3rd Person Combat

[Saint George]

Would like to have the ability to fight from 3rd person perspective. 

Wondering if we could get the ability to target an enemy ship and fire on it from the 3rd person, zoomed out view.

Perhaps a simple method of clicking the enemy ship you are targeting, along with a set of brackets projecting from the ship in 3rd person view, similar to the aiming brackets when in deck view.

Bracket firing arc could remain grayed out until guns are aligned with the target at which point the bracket would turn green. Player still fire manually using either spacebar, left mouse or bracket keys.

And thus it would require careful timing on the part of the player still to shoot accurately.

Nothing with how we control sailing should have to change with this. 

[Yoha]

Would the bracket aiming thing be tuned to simply aim for the middle of the hull?

 

[GrubbyZebra]

Don't we already fight from a 3rd person perspective?

Sailing is done from the captain's view, not the helmsman's (ok, it's really done from bird's eye view, but it is effectively the captain's overall viewpoint). Shooting is either done from the captain's view ([] keys) or the gun captain's view (LMB+ Space or RMB+LMB or RMB+Space), not the actual gunner's view.