External View [A definitive discussion]
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often get's eaten by spamfilters...
but you can always find them here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=73
Wait, What?! Theres already a 250 pg thread on this for the past several months? WHat!?!
As stupid as "this ain't every other simulator" sounds. It's a space sim, it is not a carbon copy of another game, and it's not a train, plane, farm or truck simulator. Elementary, it is not the same as all others.
Your last sentance is exactly what i said: "this ain't every other simulator"
But i might get you wrong...
I find it entertaining that you type "referring to the newsletter", yet, you didn't actually read the newsletter. I'd start there first.
I thought this was a space simulator. http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
[video=youtube;h9t-SruikPk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9t-SruikPk[/video]
Never really though of the Elite series as sims per se.
Mods, please merge all these threads.
Is there really any reason to be so rude just because someone is looking forward to having an external view?
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It's the colloquial usage of the word sim, afaict. Elite's technically in between DCS and Tom Clancy's Hawx on the realism scale, leaning more towards DCS but not at 99%. It's a soft-sim, attempting to provide a fair few layers of realism above arcade-pew without going full-on IRL.
My Elite terminology post of the day.
You're right, I somehow missed that. Since it was like 5 PARAGRAPHS DOWN from where it was first mentioned at the top of the newsletter.
Let me get this straight, you read the tiny 1 paragraph summary at the top of the newsletter (where they have briefly summerized what is supposed to follow below) and thought you had all the information?
What advantage?? Don't we have a all seeing radar?
I think the idea is that if using an external view gave an advantage (by being able to see what direction fire on you was coming from for example) it would, as it does with many games, mean that everyone would end up having to use it or be at a disavantage. FD want ED to be a first person game not 3rd person and so they have chosen to restrict the usefulness of the external view for combat.
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this is absolutely amazing, an external view feature, can you imagine!
techmology is progressing at breakneck speed, man might even land on the moon one day!
techmology is progressing at breakneck speed, man might even land on the moon one day!
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Yup apparently I skipped it, only glanced. Doesn't matter though. 3rd person is lame. But not a deal breaker here, since you can't abuse in combat.
Yeah Kaburan, seems like it'll work like Darkstar One's (X360) external camera; you'll be able to move the camera to any angle and presumably zoom, but no ship control while in that mode. First person is the only way to actually control the ship.
And as for the belief that the external camera is being released to sell more paintjobs; if that's the sole motivation, FD is about a couple months late. They probably would have sold a ton more paint jobs if external camera was available from day one. I'm not saying that selling paint jobs isn't a motivator, but it doesn't logically seem to be the single or key motivator. Fans wanted the camera, FD held off, fans kept voicing their needs, FD is finally delivering.
And as for the belief that the external camera is being released to sell more paintjobs; if that's the sole motivation, FD is about a couple months late. They probably would have sold a ton more paint jobs if external camera was available from day one. I'm not saying that selling paint jobs isn't a motivator, but it doesn't logically seem to be the single or key motivator. Fans wanted the camera, FD held off, fans kept voicing their needs, FD is finally delivering.
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