In Reach, there were mods like this which enabled first person cockpit views of the human vehicles. Thanks to Reach’s fairly large advancement in terms of graphics, the vehicle cockpits are surprisingly detailed well enough to the point that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go into a first person perspective inside vehicles.
In Halo 4, the vehicle cockpits seem even more detailed than before as you can see here.
First person views can make the vehicular experience much more immersive for players. It may be more difficult for this to be implemented in multiplayer, but I think it would be truly amazing to experience such a big part of Halo through a different perspective especially in single player. Imagine driving through landscapes like this though your own eyes, not an out of body experience like the ones we’ve always had since Halo 1. But, if you don’t like the sound of that idea, there should be a toggle option for it, to acommodate for those who prefer the classic experience.
Imagine the level of detail vehicles and scenery will have in Halo 5 and 6, it would feel like you’re actually driving around in the world of Halo.
Here’s a brief glimpse at what Halo could look like in the future.
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> > > > YES PLEASE.
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> > > Loving it, the mongoose view looks a little too close to the dashboard though.
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> > Yeah, some of the views are kind of strange.
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> But imagine what it would look like if a major studio worked on it… It would look like Forza(Which would be insanely good).
Yeah that would be amazing. But we already saw some vehicle footage and it’s in 3rd person
I think it should be an option ONLY for the campaign. And then in custom games, it is set in the gametype settings what vehicles are in first person or third person, ect.
That’d be the only way I’d see it coming into Halo.
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> > > > > YES PLEASE.
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> > > > Loving it, the mongoose view looks a little too close to the dashboard though.
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> > > Yeah, some of the views are kind of strange.
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> > But imagine what it would look like if a major studio worked on it… It would look like Forza(Which would be insanely good).
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> Yeah that would be amazing. But we already saw some vehicle footage and it’s in 3rd person
I was mostly referring to future Halo games, I never expected it to be in Halo 4, but if it was, i’d be all over it. And @tomo, that’s what I was thinking, first person views in multiplayer would restrict the driver’s view way too much.
> Why would you want to handicap yourself with a blocked field of view and loss of awareness?
ONLY for campaign. If by any chance this is ever implemented, i’m sure the campaign will be optimized for this. I still have mixed feelings about this and mulitplayer.
Hell yes, this would be awesome. I really want them to give a setting option for custom games to have first person point of view, or third person (same with vehicles etc).
This is another good example of first person gameplay, only UNSC vehicles though! I would love to play like this, however it would require you to be very organised to be combat effective!
> I think it should be an option ONLY for the campaign. And then in custom games, it is set in the gametype settings what vehicles are in first person or third person, ect.
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> That’d be the only way I’d see it coming into Halo.
Or you can not over-complicate things and just make it work like BF3?
> > Why would you want to handicap yourself with a blocked field of view and loss of awareness?
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> Fun.
What is so fun about only being able to see dangers and where you are getting shot from, from only head on. If this ever happens, enjoy immersive at the cost of gameplay.
Could set it up to where you could toggle between first and third person with the zoom when you are in the third person state. But aside for some machinima type stuff, I can’t really see it being practical, and it doesn’t help that half the vehicles aren’t designed for first person. Also, god forbid if you clip something while driving in first person, Halo vehicles have a habit of cartwheeling and barrel rolling into oblivion, so you are liable to make yourself sick.
I would love to because it’s just awesome and I’m a Forza guy so it would make Halo races 1m times more interesting
but I doubt it because they haven’t mentioned that ever … hopefully someone’ll ask them in the upcoming SDCC this weekend and we could get the final answer
