Posted December 21, 2013
For now i've just installed Freespace 2 and its basic update mods, and played a bit of the tutorial. Am quite impressed so far.
I have two question, of very moderate importance.
1) Is there a way to define the keyboard type? I'm on a swiss qwertz, so, while I can define the keys I want, the tutorial reminder names the keys as if I had another type of keyboard. It's a bit annoying to search frantically where the slash is supposed to be. It's an annoyance in many games, but freespace is to customisable, I wonder if there's an easy way to resolve this.
2) I'm also impressed by the colour customisation of the HUD, but I do kinda miss one element that attracks me in space sims : actual cockpit layout, as a constant reminder that we are hurling through space in a metal space can (especially with the semi-recent trend of showing acceleration and deceleration through cockpit distance). I usually prefer this to the gain of visibility provided by pure HUD display or 3rd person. I know that many cockpit-based sims offer HUD vision as an option, but does Freespace 2 provide one ? I didn't find alternate views, apart from outside views. I saw several screenshots with cockpits, but I assume these are mods - either total conversions or "invented" (non-"canonical") cockpits... Is there an in-game mode of vision that I haven't found ? Or, okay, maybe a specific excellent mod for this ?
Sorry for the probable typos, typed this from a capricious device, making the cursor jump everywhere pretty randomly...,
I have two question, of very moderate importance.
1) Is there a way to define the keyboard type? I'm on a swiss qwertz, so, while I can define the keys I want, the tutorial reminder names the keys as if I had another type of keyboard. It's a bit annoying to search frantically where the slash is supposed to be. It's an annoyance in many games, but freespace is to customisable, I wonder if there's an easy way to resolve this.
2) I'm also impressed by the colour customisation of the HUD, but I do kinda miss one element that attracks me in space sims : actual cockpit layout, as a constant reminder that we are hurling through space in a metal space can (especially with the semi-recent trend of showing acceleration and deceleration through cockpit distance). I usually prefer this to the gain of visibility provided by pure HUD display or 3rd person. I know that many cockpit-based sims offer HUD vision as an option, but does Freespace 2 provide one ? I didn't find alternate views, apart from outside views. I saw several screenshots with cockpits, but I assume these are mods - either total conversions or "invented" (non-"canonical") cockpits... Is there an in-game mode of vision that I haven't found ? Or, okay, maybe a specific excellent mod for this ?
Sorry for the probable typos, typed this from a capricious device, making the cursor jump everywhere pretty randomly...,
