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tskuzzy

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Spectating a Spectator
« on: September 28, 2009, 09:01:43 am »
Einstein, Ozzy, and I found a way to spectate a spectator. Demo attached was on AA tonight.

I'm not entirely sure how we did it; you'll have to ask Einstein to confirm this:
- Spectate a player
- Have the player kill compiz
- Have him restart compiz and rejoin the game
- Voila

Demo: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kdmwwoyuygj
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Nux

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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 06:01:09 pm »
I've done this before a little while back. PRIOR ART.

It was a long chain of all the spectators spectating each other... ending with me. So I decided to spec one of the spectators and my view was stuck on what I was last spectating. :O:O:O!

Funnily enough, I think this is how 'Follower of Nux' got his name.
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tskuzzy

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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2009, 06:32:24 pm »
Quote from: Nux on September 28, 2009, 06:01:09 pm
I've done this before a little while back. PRIOR ART.

It was a long chain of all the spectators spectating each other... ending with me. So I decided to spec one of the spectators and my view was stuck on what I was last spectating. :O:O:O!

Funnily enough, I think this is how 'Follower of Nux' got his name.
Hahaha, we were going to make a spectator chain, but then we realized that you can't just simply /follow another spectator. And I didn't feel like killing my X server :P

On a side note, I got some practice in and am finally able to do that mara jump thing on ATCS :P
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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2009, 08:54:38 pm »
loooooooong ago someone (no names) told me to spectate them so I did and then they became a spectator. I was like  :o but now I know how it's done  :)
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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2009, 09:01:47 pm »
aren't there some qvms with this? :O
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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2009, 12:20:00 am »
I wouldn't mind if the devs implement this into 1.2 as long as the bug that Nux referred to doesn't pop out of the blue.
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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2009, 01:05:13 am »
Many older qvms did this naturally, which is at first what I suspected. "nah thats just sticky spec" I said, but turns out we dont have the ability to follow spectators on AA after all.
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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2009, 08:08:32 am »
Pretty much this is disabled because it's a) buggy (your ping is the sum of all pings before you in the chain) b) confusing (HUD says you're following Y but Y is following Z so you're actually seeing Z.. then Y changes his target, so you change targets without having done anything) c) not very useful. However, it's obviously not a big deal either way. It won't crash any servers or anything.

Iirc, on dev it'll let you do it manually with /follow, but won't happen when you cycle through people (mousewheel).
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tskuzzy

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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2009, 09:50:12 am »
Quote from: Lakitu7 on September 29, 2009, 08:08:32 am
c) not very useful. However, it's obviously not a big deal either way. It won't crash any servers or anything.
It can be useful for catching ghosters. But its probably not worth the trouble.
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Flux

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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2009, 08:09:52 pm »
Quote from: tskuzzy on September 29, 2009, 09:50:12 am
Quote from: Lakitu7 on September 29, 2009, 08:08:32 am
c) not very useful. However, it's obviously not a big deal either way. It won't crash any servers or anything.
It can be useful for catching ghosters. But its probably not worth the trouble.
y, u r so clever skoozball! :police:
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Re: Spectating a Spectator
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2009, 03:02:10 am »
Way back in the days of p-g-qvm, we used to have a feature called g_specASpec. Basically, it let you spectate spectators, but it had logic to prevent loops.

However, it had a cool "feature". Anyone spectating a spectator following a player could click the mouse button, and cause the player's evolve/spawn menu to pop up.

We quickly removed this, but it was fun for a while clicking right as someone ran into a base.
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