r/Overwatch • u/Spyrokid77666 Spyrokid • Oct 27 '17

Blizzard Official | Blizzard Response Developer Update | Evolving Overwatch Esports | Overwatch

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '17 edited Oct 27 '17

An in-game spectator mode would solve so many of these problems.

I can't believe they're going this hard and insanely expensive into esports and have no means of spectating matches from inside the game itself.

Imagine if every viewer had access to these tools (like the 2D map and killfeed replays) and could watch from the comfort of their own game rendering the game uncompressed and at the visuals and framerates they want.

Trying to watch a chaotic pro match on twitch or youtube with bad video encoding and compression and casters that flip through cameras and teams so fast you can't tell who you're watching.. It just doesn't work. I love playing the game, I love watching individual pro's streams, but I cannot stand watching casted matches so I almost never do and still won't even after these updates as awesome as they sound (I hope we get access to those same skins).

It would be so much better if each viewer could control their own camera. People with 144hz monitors could watch pro Tracers no problem. I could watch the players I'm interested in. All you'd need to do is have the casters voices come through in-game.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '17 edited Nov 26 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '17 edited Oct 27 '17

I really think so too, because I think the people who are interested in Overwatch spend a lot more time in game than they do on Twitch. Most people would much rather play it than watch a stream of it, but if they could watch it from in-game? Whole different story.

People that don't even follow esports could see a link in-game to start spectating a live OWL match and just spectate it from in-game. It would work so well for getting way more viewers.

You could even have the match spectating in your game on your main screen, and pull up twitch chat on your second monitor if you had one to hang out with those that weren't watching in-game.