currently the only way to do this on Console is to sit in a chair.
Can you please make it so that while we are not moving or in no-combat areas like ESD and New Romulus Command, we can move the camera all the way around our characters, like we can for our ships?
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wut? someone had to
Yes.... it seems trivial but.... yes its an issue.
Is it just me or are there a bunch of avatars floating around here of pretty much the same in-game shot, a toon standing on the Academy grounds with the golden gate bridge in the background, and they are all wearing the Odyssey uniform? I first i thought it was the same person but it wasnt.
Trying to figure this out.
Also, is there a website or something that takes your screen shot abd makes a customized banner with your captain? Sometimes it has a ship or crew. And they some of them seem pretty uniform like cookie cutter. I cant think of the other forum or website where everyone has their own custom banner is the same uniformity. Whats the deal with this?
yes.
just because it doesn't make the game "literally unplayable" doesn't mean it is not an issue.
Cryptic really needs to work on the Console's cameras from what I am reading on the forums.
I have been where you have been. And have a suggestion for a work around. My old computer, I had to play the game at half-resolution. Needless to say, my screen shots were bad, bad. But I couldn't run the game any other way on that old thing.
My friend would meet up with me in one of the social zones, and he took pictures of my character and sent the files over via FB or e-mail, so I could get a better looking "selfie".
Definitely NOT the best solution, and took a bit of coordination...but it worked until I got a newer computer with a NVIDIA graphics card.
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because I would like to be able to take screenshots of my character, and of my Bridge Officers. as of now, I cannot, because I cannot turn the camera to face my character.
it's not complicated.
that's nice.
you aren't the entire game's population, and not everyone thinks as you do.
and not every issue has to be game-breaking in order to be mentioned.
I am more into space ship barbie, but your character and your crew are your own creations, possibly carefully designed to look like they do. Of course there is an interest to look at it yourself, and maybe create screenshots for a signature or a website or whatever.
Just because you don't need or want some feature, it doesn't mean some others can't want/need it. And, if it's not hurting you, then why even raise a fuss about it in the first place? Let others have nice things/features as well.
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If it's not, you're not spending enough time on them
After a couple HOURS tuning a character just so, you're damn right taking a few selfies is critical. I have LOTS of screenshot folders that have long outlasted the games they came from. Screenies are the real permanent loot of MMOs...
Just to try to help you understand:
Did you customize your character at all in the tailor? Then you did care about how they look. Did you customize any of your boffs to match some theme? Then you care even more.
Did you customize your ship at all? Did how it would look or fit a theme have any influence at all on your choice of energy type? Then you care. Do you pay any attention to space set visuals, or do you not care?
Have you ever looked at your ship in space from multiple angles?
Perhaps you're someone who doesn't care about how the captain, crew or ship looks, and stats mean everything to you. That's fine, but it makes you a rarity.
For many of us, "space barbie is the real endgame"
Think about how much time most people put into character creation and uniform design, and then not even being able to appreciate it because you can never see the front of your character due to camera clunkiness.
On top of not being able to rotate the camera properly, there are only 4 camera zoom levels on consoles:
1. EXTREME CLOSE UP (cant see anything because your ship/character is blocking the entire screen)
2. Somewhat decent, but not quite right
3. Too far away to see anything properly
4. LUDICROUS ZOOMOUT
and the game constantly switches to #3 for no apparent reason at all, in both space and ground zones. There's no way to lock the camera zoom where you want it, and no way to set custom levels of zoom.
Cryptic has completely failed with camera control on consoles, and it needs to be fixed.