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No in wc2 you had to look backward/sidwards to go to the turret cockpit  to fire. Im talking about changing your navcomputor to a remote camera facing backwards.  Which you could in Wc3 with longbow and i think the thunderbolt.  Don't know about wc4 though, as the ps version I played didn't have cockpits.

And judging by some of the recent advances that some of the coders have been playing with, it looks like it will be possible with fs2.

Though the real question is can you switch between damage, weapons, and energy balancing on the left, and target, nav, and  turret  on the right with the 2 single panels like you could in wc3?  I guess they are working on a way.
I don't think anything that drastic has been tried on the HUD before...
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No in wc2 you had to look backward/sidwards to go to the turret cockpit  to fire. Im talking about changing your navcomputor to a remote camera facing backwards.  Which you could in Wc3 with longbow and i think the thunderbolt.  Don't know about wc4 though, as the ps version I played didn't have cockpits.


I don't remember being able to do that in WC4 though as a kid I never did read the manually properly so there is a chance that it can be done and I simply didn't know about it. Um now where did I put the manual :nervous: :confused:


Scrap all that you can  :yes:

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Hey thanks! nice to know I'm not crazy :D

 

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All the times I have played the game and never used that function...or did know about it.
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Me neither. Which game was that?
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wc3 and 4
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You certainly did use that function since you couldn't win the game otherwise. You had to use the tractor beam in several missions to win =)

 

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Well I used to turret view.
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SO all you didn't know was the driving mirror? gee, how did you park your hellcat? :P

 

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I have enough majors that do this for me, its a privilage of my rank ^_^
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I bet you spend all your free time polishing your rank pins ;)
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Looking at from what this guy has done. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uFrJlSyXO4
( and he demonstrates the back turret camera in the cockpit as well)
But you see a control wheel move as well. My question is, wouldn't be a simple matter to draw the arm of a hand attached to a flight stick in the middle and, doing similar to what he has done, have that move like wc3?  (Drawing some legs as well)

 

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Wow that pretty cool.
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So hmm, will it in the final version of the game?

 

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What? The cockpits? Yeah. I doub t that they will be included in the upcomming patch though.
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Well I meant pilot hand on a moving flight stick and ect..  as seen in that movie i linked too.

 

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That question was answered before ;)

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