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DevReply Replays in 1st Person Poll

Discussion in 'Game Discussion' started by Miku Da Yo 39, 25 Mar 2018.

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Should 1st Person Replays be implemented?

  1. Yes

    11 vote(s)
    84.6%

  2. No

    2 vote(s)
    15.4%
  1. Miku Da Yo 39

    Miku Da Yo 39 Well-Known Member

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    For those of us who really take the game seriously, we want to learn from replays of our matches. What we need is 1st person replay. This will allow us to see the joystick and aiming movements and teach us MUCH more information than what we have now in 3rd person. Please developers can you make this a possibility?

    @Miika @Zeus @The Grim Repair
     
    Miku Da Yo 39, 25 Mar 2018
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  2. YerJokinArnYer

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    Whilst I think that first person replays would be cool, IMO I don’t think you’d learn more from them than the third person view.
    First person view would restrict your view, so you’d lose seeing ships because of movement of waves. Also you’d see less when people were behind low walls than you currently do, or if they were behind another ship.

    What I think would help would be a choice of third person views from slightly different angles (like you get a different viewing angle when you run a cannon, compared to when you run a mortar).

    What would also help would be the ability to change the play speed, rewind etc.
     
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  3. Miku Da Yo 39

    Miku Da Yo 39 Well-Known Member

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    This is not a suggestion for replacement, it is a suggestion for addition lol.
    Just add a convienient toggle button to switch between a variety of camera views. Free, 1st, 3rd, etc
     
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    This would be great when watching someone else's replay so you know when they gained vision of the enemy and how they reacted to it (not just when they shot at them, but actually how they turned to look at them and lead their shot). You can see their movement control, their aiming control, their item usage, all of this much more cleanly.
     
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  5. Miika

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    This would require recording much more data than the game is currently sending to the server (i.e. at least doubling the bandwidth consumption) just for the replay feature making it highly unlikely it will be ever implemented.
     
    Miika, 25 Mar 2018
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  6. Miku Da Yo 39

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    So taking note of this comment by Miika, lets try our best to use native screen recorders to share 1st person footage and allow others to learn about leading shots and aiming and movement.
     
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    Thanks for the hasty response, Miika. Quick feedback from the devs' side is always appreciated.
     
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