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Alternative camera/aiming

By Surikate

Make the mouse rotation stick to the direction the player model is facing.

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Edit config

1. Open your Windows Explorer and go to "steamapps\common\Alien Breed Impact\AlienBreedEp1Game\Config\".
2. Open the file "DefaultInput.ini" with NotePad or something similar.
3. Search for "bUsingFPSMouseAim" (CTRL+F) and set it from false to true.
4. Save the file. Voilà.

Now the camera should rotate with your mouse movement and always face the same direction as the player model, just as in games like Shadowgrounds.

This also works for the latter episodes, although you may encounter some levels where this can lead to complications and might leave you unable to proceed properly. Should this happen, just set

"bUsingFPSMouseAim"

false

for the respective period of time - after your next save, you can simply revert it back.

20 Comments

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Sky Batto 10 Feb @ 10:26am

i would like to know if there's a way to play this game as an FPS. well, the current build, anyway. there was like, 15 years ago. but i can't remember how nor find any information on it.

Cempeg 19 Jun, 2023 @ 2:02pm

Thx!

Paladestar 17 Jan, 2023 @ 9:47am

I completed Impact and Assault, on Elite difficulty, using this method of aiming, without having to turn it off anywhere. Working on Descent now, no problems so far.

You can aim on the boss fights, you just need to use the sprint key when moving to make your character face in the direction of movement. If you just walk your character will always just have his back to the fixed camera location that the view pivots around on boss fights.

rafaelgomesxyz 4 Dec, 2022 @ 5:56am

Thank you, this made the game so much more fun to play!

I only had to disable it for the chase sequence.

palladian 27 Mar, 2022 @ 7:53am

Make a PC game where you have no options to edit how to control camera the way that makes more sense? Very stupid!

This alteration literally made a game I hated into something very enjoyable for me. Thanks!

HunterKiller 3 Mar, 2022 @ 12:25am

This actually worked for me. As for the later concerning the fix. I'll just have to wait and see.

AleK 13 Nov, 2021 @ 10:31pm

what does the ingame alternate mouse control even do, it just makes aiming not work at all

d4rkm4rk 1 Aug, 2021 @ 1:23am

Thanks for that one

fafik 26 Apr, 2020 @ 3:59am

Thank you. This makes game playable. Why didn't developers put this option in settings menu?

TrialMacameau 24 Jul, 2019 @ 4:06pm

Unless you have a controller plugged in and plan to do the boss fight you can leave the config as is and head back to the mouse after that said boss fight

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