Each person gets to decide for themselves how realistic they want to try to be. The snap view system is there to allow people without headtracking a good way to look around. Snap view to check six, snap view to check high left, etc. It is designed for flexibility and that means you can create a snap view that puts you perfectly aligned to the sights, locked in and ready to shoot. Whether people use it or not is their choice, but those without head tracking have no alternative if they want to use the sights. You have to have a way to move you head to a position to use the sights and the game doesn't simulate much head movement, so you wind up with a locked in, steady aligned view.

I use TrackIR, so I don't use snap views. I might adjust a default view to be aligned with the sights, but it doesn't stay perfectly steady as my head moves even when I try to stay still.

The above makes sense, but if we're going to make such broad generalizations, then we need to be careful. When the addition of peripheral features happens to alienate players or cause them to lose interest because they perceive that core features are being ignored, then that's a problem. Losing some players to gain others is not a win.

So, I am a bit sympathetic to those who see a downside, but I like the new camera shake feature because it has the potential to increase realism in other areas, namely, in the cockpit. I see a bright-side because this is another graphical frill that might actually be put to good use.

Thank you Arjisme.
Now I understand.I have had trackir for so long that I forgot what it is to be without it.
A great christmas gift from a loved one to all who do not have it yet.I asked Santa [wife}for mine!
Must add that this by now great game is becoming a classic due to all that is going on.

I don't understand why anyone would complain about a new optional feature.

It's not as if they stopped work on all their other "to do" items to implement this. Given that this isn't a "profitable" feature, I suspect one of the programmers thought of an easy and quick way to code it in during a slow patch.

Hello,
i admit it took me some time to get what is happening at all ahem, but now i think it's great !
Most movies made on flight sims have an entirely centered or focused view, which is somehow stale and artificial and immediately tells you that its's a not a veritable tape. With this erratic movement around the center this simulates the real thing, just like in the film posted by Laser with the (beautiful) LVG C.VI.
I think this is one of the details that some will not even realize at first (like me), unless this strange unassignable overall feeling that this is really the closest thing to real flying .. or you "fly" another simulation where you will instantly miss those details .. it's the sum of all that. Cockpit vibration, wandering shadows in the cockpit, cloud shadows .. (maybe exhaust flames and oily plumes at some time in the future )
Greetings,
Catfish (Wels in sim)

It's a very nice feature. You guys will really like it.

Exactly.
A few of the posts in this thread are straight up idiotic.
I'm grateful for every little improvement.