Kill cam.. again.. - Page 6

Kipper · 2012-05-14, 01:01 PM

Sounds perfectly plausible to me. You'll get to see the shark face I had painted onto my mosquito before it spat firey death in your general direction

Sledgecrushr · 2012-05-14, 01:11 PM

I can certainly live with kill kam. How else will I be able to see all of the awesome kustomization that is going to be in this game.

Striker KOJ · 2012-05-14, 02:47 PM

The reason I suspect that this is a "costume cam" is because that is how it worked in Battlefield Heroes. Battlefield Heroes was also free to play, and relied on a cash shop; though it was more cartoonish in its design so it could get away with silly costumes like bikers or skelletons or stuff like that. Everytime you got killed it would show the guy who killed you, and that guy would have the opportunity to do a stupid taunt or jesture, in addition to showing off his clothes. You could also buy different taunts if I remember correctly.

Where Battlefield Heroes failed was the cam actually showing you the location of the enemy, and I think we call all agree we don't want that. So I think SOE (as they are taking giant queues from the Battlefield series) are splitting the difference, and using the cam as a way to market their goods. I would love to be able to show my character flippin the bird everytime I killed someone. Or thumbing my nose, while wearing my Groucho glasses.

I just think if the game tries to take itself toooooooo seriously, it's going to shoot itself in the foot as far as cash shop sales go. There are only so many different camo patterns you design before they all start looking the same. Only so many different pallet swaps. Sooner or latter we're going to start seeing some crazier costume pieces, just because they are different, and just because they will sell because people want to be different.

And as I've mentioned in another thread, I have no problem with off the wall costume pieces. My only conern would be that the odd ball costumes at least fit in with the art style and texture quality of the rest of the game. I would hate to see shit that looked like someone copy/pasted from MS paint. If it looks like someone in the game made it using the resources available in the fictional game universe, then thats fine.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

The Kush · 2012-05-14, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by NCLynx

Like Hamma said, it's not going to be just a 3d model of the character that killed you. It'll likely show his stats, the gun he killed you with, maybe even the health that he had left.

This

Rumblepit · 2012-05-14, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Vancha

Right, you haven't read the thread.

You see a 3D model of the person that killed you. That's it. No scenery. No trees. No rocks. No bushes. No grass. No hills. No ridges. Nadda. There is no annoying feature. There is no replay of the kill.

I'm running out of ways to say this.

That's strange, I could have sworn my logic was that entertaining someone's paranoia leads to increased paranoia. Oh well, I suppose if anyone know my logical processes better than I do, it's you!

2:55 in to this video it shows the kill cam in action, many times in all the vids. you should check it out. dont look like 3d to me. i can see who and where from this killcam. i dont see anything in 3d.....

NCLynx · 2012-05-14, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

Planetside 2 - GDC First Gameplay Part 3 - YouTube 2:55 in to this video it shows the kill cam in action, many times in all the vids. you should check it out. dont look like 3d to me. i can see who and where from this killcam. i dont see anything in 3d.....

Yes and everything in this thread was confirmed AFTER the whole shitfest from that exact footage. 3D View yadda yadda yadda, yes confirmed, no those killcams are not accurate any more.

The killcams are now as they've been described earlier in this thread.

Rumblepit · 2012-05-14, 06:07 PM

so they are putting a pointless feature thats gonna just eat up bandwidth and serves no purpose? hmmmmmk...... they washing dishes with apples over there at sony???this makes no since , they should just scrap the whole thing then lol.

Vancha · 2012-05-14, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

so they are putting a pointless feature thats gonna just eat up bandwidth and serves no purpose? hmmmmmk......

It's not pointless if it gets SOE more money and thus a better game for us.

ArmedZealot · 2012-05-14, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

so they are putting a pointless feature thats gonna just eat up bandwidth and serves no purpose? hmmmmmk...... they washing dishes with apples over there at sony???this makes no since , they should just scrap the whole thing then lol.

Have you read anything we have written? Of course there is a point.

Harkounen · 2012-05-14, 10:30 PM

Kill cams -_- Only good for paranoids and ragers (both wanting to find a haxxer for their needs). For the rest of us? A lovely 5-second view of the donghole who killed us and the fact that he played Free Realms or whatever.

I dont mind ornaments, but killcams are lame in ANY game.

duomaxwl · 2012-05-14, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

Planetside 2 - GDC First Gameplay Part 3 - YouTube 2:55 in to this video it shows the kill cam in action, many times in all the vids. you should check it out. dont look like 3d to me. i can see who and where from this killcam. i dont see anything in 3d.....

Please don't try to have discussions about PS2 features if you can't even keep up with old news. They said this was just for GDC MONTHS ago.

Rumblepit · 2012-05-14, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by duomaxwl

Please don't try to have discussions about PS2 features if you can't even keep up with old news. They said this was just for GDC MONTHS ago.

lmao troll

the interveiw where this was brought up is 3 days old. i should hang my head in shame, im a slacker. lmao

NCLynx · 2012-05-15, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

lmao troll

the interveiw where this was brought up is 3 days old. i should hang my head in shame, im a slacker. lmao

Yes, and this was also brought months ago when we first witnessed the killcams in GDC Gameplay footage this is indeed months old.

duomaxwl · 2012-05-15, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

lmao troll

the interveiw where this was brought up is 3 days old. i should hang my head in shame, im a slacker. lmao

Troll?
http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...ad.php?t=39500
Two months ago. It took me all of 10 seconds to search "GDC kill cam."
Yes, hang your head down, you are slacking.

NCLynx · 2012-05-15, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by duomaxwl

Troll?
http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...ad.php?t=39500
Two months ago. It took me all of 10 seconds to search "GDC kill cam."
Yes, hang your hand down, you are slacking.

Ya beat me to it =P thanks for posting.