Im looking forward to the Archer Kill Cams. How are they?

Too many kill cams! They're distracting.

1.5 archery kill cams are ok. It's nice to see where the arrow struck, confirming my aim on super long range targets. I actually wish there was a kill cam in the Broken Oar Grotto when I was sniping bandits from a high rock bridge and watching them fall into the water below.

Dumb and annoying.

I love the mage cams. Sorry, I guess I'm in the majority but I enjoy the killcams. They're fun, make me chuckle when I play.

Like most children.

Now I havn't got to experience them yet, but I will ask a question. Do you hate the ranged killcams and the melee? Or just the new ranged and you like the melee? Just wondering, because before the game came out I was in the group complaining about forced/3rd person forced kill cams. Now that I have experienced them I actually don't want to play without. Now I do agree there should be a toggle for people who do not want them.

Some of them look great.

Only problem I've found is that sometimes you'll get a kill cam, but actually miss, so when you get back into 1st person a wolf or whatever is jumping for your throat.

I personally dont like the magic ones at all,its nothing special like a melee finisher,just normal attack,but slowed down.And sometimes is kinda bugs out and takes like 30-40 seconds to finish.


Very dumb and annoying.

I agree, and I dont even have patch 1.5

I like the magic killcams. When I played my 2H melee char, I got bored of constantly seeing the same killcam scene over and over, but I'm playing a stealthmage now and it's actually exciting to see my spells fly out and hit the enemy.

That reminds me of VATS in New Vegas. When I enter VATS while reloading it will stay in slow VATS mode evn after my target is dead. I have died more than a few times from this. especially with fast enemies.

So you have an opinion on something you do not know enought about? Not that what is considered enough ins't subjective...

But I am worried about all these complaints already. I will wait until I experience it myself before I lay judgment though.

Haven't seen the mage killcams, but the archery ones are technically great and very disorienting. Visualize: You're at a fort full of bandits. You take aim at one across the courtyard, suddenly you go from 1st person to third person, see yourself fire the arrow, and it shifts to a shot of the bandit--clear across the courtyard--doing a slow-mo death scene as he flies off the battlements.
Then you shift back to 1st person and have to reorient yourself to kill the five other bandits.

It's novel once, interesting twice, and annoying third + times. By the thirtieth time or so, you want to find the off button and pound it with your fist, if it existed.

I like how the kiill cams look, HOWEVER, they do not end quickly enough, quite often happen when other mobs are still after you and very often don't return control to the PC mouse for 5 to 8 seconds. Very annoying that is. If they ended quickly and they fixed the mouse problem then I wouldn't mind them one bit.

Just wonderful.. haha

Basically this. It's just a f*ckin slow motion third person perspective and there is no variety like in the melee kill cams.

Sure. Lets see if you feel the same in 3 months when the novelty's gone.

Yes, the magic killcam in particular is worthless. No variety that I've seen and it really slows things down.

I'd enjoy killcams more if you could choose if they were in first or third person.

So you don't agree. Because you have no clue what he's talking about. Or do you base your opinion on others their train of thought? Because it's considered cool on these boards to bash everything that was not present in Morrowind. Even if you never played that one.

Just curious.

PS: I like the cams. Even when the novelty feeling wears off, it's still an occasional event that breaks through the monotony of combat. They are not too frequent to become insufferable. Just fine for me.

The archery one I had this morning made me lol. Shot a wolf, right up, uuuuhm, the poop chute. In slo-mo, up close and personal. He'd turned to see where my last arrow landed. It was totally unintentional where it hit, and obviously the whole killcam animation pointing it out so vividly. I wouldn't even have noticed had it not been for the killcam.

I haven't seen the magic ones personally. (Again, haven't played to much. And my last character was a Dark Elf thief, this one a Nord warrior.

I'd still like to see them add a toggle for those who prefer they go away.

Although I find them kinda cool at times, being a 1st person fan I'd probably turn them off if I could. Forced 3rd person on a horse is for me quite a bit worse than the killcams.

Two words: Distraction and disorientation. And wears of fast. Especially if you rely heavily on stealth and archery like me.

I am always gratefull when it comes to free content, but this need's an off button. I liked it in VATS , but then VATS was more like round based.

Or maybe I am just to old and not the average CoD-Player.

I like the melee kill moves, since they're basically short, choreographed "cool moves" that the control scheme doesn't give you any way to perform directly.

I have mixed feelings about the ranged (bow/magic) kill cams. They aren't special moves or anything like that, just a third-person view at an odd angle showing your normal attack in slow motion, tracking the projectile as it goes. They don't really add anything new to enjoy (especially if, as an archer, you have the Steady Hand perk, so you're already watching your arrows in slow motion any time you use the bow zoom) and, as mentioned above, they can be disorienting if you have additional targets in the area or if you're already preparing another shot at the same target because you didn't expect that shot to be a kill.

Earlier tonight, I also discovered that time continues running normally during the cam shot - I zoomed in on a bandit at a good distance and popped off a quick shot at him and got a kill cam. After watching my arrow fly over there, I snapped back into first-person... and discovered that I had no stamina left. If the bow zoom had ended when I released the arrow (and the right mouse button), the shot would have taken up maybe 10% of my stamina; instead, I was apparently charged the stamina cost for the full duration of the slow motion sequence and left with nothing. (Fortunately, it didn't actually matter because the fight was then over, but it was still rather annoying.)

But, despite all that, I still kind of like them, purely because it's something out of the ordinary when one comes up. Given the option to turn off only ranged kill cams, while keeping the melee kill moves active, I'm not sure whether I would do it or not.

The unarmed killcams are the best.

I got to witness J'Zhargo drop a backyard wrestling suplex move on a Thalmor.

Anyone seen killcams for conjuration spells? I've only seen fire and frost damage.

OH GOD. Now that I thought about it and watched some assassination, I think something is wrong. This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3D4p5h_O8&feature=player_detailpage#t=102s

Would it show a kill cam for everyone of those shots???