Feature: COD4-style playbacks after death

[nightryder]

couldnt it be both server and client. then if you dont want it on while your matching just type in the command and its off.

[Eiii]

It would be primarily serverside, but there would be an option to automatically skip playbacks.

[MosEz]

what happend to this. dont let this sleep again

i was just thinking about what would happen on the 1 second respawn servers.

maybe we should close such servers. 15sec respawm is good enough.

It should also possible to click the killcam away.

[T3RR0R15T]

And a serverside option to disable it. Not all servers have enough power to do it for xx players.

[nightryder]

ya this would make the game better

[HardcoreManiac]

You can make this client sided...
I tried making a killcam and it worked out pretty well.
What i did was:
Remember the ID of every player, his position, direction, and ofcourse: shooting.
Then the killcam:
Create objects with the player ID's for every player in range.
Let objects follow the runway that has been saved for that ID.
Make it shoot when did.

This takes CPU to clients, but if there's an option to disable the killcam, there should be no problem.

[Eiii]

If course, you've basically just outlined the most basic way to implement a killcam.

It does have to be server-side tough, at least to a degree-- the client generally doesn't get any network position/orientation/animation info about what he can't see, so it's not possible to record positions and such backwards in time.

[jitspoe]

The client doesn't necessarily have all the information to do this.  For example, if somebody was in another room and blocked by vis when he shot, the shooter's position would not be sent to the client.  This would probably be rare with shooting, but could certainly happen with things like grenades.

[Narga]

Should be a server side option. Have "killcam" enabled on pubs but not on match servers. And basically then what ch40s said.

Agreed. Why not match servers thought?

[Narga]

You can make this client sided...
I tried making a killcam and it worked out pretty well.
What i did was:
Remember the ID of every player, his position, direction, and ofcourse: shooting.
Then the killcam:
Create objects with the player ID's for every player in range.
Let objects follow the runway that has been saved for that ID.
Make it shoot when did.

This takes CPU to clients, but if there's an option to disable the killcam, there should be no problem.

That is even better. Make it Client side!