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[Arcturious]

Hi all. This is a gut feeling suggestion, not based off any empirical evidence.

I think the pilots perspective in the Dragon should be shifted back a little bit from the view screen.

When piloting the Dragon, more than in any other mech I find myself cycling through the zoom modes. I think my brain is identifying the default view, as slightly zoomed and so I constantly shuffle through the zoom options during combat as I feel like I've forgotten to unzoom. Only to find that the view was already at default and not zoomed at all.

Without access to the code obviously I can't see if this gut feel is correct or not, but it really does feel like that compared to other mechs, there is something off about being in the Dragon (from a pure FOV perspective).

I think maybe in closed beta the dragon's view was further back perhaps, and so I've been trained on a certain view? Was it shifted forward at any stage?

Regardless, my suggestion is to slightly shift it backwards, and raise the angle a tiny bit to keep the nose in the correct proportions or something similar.

At the moment, it really does feel cramped, just a psychological feeling and not anything I can pin down

Anyone else notice this, or is it just me?

[Roughneck45]

You can change your field of view in the cockpit for any mech, you have to go it the files and change some numbers. I dont know how, but you can search for it and find it.

Edited by Roughneck45, 29 March 2013 - 07:23 PM.

[Glaive-]

Here you go:

[Arcturious]

Ty for links, however I already run at 80 fov

It shouldn't matter what fov you run at though, as long as you don't change fov between mechs. When doing a comparison between different cockpits, my feeling is that the Dragons are off slightly in relation to others.

I find that this only really happens noticeably in the Dragon. If it was purely fov related I would experience this in other chassis as well.

Maybe I'm the only one to notice this though?

Edited by Arcturious, 01 April 2013 - 05:45 PM.

[StalaggtIKE]

Not just you. The Dragon's fov is horrible. Its ginormous bosom blocks your low peripherals and large shoulders block your side view.