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A crosshair to console version’s its unbearable trying to use a sniper or a pistol. pc has a crosshair to aim with why can’t console’s have it as well?

Face it you owe us since your not going to release dlc for quite awhile(if ever) so at least let us use all the weapon’s equally.

crosshair was an improvement we added to the PC version. They control differently, hence the disparity, but yeah. We prototyped laser sights at one point, though I think there were tons of nasty bugs with it, so we had to cut it. Console aiming is XcoreX!!

I don’t really understand how a simple laserlight from the gun to the maximum range would have bugs, its basically like the bullets from the gun but its constant even when not firing.

They have it for plenty of other hd first person/3rd person shooters so how exactly would it be difficult for a side scrolling shooter?

everything is 2.5D - it’s 3D, but all movement is on a 2D plane. There were lots of issues with things not looking like they are lining up (because they weren’t, since we do some strange things to fake this 2D behavior). The lasers would be an actual object, whereas muzzle flashes and bullet tracers are particles, making this slightly more complicated. It was so long ago, I don’t remember all of the details, but that was one of the major reasons.

edit: I should add that there are a MILLION features like this we wanted to add. But we’re a small, indie studio and at the end of the day, we had to make sacrifices in order to ship the game. It’s easy to point to one and say “that’s easy, why didn’t you add it?!” - but you have to remember we don’t all have Blizzard budgets and time frames :]

I understand your a small studio and don’t have multi million dollar budgets, but i’ve seen high schoolers who completely suck at programming create amazing things with little to no budget.

I just think programming a simple lazer sight to a 2d or 2.5d shooter wouldn’t be that hard especially since you already have the game and have experience with programming.

bloodtox - 26 June 2012 02:21 PM

A crosshair to console version’s its unbearable trying to use a sniper or a pistol. pc has a crosshair to aim with why can’t console’s have it as well?

Face it you owe us since your not going to release dlc for quite awhile(if ever) so at least let us use all the weapon’s equally.

lol its a $10 game dude they dont owe you anything