No external view (a crying shame)

[GlobusDiablo]

Is it just me, or is it absolutely infuriating that we can never see what our ships look like from the outside. And don't say I can see it in outfitting, because I can't. I can't even clear the screen of menus so I could have a look. Or maybe be able to strafe and zoom around it?

Sometimes when outfitting, I have no clue where the hardpoint actually is, because I can't see where it is on the ship.

And how about some kind of external cam for when leaving spaceports, or cruising past friends?

I don't care that we never get a third person view, but for the love of God, let us behold our spacemachines in all their glory, if only in outfitting.

I know this has been talked about before, but I haven't heard anything from FD on the subject.

[Avago-Earo]

I agree it would be nice to look around our ships hull.

[Jockgit64]

It does make buying new skins kind of pointless if you can't get to see it properly.

[Amun-Ra]

They are looking at it:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... post673649

But it's low priority and there aren't immediate plans for implementation:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost1515434

Once they implement it, I'll consider buying paint jobs.

[GlobusDiablo]

They are looking at it:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... post673649

But it's low priority and there aren't immediate plans for implementation:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost1515434

Once they implement it, I'll consider buying paint jobs.

Thanks Commander. You must have Godlike powers to trawl that thread for those two posts....

So, bad news is, well bad news I guess...

[Commiekaze]

I can see why they would go against a 3rd person mode. The perspective of being a "commander" and never leaving the helmet view outside of the shop. Immersion I guess. Some argue that it could give an advantage in dogfights. It would be nice to have a "theater" mode or something similar. Perhaps where you cant do it during combat or maybe can't do it while moving, but you can do a proper interior and exterior view like Assetto Corsa and many other racing games do their theatre views. Maybe even use backdrops of screenshots or pre-programmed locations like AC does.

Example of AC showroom view of cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWHIBO1KEp8

[Flip]

Or an option to save a replay of the last 30 minutes or so, with the ability to watch it from a 3rd person perspective...