Spectating games

(trendyArtist) #1

There’s an issue with Dirty Bomb spectating I thought about when I was trying to expose someone i suspected of cheating.
I played against this guy where i got suspicious and stayed for another two games and spectated him.
While I was spectating however, I felt bad because I was taking up a space in the full game and forcing a team to be at a player disadvantage.
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to make it possible for players to spectate a game maybe without joining the game or not taking up a space?
Maybe the maximum amount of players is 2 above the usual maximum, like 6vs6 could have 14 spaces, but only 6 players can be on each team, so a player or two are able to spectate without wasting a space.

I was thinking about the effect of players ghosting too, but that is already a possible issue within dirty bomb that I believe is pretty insignificant.

(Nail) #2

every person logging into the game takes a slot and the resources the slot uses, whether they play or spectate, not cost effective nor do I think making 2 slots spec only would be easy to code

(kopyright) #3

Don’t DBNation games have designated commentator/spectator slots not taking up any normal slots?

(Jostabeere) #4

Simply making all 7v7 16 players, all 6vs6 14 players and very 8vs8 a 18 player game with 2 slots only spectator slots isn’t hard. Battlfield has a 32vs32 gamemode and their servers aren’t much better than DBs.
If it’s a good thing is a different question.

(BananaSlug) #5

no, they use 6v6/7v7 server (cart remember which one) for 5v5 games

(Nail) #6

Simply making all 7v7 16 players, all 6vs6 14 players and very 8vs8 a 18 player game with 2 slots only spectator slots isn’t hard. Battlfield has a 32vs32 gamemode and their servers aren’t much better than DBs.
If it’s a good thing is a different question.

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and you know this how ?

I don’t give a north end of a south bound rat about Battlecrap, it’s an entirely different game engine and is totally irrelevant

(GatoCommodore) #7

Simply making all 7v7 16 players, all 6vs6 14 players and very 8vs8 a 18 player game with 2 slots only spectator slots isn’t hard. Battlfield has a 32vs32 gamemode and their servers aren’t much better than DBs.
If it’s a good thing is a different question.

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(BF Has Bigger And Better Server than Top Kek Nexon)