I am not in the game right now, so help me out understanding what you are saying.
Is it actually possible in AION to rotate camera while moving and look behind yourself? I was able to peek behind only by moving sideways or by standing still. Or, are you guys talking about something else?
I think the option of being able to free-look with the left mouse button should be implemented. Imagine if you're running in one direction and you're trying to keep an eye out for gankers, or if you're already running away from someone and need to see how far back they are. Because you're already holding onto the shift button, this makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to execute skills that might help you or help slow down your opponent (especially if you are on autorun, because instant skills interrupt autorun). More skilled players can jump-shoot, but in the end it's extremely annoying having to hold down a button just to free-look.
I've already got click-to-move turned off, which pretty much renders my left mouse button useless except for clicking on targets. I'm not in the game right now but I've also heard that it's not currently possible to "click off" a target by clicking on the ground. With all the other excellent and intelligent features implemented into the UI and the game, I just don't understand why these basic MMO functions were left out.
It's kinda true, Hardware. I would have prefered having my left mouse button to rotate the camera, as, like you say, it's useless if you disable click to move. However you could use the middle mouse button (scroll) to rotate, so it's not that much of a problem, you just get used to it as time passes by.
Yes you can't click to remove targeting, but you can press escape to do so!
Anyway I'd have much prefered to have them this way, but ah well, nothing more than a minor annoyance once you get the hang of it. I hope they add such small and important features as these in the coming builds.
Id like to have keyboard shortcuts to rotate the camera up and down (Maybe side to side asell) so when you run up hill you can actually look up hill etc. And no the automatic camera movement thing doesn't work very well in any game.
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Nope, you'll get the hang of it slowly but surely
I am not in the game right now, so help me out understanding what you are saying.
Is it actually possible in AION to rotate camera while moving and look behind yourself? I was able to peek behind only by moving sideways or by standing still. Or, are you guys talking about something else?
I think you have to hold down shift while running to look behind you. I am not really sure so don't quote me on it.
Right!Hold on shift button or use scroll button on your mouse and voila!
Thanks guys!
I think the option of being able to free-look with the left mouse button should be implemented. Imagine if you're running in one direction and you're trying to keep an eye out for gankers, or if you're already running away from someone and need to see how far back they are. Because you're already holding onto the shift button, this makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to execute skills that might help you or help slow down your opponent (especially if you are on autorun, because instant skills interrupt autorun). More skilled players can jump-shoot, but in the end it's extremely annoying having to hold down a button just to free-look.
I've already got click-to-move turned off, which pretty much renders my left mouse button useless except for clicking on targets. I'm not in the game right now but I've also heard that it's not currently possible to "click off" a target by clicking on the ground. With all the other excellent and intelligent features implemented into the UI and the game, I just don't understand why these basic MMO functions were left out.
It's kinda true, Hardware. I would have prefered having my left mouse button to rotate the camera, as, like you say, it's useless if you disable click to move. However you could use the middle mouse button (scroll) to rotate, so it's not that much of a problem, you just get used to it as time passes by.
Yes you can't click to remove targeting, but you can press escape to do so!
Anyway I'd have much prefered to have them this way, but ah well, nothing more than a minor annoyance once you get the hang of it. I hope they add such small and important features as these in the coming builds.
Id like to have keyboard shortcuts to rotate the camera up and down (Maybe side to side asell) so when you run up hill you can actually look up hill etc. And no the automatic camera movement thing doesn't work very well in any game.
Fan sites:
AION-On-Line.com
aionicthoughts.wordpress.com/
www.aionarmory.com/
www.aionglobal.com/
www.aionsource.com/
www.areyouhellbound.com/forum/
www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/253
www.onrpg.com/
Official sites:
www.ncsoft.com/global/
www.aiononline.com/us/
eu.aiononline.com/en/
Yeah that will take awhile to get used to...