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Re: Vehicle 3rd person view should not be allowed


@GRiPSViGiL wrote:

Vehicle 3rd person view shouldn't be allowed.  Only free look in roughly the same degree as the human head can turn either direction should be allowed.  3rd person view is pretty much abused and just gives vehicles an even more advantage than they already have.  

3rd person view in games is an absolute joke.  I want a setting so I can disable it.  I am so sick of starting off in a vehicle in 3rd person view.  

3rd person view is immersion breaking.


I agree and have been saying this since BF3.  I think if one wants to have 3rd person view it requires your head to be exposed to be shot at.  I find it makes it easy for vehicles to detect someone planting C5 on their vehicle too easily.

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  • If someone is already planting C5 on your tank you're already dead. Nothing you can do as a tanker except wait for the death screen.

    If you want no 3rd person vehicle option go create a hardcore mode in portal.

    Tanks are blown up all the time in 2042 by infantry, if you're having problems try learning from better infantry players how to play against tanks.

  • GRiPSViGiL's avatar
    GRiPSViGiL
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @Tank2042Man This has nothing to do with dealing with tanks. You need to understand the problems 3rd person view allows. It's as stupid as allowing auto aim. Allowing automation and this wishwashy player view is beyond silly in a so called competitive game.

    Usually games are 3PV only or 1st person only and for good reason.


  • Trokey66's avatar
    Trokey66
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @GRiPSViGiL This has been an ongoing issue for ages.

    The problem with 3PV in vehicles is that it allows you to see over/behind obstacles that would not be possible in 1PV.
  • Bolvard's avatar
    Bolvard
    4 years ago

    @Tank2042ManEehhh… no they dont

    Most vehicles get blown up by C5 drones which is by no means the intended way of use and will get fixed later.

    Currently most vehicles die from either M5 Recoiless or other vehicles, if some vehicles overextend and push into enemy territory it will most likely also get C5‘d but that’s that.

    The third person view in vehicles gives you an superior wider view area that you normally would not see in first person view, prime example here is the Bolte.

    Your gunner cant see jack.shiat but the driver can tell him that there is someone behind that Rock and hides or in what direction an enemy is, left, Right, from behind etc.

    Third Person view has absolutely no place in first person games, especialy not in vehicles otherwise I demand third person view for infantry so I can see arround cover or obstacles.

  • It's pretty much enshrined in Battlefield that 3P view is a core feature while 1P is hardcore. It makes the act of flying and driving a lot smoother and I think it can be balanced. For example, tanks have slower turret speed and jets have large cannon spread. Restricting to 1P without any other accommodations really restricts vehicle performance - especially aircraft as they have to spend an inordinate amount of time searching for targets. In hardcore you have the lower infantry health so that helps make up for it

    I really don't see it ever being removed from core though because it would eliminate all those cinematic "Battlefield Moments" and EA wants those for publicity and content creators want those for clicks. 

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