Hope it feels better to control, really hated how the flying in ea's battlefront 1 felt. I cant explain it very well but it kinda felt to me like there was no weight or physics at play at all, and then the lame lock-on and lack of proper pitch&yaw, just ugh. As someone who usually likes any kind of spaceflight/combat no matter how complex or simple I just could not stand it in the slightest in ea's battlefront.
Looks really cool though as usual.
Agreed. Something felt plain bad about the flight in Battlefront. I think it's the camera. That third-person camera "sway" on movement is constantly annoying. I assume they did that for "cinematic" reasons, because it sure as shit didn't help the controls, which felt about half as tight as they should. Also, the camera probably needed to be oriented higher or something, as it seemed like your ship was constantly in the way of what you were trying to aim at. First-person was somehow worse; just a chaotic blur of crap until crashing. And whatever that default control scheme was made zero sense. For the record, I played a ton of flying games growing up (it's why I'm #teaminvert to this day), and Battlefront was one of precious few games where I just don't enjoy flying.
The Battlefield games are the same way for me, FWIW. I don't even comprehend how people aren't just constantly crashing, and I just stare in awe whenever someone actually flies around ably, because I'm Vinny playing Ravaged when trying to fly anything in a modern EA game. Maybe it's just a personal issue, as I'm really hit and miss on third-person cameras, and a bad one can straight-up ruin things for me. I drive in cockpit view in most racing games from having shitty experiences with similar third-person cameras that overused sway. I don't need the camera locked to the direction the vehicle is pointing or anything, but too much sway just adds a bullshit layer of waiting for the camera to catch up to what I want to be looking at that I just can't stand.
From the video it looks like the camera issues (at least the stuff that bothers me) are still there. It's cool to watch, but I'm guessing it will be as crappy to play for me as Battlefront 1 was. I'm still probably getting Battlefront II, because it's surely going to be pretty and will likely play well enough as a shooter, but I doubt I'll do much flying. I'll at least try flying again, and maybe I can get used to the first-person or something this time around. There's a good chance it'll just be a series of "let's watch a pro" moments by me until I give up again, though.
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