Bombshell in Thirdperson View

[JenzAmaka]

Everybody wants to play Bombshell in 3rd person. Well, you can and it's uh.. visually broken but it works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DTfS0aaTs

All you need to do is press Tab and type tpp

[Avain]

Third person mode is pretty interesting indeed. I'm planning to look into what can be done with it once the modding tools drop.

[Perry The Platypus?!]

The whitehouse map looks pretty cool like that :D

[LEANIJA]

It's actually quite fun to play the game in this view. Since the normal view camera is zoomed in too much, you often get attacked by offscreen enemies. In third-person view this isn't a problem. Of course, since the game wasn't made for this mode, you can see enemies spawning out of thin air and the level geometry just doesn't quite look right.
I still prefer third person mode and pretty much only play it that way now. I also uploaded a bunch of screenshots from that mode, which you can view here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/kalimbafan/screenshots/?appid=353190&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=grid

[JenzAmaka]

Originally posted by Yamazaki Hokkaido:

It's actually quite fun to play the game in this view.

Is it possible to beat boss fights too? Haven't really played far, 'cuz waiting for patch.

[LEANIJA]

Originally posted by Jenz/Amaka:

Originally posted by Yamazaki Hokkaido:

It's actually quite fun to play the game in this view.

Is it possible to beat boss fights too? Haven't really played far, 'cuz waiting for patch.

I've not tried that yet, since I was already past the first boss when I found out it was possible to play the game this way and haven't encountered another one yet. I'll post here once I do get to one and can try it out.

[Blackwolfe]

Originally posted by Avain:

Third person mode is pretty interesting indeed. I'm planning to look into what can be done with it once the modding tools drop.

Modding tools and third person.. hrm.. sounds interesting. Reconsidering getting this game after all.

[Faux Nugget]

is there anyway to speed up the aiming whilst in TPP? It feels really sluggish.

[Frederik Schreiber]

Originally posted by (PG) Quaker Pig:

is there anyway to speed up the aiming whilst in TPP? It feels really sluggish.

This was never made to be working correctly. Which is why it feels sluggish. It was something we did for fun to try it out, and it ultimately turned into the Turret Mode.

If you want to mess with it, you could try the console command "Set Sensivity x.x" and see if that helps :)

[Faux Nugget]

Originally posted by Frederik Schreiber:

Originally posted by (PG) Quaker Pig:

is there anyway to speed up the aiming whilst in TPP? It feels really sluggish.

This was never made to be working correctly. Which is why it feels sluggish. It was something we did for fun to try it out, and it ultimately turned into the Turret Mode.

If you want to mess with it, you could try the console command "Set Sensivity x.x" and see if that helps :)

Oh I understand it's basically an easter egg by playing with the console, was just wondering if anyone found a work around, i'll try the sensitiviy settings :)

[468528456]

I advise against this. Alien Breed ep 3 tried to do this even going so far as to advertise it. It sucked, hard.

The problem is that unless you are going to rebuild the mechinics from the ground up to be a 3rd person shooter, it's not going to work.

[Faux Nugget]

Does playing in third person disable achievements?

[LEANIJA]

Originally posted by (PG) Quaker Pig:

Does playing in third person disable achievements?

No it doesnt, I just beat the second boss with TPP on. Plays perfectly fine btw.

[Andreas]

I tried it with GOG.com version of Bombshell. It did not work. I have a german keyboard so i changed it to US american english and tried it again. same result. "Tab" does not open a console. I could not find a way to activate it via *.ini files. Does someone have a solution?

EDIT: Nevermind, i found the specific *.ini file.
For those who did not find it, too. The file is called "ShellGame.ini" and is located at: "C:\Users\yyyyyyyyyy\Documents\My Games\Bombshell\ShellGame\Config"

Just change "enableConsole=false" into "enableConsole=true"

[MechaTails]

Just another vote here hoping the upcoming patch officially improves the third person somehow. I stopped playing months ago waiting for the patch before I get any further into the game.

[AdayDr1en]

Originally posted by MechaTails:

Just another vote here hoping the upcoming patch officially improves the third person somehow. I stopped playing months ago waiting for the patch before I get any further into the game.

Some things you can do to improve it..

in C:\Users\yyyyyyyyyy\Documents\My Games\Bombshell\ShellGame\Config..

1. open up ShellEngine.ini and change

FOVAngle=90.000000
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainXFOV

so they look like

FOVAngle=120.000000
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV

2. open up ShellGame.ini and change

DefaultGameFOV=90
FOVConfigValue=90

to

DefaultGameFOV=120
FOVConfigValue=120

3. Up mouse sensitivity to 5 or play with the slider around such.

My result..

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/180537512471213991/B053EB518E6F751176A5B2FB06C1C395BD9FC2B6/