Will the ability to toggle the camera into third person mode be included in the FPS module? Will I be able to look around corners in third person, even if it means I briefly lose my HUD? This seems like a very important gameplay decision and I hope this ability is not included in combat situations.asked by Gromph

So yeah, we actually made a recent decision, to actually convert the FPS into a third person shooter, kind of like Gears of War style, so you'll be able to corner creep and...no, I'm just kidding. Yes, we're actually completely disabling the third person camera for FPS, so don't be concerned about that. One of the things we were talking about is, we have these beautiful models, we have these beautiful animations, we want to be able to show them off. We want you to be able to be in your hangar, dress up, check it out, that's kind of the fun part, you play an MMO, you get some new gear, you get fitted, check it out, you take a selfie or whatever, so that part we want to be able to have that experience.

Selfies.

Yeah, selfies. You can have a little selfie wand..

You can have a little selfie wall? Go in game chat and say hey, check out my selfie.

So, to that end, I think what we're talking about is a system that dynamically determines what cameras are allowed based on whether you're in a combat situation or not in FPS. So, when you're running around on Stanton, for example, or ArcCorp i should say. There's a real chance you could just have 3rd person all the time, run around, check out all the cool animations, see yourself, your gear. If you get into a situation though where you draw your weapon, or there's a known combat situation, we just disable the camera at that point, so that way we remove that... advantage.

Yeah, exactly, and I think one of the things that was asked by Grump, is if I get over from just protecting myself and turning around a corner, will I lose my HUD if I go into third person, and the answer is you would. If you got shot at that point, that's just your own fault for going into third person, I would say.

So if you could go to third person, then you would lose your HUD, because your HUD's on your visor. And it actually literally is on your visor, it's not like a cheat. You move the camera away from the player's head you can't see the visor, cause it's actually rendered there.