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Mirror's Edge Hack Enables Third Person View
by Chris Faylor, Jan 28, 2009 8:58am PSTA newly-discovered hack for the PC version of Mirror's Edge allows gamers to play the first-person parkour game from the more traditional third-person perspective.
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The hack first showed up over on the forums of fansite On-Mirror's-Edge. As developer DICE designed the game for the first-person view, the model for Faith isn't properly animated and the camera can't be moved up or down, but the game is playable.
Directions for the hack, which requires editing the TDInput file, follow below:
go to "DocumentsEA GamesMirror's EdgeTdGameConfig"open the file "TDInput" with notepad.
add this line to the "bindings" list:
Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="FreeFlightCamera",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
press F4 a few times. first you get the free cam (noclip) and later the third person cam.
Thanks to YouTube's jbdvrock for the video.
Comments
Who would pay for a add on with full animation in third person, full camera support, and maybe through in selecting different characters, and some more levels.
I know I would... there should always be both options personally.
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Hack has such a negative connotation in the mainstream. Really this is a simple modification of some text files and as such should be correctly labeled as such.
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.. Unfortunately, so was godawful linear level design, bad AI, clunky movement and mantling mechanics, a dull plot and awful cutscenes.
*sigh*
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Too difficult? I dunno could be an interesting idea though?
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Jumping puzzles also really fuck me up in 3rd person.
It just seems like I often spend an inordinate amount of time fucking with the camera when playing a 3rd person game. SMG and Mafia are the only two 3rd person games that I can think of that I've played to completion.