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Damn, I wrote a sibling comment to yours. Looks like Star Citizen fell short of Freelancer's legacy :/

• Causality1 7y ago
  Indeed. I'm not sure Chris Roberts has actually seen a jet fighter because the cockpits of all his space fighters look like those of World War 2 bombers with 60% of the field of view blocked by giant metal struts. My sedan offers better situational awareness than his starships.
  • evgen 7y ago
    I am quite amused by the idea that you think someone in a spacecraft of any kind would gain situational awareness by looking out a window using the Mk 1 eyeball.
    • Causality1 7y ago
      Which begs the question, why have cockpit glass at all instead of immersing the "pilot" in a virtual environment with the most useful data available? Maybe something resembling, say, a chase cam?
      • indigochill 7y ago
        If we were going for "hard sci fi", you'd need some kind of drone or something to provide the chase cam perspective which seems like it would be a massive liability in combat. I agree a virtual environment would be preferable, although rather than representing the surroundings visually (which has a lot to distract from tactical decision-making), I'm picturing something like a higher-definition version of Elite Dangerous' IFF interface (with the little dots showing their relative angle to the ship).
        • Apocryphon 7y ago
          If you were going for hard sci-fi you wouldn’t even have human pilots at all, the drone would be doing the flying.