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A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again (piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.

Is there a cool feature or mechanic you've seen in a game and hope to see more of?

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Racing sims typically support telemetry that can be used to display info for the driver or overall race info. E.g. a dashboard on a phone mounted to the wheel stand, or a realtime online display and timing. People even make devices like wind simulator or ass-shaker for immersion.

Check out SimHub for customizable widget software that supports many games.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I do all that myself with ETS2 but wanted to give another example.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Actually, when I played ‘OpenTTD’, i.e. the remake of ‘Transport Tycoon’, I wanted the game to broadcast telemetry of my enterprise's economy, so I could dump it into a spreadsheet and gawk at the numbers. This indeed could've also been a second-monitor activity (or rather, second computer since I played on a tablet).

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