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[ajf]

that would be really hard for gg2 engine reasons

just take a screenshot each step?

[skeleton dude]

Aren't killcams traditionally from the opponent's view? Would you record an entire match in screenshots for every player and then somehow trade handfuls back and forth for every kill and have them play in sequence? If instead it would be your own point of you then what purpose would that give? You're not providing any new information for how or why you died.

Not like it's much of a mystery most of the time in game anyway, and it wouldn't make it anymore interesting watching it twice.

If that wasn't a problem you'd still have to take 30 separate screenshots every second, that's a lot of stuff to save temporarily while the game is running. I can't imagine players with low end computer specs being anywhere less than the half of the player base that would have to turn this feature off just to run the game smoothly. If players have to keep it off just to play then what's the point of putting it into the game in the first place.

[Venomous]

Well we could do a constant save/delete system, where saving frames start at the match start and if the number of saved frames reaches 31, then the oldest frame saved is deleted so theres no more than 30 frames saved at any given time, which could reduce lag.

[Orpheon]

that would be really hard for gg2 engine reasons

just take a screenshot each step?

So uhh, assuming 3 second killcam at 30 fps, also assuming 6 enemy players in vincinity, that makes 6*30*5=900 images you want to dynamically update and then play?

Or did you mean following the player, in which case we're still talking >100 screencaps, but less than 900?

[\esc144aAroundTheWorld\esca]

have them send their x, y, gun x, y and gun rotation etc. over the last 3 secs to you after they kill you, so that your client can render it rather than take screenshots. also have it off by default.

[[FR]YB]

Wasn't there a replay mod or something like that, that saved every data sent or received by the server, and could simulate the round afterwards?

Then again that would still require to save the coords/speeds of every character every frame for a few seconds... But it's still the best I can come with

[Derpduck]

Wasn't there a replay mod or something like that, that saved every data sent or received by the server, and could simulate the round afterwards?

Then again that would still require to save the coords/speeds of every character every frame for a few seconds... But it's still the best I can come with

That was GEM, made by Orpheon/AJF, and it was a host only feature.

[ajf]

Replay was something Orpheon did and it originated in OHU before the OHU/SMOKE merger.