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Anyone play Battlefield 2 on the PS2 I think it was? You could look at any allied character on the battlefield and hit a button and you'd take over control of t

by brango 9y ago

Anyone play Battlefield 2 on the PS2 I think it was? You could look at any allied character on the battlefield and hit a button and you'd take over control of the character. So you could be a soldier on the ground being pinned down by a machine gun nest, look up to an allied helicopter, hit the button, become the pilot, launch missiles at the nest, then look down to a tank, become the driver, then back to the soldier, etc,... So much fun! I think they called it 'hotswap' or something. Any game devs: This was the single most fun mechanic I've played in years. Please please please make an FPS where you can hotswap between characters like that. For some reason apparently this awesome feature didn't even make it into the PC version of the game. I'd love to play a game with that mechanic again.

gambiting 9y ago
Driver: San Francisco had exactly this. But yeah, it sounds like fun in an FPS.
pdelbarba 9y ago
All of the ARMA games have had this feature if you bother to enable it. It's not usually seen in the popular online "maps" though
- brango 9y ago
  Thanks! I've set up an alert for when it goes on sale :-)
  - pdelbarba 9y ago
    Go in the editor and you can set units to "player" and "playable", playable meaning you can then switch to them in game from the map menu under I think "team".
Darkenetor 9y ago
One of my favorite games, MercurySteam's Jericho, is based on that mechanic. We definitely need more games to experiment with that.
uncoder0 9y ago
There is a VR game with this feature called 'Out of Ammo' It's even the central gameplay mechanic.