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Author Topic: Manual Control of Spaceships?  (Read 4295 times)

Lunarisse Aspenstar

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Manual Control of Spaceships?
« on: 14 Nov 2014, 11:21 »
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #1 on: 14 Nov 2014, 11:25 »
EeeeeeeeoooooowwwwwwwhoooooooshhDAKKADAKKADAKKA!!!
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #2 on: 14 Nov 2014, 11:25 »
My most favorite thing.
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #3 on: 14 Nov 2014, 11:31 »
Gonna be amazing in small, fast ships and Capitals (dat precise control).

Relatively pointless in anything bigger than a cruiser but smaller than a Carrier.

Interesting implications for racing?
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #4 on: 14 Nov 2014, 11:40 »
o.O
How will it even work with 2 sec server ticks?
But omg gimmegimmegimme /o\
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #5 on: 14 Nov 2014, 12:03 »
Quote from: Ashley on 14 Nov 2014, 11:40
o.O
How will it even work with 2 sec server ticks?
But omg gimmegimmegimme /o\
Emphasis mine.

It's technically a 1sec tick but it's still gonna be hilarious to see how well (or poorly) it works in practice.
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #6 on: 14 Nov 2014, 13:52 »
It will be interesting to see if they decide to take this even further and start supporting joysticks and stuff. That might indicate it is more an impression of pressure from things like Elite and Star Citizen, rather than a focus group in Iceland. Also, seems sort of awkward as a control scheme unless they are also locking the view on the ship.

Between this and the clone thing, I thought they were doing a really late April Fools thing for a second, because that is two awfully big changes.
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Dessau

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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #7 on: 14 Nov 2014, 13:56 »
A nice addition, one that I hope works well for those who use it.
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #8 on: 14 Nov 2014, 14:16 »
Quote from: Silver Night on 14 Nov 2014, 13:52
Also, seems sort of awkward as a control scheme unless they are also locking the view on the ship.
Interesting, I was thinking the opposite, I would love to be able to use this in combination with camera turning around my ship. But maybe that's the sub-warp racer in me.
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #9 on: 14 Nov 2014, 14:41 »
suddenly in local

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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #10 on: 14 Nov 2014, 15:32 »
Quote from: Silver Night on 14 Nov 2014, 13:52
Also, seems sort of awkward as a control scheme unless they are also locking the view on the ship.

It's not. Star Trek Online uses this control scheme and it works perfectly fine when your camera isn't locked onto your ship. It's actually more useful in combat to have it locked onto your target than in a chasecam position.
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #11 on: 14 Nov 2014, 17:31 »
Well, it should be interesting to try out, at least. They use WASD in STO, then?
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #12 on: 14 Nov 2014, 17:46 »
They do, yes.
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #13 on: 14 Nov 2014, 18:20 »
Damn it anyway, people. I'm already bad enough at PvP. Now people are going to be manually flying circles around me.
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Re: Manual Control of Spaceships?
« Reply #14 on: 14 Nov 2014, 23:26 »
Quote from: Morwen Lagann on 14 Nov 2014, 12:03
Quote from: Ashley on 14 Nov 2014, 11:40
o.O
How will it even work with 2 sec server ticks?
But omg gimmegimmegimme /o\
Emphasis mine.

It's technically a 1sec tick but it's still gonna be hilarious to see how well (or poorly) it works in practice.
Ooops, yeap my bad one sec ticks.
 
And yeah, it will be interesting to see if frig scram kiting and slingshotting kiters in to webs will be possible with this.
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