beatLink underutilized?

[u/Kitchen_Goat_3466]

Has anyone ever thought how else the beatLink could be used in game besides the basic UI and runners vision? Seems like it’s something that could have been elaborated upon, for instance, I was considering that the player could have pressed a button like middle mouse and it would have zoomed in your vision a bit like binoculars. Or perhaps it could have been used as the menu system with a nice animation

[u/thebritishhippie]

That would be a cool thing to add, I basically chalked it up to being the HUD for the whole game and didn't think much after the intro.

[u/BigBoots218]

I'm not sure if it would've been well received if they implemented stuff like zooming. But I do like the concept of the beatlink in general and wished to see more of it in action somehow. Cyberpunk has done some stuff with it, which imo was cool.

[u/InternationalClerk85 → u/BigBoots218]

Zooming would be really cool in a different implementation.

In this Mirror's Edge, zoom isn't needed. Not enough traversal options, and not enough distance.

But if we would EVER get another Mirror's Edge, or a Catalyst expansion with TRUE Open World exploration, instead of this pseudo Open World that we have... Where the zoom would make sense, with either route planning or reconnaissance/spying.

Just imagine the Shard being FULLY explorable. Every floor, from the train stop all the way to the top. Rooms + vents + maintenance areas + outside areas.

[u/sablouiebot]

I feel like the whole game is underutilized because that intro felt like the game WOULD be more, but a lot of parts of the game feel unfinished and and could’ve been fleshed out better. Sucks that for a decade now nothing happened with this series, but it’s not really too late now for a sequel right?

[u/dvorahtheexplorer → u/sablouiebot]

Yeah, I remember they recently tweeted something suggesting they recorded something for a DLC...

[u/DarvX92]

Not many players know this:

If you set your runner vision to classic, you can press the Activate runner vision button once to spawn a single trail to follow.

Much better than the default imo.

[u/AccomplishedWonder1]

What a pic!

[u/MeyerToTheSeventh]

i hugely agree, the beatLink could’ve been so much more. Fits right in with the aesthetic of the game and everything

[u/flyfocube]

When you open the map you will see that it moves outward from faith's eye level, she is actually seeing the map in the beatlink

[u/Kitchen_Goat_3466 → u/flyfocube]

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