Looking around

PredatorFour · 2013-01-30, 01:09 PM

When in a scythe it's great you can look around from side to side. Why can't they let infantry do this ? So their heads move sideways whilst they run forwards ? It would help the infantry game no end and i just wondered how feasible it is to be put in seeing as though you can do it in a scythe.

maradine · 2013-01-30, 01:14 PM

It's relatively easy to implement, and there are a number of FPSs now that support it. The question is, "why"? There's not much benefit in the existing model to looking off gun axis. You'd need an ARMA-style gun wobble model - ie, you swing the gun around, your aim is shit until the body recalibrates - for it to make much of a difference.

PredatorFour · 2013-01-30, 01:34 PM

Why ? so you can be more aware for sure. You can be running towards an objective looking everywhere but not deviating from the run path, or an LA could look around whilst floating down, or infil even scouting the territory etc..

Just seemed silly to me that i could hop into my scythe and look left and right then i hop out and my heads in a fixed position.

ShadetheDruid · 2013-01-30, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by PredatorFour

Why ? so you can be more aware for sure. You can be running towards an objective looking everywhere but not deviating from the run path, or an LA could look around whilst floating down, or infil even scouting the territory etc..

Just seemed silly to me that i could hop into my scythe and look left and right then i hop out and my heads in a fixed position.

That's what strafing is for.

maradine · 2013-01-30, 01:42 PM

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. I've got a trackIR on the desk and a Rift on the way - you couldn't throw enough sim features at me if you wanted to. I just don't think this is that game.

PredatorFour · 2013-01-30, 02:09 PM

Just think it would be a cool immersive feature to add to the game that might not be that hard to do.

OCNSethy · 2013-01-30, 05:05 PM

Until something like this comes in, I just zipzag (Lt, rt, Lt, rt). Takes me longer to get where Im going but I tend not to get suprised... mostly

Hamma · 2013-01-30, 08:09 PM

Neat Idea but to be honest I see this as more of a pain than anything else.