[Suggestion] Remove 3rd person view for vehicles

would solve most of the infantry vs vehicle balancing issues.

I support this, it will make having a gunner necessary if you don't want to be flanked, teamwork and stuff...

Sunderers need better third person.

Ya and the already huge amount of team roadkills will skyrocket to completely unbearable levels. I already suffer constantly at the hands of unaware idiot tank/sunderer drivers. I can do without it getting worse, thanks.

But then I wont be able to see an engineer try to tank mine my tank from behind

Yeah I have no idea how it would be possible to avoid fairly slow moving, noisy and rather large vehicles in this game that tend to stick to roads. Well I suppose this doesn't apply to VS as they could run you over in a tank if you were standing on top of a biolab but eh.

9/10 of the people I run over in my Sunderer are running directly down the middle of a main road, to those I say...

as much as it would increase "realism" i dont see this being a good thing. too much terrain to cause problems to not have third person so you know whats going on.

That's kind of the idea I think. Terrain being a threat to tank drivers would go a long way to improving the balance between Infantry and Armor (Again, this wouldnt affect the VS so much I know). Less awareness when sitting in an giant tin can with a huge gun on the front is a natural balancing mechanic.

The easiest way would be to have a look back button. Would half the roadkills.

Without 3rd person it becomes increasingly annoying to shoot while driving, so no, thank you very much.

that would be the whole point of it, its both unrealistic and inbalanced for vehicles to have a 3rd person view.

Haha, you would never see another VS infantry again. The mag-mowers would run every last one of them over.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we don't have third person infantry cams - which led to the awful corner-camping gameplay of PS1, but people being able to see the area around their vehicle is a GOOD thing.

Actually I never understood why it should be ingame in the first place. Feels like an advantage over infantry (which doesn t have 3rd person and can t see someone sneaking up on them while vehicles can)

only if you increase the angle-of-view in first person.

I agree, tanks historically have issues with lack of situational awareness. It's up to supporting infantry and a observant commander to protect a tank from close in threats.

Ok, remove it.
But then please give me all this "high-tech" a normal vehicle has nowadays ... like rear-view-mirror, side-mirrors, back-up warning, park-distance-control and please make it so i can watch out of the window of my sunderer.

For fiction sake, you could say the 3rd person view is a highly mobile camera outside of your vehicle for keeping an eye on your surroundings (totally not stolen from eve).

I always found the 3rd person to be very awkward as it would be very close to your vehicle any way, I only use it for turning in a base incase there are any troops hiding behind me

I already get Tk'ed while on my flash about 5 times a day. It's third person that saves me from doubling that.

Rearview mirrors and a backup cam would be very handy.

I support getting rid of third person view. Infantry don't get to have it, why should a tank or aircraft. Don't give me that "but I need to be able to see Engis sneaking up behind me with mines" either. I can't see the gun sneaking up on me with the shotgun, without turning around. You shouldn't be able to either.