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Semi-Permanent Mouse Look [NO DOWNLOADS, NO MODS]
By ForneyD
Please click here for the tutorial video!

So I accidentally found a small, easy useful guide for you guys to enjoy the game even more. This is basically a guide for you on how to use the In-car / In-vehicle freelook mode semi-permanently without holding the middle mouse button (MMB), that came within the game and can't be re-bound, so you can enjoy driving cars just like it's GTA.

There will be:

  • How To
  • Additional Feature(s) and Benefit(s)
  • Drawback(s)

Please note that this won't work without Steam Overlay. (This is the guide where the Steam Overlay is mainly helpful, so please enable it)
   
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Category: Characters, Gameplay Basics, Secrets, Weapons
Languages: English
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8 Oct, 2024 @ 2:31am
23 Apr @ 7:18am
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Guide Index
Overview
How To 
Additional Feature(s) and Benefit(s) 
Drawback(s) 
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How To
  1. Find a car / bike / whatever vehicle you've just found



  2. Get in it



  3. Hold down MMB, this will make your camera to look backwards, thus activating the "free-look" mode



    For the next one, you can either (a or b):

  4. a. Entering Steam Overlay mode while holding down the MMB, and RELEASE MMB while the overlay is showing up (important)

    b. (Not recommended if you have experienced alt+tab game crash) Alt+tab while holding down the MMB, and RELEASE MMB while the view had been switched away from the game and to desktop/another opened window (important)



  5. a. Turn off the overlay and enjoy

    b. Alt+tab back to the game and enjoy



  6. Press MMB again to deactivate this mode. Follow instructions above again to reactivate.

Additional Feature(s) and Benefit(s)
  1. This mode will always be activated no matter after you change cars / go to main menu or any menu / start a new mission, until you press MMB again.



  2. You can also free-aim inside a car. Since the game won't allow you to shoot wherever you want from your car, at least you can target lock a specific ped/car from a specific direction, which is very handy.


  3. Cinematic/photographic purposes



  4. Searching for star tokens? no problem, this will never break your finger again.



  5. This could also eliminate blindspot. Remember the mission where you'll have to drive a prison van? This could be really handy.


Drawback(s)
  1. When you accidentally pressed the MMB again, it will deactivate this mode and you'll need to redo the instructions above (From "How To" section) to re-activate it again. This usually happens if you had already get used to the old habit (holding the mmb).

  2. Whenever you enter a vehicle, your camera will look backwards first until you re-align the camera forwards.

  3. Unlike GTA IV / V, you can't shoot backwards in-car, in this game. You'll only be able to shoot to the left side of the car (since the cars are left-hand drive) and to right side of the bike (TK is/the playable characters are right-handed)

  4. As this guide posted, you can't quickly look backwards/forwards yet, as you need to align the camera all by yourself. I might also post the AHK script later just so that you'll be able to reset the camera position easily and activate this mode by the press of a single button
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ForneyD  [author] 23 Apr @ 7:15am 
Please watch my YouTube video for more details on how it should work on the game!

Click here for the video!
ForneyD  [author] 11 Apr @ 2:54am 
phrog
Thank you :luv: :luv:
phrog 27 Dec, 2024 @ 1:53pm 
nice find :sothappy: