Idea Spectate

While I do indeed see the point, but wouldn't it be a tad bit advantageous when a team mate of your spectates, and tells what the enemy is doing?

Otherwise, the idea itself doesn't have too many flaws.

 

It's a good idea, but it has its pro's and con's.

 

Not all of them.

 

There would be too many problems with that.

 

No, I can see way too many problems with this idea.

 

The fact is that there are just so many problems that it's not even worth adding...

This is an unneeded feature so we don't need to take time out of the coders' lives to make something like this. It would take a long time to work out the bugs, and even still there would be problems like the ones mentioned above. This is time that is better used coming out with War and WarZ 2.0

 

way too many problems, and you could tell teammates exactly what enemies have, where they are if they're shifting, etc.

 

This doesn't really fit the WarZ theme. For War, yes, but not WarZ.

 

As I feel this would be an amazing addition to warz there are just to many cons. The biggest one is telling what the enemy player is doing, what guns they have, armor, ect.

 

Then you should only be able to spectate for 5 secs.

 

Not long enough. Possibly, you couldn't go towards your enemy? Say, If you died and used this, you could tp, and it would tp to where you died.
You then proceed to go to the enemy, camping, and try to tell your teammate his armor.
But, because of this part, you can't do that.
You can only get 20 blocks within the enemy before you can't go any further.

I'm not too sure, but I think that the cons outweigh the pros. If there is a way to fix the shotblocking, and the ability to see your enemy, giving info to your teammate, then it should be added, just imo tho.

 

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Other spectate modes on other servers do not have shot blocking so it is possible but giving info to a teammate is just a thing to deal with unless you trap the death player in a invisible box right here where he died. This would limit the information he gives.

 

It's actually a good idea. My coder @Gabor_13 tried this, and it worked pretty well, but there was a problem with people always blocking shots. There is no way to actually have a spectator mode without interfering with the game as far as I see, but a coder can always try. One work around that I found would be just making it so people can't go below a certain height? That could always work, but then again, what if the fight is inside a building? Now they would miss the fight. There are public plugins out there such as "I Control U" or ICU, and it actually allows you to see what the other players see, but there is no specific way in coding to actually allow yourself to have the view of the player unless you're dealing with packets (coding thing), and packets are an extremely difficult part of coding that even the advanced coders don't want to get themselves into. Another good point is, is even though you can see the point of view of another player, you now know where they are and what guns they have. What is the point of that? WarZ is supposed to sorta have some mystery when you get that enemy on your compass. Having a spectator mode would just ruin that. Another good point is glitches. What happens if you place an item in a furnace (like you can in some servers with spectator mode), and get it out when you are spectating? Sure there are patches for that (blocking interaction with furnaces while in the spectator mode), but there will always be another glitch. That is the problem with custom plugins, they have to be fully tested in order for them to not have glitches, and even then there is a possibility that someone would find a work around. Overall, having spectator mode in WarZ would be cool, but it would be hard to manage the server once that is implemented. Good luck with your idea though.