Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves

SpaceXplorer_8042@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And then there are games that seamlessly matches your pace and animation with the NPC once you get close to them. cooms

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• bryndos@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aah, i think it was tie-fighter, where you could lock on and press a key to match speeds with an enemy - (albeit instantaneous only).
  Maybe it was there in x-wing, but i feel like it was one of the minor qol improvements in tie-fighter that made it better.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They ported it over to X-Wing in later versions. Also, play XWVM, if you haven’t already.

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  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think about that surprisingly often. Also how nice would that be in real life too, not just games.

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    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We have that option for cars to match speed with each other in the same travel lane … It’s called a “train”. We should build more of them.

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    • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When they have motorway roadworks here there they often have "average speed limit zones". set like 40-60mph. speed camera enforced at start and end.

      Everyone just pootles along steadily at very close to 39 or 49mph no overtaking.
      It's great.

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• ghostlychonk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I cannot fathom how Bethesda still can’t get this right. It can’t be difficult to just set NPC speed to match player speed.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it just works

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s supposed to guarantee you can always catch up with them.

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