Disabling 3rd person on foot

[ssg (DayZ) 8]

My suggestion is simple. Disabling 3rd person while player is on foot. When you try to use 3rd person on foot it would give message that its disabled when you are walking and will switch you back to first person. Why this? Because 3rd person gives unrealistic advantages. You can spot targets from roof or behind walls/bush without your target to have anyway to detect you while you watch all his moves. This would still keep the luxury of driving vehicles on 3rd person. I know many people prefer to do this over first person because its much more easier and fun.

Before anyone says this can't be done on ArmA2 engine it can be. City Life 2 RPG mod has this feature.

[shadow_moses 50]

If the first person was more natural I could see doing this. But the field of view is off to me or not natural. I need the 3rd person to look for zombies chasing me. If you want this play on a vet or expert server.

[Lillo 22]

Totally agree.

[noobfun 87]

dont know about variable switching but locked 1st person is the none noob way, hence (most)vet (all)exp servers ive come across have it disabled both onfoot and in vehicles, helps cut down death matching as you cant sit behind a rock and pop up the magic wide view periscope to see everything going on, or peek over walls/round corners you actually have to commit by putting yourself at risk to get eyes on a target

much more fun :P

[noobfun 87]

If the first person was more natural I could see doing this. But the field of view is off to me or not natural. I need the 3rd person to look for zombies chasing me.

becasue holding ALT and looking over your shoulders is hard?

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I kind of agree. The reason 3rd person was included at all originally with Arma was because the developers realised that with 1st person view you actually lose a lot of your peripheral vision that you would have in reality. With 1st person, sometimes you can get tunnel vision and have to move your head around a lot more than you would in reality. 3rd person was one of their ways of compensating for that.

I agree that it ruins some of fun when you can just use it too look around corners and so on without having to poke your face around them. It's a tricky balance to get right.

I wouldn't complain if every server forced players to have to use 1st person completely. I've seen vids where some people play the whole game in 3rd person, using the magic crosshairs to aim. It's not a way of playing i would enjoy.

Edited August 8, 2012 by Fraggle

[Bjorn9486 9]

If they made 1st person more like real life first person I would switch to it, but currently its like we are wearing a dog cone around our head and that's all we can see.

[KILLERBUCK13 2]

NO NO NO. Some of us with low end computers can even run the game in 1st person cause it drops our fps by 5 from the already low 12.

[Ivell 0]

when traveling long distances in the game first person gives myself and one of my mates eye strain due to the constant wobbling of the vision, if you want servers without 3rd person join a vet server

[Willgebroth 4]

Hell no,

I like 3rd person...

sure it would be more "realistic" in first person but....well there are enough fps and i just hate playing in first person

... if you don´t like it that other people play in 3rd person : Play on expert or a server where 3rd person is disabled.

[Flare Run 1]

Ppl complaning about low fov? why not just change it? iplay with an fov of 100 and everything perfect

[noobfun 87]

when traveling long distances in the game first person gives myself and one of my mates eye strain due to the constant wobbling of the vision,

you realise thats a setting right?

[bazbake 456]

Let me lay this down.

1. Use the + or - on the num lock and you can change your field of view, zooming in and out.
   
2. Hold alt and swing your mouse and you can see all the way behind you, even your backpack.
   
3. Go into the options menu and turn down head bob all the way. No more fps loss or motion sickness.
   

Cool? Cool. All of your complaints about playing a FPS in first-person view assuaged.

[Boitameuh 14]

Totally agree.

Also for changing your FOV : http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/31609-ultimate-fov-field-of-view-guide-for-arma-2-and-dayz-from-dayzpvpcom/

[Stormdrooper 2]

If everyone has an advantage then no one does.

[GexAlmighty 54]

Let me lay this down.

1. Use the + or - on the num lock and you can change your field of view, zooming in and out.
   
2. Hold alt and swing your mouse and you can see all the way behind you, even your backpack.
   
3. Go into the options menu and turn down head bob all the way. No more fps loss or motion sickness.
   

Cool? Cool. All of your complaints about playing a FPS in first-person view assuaged.

Thank you, i genuinly had to idea this was possible. Now i dont have to feel bad about using 3rd person. take my beans for your consideration

[Willgebroth 4]

Really?

I don´t get it...there ARE server where 3rd person is disabled....and i don´t know anyone who likes first person in dayz

We want to see our character ....just because some of you are to lazy to use a expertserver we should be forced to use first person view?!?

[redfield-77 315]

I'm tired of this dead horse. I like 3rd person and my opinion is more important than yours OP.

[IncognitoNico 71]

you can have m bean, I would even give my mountain dew

[santiagoaquino6@hotmail.com 37]

Everyone can or can't look around buildings in third person, the advantage is fair to everyone and therefore not an advantage.

There are already veteran servers for you masochists, stop playing in regular ones or something.

[agippo 37]

I was going to start my own thread, but i found this one that essentially had my suggestion.

3rd person is a joke. If we are including the ability to locate our eyes 3 meters up and behind our heads, why bother with a "realistic" game? I love this game due to all the realism other games of late dont have.

You bleed till you bandage yourself, crouching behind a wall and waiting doesnt up your health

You get hungry and cold, you are not a superman

You get out of breath, you shake and can't aim well

So why in hell have this level or realism, just to have a floating 3rd person view that allows people to look around corners without exposing themselves to fire, why allow the ability to see inside a building without walking in.

I take the point that there are some servers that have 3rd person disabled, but these are few and far between. At the least we need a lot more of them. I still think 3rd person is the single most unrealistic aspect of this game though