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[Ronin X]

Can the Devs add an option for a "floating eye" function so that after your mech is destroyed you can choose to free roam the battlefield. go to whatever height and just fly around observing the action? I wonder if it would be possible? The player is already connected to the match and it seeing through the eyes of another pilot anyway, why not free roam eye in the sky.

And yes, in that mode chat would need to be disabled so the opposing team members cant spy on the remaining enemy and give locations away.

Just a cool thought

[luxebo]

In progress, as stated within the Town Hall meeting.

There was one down at the launch tourney iirc, take a look at that.

[BumbleBee]

It would be great for making videos too.

It would have to be only available in Private matches though, otherwise you'd just have people reporting enemy positions and the like.

[Heffey]

It's already possible. Sometimes the Rejoin button bugs out and you come back as a spectator cam.

[Mystere]

It will not be allowed because one team can be on voice comms, and PGI has no way of controlling that.

[Brody319]

Mystere, on 15 November 2014 - 10:03 PM, said:

It will not be allowed because one team can be on voice comms, and PGI has no way of controlling that.

Other games allow free roam cams and even have an integrated team chat feature. just something you gotta deal with sometimes.

[Mystere]

Brody319, on 15 November 2014 - 10:06 PM, said:

Other games allow free roam cams and even have an integrated team chat feature. just something you gotta deal with sometimes.

Except that given the nature of the MWO player base, the whining will be of legendary proportions.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Ronin X, on 15 November 2014 - 07:45 PM, said:

Can the Devs add an option for a "floating eye" function so that after your mech is destroyed you can choose to free roam the battlefield. go to whatever height and just fly around observing the action? I wonder if it would be possible? The player is already connected to the match and it seeing through the eyes of another pilot anyway, why not free roam eye in the sky.

And yes, in that mode chat would need to be disabled so the opposing team members cant spy on the remaining enemy and give locations away.

Just a cool thought

How are you going to disable Teamspeak so people cannot tell you what they can see?

Way too easy to utilize unfairly imo.

[Aresye]

Lukoi Banacek, on 15 November 2014 - 10:37 PM, said:

How are you going to disable Teamspeak so people cannot tell you what they can see?

Way too easy to utilize unfairly imo.

Step 1: Disable all map grids, targeting data, etc. that you would otherwise get from watching a player's screen while in free cam.
...
...Profit!

The only way an organized team could benefit from it would be if they have a printout of the map and the battlegrid, which would require them to do a lot of crosschecking back and forth. Sure, the F9 coordinates could present a problem, but I doubt anybody would be able to make use of that in the middle of a battle.

The overall impact is minimal than what we already have. Did you know that people's eyes don't always see everything in the screen? Is there really much of a difference between somebody going, "They're behind that big rock thingy," and, "Dude, to your left! See those 3 dots in the distance?"

[Ronin X]

Mystere, on 15 November 2014 - 10:03 PM, said:

It will not be allowed because one team can be on voice comms, and PGI has no way of controlling that.

Now that i think about it things in this game are too fast paced anyway for someone to have THAT MUCH of an effect. So the eye in the sky says the catapult is a C3. Who cares. Everyone is normally actively searching out and dropping the hammer on everyone else anyway. Yes there may be SOME advantage but it would go both ways as people die.

Edited by Ronin X, 16 November 2014 - 06:46 AM.

[Ronin X]

OR.... as i have now seen other suggest in other threads (i didnt realize this was already a debate) we can have the match record from the beginning and have it as a viewable file after the match. This would have to be limited because of space(i think, maybe not) but it would be awesome to be able to review a "battlecam" eye in the sky after the match is over. Flying around seeing how **** went down.

That is totally doable and would greatly expand the team aspect and enjoyability of this. Think of those really great matches that go 14:45 and you did 900 damage and where just in the thick of it without dying. It would be awesome to be able to review from multiple angles and rewind/playback

Edited by Ronin X, 16 November 2014 - 06:54 AM.