You technically shouldn't be able to see your enemies whilst in cover in TPS games, how about making an AAA game that adheres to this logic?

[DanteLinkX]

that's a good idea.

 

[DanteLinkX]

have a drone follow you from a TPS angle and feed the video into a VR headset. Bingo!

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holy shit this sounds awesome hahahaha.

 

[Deleted member 29682]

Most RTS's do work like that actually.

Line of sight is an important variable for RTS units.

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To be fair to them, RTS games generally give the line of sight for all controlled units, rather than just the one that's currently selected. That'd be a pretty weird system but maybe it's been done before?

 

[Denamitea]

Well, technically first person POV games aren't very realistic either. Your FOV in a video game is much more narrow than it is in real life. Third person games are actually kinda more representative of what a persons FOV actually is as you get a much wider scope of what your character can see in their peripheral vision

 

[ShapeDePapa]

I like the idea but I don't think DoF is a good implementation. What could be cool is when your character gets behind cover the camera should get at the height of the character shoulder so you would not be able to see over. You would have to peek and expose yourself to aim/shoot/whatever.

 

[TheRulingRing]

This is why first person shooters are better.

 

[Deleted member 44371]

wasn't there a battle royale game in development that made enemies invisible?

 

[Patapuf]

To be fair to them, RTS games generally give the line of sight for all controlled units, rather than just the one that's currently selected. That'd be a pretty weird system but maybe it's been done before?

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It's been done but that's more for wargames and more heavily simulation oriented stuff. Traditional RTS give you a collective LOS.

 

[SturokBGD]

I don't understand this topic, I just hid behind a wall and I could still see the people that were shooting at me? Is that not normal?

 

[JulianV]

I think this one did it, I played it so long ago I can't remember

 

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[leburn98]

Having enemies basically appear out of nowhere because you are in cover would like silly and would likely be seen as a negative. However, if you want to go with this idea of restricting the camera view when in cover, the simple solution is to have the camera zoom towards the character when in cover with very limited camera movement.