Third person build camera

[Alscenic]

+1 for an unlockable, one-per-player, RC camera that lets you manually construct from a birds-eye view (so like, a third person flying camera.) Personally I like the idea a lot more than having to do everything from ground-level, just because it's hard for me to see and think in first person

Resurrecting this post because it seems to have been misunderstood as a flying construction robots idea: https://steamcommunity.com/app/526870/discussions/0/2451595019865385357/

[Snip]

DEVS stated this multiple times
NO DRONES, ROBOTS OR ANY FLYING VEHICLES !!

[Alscenic]

It's not a vehicle, it'd be a tool

[Snip]

Originally posted by Alscenic:

It's not a vehicle, it'd be a tool

Does not matter, Devs stance is clear on that.

[Alscenic]

I want to know what people think about the idea rather than have it dismissed because it's kinda similar to another idea that the devs said no to once, clearly it's something people might want because I've seen it suggested a couple times

[sansee]

Originally posted by Alscenic:

just because it's hard for me to see and think in first person

Do you prefer to think in 3rd person in real life instead?

No, drones are annoying. I don't even use them in Factorio either.

[Alscenic]

When I'm placing down multi-story machines like legos, yes

[VuDjuBuh]

I think it'd be pretty usefull though.

[Alscenic]

Originally posted by sansee:

No, drones are annoying. I don't even use them in Factorio either.

Did you read the post? The idea is nothing like Factorio drones

[Enorats]

Personally, I'd love this. I've wanted the ability to set up turrets and/or flying combat assistants since I started playing. I'm an engineer damnit, so why am I whacking fauna with a stick?

One that allows me to build using a flying camera like thing would be neat, and a longer range one useable for exploring would also be cool. Especially if it could drop beacons for later visits.

[kin]

Do you mean similar to Empyrion galactic survival? I'd go along with that.

[TyresTyco]

Since I have the game and nolife it. I keep seeing the line "devs said blah blah no, multiple times."

I ask myself sometimes... What is even planned? To all the logical additions they apparently said nope. Except story.

I kinda don't like that. The direction this game goes seems a bit unclear. But I also don't watch their streams so, eh.

Your idea sounds nice op. The jetpack helps a lil bit it's still hard to place at some height.

[jamesc70]

I made that other post, and now think it is even a better idea since I'm getting into assemblers and laying out a grid of them is a nightmare. I can't count the times I had to deconstruct tons of belts, assemblers, splitters, and stackable belts because I couldn't tell that some of them were not spaced correctly until I tried to place that last belt. I knew how they should go, I just couldn't 'see' it from first person.

And no matter how many times the devs have said something, isn't the entire point of EA to get feedback? Why not just call it a beta if all suggestions are just going to be shot down because years ago the devs said something about a feature?

[The Big Brzezinski]

Originally posted by kin:

Do you mean similar to Empyrion galactic survival? I'd go along with that.

I was about to say this. Empyrion's F5 key drone is pretty handy. It's basically a highly restricted flying ROV avatar. It has no automation whatsoever. It only exist when you hit F5, and stops either when you hit F5 again or it's destroyed by damage.

In the context of Satisfactory, a similar flying ROV would probably only be able to use the build gun. A supplement to the lookout tower, if you will. It wouldn't be able to collect resources or other use weapons or tools. I imagine spitters would hate it. It would make building multilevel structures a lot less infuriating.

[sansee]

Originally posted by Alscenic:

Originally posted by sansee:

No, drones are annoying. I don't even use them in Factorio either.

The idea is nothing like Factorio drones

The idea is to manually build in 1st person near the ground, otherwise it would be like Factorio.

Check out the mod area effect. No need for an RC drone ;)

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Snip:

Originally posted by Alscenic:

It's not a vehicle, it'd be a tool

Does not matter, Devs stance is clear on that.

Honestly thats what you say about any suggestion being made no matter what it is.
Devs say a lot of things but can change their view.
And they already did a few times. Like with Pipes.

So do us a favor, stop being such a lamo anti-creative person.
Let people make their suggestions and if the Developers wont do it, they wont do it.
But i doubt any developer needs you as a volunteering constant reminder of what they wont do.