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Veigar Mordekaiser
Royal Uhlans Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.08.07 10:21:00 -
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Currently, you can set your Point of View (PoV) to either First-Person, or Third-Person in vehicles. I personally, do not like that. It makes no logical sense, and it provides far to much viewing. Last I checked, when I'm driving, I cant look at my car in third-person, so why should I be able to in a game?
Now, I'm not suggesting it be removed entirely, because there is a logical way to go about third-person viewing. Instead of just being able to switch to third-person any time, I would like to propose that you have to equip a camera drone, which would follow your vehicle around, providing you with the third-person PoV.
This drone would be rather small, but large enough that it could be viewed and shot at, by someone with a steady hand. If the drone is destroyed, it would force the vehicle driver back into first-person - maybe with some nice static or a blue screen for a moment, just because that'd be cool. Perhaps when a vehicle is spawned, it could be carrying a small supply of these drones - say maybe 2 or 3 - so that if your drone is shot down, you could deploy another if you so wish to do so.
This way, those that prefer to drive in third-person, would have the option to do so, but it would still have a logical, viable explanation, and it could be countered. Some might not think that third-person vs. first-person is really much of a difference, but the viewing provided is a massive advantage that I don't particularly like. |
Veigar Mordekaiser
Royal Uhlans Amarr Empire
676
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Posted - 2012.08.07 20:07:00 -
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vermacht Doe wrote:Kincate wrote:vermacht Doe wrote:Can you destroy the view drones in eve? Theoreticaly yes, but the explanation for this is the drones are so cheap and small that a ship can keep extremely large numbers, so if one is destroyed it is quickly replaced. Lorewise anyways. So the explanation on vehicles could be nanohives which explain vehicle infinite ammo also produce more drones So you want tank's to have a full 360 degree view radius all the time? And not be able to force them into a disadvantage when they are absolutely raping your team?
Keep in mind that EVE ships are rather large, and they all have cargo holds. As far as I know, tanks do not have a cargo hold.
Edit: Also, nano hives are not infinite. |
Veigar Mordekaiser
Royal Uhlans Amarr Empire
676
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Posted - 2012.08.08 03:55:00 -
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Kincate wrote:Veigar Mordekaiser wrote:vermacht Doe wrote:Kincate wrote:vermacht Doe wrote:Can you destroy the view drones in eve? Theoreticaly yes, but the explanation for this is the drones are so cheap and small that a ship can keep extremely large numbers, so if one is destroyed it is quickly replaced. Lorewise anyways. So the explanation on vehicles could be nanohives which explain vehicle infinite ammo also produce more drones So you want tank's to have a full 360 degree view radius all the time? And not be able to force them into a disadvantage when they are absolutely raping your team? Keep in mind that EVE ships are rather large, and they all have cargo holds. As far as I know, tanks do not have a cargo hold. Edit: Also, nano hives are not infinite. I dont care either way how they do it Im just throwing out the fluff explanation. Frankly some spooky cool nanotech probrably explains alot about the ammo stuff. I mean a vehicle is going to have a large and for the purposes of the match infinite power supply. As for the cargo hold, the drones arent held there, theyre held in camera drone racks built into all the ships. Given the size of what they can make things now if you throw in super advanced tech id say yeah a tank could hold more of them than youd probrably have bullets for. Dont over think the lore stuff to much, if its a balance issue then just say its a balance issue. Actually I'm hoping that they introduce ammo limits to vehicles, this infinite ammo stuff is total BS. Aside from lasers which use PG, and we don't even have those yet. |
Veigar Mordekaiser
Royal Uhlans Amarr Empire
676
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Posted - 2012.08.08 07:35:00 -
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Zero Harpuia wrote:Actually, Lasers DON'T use PG, even in EVE. They use Capacitor over there, and I'll assume they function like the old Railgun Installations did, with an overheat meter.
I would have posted as a quote reply, but apparently that breaks the amount of quote-in-quote the forums allow. Ah, my bad. It's been a while since I've played EVE. Also, to get around the quote thing, you can just remove the unimportant quotes :)
Nova Knife wrote:Third person view needs to be taken out of the game. Too many people (myself included) use it to prevent themselves from being flanked. Flanking a vehicle should always be a viable strategy. Right now, it is not. You should need to be actively looking around and communicating with gunners to prevent flanking, not have a camera option that makes you immune to being snuck up on.
At the very least, third person camera needs to be shunted forward so that it does not show the rear of the vehicle.
Lore is made to support gameplay mechanics, not the other way around. Even if it works in Eve, any number of reasons could be made up to support the limited camera. Even in Eve lore, camera drones can look like 50km away with perfect clarity. If we used the same lore, you could deploy camera drones to see any part of the battlefield you wanted, nearly instantly. Not exactly good gameplay, huh? I personally don't mind 3rd person, just so long as it requires some sort of drone that takes up a fitting slot, and said drone is destructible so you can force a tank back into first person view. |
Veigar Mordekaiser
Royal Uhlans Amarr Empire
676
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Posted - 2012.08.08 22:32:00 -
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Alshadow wrote:in EvE it is a logical explanation, as u are in space, and it would be difficult to spot, everything is also on a much larger scale so the most likely small drone would never be detected but things are much diferent in dust..... in a LAV or fk it, any vehicle, having these drones feels like over kill, and if not should be a literal drone with a cpu and pg cost and put on ur fitting, ill assume it would have cloaking on it, wich is another reason it seems like overkill, especially because you wouldnt have the storage space on these vehicles that u would on a ship my main suggestion if u really want to keep this in game is to make it equipment that works like the shield booster or armor repairers or what not, in that its only useable once activated, and not everyone will have one Pretty much what I suggested, minus the cloak. |
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