This has been mentioned a few times and the devs have made it so that you can create a new scenario to do your own, but thanks to @Myrmidon and his post here there is also a program that will let you overlay a wide selection of crosshairs. I have just downloaded it, to try it out. You can pick which crosshair you want and what colour as well, so it suites us oldies with not great eye sight and the colour blind. The link to the program is below. You do get lots of warnings from the virus software though, just for info. https://github.com/lacymorrow/crossover/ Just pick which crosshair you want and position it relative to the game crosshair.
Damn... If I had known this existed a few months ago, I would not have wasted hours making a tape mask on my screen just to see my aim in The Division !
It would have also reduced my post count by half, with all the whinging I did about the crosshair....
But then the topic would not have been as visible, and someone might not have provided a solution! Like the old saying (still) goes : " Ask, and you shall obtain"... Does not work very well with salary increases though...
To be honest I have not tested it myself yet.I am currently on a Sandy bridge laptop with GTX-555 that can not run Empyrion.
It's quite good. You get a wide choice of crosshairs to pick from. You can change the size as well. There are different coloured crosshairs. You just have to pick the crosshair you want then line it up with the game crosshair. There are vids of the program on YouTube.
Just be careful and use at your own risk is all. I don't know about that program linked above specifically, but, in the past certain overlay programs have been detectable by various anticheat solutions and have resulted in bans with some games. Use at your own risk....
The source code is available on github. Everyone can see it. It is built with Electron, simple HTML and Javascript, no framework. The developer is Arctic Code Vault Contributor. You have your concerns, go ahead and see the code with your own eyes. You think the prebuilt versions are not clean? Compile the source code yourself to be sure.
Re-read what I said.... I never said anything about it being "not clean" or implied anything of the such. I simply said that some overlay programs (which that is an overlay program) can be detectable by anti cheat programs and can result in a ban. Some do and some don't. I never said that specific one will cause a ban. I simply said to use at your own risk because it is a possibility. Looking at the source code doesn't matter or change that possibility since we don't know exactly what the anti cheat programs are looking for.
I only have a problem with the crosshair on this game, no other, so I will only use it for this game.
Ah my mistake then. Apologies. Well in this case you mean EAC and for SP games the player can disable it. For MP games, I guess a simple report to EAC by the developer, if someone points out to him the need for an exception regarding Empyrion, would help. Or maybe EAC not a problem if the tool already works with games that uses EAC.
I am hoping the devs can actually resolve this, but it's not easy in reality, very few games get it right.... So.... I have now set up a poll for the crosshairs I created with help obviously. You can vote on which one you like most here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/383120/discussions/0/5750503966477729422/ "ship" "small" "unicorn" The best one by votes in, will get published into a scenario on Monday night.
Truth to be told, I think that since Empyrion is a survival game, with many players cry for immersion here and there, the crosshairs should be removed completely.
With these types of building games the gameplay would be soooo boring if you put proper immersion in it. One of the first things you do in the game is to cut down trees and bung them in your backpack. You can't stick 3 trees in a backpack in real life. Another thing is, I don't know anyone who can lift and move a 2x2x2 meter block of concrete. Even if you said that your suit was designed to help move these blocks then you would only be able to move/place one block at a time before going back to your storage to get another block. No one would play the game if it was truly immersive.
I think for micro management people the weights/volumes feature and the fact that you can change the weight of volume of any item so that the backpack is completely realistic and slow down the gameplay as much as you like, and even flatten the tech tree so that everything is unlocked on day one, yep it's possible to do survival pretty hardcore. If you want real survival you want a game that is out to kill you. the default scenario is not really out to kill you in the same way a few custom scenarios are. So it is possible. Sticking something on your screen does work, but anyone who does that has never played a game that has a proper aiming/cursor system. Because like @Spoon points out, in survival, unless you are doing an ADS, you should not see any sights at all, so a pice of sticky tape on the screen will look daft at that point. Although, if it does look like poop, maybe it is? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2393809900
@zaphodikus great idea to make outlines for the crosshairs, I didn't even think of that ! It really helps making them stand out. Nice work !
If anyone wants full realism, just check Life is Feudal. It is realistic to the level of insanity. Dig holes for hours, take only 1 wood log at a time build castles brick after brick... The game lost populariry very fast, because you have to sacrifice your life to build something decent there. Just one mention - do not confuse realism with immersion. The game could be pretty immersive without being a life simulator.