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| Spectator "Mode" by u4iX | |
| Posted By: CyReN | Date: 6/21/12 1:37 p.m. |
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u4ix wrote a great small piece on some confusion going on with Spectator mode - http://halocouncil.com/content.php?r=485-Spectator-Mode ------ The word mode in the Halo universe is misleading. We have grand features post-Halo 3 such as Forge "Mode" and Theater "Mode." It's no wonder the Halo community became divided and confused when people started requested a feature called Spectator "Mode." With the prior expectations of the word "mode," meaning a large, fleshed out, fully functioning feature, perhaps similar to League of Legends where it auto-followers where the action is, shows what each player has equipped, shows a mini map of all player locations, and is available from the "War Games" menu in Halo 4 to spectate the top matches. We don't need all that. While it would certainly be nice, the simplest of spectator functionality would suffice for this community. Give us the ability to spawn into a game on an "invisible" team that never spawns into the actual game, thus never affecting the spawn system and other players. Allow the select number of players, which at MOST would be two players on the invisible team, to spectate the death screen of all teams playing in the game, as well as the first person perspective since we now have kill cams. If this is too much of a bandwidth hog, even in this minimal state, put restrictions on it where a certain bandwidth to spectate or host the game is required. Disable kill cams for the players actually playing in the game, and reserve the first person perspective as a right to those on the invisible, "spectating" team. You could also limit it to a certain number of players as well, so it would only be available in 4v4 or fewer. If people are worried about people coming in and "peeping" in on their games, this could be in custom games only and a feature which you could enable/disable in custom game options. It doesn't have to be now either. 343i you guys are polishing your game. That should be the number 1 thing, but if you can added it later on it would help our community and many others out there tremendously. I can add more for clarification later, but I wanted to get this idea out ASAP. tl;dr We don't need an entire "mode," we just need some additional functionality. <3
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| Spectator "Mode" by u4iX | CyReN | 6/21/12 1:37 p.m. |
| Re: Spectator "Mode" by u4iX | SonGoharotto | 6/21/12 3:07 p.m. |
| Re: Spectator "Mode" by u4iX | nillapuddin | 6/21/12 3:56 p.m. |
| Re: Spectator "Mode" by u4iX | General Vagueness | 6/21/12 5:15 p.m. |
| Re: Spectator "Mode" by u4iX | nillapuddin | 6/21/12 10:44 p.m. |
| Re: Spectator "Mode" by u4iX | General Vagueness | 6/23/12 12:22 p.m. |
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