Left handed pirates - pirate visual appearance in game

@hijack-hayes I was about to say this has just been brought in but you mean in game pirate rather than the stick change option for xbox. I agree tbh, although I don't know how costly animation wise it is to allow this. Most fps games don't allow you to choose them

@hiradc said in Left handed pirates - gameplay:

@hijack-hayes I was about to say this has just been brought in but you mean in game pirate rather than the stick change option for xbox. I agree tbh, although I don't know how costly animation wise it is to allow this. Most fps games don't allow you to choose them

I probably need to reword it to make it clearer, thanks for saying that. I don't now how much it work/money it would be either, it might be too much, I'm not sure. I just know Rare really do their best work in the way they try to make the game accessible, customizable and unique for everyone. I'll see I guess, if you don't ask you definitely don't get.

That would be cool! I always thought it would be nice in FPS games if I could choose to put my weapons on the opposite side of the screen.

@metal-ravage my tiny little brain wouldn’t be able to process that! 😅😅😅

@galactic-geek said in Left handed pirates - pirate visual appearance in game:

Every single pirate model and animation would have to have a flipped variant for this to work. Sounds easy, but it's a big ask...

I agree. It sounds simple, but it's a very large amount of work. Left handed would be really neat and awesome, but it's not as easy as just flipping to the other side. There are clothing options that have asymmetrical design. The quicker way to do it would be to have the camera flip the model, but this would not reflect your Pirate's actual left hand, and that would create visual inconsistencies with your first person view and your Pirate's appearance.

Not only that, they would have to animate your third person Pirate to be holding weapons in their left hand and what have you, and that would require a lot of extra animation work from scratch. You can't just flip that. Same with emotes. They'd all have to be reanimated just for the visual of left hand usage.

I'm not against the idea, I'm just explaining that this would be a monumental undertaking, and that time could be used better with other, grander, projects within our sea.

@metal-ravage the whole screen wouldn’t work because then everything would be backwards. Hence why the option to flip weapon models would be handy

@metal-ravage Wouldn’t doing that just make looking left look right? Swapping every control isn’t worth having the weapon model mirrored

Allow me to have two peg legs and pick which hand has a hook then will choose which hand L/R I use.

@clumsy-george I definitely think Henry Cooper would play Reaper’s Bones the vast majority of the time if he were still alive.

@lizalaroo I mean it does't really bother me either but I do think it would be pretty neat and a nice little QoL change for those that would like to add a little more individualism to their pirates.

@like-500-ninjas I hope it would be pretty straight forward but apparently some other posters had said it could be quite tricky to figure out so I'm not too sure?