Mounted Weapons - Free Look

jo-snowman · Post by **jo-snowman** » 2007-09-07 00:56

I was thinking, wouldn't being able to free look on mounted weapons be a good feature?

It would greatly improve situational awareness in vehicles, especially the ones with a limited turn radius of its weapons. Not like having free look for a tank gunner, but for jeeps and stuff. That way you are not limited to the same LOS as your 50 CAL or SAW or whatever it is.

And you can't really say it's unrealistic because if I were in a Saxon or Land Rover, my attention wouldn't be glued down the sights of my gun (though I admit, it would be my main focus) it would be to the guys behind us who are persuing us or wanting a ride or trying to shoot us.

Anyway, thats my two cents for the suggestion board. It's really more of a nitpicky thing but if you can do it in aircraft as a pilot, I wondered if you could do it in land vehicles.

Eddie Baker · Post by **Eddie Baker** » 2007-09-07 00:57

Welcome aboard. I think this is a good idea, and I don't recall seeing it suggested before.

Crunchieman · Post by **Crunchieman** » 2007-09-07 05:57

So you mean when you are in a .50 cal for example on a humvee you have a type of free look option that is simular to the in-car driving view? So you look around freely while the 50 cal stays in its original position and when you click right the turret swings around in to the ironsights and let you shoot it?

Post by **KingofCamelot** » 2007-09-07 06:07

I'd think it'd be better like free look in helicopters, you hold Ctrl and then you can look where you'd like.

Swe_Olsson · Post by **Swe_Olsson** » 2007-09-07 09:28

thought helicopters already had that, also in some transport helicopters, if you press ur right/left mose button and then ctrl and look back at ur passengers

Post by **marcoelnk** » 2007-09-07 10:06

i like that one....perhaps when you press C youre in "gun mode" and always look where your 50 cal looks and when you press C again you can look around free

LtSoucy · Post by **LtSoucy** » 2007-09-07 10:17

ya great idea and i agree. It would add relism to the mod and even more fun to look around and not have the gun at ur shoulder.

jo-snowman · Post by **jo-snowman** » 2007-09-07 16:39

An example would be for the Saxon: you can only turn the the mounted gun 180 degrees, so you can't look behind you. If you hold Ctrl then you can look all around but the gun stays in the same place. When you release Ctrl then the camera snaps back to where you were pointing the gun before.

I just thought of this when playing insurgency on Basra. When me and my squad were looking for caches I thought I saw something but too late, the driver passed it and I can't look back.

Post by **Duke** » 2007-09-07 17:08

Great idea, but unfortunately i have an inkling that it may be hardcoded. Dont trust me on that though because i could be incredibly wrong

Post by **Mongolian_dude** » 2007-09-07 17:15

What else would be an uber-bonus would be if we got all them emplacement gun's sights' working. Would be Animation nightmare, methink?

...mongol...

Post by **epoch** » 2007-09-07 17:22

One of the best suggestions I've seen in a long time!

It's all too easy to get taken from behind (ahem) by a sneaky jihad car simply because you can't see what's going on behind you. In 'reality' we have mirrors, and heads/bodies which are quite flexible.

Fingers crossed the devs can do something.