(suggestion) Fly Camera
I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but detaching the camera from the player like you’re talking about (as opposed to how it happens in the revenant hammer attack) is never going to happen in an MMO.
Finer control of the camera we have would be nice, but I’m not hopeful.
You actually can get some closeups now, though you may have to fiddle with toggling character height camera on/off and zoom your FoV way down and choose your vertical/horizontal offset and possibly stand on an edge of something if you want to see your feet. So it’s not on-the-fly.
(And because I cannot resist: play an asura, adjust camera to character height, go into first person face to face with a Norn. You should get a great shot of their fly).
You will never see a multiplayer game with any kind of pvp with such feature.
(and the other 8 elite specs maxed too)
You actually can get some closeups now, though you may have to fiddle with toggling character height camera on/off and zoom your FoV way down and choose your vertical/horizontal offset and possibly stand on an edge of something if you want to see your feet. So it’s not on-the-fly.
(And because I cannot resist: play an asura, adjust camera to character height, go into first person face to face with a Norn. You should get a great shot of their fly).
Well, that’s my point isn’kitten that you have to go through all that just to try and take a close up shot. It shouldn’t be that difficult should it? You should be able to take a decent close up by default, not have to adjust all the camera settings just to take a shot, which may not suit your normal playstyle. Which then means you have to go back and forth through these settings every time you want to take close up shot.
It would be nice if in PvE, when you have completed a zone or instance you have the option (or an item – TP 1000 gems) that allows this. Imagine being able to create your own vista style fly by vids.
It would be nice if in PvE, when you have completed a zone or instance you have the option (or an item – TP 1000 gems) that allows this. Imagine being able to create your own vista style fly by vids.
When you think about it, they already have a fly camera with vista panning, the only difference would be to allow the player have it. But as i’ve said in my OP, if they can’t give fly cam they can at least tweak the existing one to give better functionality and options. the way it stands, it’s better than it was but still not quite good enough.
I mean check the 2 shots in my OP, then check the shot of my char from gw2. Tha’ts the closest i can get to it. Rift, a completely f2p game has a better camera than gw2 and it disappoints me that’s the case. gw2 was even released after Rift so it should have even better systems one would think.
You certainly can get closer than that. I took a series of closeups, I forget why — maybe for that “how old am I” thread — here are a couple of them. I had to toggle off “Use Character Height” and disable First Person so I didn’t keep slamming into that and rotating the character, then slide the FoV to low.