Do you have a moment to talk about our lord, Warframe? (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Monday, September 17, 2018, 17:33 (2047 days ago) @ TheeChaos

Once again, Warframe has the example. It's not perfect by any means, but provides a good way to capture cool photos in an online game. Which is it has a photo mode that is separate from the actual game.

As you play you unlock stuff for the Captura system, which includes the environments from the regular game (and lots of cool effects).

Think of it like this, from the Director, you select Photo Mode. You can then pick a Destination or multiplayer map, which you then load into in your own separate instance. In Warframe, these instances are empty, but you can spawn in enemies to set up action shots.

It's sort of an odd work-around system for handling photo mode in an online game, but it totally works, and it's actually really neat. You can even invite friends into the mode with you. The squad leader has control of pausing the action, but every person has their own camera control and can set up their own shots with effects and filters, add text and other flair to the shot, etc. It's really neat.

As I said, it's definitely a work-around, but if the goal is to not affect normal gameplay, it's a good one. The Ghost Mode thing sounds like a potentially neat idea, but I wouldn't want to have to deal with people dicking around with that in Crucible or Gambit or Strikes.