If some of you never tried to have a playthrough with no HUD and First Person Perspective - I highly recommend you to try it. It adds so much and creates whole new experience.
And most important - there is a lot of options to make it really pleasant and avoid any frustration whatsoever.
I had my fears how it will play, but here are some settings that took away all the pain:
- you can turn FPP horse riding OFF. The minute you mount your horse - it switches automatically to TPP. FPP riding is clunky, hard to control and very difficult to see enemies. One you get off the horse - it switches back to FPP. Great mechanics as you never have to switch.
- free aim adds a whole new level to the game and the fact that hiding behing the cover still works great in FPP - gun fights are tactical and immersive. You can also switch to ADS (Aiming Down Sight) in First Person, which is absolutely fantastic and feels very natural. Manual reload adds another layer of fun.
- some people were saying that playing without any HUD on is a pain in the bollox, coz you dont have a minimap and sometimes you have to walk to a specific point to trigger the cutscene/mission.
But there is an option to flick the minimap on for a second (directional button down). Very useful and takes away all the pain when it comes to triggering missions, or having a quick look which way to go to your tracked location.
When they were implementing FPP in this game they must have had some good people who could predict all the problems and implement solutions.
And like I said - it changes the game completely. Sometimes Arthur trips, or falls, or slides down the hill. Experiencing it in First Person is absolutely hilarious.
I also had a situation where I was minding my own business and some asshole fired nearby. My horse threw me off and it instantly went into First Person Perspective of me hitting the mud. I got up, chased him, shot him and called my horse, coz I thought horse got scared.
Horse never came so I walked back to where it all started and found my horse shot dead. He didnt scare my horse, he killed her. The sheer terror when I found out could only have been experienced in First Person, coz in Third Id have know straight away that he killed her.
There are many things like this that can only be experienced in FPP.
TL;DR:
Try playing in First Person God damn it!
