Currently there’s no compelling reason to be a passenger in a vehicle. And if you are a passenger in a vehicle and you aren’t running the objective, you are being a detriment to your team.
Simply put, you have all of the cons of being a gunner on a Warthog with none of the perks. Hell, it’s enough of a struggle to get people to man the gun on the Warthog. It’s why the only people I see sitting in the passenger seats on vehicles are new players or diehards. For almost everybody else, it stopped being fun a while ago and they stopped getting in.
Which is why I suggest that more be done to incentivize people getting into passenger seats on vehicles. Simple put: Give them a Machine Gun. Nothing top shelf tier, no Rockets, but give them a SAW or Machine Gun Turret. Maybe a Sticky Detonator or Railgun. It would have unlimited ammo but be directly linked to the vehicle. If you leave the passenger seat, you leave the weapon behind.
> The biggest problem with passenger seats right now is that the 3rd person camera is so far away.
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> The only things that need to be done IMO is to bring it back to first person and give the option to duck down by pressing the crouch button.
That’d be great.
Also make sure the Warthog isn’t made of paper. I thought this problem would be solved after Reach…
> The biggest problem with passenger seats right now is that the 3rd person camera is so far away.
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> The only things that need to be done IMO is to bring it back to first person and give the option to duck down by pressing the crouch button.
I don’t see that being enough.
You’re still on what’s effectively an unstable and randomly moving platform, so aiming is going to be a crap shoot. Coupled with the fact that you’re stuck with whatever weapons you’ve brought with you, which is most likely going to be either the basic automatic or precision weapon, you don’t have much firepower.
Though that said, I should make allowances for PWs you bring into a passeneger seat.
> The biggest problem with passenger seats right now is that the 3rd person camera is so far away.
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> The only things that need to be done IMO is to bring it back to first person and give the option to duck down by pressing the crouch button.
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> The biggest problem with passenger seats right now is that the 3rd person camera is so far away.
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> The only things that need to be done IMO is to bring it back to first person and give the option to duck down by pressing the crouch button.
I was googling to see if anyone had thought of this or not yet [and i guess I’m bumping the thread because of this]. I love the idea of ducking behind the windshield at the sacrifice of being able to shoot. First person is debatable only because it might start feeling more CoD/Battlefield-ish and less Halo-ish, but maybe if you could zoom third person for smart-scope and regular scope for non-precision weapons like the Hydra which requires a lock anyways but it maintains the current third person (maybe less zoomed out) otherwise.
Honestly, it would be nice if getting into the side seat of the hog gave you extra ammo, and even better if yes, you could indeed duck. I don’t think a SAW is the right answer, but I do think something should be done to make it relevant.
Hell, make the Reach Grenade Launcher the standard side-seat weapon. Like a whole warthog variant that has something like that in it. I mean, a side-seat grenadier worked for Halo Wars, right?