In your Tushonka stained hands you find The Third Person Camera Mod for Tarkov. Think Ghost Recon, The Division or Arc Raiders. A camera mod that has gone through extensive tuning to make the 3rd person perspective not only playable but enjoyable.

Full disclosure: It’s not perfect - this is Tarkov after all - but it tries to minimize the number of times that you get killed because it wanted to hide behind a shoebox.

Best enjoyed with a full bodied red wine and a solid slab of medium-rare HollywoodFX

Features

• Extensive configuration. Do you wish to observe the world through the left earhole of your PMC? Do you identify as a geo-stationary spy satellite? These are all possibilities that are placed at your fingertips.
  • Shoulder or First Person view can be picked separately for red-dot and magnifying optics.
  • Accurate Fireport Crosshairs in ADS mode or allways-on.
  • Keybinds and multiple control schemes
• Robust camera collision handling. The camera always strives to keep the player visible and avoid small niches or holes in the environment.
• Gun stance sync (ie automatic shoulder swap based on lean or camera stance)
• Grenade ballistic arc assist for those trick shots (via the bundled Janky’s Visual Assist mod)
• Blind fire & side step (extended lean) are super useful because you can see how much body you are exposing and can shoulder peek behind obstacles. This rewards a careful playstyle of staying behind cover.
• …and many more

Thanks

• Asailant (Discord .asailant) for the awesome mod icon and logo!
• die mitze, sheidajin, guidot and all the good folks on the Fika and SPT discords for the encouragement and feedback.

Conflicts

Anything that messes with the camera, player and gun stances is potentially a conflict.

• Sounds made by the player (e.g. pain or loot search) are muffled
• Force FP for thermal scopes
• Press vs Hold style keybinds

Better videos coming soon, for now some teasers done on a testing build:

Visual ballistic assist for grenades:

https://youtu.be/W__gMFvLIPE

Simply extract the zip file into your SPT game folder.

DrakiaXYZ’s gif for installing a mod:

Most of the settings in the Plugin Configuration Menu should be self explanatory and contain a tooltip with more information.

To get started, I list out a few common configuration schemes and explain the reasoning behind them a bit. Finally, there’ll be a short skinny on Stance Control, because that’s arguably the most complicated to grasp.

Common Configuration Schemes

Janky’s Special

I play 99% 3rd person. The only time I do FPV is when using a magnifying optic. Which is not often because I’m an obligate shotgun enjoyer.

I swap shoulders quite frequently to get a better view. For this reason, I bound the Q and E to the Left and Right Stances respectively. Q and E are also used for leaning, but just gently tapping the button will set the camera stance without doing any actual leaning. The reason why I don’t use the “Stance Swap Cam On Lean” is because I sometimes want to change the stance while sprinting, and the game doesn’t allow leaning while sprinting.

Mouse3 is bound to ADS Mode Swap, so that I can easily swap between FPV and 3rd person for magnifying optic sights.

Finally, I have the gun stance synched to the Camera. If the camera is on the left side, I want the PMC to wield the gun on the left side as well and maximize the visibility.

Tarkov Veteran’s Folly

Very simple setup, this is for the Tarkov vets who want to have separate control for the gun stance and the cam stance. There’s just one button to swap between left and right camera stances, the gun stance is handled by the game and M3 switches between FPV and 3rd person modes so that you can shoot the pimple off a scav sniper’s buttocks from the dorms.

NB: The gun stance synch must be set to None, otherwise it’ll override your attempts to shoulder swap.

A Short Poem Haiku Tale Verbiage On Stance Control

Stance Control defines when and how the camera stance is swapped between the right and left shoulders and also how the camera stance interacts with the gun stance (called Shoulder Transition in game).

• Toggle Stance Key: simple switches the camera between the left and right stances
• Left/Right Side Stance Key: these move the camera to the left and right side respectively. If the camera is on the matching side already, then they do nothing. E.g. pressing the Right Side Stance Key when the camera is already on the right shoulder will do nothing.
• Stance Swap Cam On Lean: instead of defining shortcuts, you can have the camera automatically swap stances depending on your lean direction.
• Gun Stance Sync: Defines whether the gun stance is synced with something else. Available options are: Cam, Lean and None.
  • Cam: synchronises the gun stance to the camera stance. If the camera is on the left, the gun will be shoulder swapped to the left and vice versa.
  • Lean: synchronises the gun stance to the lean. Leaning left will automatically shoulder swap the gun to the left and vice versa.
  • None: the gun stance isn’t synchronized to anything.

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