First or third person view?

[sharpq]

How you guys playing?
I 90% prefer fly in first view (recently start flying in third), on foot always third person (only for scrap fleet first person)

[Hellsmoke]

I play third person unless I'm in a derelict freighter, then I switch to first person because it's easier to see imo.

Same when I fly, I only fly in first person when I want to enjoy the scenery or need info from the cockpit.

[Kobs]

I play VR so what's a 3rd?...person view.....funny guys :)

[Pounce]

First person, immersion and all that razz

[Kruler]

I always use first person in every way.

[Neno]

3rd person for walking and driving exocraft, 1st person for flying, occasionally also use 1st when exploring derelicts.

[Danjonkovich]

Having played from launch when 1st person was the only option, I've never moved to 3rd. Each to their own though.
1st person on foot feels more natural to me, especially when interacting with things and 1st person when flying allows you to use the cockpit map/radar.

[Lasershadow]

Always switch to 1st person view. I played too much 1st person view games that playing otherwise is jarring.
Only when I am driving Rovers do I play 3rd person.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Arx:

fly first play 3rd

Yup, me too. Tried the reverse but just never right to me. Every once in awhile I’ll switch to a different view but that lasts about 15 seconds.

[MadBone12]

On the ground, I'm always in first person and when flying, always third person unless I am in combat, then first person instead.

[fabio.capela]

I set one of my hotkeys to swap between first person and third person.

That being said, I only use first person in a few situations where game issues make third person annoying or unfeasible, such as when switching between normal view and scanner all the time (in third person it changes where you are looking when you stop using the scanner, a very annoying bug) or when I have to use the radar while flying the ship. The rest of the time I always use 3rd person, as I can't really stand playing in 1st person for long periods of time.

(Oh, BTW, another bug report: swapping between 1st and 3rd person view fails whenever you are using the joypad to steer at the time.)

[Lord Stormer]

I play with all 3rd, seems like I'm of the very few.... I like the freedom of having a wide visibility. It may have drawbacks when being inside my ship (I can't scan easily, no cockpit information) but I just want to have the commanding field of view. The game's not dangerous anyway. By the way I set my FOV to 90 degrees on my small monitor.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Pounce:

First person, immersion and all that razz

This is the way

[sharpq]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

Originally posted by Pounce:

First person, immersion and all that razz

This is the way

I'm confuse about this because always when we see videos made by Hello I see everything in 3th person. That's why I made this post ;)

[Krash Megiddo]

HG likes to make videos of NMS in 3rd person perspective. Why is that confusing?

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

First person on foot, always. Something about how NMS does the over the shoulder perspective ruins my spatial awareness. Not to mention my aim.

Third person flight gives a much better FOV though. I flip between that and first person pretty regular. Especially on a living ship; those cockpits are claustrophobic.