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Offline Lazerr

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External Views
« on: August 09, 2016, 01:09:58 AM »
When no enemies are in icon range?

Would be good to look at some skins in flight, formation, from the outside.

Some of these skins are great, better seen from the outside.


PS... your mouse controls are still broken.

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Offline bozon

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Re: External Views
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2016, 04:56:20 AM »
then if you hit F3 and cant get 3rd person view you know that there is an enemy around.

I love admiring my Mossie XVI from the outside when on the way to the targets, so I understand where the wish comes from. I just dont think this can work in a way that will not create exploits as mentioned above. You can view all planes from F3 when on the ground.
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Re: External Views
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2016, 05:37:07 AM »
"enemy detector" was the first thing that came to my mind, too.  :noid
Kind of sad, but that's how things work in gaming...
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Re: External Views
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2016, 04:42:16 PM »
He is being sincere in his frame of context. Late night off hours, what else does he have to do while waiting around to find a fight.......

Hitech could add a page to the clip board that allows you to scroll the skins and preview them inside of that page. And if you get caught having previewgasims alone with your clipboard........ :O

There would probably be an FPS hit for lesser systems even when the clipboard was put away if that page was left open. So an auto return to page 1 toggle would be needed. Something like this has been asked for off and on so I'm not sure if it is acceptable to Hitech. Might be one of those gems that makes new players dropping in from the competition feel more at home...... :headscratch:
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Re: External Views
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2016, 06:19:11 PM »
Quote from: Lusche on August 09, 2016, 05:37:07 AM
"enemy detector" was the first thing that came to my mind, too.  :noid
Kind of sad, but that's how things work in gaming...
I agree
I want it, but we can't have it...
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Offline SPKmes

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Re: External Views
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2016, 05:20:44 PM »
perhaps it could work if it was set to icon range of 3K... no detector as such..no chance to F3 mode the fight..maybe even 2.5....

 
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Re: External Views
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2016, 06:05:24 AM »
Quote from: SPKmes on August 10, 2016, 05:20:44 PM
perhaps it could work if it was set to icon range of 3K... no detector as such..no chance to F3 mode the fight..maybe even 2.5....
Still would be a detector...you snap back to 1st person when an enemy comes within....heck I would worry about looking around on climb out at all.

But it never did make sense to me why it's so hard to see an entire skin anywhere in game...even in the hangar you don't really have a good viewer for the skin.


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Re: External Views
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2016, 10:16:38 AM »
Ahh didnt think about enemy detection.

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