Third Person/Crosshair Support:SOCOM Style

[P_Lavv]

I've been an Insurgency fan for awhile now, the gameplay is fantastic. I love how immersive this game is, but I'm also a long time SOCOM fan. Theres litterally nothing out there that gives you the feeling of SOCOM, Insurgency is the closest I've gotten, and the SOCOM:Source Mod for CS:GO is fun, feels kinda like SOCOM and has the maps, but... It's still CS:GO, which does not make for the tactical style that SOCOM has. Plus the devs of SOCOM:Source have a huge battle implementing things like; lean, prone, select fire, etc, that Insurgency has. Has anyone experimented with third persion, and gotten a crosshair to work, and is it possible to create a server forcing these settings, so everyone is on a level playing ground?

[Lord Bailey]

To me personally, 3rd person would take all the fun out of the game and cross hairs on hip fire is so arcadish that it would break immersion into the realism that is insurgency. Being a long time player of Insurgency I would quickly leave a server with cross hairs. I get that in other games all the time why do I need that in this game. I feel that the no cross hair thing forces players to be skillful and not mindlessly putting the X on the Target... That get's boring!

[P_Lavv]

I don't at all disagree. Insurgency is a great game, I love the no-crosshair/ free-aim model they made, that makes hipfire difficuilt, yet skillful. I'm only trying to appeal to long time SOCOM fans, and not take anything away from Insurgency, the devs have done a great job, and is most definetely my favorite FPS. But theres no options of SOCOM players wanting that experience again, and that's what I'm trying to go for.

[BurntCornFlakes]

Interesting idea..... I'm not a huge fan of 3rd person games, but that seems like it would be a cool mod.

[Spearin]

Not going to happen with this game, unless someone makes a mod.

You should check out H-Hour which is reviving the SOCOM style of gameplay.

[The Southener]

no i agree with argyll not happing go play ghost recon if u want thrid person tatical gameplay

[P_Lavv]

I've seen H-Hour, and it doesn't look very promising considering it's seriously behind schedule, and the lead developer walked out. You can enable third person via console commands, but there's no crosshair, maybe this is a project I can take on, funny, when I search Insurgency console commands, and modding, I get IP blocked from my service provider, I guess they think I'm looking to convert lmao.

[RifRafJonesy]

I love the fact that there is no 3rd person and as the devs call it a "magical crosshair in front of you". The devs will never do this, they are dead set against it. 3rd person gives an unfair advantage of increased view. You can see around corners. There are plenty of other games out there where 3rd person view is already present or as an option. Try ARMA.

[P_Lavv]

Yeah... I wasn't asking if they'd do it. I'm asking if anyone has tried implementing it. Like I said, I love Insurgency the devs have made a master peice, I agree that third person gives you an advantage to see around corners, however if everyone in the server is using it, no one has a disadvantage. But theres no game currently out there like the old SOCOM's of PS2. A game me, and many others enjoyed very much (I started playing SOCOM when I was 12, and played it up until I was 18), and for many of us, introduced us into online tactical shooters. Insurgency being the most tactical game I know, I figured could have been a great foundation to have this style of gameplay; for those who want it. The easiest being using a custom server, running third person (avialable through a simple console command) and a crosshair (which is not, but is available in the source engine; which this uses), which would be awesome for the fans of SOCOM, who are looking for that style of gameplay. I know many people don't like it, or want it, but, there are some who miss playing SOCOM, and have no currently avialable game on the market to play like it. Many people have called Insurgency first person SOCOM, because it has some of the same strategic tactical gameplay elements. I have ARMA, and it is good, but the combat is mainly in wide open maps, not close quarters like Insurgency. This is mearly an idea for a custom server, not a wide spread feature to be implemented by the devs.

[ImUrBoss]

are you kidding me? crosshairs? this isnt cod or cs go, but the idea of third person sounds ok.

[P_Lavv]

Wow! Did you even read my comments! How are you supposed to aim in third person without crosshairs?