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[Toxic9813]

Howdy there everyone, I've been perusing the forums for the past few months without a whole lot of input, but now I feel like I have a suggestion and questions I'd like to run by everyone.

First off, music for the cockpit. Everyone knows you can just run Windows Media Player in the background while you listen to music, but I think it'd be a fun little immersion quirk if you could play your music by importing it into the game (or having it draw from a directory such as the game APB?), and it cutting out and getting static-y when you get hit with a PPC or other energy weapon. Really kind of an unimportant little thing that I think would be cool.

Secondly, I've got a question about aesthetics. When you mount a certain weapon to a certain hardpoint, it should be able to reflect visually. Can anyone provide evidence that it will/will not be implemented? And if there's no dev posts about it, feel free to discuss opinion! I used the search bar, but I can't come up with a definitive answer.

I hope you'll take the time to read this and answer. Thanks in advance!

Edited by Toxic9813, 20 October 2012 - 03:29 PM.

[pedropars]

Yeah it would be nice to have an in-game music player,love your idea

[Tali van zora]

propose to do so that you can listen to your music through winamp, windows media

[Kyone Akashi]

Hah, a fellow APB player! Yes, having a "car radio" like in APB would be nice - though perhaps it would be more like a mix of APB's "distortion effects" and EVE's interface. APB also allowed other people to hear your music, this of course would not be necessary here.

As for aesthetics, I vaguely recall something as this being planned, and for some very few things it already works. For example, you can already notice whether or not a 'Mech has AMS simply by looking if it has that little canister on its torso or not. I would hope that this will be expanded to include the various weapon systems some time down the road. I think priority should be given to first representing each hardpoint visually - for example, the Jenner-F still has only four laser lenses on its arms, even though you can fit it with six weapons. I believe this actually results in only four beams in the game, too, even when you shoot all six weapons at once.

[Toxic9813]

Yup. Anyone else got info on that Aesthetics thing? This topic went to page 3 pretty fast!

[Nihelbet]

Indeed, yes! I like this idea. Having to alt tab out to switch music is no fun hehe.

[Toxic9813]

Oh yeah, an addition to the music thing- you can use one of the in-cockpit screens to display the songname and/or album art. lol