Robert Maynard
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Via a drone as mentioned previously?
Why no 3rd person?
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Via a drone as mentioned previously?
Soon, very soon or Soon™?
Blessed be that undertaking. It is good to hear.
No need to hurry. As long as it makes it into tomorrows patch, i'm fine with it.
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Ah... i hoped for a drone too since it was mentioned... it could be cool to inspect and repair your hull.
Maybe later on when we can get up from our seats and walk to the drone terminal on the bridge to do some drone business.
A 3rd person view would be very bad... the ships are having different cockpit designs with more or less degrees of view as a feature and an external cam while fighting would make such advantages obsolete.
Maybe later on when we can get up from our seats and walk to the drone terminal on the bridge to do some drone business.
A 3rd person view would be very bad... the ships are having different cockpit designs with more or less degrees of view as a feature and an external cam while fighting would make such advantages obsolete.
That is good news, no need to make it a physical one, lets just say its very small
There is a need to make the camera function more usable, however the 3rd person view as we see it in 3rdpv games would not add anything to the game in my opinion. Only in SOLO if it would ever happen. Why because of the reason I mentioned earlier. (see attached video in earlier post)
3rdpv in many of the community servers are disabled for a reason. However in a single player game it doesn't matter how you view your character.
Ah... i hoped for a drone too since it was mentioned... it could be cool to inspect and repair your hull.
Maybe later on when we can get up from our seats and walk to the drone terminal on the bridge to do some drone business.
A 3rd person view would be very bad... the ships are having different cockpit designs with more or less degrees of view as a feature and an external cam while fighting would make such advantages obsolete.
You mean disadvantage there, probably. This is often mentioned, but I doubt it's that advantageous in combat.
A free cam to spy out enemies maybe, that can give you an advantage.
3rdP cam in a shooter, when you can shoot from behind cover and that, probably ye.
A player with tracked view equipment and multiple monitors - that's what I'd call an advantage. Not a cinematic, hud free external view.
Fair enough. I for one am not particularly interested in a camera drone but understand it has to be a plausible feature. But since the debug cam (which isn't realistic at all) already exists, I feel the "realism" is already quite lost there.
An improved version of the existing external cam with steering (not firing) enabled would be my wet dream.
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Fair enough. I for one am not particularly interested in a camera drone but understand it has to be a plausible feature. But since the debug cam (which isn't realistic at all) already exists, I feel the "realism" is already quite lost there.
An improved version of the existing external cam with steering (not firing) enabled would be my wet dream.
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If they don't give you an external cam with steering, maybe you could use the multicrew features? One guy is flying the ship, the other is doing the camera work?
Perfect. enough said!
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Possibly, I still believe the other might rather grab the welder. Once we have EVA, we'll have controllable external cam anyway - even if it takes a multicrew to enable it.
This is a great plan. The current one is clunky and a pain to use, even for the occasional screenshot etc but you can be that the guys who make videos using content from the game will thank you no end.
I am FOR camera drone. Because it would add to gameplay.
This is good news. The current implementation is cute in a "hey I'm flying a camera with my throttle and joystick" way but it becomes a giant pain when a) the drone gets stuck against the ship and b) it moves and pitches really slowly and c) it has low range.
With apologies for quoting an out-of-context quote, I'd now like to talk about this:
Mike Evans said:
Unfortunately I don't know where that quote came from and so I don't know what the "it" you were talking about handling is.
Regardless, multiple cameras positioned around the cockpit is a standard way of doing things in the flight sim world. You don't need to build an actual Sidewinder cockpit to put three or more monitors next to each other. That very quickly runs up against the naïve projection used by the renderer. A 6000x1200 resolution with 68° FOV leads to extreme distortion at the sides of the left and right screens. What's more, to do it at all in this game you have to enable Eyefinity/Surround and set up bezel correction which is a hassle.
Having three separate cameras would remove the need for a single ultrawide virtual monitor, if different views could be assigned to different screens, and eliminate the distortion.
I prefer the 1st person view (I actually dislike 3rd person view in FPS, but not as much in fly sims especially if they are a bit arcady and not full on real life simulation), but why should I really care how others enjoy their game? (I don't see any big advantage, can't look by walls and stuff, so it's just aesthetics and personal preference)
No, I mean the advantages of the cockpits with better views. They would be obsolete if everybody have the same external view.
Also you need to mention that in those flight sims you are not combating other players, unless you talk about WT thus not a flight sim.
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