The Cyclops camera does work! (after a little button adjustment)

Fox_Nomad

After seeing that the camera icon pulses when the reticule is near the relative center of the screen (while piloting the Cyclops), I decided to mess with the control settings to see if I could provoke a button prompt; Long story short if you:

- Set "Left Hand" and "Use" to be "ControllerLeftTrigger" -
- Then pilot the Cyclops, and put your targeting reticule to the vertical and horizontal center of the screen (which makes the camera pulse) -
- Then hit the "A" button, and the camera works. Hit "Left Trigger" to get out of camera mode (and left trigger again to get out of pilot mode - essentially remember Left Trigger is now your 'action' button).

It makes it so you can't use the horn, but if you're okay with sacrificing the horn for the camera, this works.

Amazing game btw - best I've played in quite a while.

HeartOfTheKING

I set "Use" to the "X" button and "Left Hand to "Controller Left Trigger" and got the same result, while still being able to use my horn. I did it this way because every time I used Left Trigger to back out of the camera it honked the horn. Now I can just use the "X" button to back out and the horn is separate. I haven't checked if it interferes with reload since that is the "X" button also. If it does though just remap reload to the Right Joystick Button. In case anyone is unfamiliar with that button ('cause there was a time when I didn't know what it was) it's just clicking in the Right Joystick.

bparkerson04

This worked for me! Thank you so much. I hope this weirdness gets addressed.

Fox_Nomad

Yeah I switched mine to that as well (to the 'X' button); that configuration feels better.

Hidanprime

I really hope they work on controller bindings. Because some things work for one thing but not for the other. I.e. Next item RB, while scrolling to right in the PDA is LB...

BlindGuardian

Thanks for figuring this out, this makes a lot of very tricky navigating significantly easier!

OrionGalaxy

Where do I find this camera?

SneakyShark

Does this work with the Scanner Room?

Fox_Nomad

@BlindGuardian np

@OrionGalaxy When you board your Cyclops and then Pilot it (physically controlling the sub, not just in it), there's a camera icon that appears near your lower left (not lower left of the HUD, but lower left of your full view when piloting the sub). And if you keep the cursor/reticule in the relative horizontal/vertical center, you'll see that icon flash (that's when you press 'A' if you've reconfigured your button mapping)

@SneakyShark Not sure what you're asking - if you're asking if the scanner room works: Yes, there's a post here on how/where to get that to work. But if you're asking if you can swap between cameras in the Cyclops and the scanner room: No, at least it hasn't worked for me. But that's a good idea.

SneakyShark

@Fox_Nomad thanks for the link to that page it's just what I needed

OrionGalaxy

wow this is awesome! Exactly that I was looking for. Can't believe I traveled thousands of meters in total with just relying on the front view window for navigation. It's horrendous!
Also the seamoth to scout around.
But yeah this is awesome


do the cameras have lights? lol

Fox_Nomad

@OrionGalaxy They definitely make it 10x easier to navigate the more shallow biomes. Re: lights, I don't believe so apart from the front floods.

Tlroa893

I thought I read somewhere that with the next update they are adding lights to the Cyclops camera's? I hope they do. That would help out so much.

HeartOfTheKING

Tlroa893 wrote: »

I thought I read somewhere that with the next update they are adding lights to the Cyclops camera's? I hope they do. That would help out so much.

You did and they are.