Out of everything, I really want to see my helmet in first person
Out of everything, I really want to see my helmet in first person
I know a lot of people hate this kind of feature, but there are significant reasons why I think it would make Starfield better.
If I'm not wearing one and I leave my ship, I start taking damage if the planet is dangerous. The only way around that is to be in 3rd person while in the ship (aside from the workaround below). There isn't any indication anywhere as to whether or not you are in a spacesuit, besides your menu and 3rd person view. There is no way to know while maintaining immersion.
Bethesda's workaround is to auto-hide spacesuits and helmets in atmo. This sucks, because I personally like tailoring the look of my character to the environment. But more importantly, I want to know that I am wearing a pressure suit if I'm out in a dangerous environment. I don't want it to feel like I'm a freecam wandering around -- I want to feel like I'm slogging along in a freaking spacesuit.
What's really strange is: if you put on the broken Constellation helmet, you can see the tape piece from the inside. It has an overlay! Sadly this works for no other helmet. Did they just abandon making the textures?
A similar annoyance with a related system: the quick menu does not unequip items. This would make it super easy to change between a spacesuit and regular outfit and not deal with more menus.
I figure there will be a mod at least for helmet overlays eventually, but damn is it frustrating that they definitely thought about it and only implemented it for a piece of masking tape.
I couldn't stand having a helmet overlay always there when wearing a helmet. That said... I get the appeal, and completely agree that this seems like a great idea as a setting that can be toggled.
I'd like to see something similar to Star Citizen where the helmet is really not noticeable unless you're putting on some high armor stuff.
I mean, really I'd like to see a single player version of Star Citizen in most aspects. I want more landing pads and exploring a planet in my ship and stuff like that.
I don't want to play Real Life Simulator® like Star Citizen though.
You know…. You don’t have to take it off? You can hide it in shirtsleeve environments from the inventory menu
I know (and I mentioned that in the post), but that's somewhat immersion breaking. If I go through a dangerous environment and then go inside somewhere, it's off. Where did it go? Did I leave it at the door?
Interesting idea, you're essentially asking for Fallout 4's Power Armor, but as a spacesuit in Starfield. I think it would've been pretty cool for them to implement something along those lines. I wouldn't necessarily always want it required, it was a choice with pros and cons in FO4, but something like that would go a long way to bridging the gap to the experience you desire.
Tucked into your magical pocket space of your backpack.