Killcams: Worth saving?

Games Other Halo
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Hello, today I am here to raise the dead-for-20-seconds-before-a-new-thread-shows-up topic of Killcams. I believe, for the most part, that we can all agree killcams are broken. An example of this broken-ness is when you get shot bye a guy facing roughly 20-30 degrees right of you.

Now, I’m not 100% anti-killcam I find that, should they work right, they make me happy to know how that guy pulled that epic ricochet, or that guy threw his grenade just so it would land like this, etc. What bugs me about killcams is that 75-90% of the time they do not show what actually happened. I’ve taken to just skipping them, because when I watch them they make me feel like I’ve been cheated.

The topic at hand, however, is whether or not 343i should fix them, or remove them. I know there are strong arguments for and against this, so keep your discussions to only mild anger. I am very interested in hearing what the community thinks, I know I have heard my friends arguments, now I wish to hear yours.

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Doesn’t matter to me. Whether they decide to keep em or kill it its alright by me.

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I would say no but I like the final kill of the match cam, always nice especially if its you :slight_smile:

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Remove them they are just bringing out more hate when laggy kills happen, they really aren’t needed in a game like this.

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I agree, like in the original post of mine, I stated that the killcams make me feel cheated because of the laggy, half-working killcams.

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Well most of the death cams actually do “work” per say. It just shows exactly what your opposition was doing while he killed you, but it shows you where you actually were on your screen. So on a good connection they should work, besides the ones that you can tell just completely go haywire. So the feeling of being cheated of a death was always there on bad connections.

But I would just like to see them gone, because with death cams comes the X to respawn. Which I think promotes run and gunning mindless gameplay… Killdiespawn… killdiespawn… over and over, and that isn’t halo

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Indeed, It would help if people could think instead of run-n-gun

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> I would say no but I like the final kill of the match cam, always nice especially if its you :slight_smile:

I would like the final killcam too, except they removed it. I’ve been playing since the day after release, and I’ve yet to see a final killcam.

OT: When it was first revealed killcams would be in, I didn’t mind. But now that I’ve played the game extensively, the killcams are just completely useless and redundant now. Why would I sit there and try to decipher my humiliation through that broken, choppy lagfest of a killcam when I can just hit X to respawn? Honestly, unless it is completely fixed, it needs to be removed. It serves no practical purpose, whereas the old deathcam actually allowed you to observe the battlefield and relay enemy positioning back to your teammates. However, it would be nice to see final killcams come back. It’s always fun to see your epic game winning kill shown off :wink: