Commentators

posted on January 1st, 2011, 6:13 am

Hey i was wondering,

Right now you can have people observer, could you have the same  thing except a commentator instance, that can be toggled on and off, that would allow the commentator to chat with the people in game, everyone would be able to see what the commentar was saying, this would allow for communication, in case somone pauses the game, or somthing else happens in which case  the comentator needs to communicate with the players

[Anonymous]

posted on January 1st, 2011, 7:07 am

Last edited by Anonymous on January 1st, 2011, 7:12 am, edited 1 time in total.

We have that feature now.

It's called "Stop recording, go into teamspeak, tell the other side what the delay is all about, and then start recording again when the game continues".  It's a new feature of 3.1.5!!! .




Edit:  Ok, I shouldn't be so mean.   Ray, a better feature that has been requested is to have it so that you can switch chat options while the game is paused.  That way the players themselves can explain.  We probably should keep observers separate.

posted on January 1st, 2011, 7:30 am

As i stated before i dont want observers to have these powers

I want there to be a new one, for commentators specifically, togable on and off, and only be able to talk to all players, this would help, when oss occurs or somone lags, or things of that nature

posted on January 1st, 2011, 12:56 pm

i agree that observers should be able to chat, but not select which players, so anything an observer says will be broadcast to every player.

that way if they decide to help a side with intel, both sides will know not to trust that person any more.

these ideas are old though.

i dont see the point of splitting the observer position into observer and commentator.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 1:04 am

No, thats not what im saying

I do not want observers to chat, its either distracting to the players, or they can pass info to other players, if anything at all they should only be able to chat to other observers, there is no reason for an obs to have to chat with the players.

I want there to be a commentator instance, where commentators can communicate with the players (but only all of them, not selective), cus your not going to pause the game, stop recording, and try to talk to the players on teamspeak, they would just get pissed off, however in situations it would be very helpful, additionally if any features would be added in the future to aid commentators, (like they did with resources) the split would already be there