Pilot Archive
Thread: Do you Dogfight while in 1st or 3rd person view?
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evil_SOCCERMOM
Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:55 pm
#14
Slysix wrote:
3rd person view allows me view more of the space around my ship and allows me to view the attitude changes a target is making. I only use 3rd person when flying a POB ship.
1st person view allows me to judge intertia effects better when manouvering. Makes for finer piloting control adjustments.
So ideally we could have a mix of both and have 2nd person view.
Ibin_Nawtee
Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:25 am
#15
I always use my mouse and keyboard. My preference is 3rd person view.
ProCambarus
Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:12 am
#16
Only joystick, only 1st person, cockpit off mostly. (Well, I fly ships with more cockpit obstacles than a T/?. 
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DeepFatFryer
Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:52 am
#17
furrycat wrote:
In Soviet Russia, JTL play you!
Signature material tbh ^^
Kirkmeister
Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:49 am
#19
Joystick, 1st person, cockpit on. The only ship I had vis problems with was the B-22, so to get round that, I don't fly it, simple. One reason I love the JSF is the cockpit view. You get such great vis sat there in your little cocoon.
silverlady
Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:52 am
#22
Joystick (Saitek Cyborg Evo), first person, cockpit view off. Although, on the rare occasions I fly my JSF, I turn the cockpit view back on...the cockpit frame on that is just too nice to keep turned off. I used to like the immersion value of having the frames on, but I found that I am a much better pilot with the frames turned off.
I mess around with 3rd person from time to time, and almost always use it when flying a POB. The problem (for me) with using 3rd person on a fighter is the same as if I use an overhead view in a racing game...I can see too much of what the vehicle is doing, and it causes me to overcompensate.
On this topic, I have a curiosity - does anyone that uses 3rd person in a fighter (not POB) ever use the camera angle that constantly keeps your target in view while dogfighting? I have used this with my POB, and I was thinking that if I could get used to it, it might be a really nice thing to use in PvP. Any thoughts? Like I said, I have yet to try it in a dogfight, and it may in reality be the worst idea ever, but I am curious to see if anyone does it currently, and how does it work out?
Phizuol
Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:23 am
#23
Joystick, first person view with cockpit turned on.
I like to try to pretend I'm flying rather than "moving the little ship around."
I like to try to pretend I'm flying rather than "moving the little ship around."
Doofius
Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:20 pm
#24
2nd person is when WE become the game and the computer is playing US!
I feel so cheap!!
Isamu-alva
Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:37 pm
#25
1st person with mouse + keyboard and cockpit frame off, tried a stick but wasnt getting the accuracy I was after.
Occasionally switch to 3rd person to see whats going on around me but when you're flying a firespray with it's huge ass that takes up 85% of the screen it's a bit hard to aim lol.
Occasionally switch to 3rd person to see whats going on around me but when you're flying a firespray with it's huge ass that takes up 85% of the screen it's a bit hard to aim lol.
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