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Are there any plans to incorporate helmet cam feeds that could facilitate a marine team leader role?asked by [ADT] Gromph

TL;DRA teammate's helmet cam on death could come after the first FPS release, but a team-leader multi-view role is doubtful because of engine limits, while live streaming is long-term R&D, not planned for the next few months.

We're definitely planning on having a spectator mode/modes in AC etc, so you could connect as a remote viewer or spectator client. Potentially when someone gets killed in FPS you might have a view of another team member's helmet cam. That won't be in the first FPS release but down the line it'll be pretty easy to do. I don't know so much about having a team-leader role where you'd have multiple player's views on your screen, mainly because cryengine isn't very good at handling that, and also you'd be rendering multiple 3D worlds at once which can be problematic with our detailed world. We're definitely allowing people to stream their view live, so you could I guess have those streams open ad-hoc with other systems around you, that's longer term tech we're working on and have planned from the start, with streaming tech inside your client without having 3rd party software. We could maybe even take that and play it back inside a texture inside the game... That could be an interesting implementation actually, just thought of that now. In the long term, yeah, those kind of things are cool. Even in terms of streaming we'll have a traffic cams or something, so you could go to our website and see maybe a few jump points, or terra, or sol or something and it'll be streaming on the site. That'll be kinda cool, and our tech definitely allows for that. We might start having that in AC where you'll be able to see streams of ongoing matches, and longer term we could see that all done inside out web-platform basis. You might be able to see next to someone's avatar in the forums if they're streaming at that moment, click and view etc. Obviously not happening in the next few months, but we're actively doing R&D towards that, we're already seeing plenty of streaming on twitch and youtube, so we just want to make that easy and fun for people.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 59 (2015.04.06)·
Published on this date.6 Apr 2015