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[Rhialto]

I know it has already been posted once but there are so many new players and new visitors in the forums that I wanted to share that video again.

I hope one day we will be able to spectate like this!
(with chat disabled of course...)

[DaZur]

I would love to watch like this... But at the same time the "talking dead" abuse would be deafening.

[Rhialto]

oops I wrote in tiny characters that chat would need to be disabled but I was forgetting audio like TeamSpeak...

[Blakkstar]

Great...if you could download full match replays and fly around in a viewer.

Real time, not so much. Drain on server resources, and massive cheat/exploit potential with 3rd party chat.

[CDLord HHGD]

Would LOVE this as a post-match feature, but much too exploitable for a "live" game.

Edited by cdlord, 13 January 2015 - 10:08 AM.

[CygnusX7]

Should have this.
As far as communication only allow spectators to chat with spectators.

[edit] of course one could spectate and then relay information to friends via other means.

Edited by CygnusX7, 13 January 2015 - 10:18 AM.

[Ace Selin]

Looks dandy

[DaZur]

cdlord, on 13 January 2015 - 10:08 AM, said:

Would LOVE this as a post-match feature, but much too exploitable for a "live" game.

Queue my long-standing request for an instant-replay post match...

Personally I'd love to analyze my matches to see exactly how I screwed-the-pooch so I could avoid doing again.

[LordKnightFandragon]

Blakkstar, on 13 January 2015 - 10:06 AM, said:

Great...if you could download full match replays and fly around in a viewer.

Real time, not so much. Drain on server resources, and massive cheat/exploit potential with 3rd party chat.

Yeah, a replay feature would be awesome, its fun to watch good fights time and again.

[Mechteric]

Hopefully it will become available in private matches only

[DasSibby]

I had this happen to me in a CW match recently. It was a glitch when I was coming in on the dropships. For like 3 seconds I had a free camera pan like in the video.

It looked amazing.

[MoonUnitBeta]

cdlord, on 13 January 2015 - 10:08 AM, said:

Would LOVE this as a post-match feature, but much too exploitable for a "live" game.

The solution is simple, in that when you spectate, you can only see your team mates, and only enemy mechs that you team has LOS of.
Without LOS, they simply do not render.

[Rhialto]

MoonUnitBeta, on 13 January 2015 - 10:57 AM, said:

The solution is simple, in that when you spectate, you can only see your team mates

Meh, useless... I mean no interest at all. I just like the 'watching a movie' feeling butnow I understand it will never happen because of 3rd party chat/audio. That suck...

Only solution to watch this is to move on to Vancouver and get hired by PGI.

[CDLord HHGD]

MoonUnitBeta, on 13 January 2015 - 10:57 AM, said:

The solution is simple, in that when you spectate, you can only see your team mates, and only enemy mechs that you team has LOS of.
Without LOS, they simply do not render.

Obviously Rhialto didn't read your full comment....

Yeah, they could do this too. Be weird though, worth trying...

[Monkey Lover]

Be really hard not to tell my teammates over team speak to watch out

[Rhialto]

cdlord, on 13 January 2015 - 11:05 AM, said:

Obviously Rhialto didn't read your full comment....

Read it but as I said I wanted to see everything with no bad intentions, I'm not a cheater and just forgot about TeamSpeak and alike. I just liked the fact to sit down and watch the match with sound from the game, not from friends talking at the same time.

[terrycloth]

I've wanted a replay feature for a long time. Doing post-mortem on people's tactics would help a lot to figure out what works and what doesn't.

[Rhialto]

DasSibby, on 13 January 2015 - 10:44 AM, said:

I had this happen to me in a CW match recently. It was a glitch when I was coming in on the dropships. For like 3 seconds I had a free camera pan like in the video.

It looked amazing.

Since I know you're reading... tell me more how it happened. Do you usually have a high ping? Do you think it's related by some lag between you and the server? Just curious if one day I could experiment this... if it's ping related then I'm out being usually at 13ms.

[MoonUnitBeta]

Rhialto, on 13 January 2015 - 11:03 AM, said:

Meh, useless... I mean no interest at all. I just like the 'watching a movie' feeling butnow I understand it will never happen because of 3rd party chat/audio. That suck...

Only solution to watch this is to move on to Vancouver and get hired by PGI.

I undertand. It's not the same as seeing the whole field, but like you said, there's issues with voip...
But hey, that's why there's UAV's, right? haha.
Still, you'd be able to get some pretty cool screenshots of your buddy, and create some cool videos even with something as limited as that.

[DaZur]

terrycloth, on 13 January 2015 - 11:13 AM, said:

I've wanted a replay feature for a long time. Doing post-mortem on people's tactics would help a lot to figure out what works and what doesn't.

IMHO I think this would benefit "new-players" more than any tutorial could...

In a lot of sport scenarios it's difficult to truly improve ones skills without watching oneself on video.