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[Mechteric]

One of the reasons buying camo/helmets is so popular in Planetside 2 is that when you kill someone, they get a nice big model of you with your special camo and helmet on the killscreen.

I have a feeling this helps sell camo/helmets in PS2 and would be great incentive for MWO. Plus it kinda looks cool rather than just looking at your own smoking corpse. In the case of MWO it would be your camo/color pattern you have chosen with your mech model.


Oh and I should mention this action should also lend itself greatly to having global camo just like Planetside 2. Get to it MWO, its a great feature and people will buy more camos/colors!

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 04 June 2014 - 04:53 PM.

[Buckminster]

So, you're saying that it should just show a model of the guy that killed you? That I could get behind - nothing would make me grin like knowing the guy I just killed gets a screen full of brightly colored Locust.

As long as it doesn't show the actual location of the guy that killed you - I wouldn't want to see something that reveals the location of a well hidden sniper. I forget which game it was that used to do that... it wasn't a big deal in that game (since it was mostly solo deathmatch) but in a team based game, it'd give the dead player a chance to say "he was hiding behind X", revealing what may have been a well hidden opponent.

[CHH Badkarma]

Kinda like what they do in world of tanks.
I do not mind the folks I put down getting a good look at me. Though other features would be more practical. Sli, xfire and so forth. As Ideas go the glamor shot you speak of would be a nice touch

[dak irakoz]

This is a good idea and also related, I'd like you to be able to see your mechs in the selection screen in mechlab with their camo too.

[Koniving]

Of the victim you killed? I'd hate that on my screen.
Of the enemy that killed you? I'd love to check that out, but I imagine isolating it and showing it off would be a pain (black screen, show the mech).

If it followed the mech in the match you'd be able to relay information and that might cause problems, even if for a few seconds.

In game what I like to do is after I kill someone, I'm linger around the corpse and shoot it a time or two. It looks pretty cool on the other end of it (if they didn't immediately jump to spectating).

Though a black screen showing the mech that killed you and rotating around as the mech moves and shoots... that'd be pretty awesome.

Except when he's basic green.

[xengk]

Might as well add a "taunt" animation while that killer screen is showing.
I remember that was a very old LAN FPS that does that, it show a pre-set taunt animation when the victim is killed.
Eg: a buff character would flex his arms or a sexy character would blow a kiss.

[Naduk]

not a kill cam but a glory pose
i like it
lets do this

[Exilyth]

As long as you can turn it off and go straight to spectating... sure, why not.

Then again, there are more important things like balance, bug fixes, optimization, clan release and cw.

[Harathan]

Just to clarifiy: we're not talking about a kill-cam, just a representation of the unit that killed you?

[Kaeb Odellas]

I'd like that and an option to see their loadouts post-game.

[Mechteric]

Harathan, on 06 June 2014 - 08:51 AM, said:

Just to clarifiy: we're not talking about a kill-cam, just a representation of the unit that killed you?

Correct.

Koniving, on 04 June 2014 - 05:32 PM, said:

Of the victim you killed? I'd hate that on my screen.
Of the enemy that killed you? I'd love to check that out, but I imagine isolating it and showing it off would be a pain (black screen, show the mech).

No, only of the mech that just killed you right below the name of the enemy who killed you. And it doesn't follow them, just shows a static 3D figure of them showing off their camo/paints. I guess the TeamFortress 2 style could be an alternative, but I like the static model like PS2.

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 12 June 2014 - 10:11 AM.

[Demoncard]

For nostalgia purposes, having a render of the enemy mech you've targeted would be nice, too.

Edited by Demoncard, 12 June 2014 - 10:10 AM.