3rd person perspective

Definitely a "no" from me.

@d4m0r3d Rare has made a choice to go for first person perspective after trying out both the options during development. This is due to the type of immersion, scale of the world (feeling) and combat they were aiming for.

Therefore though it's nice to see your avatar and I doubt most would disagree. Rare wants you to be the pirate. For this reason first person view has been deemed the best option to achieve that.

I'll just post this again... (mostly because I love you guys so I don't mind doing so)

@cotu42 if the player wanted full immersion they could just chose first person though, and I personally am able to be fully immersed into third person games. and like I said I dont see combat being any different with third person, and if they wanted they could just make it so combat forces third person, like if you are holding a weapon then there you go first person or even any item. but oh well I guess.

what are the negatives of third person?

@hynieth thank you for posting that lol, interesting but I dont agree with any of it. if they wanted to they could force first person when doing certain things like raising anchor or using weapons and cannons. 3rd person creates more ways to interact with the world. I dont see why you cant be immersed into the world when playing third person. when I play third person games I share them adventures with my friends not my character lol. me personally I dont feel like im onlooking. like I was playing hurt world with friends and I prefer third person in that game and I wouldn't describe it as watching my character, those are my experiences that me and my friends go through. im not gonna be like man my hurtworld character just got destroyed, im like damn dude I just got rekt. I dont get these emotion things that hes talking about. idk when sea of thieves evokes certain emotions, but going off that example of being sick, for me again if my character was sick I would be like im sick, and i know this because ATLAS had third person and had vomiting and I vommited on my friends and would say lol im sick. and I would do this because I made my character. he isnt someone else that im forced to play with, hes a representation of me if ya know what I mean. anyways thats just how I feel about third person and my experiences and watever

@katttruewalker I agree, a camera mode and new emotes would be awesome.

I love the first person perspective and how it makes you feel like you are really in the world instead of just a puppet master.

I agree with @KattTruewalker though, I wish there were more ways to view yourself in 3D, seeing as all the rewards are cosmetic it seems like an oversight that we can't see our characters with their new sword or pistol.

How am I supposed to know if the blue on my pistol compliments my eyes if I can never see the two together?

Not sure it's a development time priority over other things but I'd certainly support having more options to view my pirate.

I would be against being able to play in 3rd person though, I'd rather that everyone played in FPS but if they could strike a variety of poses including with items to look at the character.

They could even link poses to in game actions. I.e. bail 100 times to unlock the bucket pose, dig 100 times to unlock the shovel pose and so on.

I would love it if I could view my pirate in third person while he was playing music

@d4m0r3d The devs played around with it and made the decision not to include third person. On Twitter, they recently posted about this. I don't see it coming to the game.

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@cotu42 if the player wanted full immersion they could just chose first person though, and I personally am able to be fully immersed into third person games. and like I said I dont see combat being any different with third person, and if they wanted they could just make it so combat forces third person, like if you are holding a weapon then there you go first person or even any item. but oh well I guess.

It isn't about what the player wants or think they want, it is what option suits the vision and experience Rare wants to provide best. It is one of the most fundamental design choices in a game. It is an elementary question that seems trivial or just preference based, but really is far more complex and interesting than it seems.

The differences in view can drastically alter how large the world feels, the type of connection we have with our avatars, the emotional suspense that can be generated and the engagement levels we experience. In addition it has large impacts on the strategic elements, speed and other aspects of the actual gameplay as well.

I can only scratch the surface here and there has been quite a bit of research and effort in documenting the benefits of both and their differences. If you are interested in it I would suggest doing more research online. I just know this as I studied game design.

Not that I don't enjoy third person or think it couldn't work for the game. Even Rare told us they experimented with both to make the best choice, as they also believed it to be a viable option to consider.

That said, my character sits quite a lot during my sessions, just because I like seeing her in the world and I would love more emotes in the game. Though I will not in favor of making it possible to play in 3rd person, as I believe that Rare made the correct and informed choice for their game.

@d3adst1ck ships are so small and cramped I dont see people using peaking on ships aswell because combat is so fast paced. also at places like ladders they could just force first person and problem solved

@glannigan it would be soooo awsome to use 3rd person on a row boat. I would be extremely happy if they let us see our charecter in third person while on the helm or sailing a row boat. that would be amazing

@cotu42 It would be nice to have more emotes, or a special camera mode that allows us to go into thrid person and look at them while also letting us take photos

@boxcar-squidy that sounds like a great idea. I love the idea of having to do something multiple times to unlock a pose

@natsu-v2 bruh, if third person would make the world boring for you to navigate then play first person, and many games do have you transition from 3rd person to first person in combat, and i dont find it jarring. the way combat is in this game, no one is going to be shoulder peaking walls bruh, if people wanted to they could just do the clap animation to do that anyways it literally only takes a second. combat is also so fast paced that no one would bother to shoulder peak, and where are people going to shoulder peak lol, only place i can imagine wanting to do that is at an outpost, but like i said we already have 3rd person emotes that you can use, so if it would be a problem it would already be one. but i am interested to know about other combat issues or any other issues third person would bring

@natsu-v2 lol no it isnt that delayed, go try it.

@natsu-v2 go around on a ship using emotes and tell me if you still think they would still have an advantage. you might find that the ships are so cramped and small and the combat is so fast paced that it wont give them an advantage.

@d4m0r3d the combat slows down by being in third person view.

It is faster pace because of first person.

Please read the information provided above, do some research on player perspective and game play impacts based on design choices.

This game was designed for third person, they playtested both and decided that first person view was the way to go.

Add it for cliff diving! Your first person zooms out to 3rd person at the peak height of your dive.🙂