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third person was so weird in eq at first. I used to pop to it to target stuff and other reasons, but the vast majority of my play was first person… at least until they added that mouse wheel stuff. I thought it was earlier than GoD
 
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I only ever played vanilla through Luclin, dabbled about 10minutes with pop but didn't do anything, and I don't remember mouse wheel zooming out to be a thing. I wouldn't bet anything on that though it was a long time ago.

I also never played Everquest again after 2001 until a few months last year when THJ came out, so no i'm not confusing anything with P99 or quarm or any other emu over the fucking decades.

F9 3rd person was perfectly fine in OG everquest and everyone used it after guk. I literally can't think of a single dungeon kunark or beyond that didn't have the 500 foot tall ceilings specifically because people complained about not being able to use 3rd person in guk/solb in vanilla.

on my rogue as a melee I stuck mostly to first person unless I was on corpse recovery duty but as an enchanter I was 100% 3rd person at all times and I started him up in Kunark and played through all dungeon content/epic through kunark and velious. I had a wee little necro alt i played a bit in vanilla and used 3rd person on him as well but that was just kiting in outdoor zones like oasis/sro and he never made it past the 20s
 
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Sylas said:
I only ever played vanilla through Luclin, dabbled about 10minutes with pop but didn't do anything, and I don't remember mouse wheel zooming out to be a thing. I wouldn't bet anything on that though it was a long time ago.

I also never played Everquest again after 2001 until a few months last year when THJ came out, so no i'm not confusing anything with P99 or quarm or any other emu over the fucking decades.

F9 3rd person was perfectly fine in OG everquest and everyone used it after guk. I literally can't think of a single dungeon kunark or beyond that didn't have the 500 foot tall ceilings specifically because people complained about not being able to use 3rd person in guk/solb in vanilla.

on my rogue as a melee I stuck mostly to first person unless I was on corpse recovery duty but as an enchanter I was 100% 3rd person at all times and I started him up in Kunark and played through all dungeon content/epic through kunark and velious. I had a wee little necro alt i played a bit in vanilla and used 3rd person on him as well but that was just kiting in outdoor zones like oasis/sro and he never made it past the 20s
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The thing I remember most about third person is id do it on long runs, and that any time you went into the water you’d have to use the stupid page up and down keys to change which way your character was looking.
 
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i cant remember when proper mouse wheel zoom came to EQ, but it was not PoP era nor before. pretty easy to confirm that since eqmac's PC client (which contains LDON files) cannot mouse wheel.

i 100% doubt anyone actually used the real f9x2+zoom-out 3rd person cam more than a few times to target shit... its so fuken janky
 
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Sylas said:
F9 3rd person was perfectly fine in OG everquest and everyone used it after guk. I literally can't think of a single dungeon kunark or beyond that didn't have the 500 foot tall ceilings specifically because people complained about not being able to use 3rd person in guk/solb in vanilla.
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Look you may have very well played that way but I do honestly think you would have been a small minority. There’s no way to really prove that to you I guess but for evidence I would point out that we only really have one “modern” server that uses an old client with the janky f9 camera and that is TAKP.







The vast majority of the time people spend in first person mode especially during exploration and running around in Sebilis on that server.
 
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Look you may have very well played that way but I do honestly think you would have been a small minority. There’s no way to really prove that to you I guess but for evidence I would point out that we only really have one “modern” server that uses an old client with the janky f9 camera and that is TAKP.







The vast majority of the time people spend in first person mode especially during exploration and running around in Sebilis on that server.
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I used the awful third person view situationally if i was quadding, or healing a group where folks had charmed pets, or if the tank was dogshit. Otherwise i didn’t punish myself with it.
 
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