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Title: Killcams, maybe? Post by: [ERROR_42] on June 25, 2014, 02:42:49 PM Just thinking out loud here.
After playing Openarena for a while (And still managing to suck at it) I'v come to think that killcams could be useful. Here are the benefits: -Something to watch while waiting to respawn -Can help n00bs like me develop a strategy by observing what they do -Can help to find aimbots and other asshat hackers -See yourself get gibbed again, for no reason. -Why the hell not? Title: Re: Killcams, maybe? Post by: Neon_Knight on June 25, 2014, 04:25:40 PM That's actually a good idea. In Elimination/eCTF/LMS matches it could be useful, seeing as other gametypes have a very short time length between frag and respawn of a player.
Title: Re: Killcams, maybe? Post by: Suicizer on June 25, 2014, 10:32:04 PM I'm a withstander of this idea also as it fits seamlessly with the Arena theme of OA.
Title: Re: Killcams, maybe? Post by: audovoice on June 28, 2014, 08:05:47 AM I am looking into something similar to this but I made a different post because it is not quite the same.
But related to kill cams anyone interested in this might want to read this post. http://lists.ioquake.org/pipermail/ioquake3-ioquake.org/2010-April/004077.html my semi related post is this one http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=5011.0 Title: Re: Killcams, maybe? Post by: fromhell on June 28, 2014, 06:05:14 PM I think this could affect gameplay though. To view a killcam properly you'd require a longer spawning time for forced respawns
I have no clear idea how CoD implements it however, despite being id Tech 3 and grandfathered into all future CoD games and offshoots (exception being the portable games) i'd think it's just some serverside microdemo buffer of every client being sent off to the killed player with the matching client. Would require intense engine work to make that happen, as well as some cgame work to add traps to playback a requested demo, which would break the clients and require a protocol/version bump. It's not technically a hinderance considering the target systems (P2 300 w/ Voodoo2 ~= Pi ~= probably some 6th gen consoles ~= core i3 BSD system playing this in Mesa rasterizer) Title: Re: Killcams, maybe? Post by: sago007 on June 29, 2014, 06:18:00 AM In CoD you could skip the killkam by pressing the respawn-key. The default forcespawn in OpenArena i 20 seconds so there would be plenty of time.
The game already stores all player location for the last 40 frames (0.8 seconds). You would need to store all entities and not just players to be able to play it back (health etc should be ignored). i don't think any engine work is required. However the dead code is not that flexible. I remember having quite a challenge adding a free death cam to elimination. |