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[Ligin]

I thInk it would be cool if you could play music off your PC inside your mech and maybe make it so people can use thier webcam to contact people while In the mech.

[Mautty the Bobcat]

This sort of reminded me of the original MechCommander game. The opening cinematic showed you able to see videos of your pilots in their mechs from your command post.

As for the music feature, it has been suggested before and is in...one of discussions...somewhere... While it would be a neat feature, especially considering it could be implemented to mute or decrease volume while a lancemate opens comms or command gives you an order/info.

[Dlardrageth]

WebCam idea could be fun, in particular as showing on cockpit console in a mini.screen... except for the potential lag factor. I don't mean the lag on the broadcasting side, could care less about that. It's the player's decision after all if he wants to lag himself out. But I definitely don't want to become lagged because someone on my team thinks he has to show off his new nose tattoo or nipple piercing or whatever to his team. If it could be implemented lag-neutral, okay, why not, sounds like a fun feature for some. If it would cause lag concerns, thank you, but... no, thank you. I'd take fluent and working gameplay over mere "fluff" that has no effect on the actual gameplay any day of the week.

[Exilyth]

Mautty the Bobcat, on 13 February 2012 - 04:24 AM, said:

This sort of reminded me of the original MechCommander game. The opening cinematic showed you able to see videos of your pilots in their mechs from your command post.

This.

Would be pretty awesome. Well... except for the fact that the average users room does not make for a very convincing mech cockpit

[jbone]

I can definitely side on the lag part, most ISP's really put a crimp on the upstream, even small 320x240 webcam will eat up bandwidth pretty fast when most people don't even get above 800 kbps upstream link. And in a game where latency is king, your gonna see your ping rise quickly, Plus it adds a lot of bandwidth load to the host network. That's a key concern, a couple million udp packets a second kills the tables on most high end enterprise routers quickly. I've never dealt with the gaming industry per se with hardware, but dealing with other businesses and high availability products switching volume in packets is more demanding than switching bulk data.