Ground vehicle driving

[ArmedZealot]

Originally Posted by captainkapautz

Best arguement for 3PV in the whole thread.

So much truth. Every vehicle should have a 3PV vanity cam with the HUD disabled.

[captainkapautz]

Originally Posted by ArmedZealot

So much truth. Every vehicle should have a 3PV vanity cam with the HUD disabled.

Infantry as well, man!

[Baneblade]

I think I'm sold on TPV. As long as the infantry TPV is a close up of the ass.

Female Baneblade... have to ponder that.

[Sledgecrushr]

Either a vanity cam or a mirror on every other wall. 3pv ftw.

[Xyntech]

I'll accept 3rd person on infantry if it is exclusively a vanity view, as in: No seeing enemies, even if they would ordinarily be visible in first person. That includes enemy vehicles and deployables. If deployables aren't specifically identified as friendly, they are invisible.

I am strongly against 3rd person view on infantry that can provide anything but a nice view of your character.

I don't really feel strongly either way about vehicle 3rd person. I think it will be possible to drive/pilot without it, but I also don't think it will be hugely exploitable thing if 3rd person is included.

[Figment]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

TPV was rarely useful in PS1 when flying. I used it mainly to watch my Reaver to make sure I looked cool.

As mentioned well before in this thread, in the air (and with a hovering vehicle) you have a much smoother ride though and you will encounter next to no obstructions.

Both meaning first person view is far less of a problem for aircraft. Till you come across a bridge, fly close to a building or try to do a canyon / trench or forest run and have no good perception of distance and dimensions of your aircraft. Similarly for landing.

Ask TotalBiscuit.


Watching yourself is nice as well, not just for the cosmetics though. Especially as a cloaker there's a bonus to survivability, as it provides you a check to see if you can be easily spotted against the background (particularly when moving). This helps you in decision making a lot.

[Figment]

Heh while some of us infils complained we turned out to be too visible for others with some of those badges being bright lines and contrasting with the background when moving.

[Kato]

Originally Posted by WildVS

Cash shop cosmetic customizations for cloakers might be a hard sell.

Never ..... Cant you see my purple invisibility?

[HeatLegend]

I liked the second option a lot, hadnt thought of that before. Then again... the technology of this time SHOULD allow for seeing around ones tank... censors or whatever.

[SztEltviz]

My opinion: 1st person view with a periscope like frame that can move around with decent speed (1 sec for 180 degree), and the turret follows it slowly. Can press an extra key to lock the turret in place. Like WoT's FPS view. About bumping issues, we can get a stabilizer on our tanks. So thats smooth out spikes.
So you can easily check the surrounding, but wont see 360 all time.

About WoT's visibility checks and propagation... idea is ok, but it's current form so broken, that's a joke.Wargaming said they got problems with the number of scanline checks needed in a 15 vs 15 battle, so i don't think it's ok for 2000 players.

[Raka Maru]

I saw 3pv in the videos for both planes and tanks. Is that confirmed as beta only? Will it be removed for ground driving?

[Kayos]

I only ever used 3rd person for landing in PS1. Would be nice to have it especially with all the customization we can do.

[Raka Maru]

I'm wanting them to keep the 3PV for vehicles also. Seeing your tank on fire while driving seems to be terrifying awesome!

[Saintlycow]

less suicide please

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by WildVS

Wow I didn't know this thread was still kicking. Yeah I noticed that in E3 demos as well. I hope they keep it and it looks like from the survey most would agree.

In the stream, I remember a moment where the player they were watching was trying to drive a Vanguard around and kept crashing into everything. I believe it was Clegg who commented something along the lines of "He needs to switch to 3rd person view."

I lol'd.

I was previously okay with the idea of 3rd person only for aircraft (although I still had prefered it be the same for land and air vehicles, both having 3pv or neither having it), but that shit was hilariously bad.

Please, give 3rd person to all vehicles to prevent this shit. As Higby said, chaos is fun, but that shit is probably taking it too far.

Still no to infantry 3rd person of course. Fuck the few people who think that's a good idea. It's bad and you should feel bad.

Speaking of 3rd person, I'd love to have a little spycam that is easily destroyed, but can allow players to scout around without directly exposing themselves. Maybe as a high tier Infiltrator sidegrade with some heavy tradeoffs.

I'd like to see two variants of it. One that hovered around more at infantry speeds, and another one that flew at faster speeds that could keep up with aircraft.

Of course the true purpose of the device would be as an additional tool that people could use to make PS2 videos.