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bomber first-person behavior

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12 years ago
I was messing around vs AI and was trying to use a Licho to do a precision bombing run. I decided the best way to release the bomb at the right time was to switch to first-person mode, which gives you control over the bomb but not the aircraft's motion. This is fine; although it would be fun to be able to fly a plane in-game, it's easier to set a course and just aim the bomb.

The trouble I had was that the bombers (all bombers, not just Licho) stop following the course when I take first-person control. Like any other unit, they forget all other move and fire commands when you take control. They decide to fly circles, MAYBE fly over the enemy base, and then maybe land somewhere. The lack of control over the aircraft makes it almost useless...

The bomb sight feature works great, but the aircraft needs to follow a pre-set course or be steerable. Am I missing something? Or is there a bug in there somewhere?
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12 years ago
FPS control is not a fully supported feature, it is probably some change in the engine somewhere that has lead to this or it may be related to our ammo control.

If you have to FPS a bomber to get it to place it bombs properly then the bomber needs a fix. I've noticed very erratic behaviour from nuke bombers recently.

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FPS??
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12 years ago
didn't you know that spring was actually a first person shooter when it first came out?
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
i dont know that
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how to do fps viev?
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12 years ago
C
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12 years ago
Penguin, your not really suppose to hit the arrow keys when you fly an airplane. Hiting the arrows will result in the aircrat to pitch at an angle and fly at an angle (aka fly in circles). just use the mouse to look and the airplane will fly towards the direction your looking at.

I hope this helps.

Btw, I think the only units that work well in FPS mode are gunships
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
i need press C or hold it?
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12 years ago
killer, try hitting alt+v
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
i try
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
all units dont move
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
looks lie gunships are easiest to control
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12 years ago
why cant the black dawn be controlled?
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
yeh
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12 years ago
Some stuff isnt FPSable because range hax used to be possible. IIRC new engine denies range hax by itself (which makes good ol' com shooter obsolete :< ) so the no-FPS could be disabled
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12 years ago
...FPS mode works again? Select->C doesn't seem to work for me.
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
alt+v is fps mode
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12 years ago
Ah, okay. Speaking of camera features that were removed... "T" no longer locks the camera to a selected unit. I understand that this is because "T" is now the key for resurrect, but has the track feature been moved to another key?
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12 years ago
"Track selected unit with camera" is now Alt-T.

I can't recall where I read that. But I tried it yesterday and it worked.
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