I recently learned about this cool app for PC gaming that can be used in Elite D to talk to your ship and call up various HUD controls in your cockpit, and what I would consider a very useful aspect of such an option... Changing your Power Distribution and calling up various "SUB-TARGETS" during combat.
Has anyone read anything anywhere about this kind of thing being employed in the Xbox One version? Seems like a feature everyone on the console could use if they wanted to since we all have headsets with a microphone.
I imagine you could create a set of voice commands that were mapped to various ship settings like Power Distribution and Sub-Targets and a host of other functions like perhaps MODULE ON/OFF commands etc.
One example would be the targeting of an enemy's SUB SYSTEMS during combat where we could assign a specific word or phrase to that action like: "TARGET FSD", "TARGET THRUSTERS", TARGET POWER PLANT" etc.
Seems to me this would take the load off the need for adding more button combos for binding on the controller, if you could shift ship controls/commands over to VOICE ACTIVATED, so that when in combat, you could switch to voice command during a battle and just speak "TARGET FSD!"and your ship would respond by performing the various commands to switch your targeting over SUB-TARGET/Frame Shift Drive. All the while, you can keep both hands on your flight controls and stay focused on tracking the enemy ship and firing while you ship switches your target systems over for you after commanding it to do so with a simple word or two.
Might not be as straight forward in OPEN PLAY/MULTI-PLAYER if you were also using the headset to chat with other players, but I imagine there could be a HOT BUTTON assigned on the controller that could toggle your mic back and forth from CHAT to SHIP COMMANDS.
Has anyone read anything anywhere about this kind of thing being employed in the Xbox One version? Seems like a feature everyone on the console could use if they wanted to since we all have headsets with a microphone.
I imagine you could create a set of voice commands that were mapped to various ship settings like Power Distribution and Sub-Targets and a host of other functions like perhaps MODULE ON/OFF commands etc.
One example would be the targeting of an enemy's SUB SYSTEMS during combat where we could assign a specific word or phrase to that action like: "TARGET FSD", "TARGET THRUSTERS", TARGET POWER PLANT" etc.
Seems to me this would take the load off the need for adding more button combos for binding on the controller, if you could shift ship controls/commands over to VOICE ACTIVATED, so that when in combat, you could switch to voice command during a battle and just speak "TARGET FSD!"and your ship would respond by performing the various commands to switch your targeting over SUB-TARGET/Frame Shift Drive. All the while, you can keep both hands on your flight controls and stay focused on tracking the enemy ship and firing while you ship switches your target systems over for you after commanding it to do so with a simple word or two.
Might not be as straight forward in OPEN PLAY/MULTI-PLAYER if you were also using the headset to chat with other players, but I imagine there could be a HOT BUTTON assigned on the controller that could toggle your mic back and forth from CHAT to SHIP COMMANDS.
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