((TL:DR - keep death cam same, keep spectate same, add all players’ assists to death screen))
So there was some discussion about kill cams vs death cams a while ago.
The only reason I liked H4s cams (and the only thing I liked about H4) was it reduced some WTH moments because I could see how I died - however it didn’t properly because
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The camera was as out of sync as theatre so it’d look like wall hacks half the time.
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It wouldn’t show assists’ replays (from memory however many years ago) so if the final shot was one AR bullet I still wouldn’t know why I died so fast.
but it wasn’t halo and having the fun removed of being a flapping body getting t-bagged, punched and shot by someone acting like it was their first kill was obviously missed.
(Temporary subject change incoming) Then there was the discussion about assists. It seems (well it’s obvious) that in infinite you have to do a certain amount of damage to get an assist awarded. I’m not entirely sure if it’s now possible that two different people can get awarded an assist on one kill or if it’s awarded to the player with most assisted damage. Anyway, there’s also the “assisted by” shown at the top of the screen when you’re a flapping body
Could we not
- Keep the death cam the same as now and keep the team spectate the same
- Change assists back to any amount of damage gives an assist
- Show ALL assisting players on the death cam where it says, “assisted by”
- (OPTIONAL) Add a percentage of the kill next to each player’s ‘assisted by’
- (OPTIONAL) Add a picture of the weapon used next to that ‘assisted by’ similar to the kill feed.
The reason is simple - the amount of times you’re in a gunfight and convinced you are one on one but one or two players have put a cheeky AR burst into you from an angle and you’re raging because you knew you were up in the gunfight and there is no player in the ‘assisted by’ list because they didn’t cause enough damage but have no way of knowing this without going into theatre (which isn’t accurate) is definitely more regular than you think and creates a lot of raging WTH.
If you saw a list of ‘assisted by tom’, 'assisted by Fred (yeah that’ll be yoinked), ‘assisted by harry’ then you’ll know 3 people assisted the kill so you’ll be WTH-ing less with a very small difference to what it is now.
And with the addition of optional suggestion numbers 4&5 - you can see what was done by who (might be a bit complicated if someone throws a nade and shoots at same time and 8 people assist in BTB and your team shoots you but like I say - completely optional).
Well done for getting this far if you did. What dya think?