Binoculars

You look through them and see further. Good for spying, hunting, etc.

 

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how are you thinking about implementing this? You mean you can pan the screen further or zoom out more? Can you elaborate on how you envision this idea?

 

The Camera could just teleport to where you are pointing.

 

Interesting. This could lead to interesting moments where you get sneak attacked while using your binoculars to spy on opponents. I APPROVE!

 

I see someone understood my pount.

 

I like it, but were you thinking that players would hold down the mouse to keep the screen there? I would prefer it to be toggle so that I can click once and the screen will stay.

 

I had a similar idea for sniper rifles but that in addition to letting you pan off screen, your view becomes limited.
Like so:

Also, as a way to prevent you from looking through walls, I envisioned a hypothetical laser pointer, if it crossed a wall or a hill or something then the zoom must stop there, meaning you can't use it to pan past mountains, into bases, or underground.

 

THIS ^^

 

I had another Idea: Infra-red or Thermal binoculars with restricted looking through walls.

 

I believe there's already sniper rifles in the game that implement your binoculars idea.
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/sniping.27731/

 

Take a look in the forums, someone posted about this. Apparently, the devs added snipers. No idea how it'll work, but I read it just pans the screen, not reticule or red dot, I REALLY hope that changes.