. A rear-view mirror would be too limiting.
Why was this dug up anyway?
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Who necro this back lol ? anyway - yes, give us rear view cam pls 
That won't happen. I`m happy with cam drone idea and debug cam - debug cam is all I was asking for in "external cam view" thread where almost everybody yelled at me to "go back to your xbox cod kid, stop ruining the game down" lol.
3p view that benefit in combat gameplay is a no no fo me in this game.
In cockpit screens that will show us hull cam views - oh yes pls.
a necro oh boy i did enjoy reading through this though
these two things right here I highly agree with, we have that tiny screen there that serves no purpose. a rearview camera of some sort wouldbe nice when it comes to docking especially large ships like the T9
obviously for combat you are better off using the radar but for stuff the radar can't make out (like the inside of the station or the letterbox entry) a camera would be nice.
The only point I can see why they haven't bothered is like others said framerate might be an issue on lower end machines which I feel might be mitigated by allowing the ability to turn off said camera. Maybe making it only turn on when you turn to face it kinda like the navigation and status panels.
I'm already having trouble picturing the Xbox run the game little less with yet another screen to render but again the problem should be mitigate-able by allowing us to turn on/off said camera.
these two things right here I highly agree with, we have that tiny screen there that serves no purpose. a rearview camera of some sort wouldbe nice when it comes to docking especially large ships like the T9
obviously for combat you are better off using the radar but for stuff the radar can't make out (like the inside of the station or the letterbox entry) a camera would be nice.
The only point I can see why they haven't bothered is like others said framerate might be an issue on lower end machines which I feel might be mitigated by allowing the ability to turn off said camera. Maybe making it only turn on when you turn to face it kinda like the navigation and status panels.
I'm already having trouble picturing the Xbox run the game little less with yet another screen to render but again the problem should be mitigate-able by allowing us to turn on/off said camera.
If you are seeing laser bolts fly past your cockpit they're less than 3,000 meters from you.
If you see bullets, they're 4,000 meters away.
Select the target and it will tell you to the meter what the distance is.
Ah the good ol' warm, warmer, hot! game.
Ergo, the radar is pretty much crap for everything other than basic direction.
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