I hope so! I beleive I have seen some screenshots somewhere where it shows the cockpit view so I would think it would be available.

Any else have any info on this?

There will be a cockpit view in freelancer...however the view is not of an actual cockpit (that is, no blinking lights and fancy gauges). If you look at some of the screenshots you will see this, they have struts but little else.

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i thought that DA took away the struts?

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But I'm fairly postivie that they'll return - maybe even as an option!

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Great! I don't care what the cockpit looks like as long as there is one. Will it be like in Starlancer? In SL it wasn't fancy... Could anyone please forward me a link with the current cockpit model? Thank you

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I think a cockpit view really is a must! 3rd person makes the game look arcade like IMHO, *prays for cockpit view*

Lets all just hope for what EB said

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I never really liked the 3rd person view in Starlancer. I just couldn't aim with that. I hope that's better in FL


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Theres 1st person and 3rd person. In our build the 1st person has no struts, but it seems like it's very likely they could be put back in. It seems like they were doing a lot of "experimenting" with FL at the time they made the PR build, like the nav map not having information from the start, which I think they said would change later. I think the struts are a part of this too

Hey!

If they put the cockpit back in...

Do you think they may put a little "joystick" there for us to look at in the cockpit?

That way everybody will be happy!

Cockpit & Joystick would be "in" the game!

Ha! HA! HAAAA!

(Sorry, my "meds" just kicked in. *hangs head* )

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That was sorta sad, pyrate. Hehe

@MD: what did i say??

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EB,

Actually, I got the idea from Jorg Neumann, in his Dev Diary at; http://www.gamespy.com/devdiary/february03/freelancer1/ .

He said:

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A) Free Flight: When the player left-clicks and holds the mouse button down ("dragging" ), we're basically turning the mouse into a magical hand that moves an imaginary joystick . Moving the mouse in any direction acts just like moving a joystick and holding it in that direction.

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So, I thought it would look pretty cool that when in cockpit view we actually saw the cockpit, and "our" arm holding the "stick" of the craft we are piloting and if it moved to the correct position to match the manuevers we are doing with our mouse.

Yeah, it would be only for "show", but it would really give the "immersion nuts", like myself, that extra bit of "I am there." that they/we crave...and of course could be turned off, essentially giving three chioces for cockpit view; True Cockpit/Struts Only/HUD Only.

Yup...I am a dreamer!


Fly well,

Pyrate Dredd

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Edited by - Pyrate Dredd on 05-02-2003 00:27:33

Struts only would be kinda cool.
The Hud always disturbed me always while cruising around the Badlands in I-War 2

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I hope they put struts in this game. They were kinda neat in Starlancer. That's on of the things that was missing in Freespace 2. You only had a view of the hud. Also, the other perspectives were nearly worthless. I think a nice cockpit set-up, like the one from Wing Commander 3, would be cool.

cockpit view is a must!!!
Phoenix out

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