I've heard that walking around, even out of combat, will always be in first person. Is this true, or are we going to be able to choose which point of view we want to use, out of combat at least?asked by Jay Jung
TL;DRWalking is generally first person for immersion, with occasional cinematic third-person cuts; whether players can switch to third person on foot is undecided, though a chase camera in space and third person in the hangar are likely.
It's a good question. So generally it's first person. I'm kind of big on the immersion on that side. I'm sort of debating. There will be moments when you do things either on your ship or walking around that it will cut out to third person for cinematic sort of highlights. A moment you're walking in, like you walk up to a building, going through a door first person, and maybe it cuts to a third-person view, seeing your character walk in, the camera spins around and zooms right into your sort of viewpoint again. So we're going to kind of do those sort of things. I don't know whether we'll let you just always switch out to a third-person view when you're walking around. When you're flying around in space, you definitely can always switch to a chase camera view and see the beauty of the ship and all the rest of the stuff. Those elements where I was talking about, like if you deploy missiles, we'll have a thing where we'll cinematically cut outside so you can see your missiles deploy. And it'll do that the first time you deploy missiles. And of course, if you want to just switch off that sort of cinematic feature, you can. But we definitely want to highlight how beautiful all the characters, spaceships, the environments and locations will be. But I haven't 100% decided on the ground whether we will let you just run around, walk around in a third person view as well as a first person view. So you'll see some of it, maybe not all of it, maybe you will. I'll reserve the decision on that down the road.
They'll be able to have feedback too. When they're doing the hangar, they can tell us what they like and don't.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we'll probably definitely let you in the hangar see a third person, because the character's kind of cool. So we'll probably end up doing something like that, but I just 100% haven't decided. It's sort of more an immersion thing on story yet. But like I said, I do like to show off how beautiful the art that everyone here is making is.