Viewpoint options

miltonyorkcastle · 04-08-08, 11:04 AM

Will we be able to switch between 1st and 3rd person viewpoints? Or will we be stuck in 3rd person?

This may really be a controls question. That is, how do you consider the controls working a this point?

I would prefer to run around in first person, but still have the option for third person as needed.

Ths also ties to how the combat will work, obviously, as a third person view tends to work better for "resolved" combat systems, but first person views go hand in hand with RT combat systems.

Eight-Bit · 04-22-08, 12:13 AM

First person is just so hard to capture and feel real that I don't think the team will have the time to do it well. If they can't do it well, why do it at all?

All I can say is that first person games tend to handle in the most inhuman ways possible.

Dorganath · 04-22-08, 05:43 AM

At last check, both third-person (default) and first-person views are available. Details and/or presence of each subject to change prior to release, of course. I say this because we've changed camera behavior a few times already.

Thak · 04-22-08, 11:23 AM

I want to clarify a lil bit on the term. If we do have first person view it will not be like morrowind where you can see your sword and arms and hack at things. To do that we would have to create alot of extra assets. I think we will rather have a plain eyelevel camera or a kind of "over the shoulder" view, not 100% fps but really close to the action.