How about a rear view mirrow?
by Brian Miller · in ThinkTanks · 07/14/2003 (3:03 pm) · 6 replies
This could affect strategy a lot, seeing your pursuers when heading to a goal, or seeing a potential path to a goal in reverse. I wouldn't need to be big.
#2
It seems more arcadey this way - rear-view mirrors are more simulation-y IMO. :)
07/16/2003 (8:36 am)
Personally I think I'd prefer a GTA-style rear-view - hold a key and you see behind you, from the standard 3rd person POV.It seems more arcadey this way - rear-view mirrors are more simulation-y IMO. :)
#3
Any good player can navigate the map frontwards and backwards because he has memorized the terrain.
"Watch out for that tree.."
Tank Dork
07/17/2003 (7:36 pm)
No need.. just learn the course and use the radar..Any good player can navigate the map frontwards and backwards because he has memorized the terrain.
"Watch out for that tree.."
Tank Dork
#4
And no, I don't think "play the game some more" or "upgrade your wetware" are good solutions! ;)
Memorising the terrain should not be essential for survival in any game IMO - I've seen plenty games (usually FPS - apples and oranges?) where new players are repeatedly and rapidly annihilated (usually by the l33t) because the don't yet know the map - and don't have a chance to learn, being dead and all! I hope TT doesn't become such a game (because it r0X0rZ!). :)
07/18/2003 (2:59 am)
Now that I think about it, a relief (terrain) map being included in the radar (also ala GTA3) would be a better alternative, IMO. That way, players who know the terrain won't have to take their eyes of the action to glance at the radar (to thier advantage), and n00bs won't fall off so many cliffs while reversing, to everyone's advantage - more n00b kills! ;)And no, I don't think "play the game some more" or "upgrade your wetware" are good solutions! ;)
Memorising the terrain should not be essential for survival in any game IMO - I've seen plenty games (usually FPS - apples and oranges?) where new players are repeatedly and rapidly annihilated (usually by the l33t) because the don't yet know the map - and don't have a chance to learn, being dead and all! I hope TT doesn't become such a game (because it r0X0rZ!). :)
#5
Heh.. if I had a dollar for every time that has happened to me at a very inopportune moment when I have needed to see the rader, I'd be able to register a copy for almost every demo ot there!
-Z-
07/18/2003 (7:43 am)
Using the radar is all well and good until someone signs in on MSN or something similar and an annoying popup covers up that rader to inform you that they are 'online'.Heh.. if I had a dollar for every time that has happened to me at a very inopportune moment when I have needed to see the rader, I'd be able to register a copy for almost every demo ot there!
-Z-
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