Left Handed Soldiers?

[Ratstomper]

When you make your soldier, pick a favored side along with your empire. Problem solved.

I know when I play games and the character is left handed it bugs the ever loving @$#! out of me.

Originally Posted by Coreldan

How exactly will it be OP/odd if/when everyone can do it? Implementing it in an easy way such as APB does it.. you switch shoulders by pressing "V" by default. If you start to try making it "harder" to weed out it's use in combat, THEN its gonna be overpowered for those who will macro it and whatnot.

I can't speak for everyone, but just moving around and shooting will be enough. I don't want to have to worry about switching hands in the middle of fighting to keep on par with everyone else. That's just extraneous and annoying.

[Synapse]

Originally Posted by Fek

I'm pretty sure in nearly all games the bullets come out a point in the centre of the body (e.g. the tip of the head) rather than where the gun is, and that hitboxes are symmetrical.

Not sure if anyone later in the thread has said this but an earlier video of PS2 mentioned the bullets actually do come from the tip of the barrel in ps2.

[Slepnair]

Originally Posted by Notser

Yes, if you join the US army you will be taught to shoot right handed.

my buddy was made to shoot left handed in the army due to the fact that he can actually hit a target when shooting that way.


I would like to see a switchable style or even a select during character creation primarily because it always feels off to me as a left handed shooter to always have a weapon in the right hand.

[Canaris]

ya'all left hand haters are just scared that the Southpaw stylers will whip ya in a gun fight

[TeaLeaf]

Originally Posted by Synapse

Not sure if anyone later in the thread has said this but an earlier video of PS2 mentioned the bullets actually do come from the tip of the barrel in ps2.

Hope not, they'd have to use psuedophysics to get the bullets to hit on the crosshair in that case.

[TheBladeRoden]

If they can't even animate vehicle entries I doubt they're going to take the time to animate left-handed gunnery

[RandomNPC]

Originally Posted by Knotz

this far in the future we have outbred this particular human defect

If by "outbred" you mean "the TR had a holocaust for lefties prior to the discovery of Auraxis", then yes.

[Toppopia]

Originally Posted by TheBladeRoden

If they can't even animate vehicle entries I doubt they're going to take the time to animate left-handed gunnery

But they are animating vehicle entry/exiting, it is in their 5 year plan, but i bet it will be done in 6 months to a year.

[Bravix]

I say yes. Let them left-handed people use their gun backwards...

and just like in real life, limit the types of weapons they can use

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

[Brusi]

Originally Posted by Coreldan

Probably one of the best features in APB

If only for the funny dance you do, crouching, walking, weapon switching, leaning from left-to-right and throwing your guns between your left and right hand... all at the same time!

ahahah

[Canaris]

Originally Posted by RandomNPC

If by "outbred" you mean "the TR had a holocaust for lefties prior to the discovery of Auraxis", then yes.

and that's just what we wanted you to think mwahahahahhaahhaahahahhaah!.... of excuse me um nevermind carry on