Gameplay: Get rid of killcams

brickbuster · 2012-03-17, 06:07 PM

Higby, I love what you and the team have been doing with Planetside 2. The idea of getting a beta invite is what keeps me waking up in the morning. However, killcams are awful, and they need to go. If I'm a sniper, I want people to be panicking and wondering where my shots are coming from. If I'm an infiltrator, I want to be able to kill someone and have people wonder what's going on, not be insta-pwned as soon as the guy rezzes. This is planetside, which revolves around actual tactics, not CoD, which revolves around doing a 360 spin and getting a headshot just so it looks cool on the killcam. Have a camera that looks down on your body when you die, just not a killcam.

Purple · 2012-03-17, 06:35 PM

-point is invalid

Skitrel · 2012-03-17, 07:32 PM

Sigh. This has already been covered, a simple search unearths that very quickly.

Killcams almost didn't even make it into the GDC footage, because they're not as they're going to be in game. The only reason they're in the footage is because there was nothing else to show.

Killcams are going to be almost identical to LoLs, you will see you killer, you will see a bunch of stats for your killer, you will not see where they were though, they will be on a black background, not in world.

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