External Camera- a "poll"

Ducimus · 06-12-06, 05:04 PM

TMI. Yes or no?

EDIT: DAMN this new forum layout, this was supposed to be a poll, and now i can't delete this mistake and start over. BAH.

Ok, so this will have to work without a poll like i wanted.

Do you think the External Camera gives too much info and makes the game alot easier?

Yes or no?

06-12-06, 05:07 PM

No. In "reality", your ability to physically maneuver around the boat, and in general see things is not merely limited to what you can do in a computer game. Due to that limitation, I'll take the external camera, and use it. I pay the renown hit for it, so I figure I've earned the right to use it.

Ducimus · 06-12-06, 05:11 PM

Im really ticked off i cant change my orginal post.

To answer my own question,

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Do you think the External Camera gives too much info and makes the game alot easier?

Yes i do, but the eye candy is damn hard to give up

CB.. · 06-12-06, 05:13 PM

it's the F12 uber scope view that's the key to reducing difficulty with the external view enabled--just edit out the F12 capability and you have best of both worlds--

CCIP · 06-12-06, 05:16 PM

Yes, but only if you want it to.

I'll admit that it probably took me a year to learn not to cheat with it. The trick is to play for a while with it disabled, and then bring it back in. By that time you'll be so used to playing without the camera that it won't even cross your mind to use it for anything other than some nice screenies to show for the action.

Keelbuster · 06-12-06, 06:01 PM

Screencaps are necessary. period.

Kb

U-Cass · 06-12-06, 08:40 PM

I've come back to playing after few months break. Trouble is I used to play with event disabled. I can't enable camera it's greyed out so can't check. Think i edited something to disable. Can't remember what. Any ideas.

Highbury · 06-12-06, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Yes i do, but the eye candy is damn hard to give up

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Originally Posted by Engel der Vernichtung

I pay the renown hit for it, so I figure I've earned the right to use it.

Der Eisen-Wal · 06-12-06, 10:13 PM

I've never played with it on. I dont' really plan to, knowing that I blew it up is good enough for me. i dont' really care if people use it. to each their own.

Seminole · 06-13-06, 12:43 AM

I use the external camera and feel no need to make apologies for doing so.

I use it for two reasons. First I really like the panoramic scenes it provides and second I hate wasting fuel and time chasing a ship for hours only to find it is a neutral.

P_Funk · 06-13-06, 01:04 AM

I'll never give up the external camera for one reason: If I can't see my boat and it's prey from a cinematic view every now and then, then I won't be able to "live" Das Boot and isn't that really why we're really playing these games?

CCIP · 06-13-06, 01:15 AM

I also have to qualify that my best career so far was the one where I had my external camera disabled (that's my Mohr career in WaW I). I spent my screenshot-making time on that one by writing logs instead. :hmm:

snyperAL · 06-13-06, 01:31 AM

it is a good thing, without it the graphics would almost be unnoticable...

CWorth · 06-13-06, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by snyperAL

it is a good thing, without it the graphics would almost be unnoticable...

Exactly,

Why have good looking graphics if you cant look at them from time to time.I also use the external camera for taking screenshots and just to look at the graphics as I play.

U-Bones · 06-13-06, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by CWorth

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Originally Posted by snyperAL

it is a good thing, without it the graphics would almost be unnoticable...

Exactly,

Why have good looking graphics if you cant look at them from time to time.I also use the external camera for taking screenshots and just to look at the graphics as I play.

I can not imagine playing without it, does that mean I have no imagination? :hmm:

06-12-06, 05:04 PM	#1
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	External Camera- a "poll" TMI. Yes or no? EDIT: DAMN this new forum layout, this was supposed to be a poll, and now i can't delete this mistake and start over. BAH. Ok, so this will have to work without a poll like i wanted. Do you think the External Camera gives too much info and makes the game alot easier? Yes or no? Last edited by Ducimus; 06-12-06 at 05:08 PM.

06-12-06, 05:13 PM	#4
CB.. Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,278 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	it's the F12 uber scope view that's the key to reducing difficulty with the external view enabled--just edit out the F12 capability and you have best of both worlds-- __________________ the world's tinyiest sh3 supermod- and other SH3/SH2 stuff http://www.ebort2.co.uk/ The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.B.Yeats

06-12-06, 05:16 PM	#5
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Yes, but only if you want it to. I'll admit that it probably took me a year to learn not to cheat with it. The trick is to play for a while with it disabled, and then bring it back in. By that time you'll be so used to playing without the camera that it won't even cross your mind to use it for anything other than some nice screenies to show for the action. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

06-12-06, 06:01 PM	#6
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Screencaps are necessary. period. Kb __________________

06-12-06, 08:40 PM	#7
U-Cass Mate Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 51 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	I've come back to playing after few months break. Trouble is I used to play with event disabled. I can't enable camera it's greyed out so can't check. Think i edited something to disable. Can't remember what. Any ideas. __________________ A Frog, A Pond, The Frog jumped, PLOP!

06-12-06, 05:07 PM	#2
Engel der Vernichtung Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	No. In "reality", your ability to physically maneuver around the boat, and in general see things is not merely limited to what you can do in a computer game. Due to that limitation, I'll take the external camera, and use it. I pay the renown hit for it, so I figure I've earned the right to use it.

06-12-06, 10:13 PM	#9
Der Eisen-Wal Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 121 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've never played with it on. I dont' really plan to, knowing that I blew it up is good enough for me. i dont' really care if people use it. to each their own.

06-13-06, 12:43 AM	#10
Seminole Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,012 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	I use the external camera and feel no need to make apologies for doing so. I use it for two reasons. First I really like the panoramic scenes it provides and second I hate wasting fuel and time chasing a ship for hours only to find it is a neutral.

06-13-06, 01:04 AM	#11
P_Funk Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada, eh? Posts: 2,537 Downloads: 129 Uploads: 0	I'll never give up the external camera for one reason: If I can't see my boat and it's prey from a cinematic view every now and then, then I won't be able to "live" Das Boot and isn't that really why we're really playing these games? __________________

06-13-06, 01:15 AM	#12
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I also have to qualify that my best career so far was the one where I had my external camera disabled (that's my Mohr career in WaW I). I spent my screenshot-making time on that one by writing logs instead. :hmm: __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

06-13-06, 01:31 AM	#13
snyperAL Watch Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 30 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	it is a good thing, without it the graphics would almost be unnoticable...