You would be at a significant disadvantage compared to people who play from third-person perspective. Not just in pvp or wvw, but also in dungeons and pve events. It’s hard to see the ground and where that big aoe will land. Or if Knocky McClobberstomp, the face-eating Etin champion, is right behind you and winding up his Ultimate Pain Smasher-attack.
So people who play third person will complain about people who insist on playing first person because they are underperforming. And sooner or later first person players will complain that their preferred perspective needs to be catered to in gameplay elements.
Which would mean dumbing down some content to avoid unforeseen death as much as possible. And that would in turn make the game far to easy for those who play third-person perspective.
It is a can of worms with a portal at the bottom that leads to the worm dimension where everything is just more worms. So that is a lot of effort and work spend to almost certainly upset things even more, which would lead to even more work and effort. Effort spend not working on other cool stuff like more Specializations.
The Elder Scrolls online did it because of fan pressure as first-person perspective has always been a hallmark of TES series. But even they admitted it would be a kitten to balance and would put people playing it at a disadvantage.
Even just to take screenshots or admire the world up close.
I don’t mean full on Elder Scrolls style with being able to see the body plus weapons etc etc. Though that would be cool.
The way WoW does it would be fine with me. Just the ole camera sitting in front of the character’s face.
The benefit to nice screenshots or simply looking around the environment would be nice.
I certainly wouldn’t want to attempt any difficult fights while in 1st person but I would be all for an option to look around in 1st person while out of combat. Maybe engaging in combat automatically reverts back to 3rd person view? Just a thought…
We could also restrict it to PVE without Dungeons.
Maybe add an option to show little oculus symbols above those players.
Oculus is more about seeing Tyria from a different view then playing actual content, imo.
For starters there could be a oculus debuff that prevents you from interacting with the world, just so you could go around look at stuff.
I’m tired of staring at the ground all the time, and all the new vertical content only makes the existing camera’s flaws all the more obvious.
+1 for being able to zoom in and out of first-person-view, adding a field-of-view slider and less zoom-pumping when doing jumping puzzles, in tight areas and moving around the landscape.
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Always follow what is true.” — Sentry-skritt Bordekka
Someone from Anet explained that they can’t do it because of game engine, they screw up something in the beginning and now it’s to late for change, same thing with FOV and camera position.
