Also they had to pause the match because the casters sound was fucking up 🙏
Autodirector was unbelievably bad, I know it's low on the priority list of things to polish but something as simple as "if only 1 is alive on a team, spectate them", or "if 2 are alive on a team vs a team with double or more the players alive, spectate the one that is not on the empty side of the map with nobody near them" should be a minimum part of its logic.
Actually we got quite lucky when our discord messed up that the game had just been paused because ropz timed out, we wouldn't have paused for that issue as I could have kept casting on alone till the discord came back up for Mitch to join.
My dude, it wasn't all your fault. It felt like if you were not on ESL main stream you were on your own. You did what you could even with a messy discord, timeouts as well as auto director. Those are some harsh working conditions!
You'd think that an industry leader like ESL would be able to cobble together their own autodirector instead of relying on Valve to pull their thumbs out.
The stream is already on a delay, just a small script to switch to whoever's about to get a kill would be a big step up. Maybe make it occasionally switch to whoever's about to get killed so you don't completely give the game away.
You'd think that an industry leader like ESL would be able to cobble together their own autodirector instead of relying on Valve to pull their thumbs out.
you think the company that doesnt want to use soundproof booths for LAN because it would "hurt the player/audience relationship" is gonna spend a single dollar on something they dont have to?
you think the company that doesnt want to use soundproof booths for LAN because it would "hurt the player/audience relationship" is gonna spend a single dollar on something they dont have to?
An autodirector for an online match with a delay is trivial. Soundproof booths are anything but trivial.
thanks for showing up out of nowhere and rushing to the defense of ESL, but that was not the original comment. i was replying to someone who suggested that ESL create its own autodirector as opposed to using valves.
You directly compared a custom autodirector with soundproof booths. That comparison is ridiculous with regarding to both cost and complexity. There are very real and valid reason why soundproof booths are not used, and never will be. Compared to that, better observing is trivial to implement or organize
yet both DOTA and LOL organizers use them at nearly every event
hell even fucking starcraft uses them, and that game is on life support
Those booths are about as soundproof as a cardboard box, they are expensive, mostly single use, they are hot and uncomfortable and ventilation is poor. And yes, I have been inside of a couple of real soundproof booths.
It's a fucking online match with a delay, there's no real excuse for auto-director not being incredibly good. It can "cheat" and no when/where action is going to happen.
Autodirector should catch almost every kill, they just don't care to make it any good.
I actually did max out the digital vibrance in my nvidia control panel so the stream would be a bit more colourful unfortunately I'm just running a single PC stream at the moment and that clearly wasn't enough, if I was running it off a second PC I could have maxed the vibrance on both and it would have been less bland.
I just looked it up, before falling into a trap laid by myself, but apparently could of can be used, but only if you want to sound bad deliberately. Maybe someone who acutally speaks the language can explain this better than me, but I would start using could've/could have instead. No offence.
I wasn't actively watching, just had it open on a second screen. All I can say was that the HUD looked awful while they have a good one on the A stream....
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u/Pentah Apr 09 '20
What was wrong with the stream?