Thank you! Definitely. I was learning as I went along with this. There aren't many tutorials or resources out there for the type of on rails shooter I was trying to make. Some of the research I followed was outdated or functioned differently.
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It looks like you got most of it, from what I remember of playing such games in an arcade.
The only real difference was in the arcade games you would normally move from cover to cover and go behind cover to dodge enemy fire / reload, and the camera would be a bit more dynamic, looking in different directions as the game progressed.