Post by Dr_Venkman_Phd on Mar 7, 2015 19:27:49 GMT
Watching a race via Spectator mode has been something we've wanted to do for a long time, ever since the feature became available. Unfortunately, it was quickly disabled due to potential exploits (such as players being able to walk around during your race and place C4 everywhere... that was a fun 2 weeks).
In it's current capacity, you can only spectate other people if you join a job after it has launched or after you complete the race and more are still on the track. More than likely the devs were using a dev console with special commands that allowed them to spectate from outside the lobby, with no loading screens. And don't even get me started on the free camera mode they used (drooool).
So what does this mean? Does this mean we can't use spectator mode to observe races? No. In fact, we have the perfect opportunity and I have suggested it multiple times (also on YouTube). The MCEC runs with 28 players (shaggy included). That leaves 2 spots open. The MCEC runs 1 warmup lap to get everyone into the correct grid position (1-5 minutes). During this time would be the perfect opportunity to get 2 more people to join in as spectator cameramen. However... since next-gen has come out, we have a new issue. Connectivity. We can't even get the people who are supposed to race into the lobby correctly. Trying to also get 2 more people into a lobby just for camera views would just be fruitless with the game in it's current state.
We do have some video from the first round of the 2nd season of MCEC, and as you can see, some of the views you can potentially get are EPIC!
I appreciate your view of the events, but I think you should delve a bit deeper into the issues, maybe re-watch the stream video, watch shaggy's post video rant, and think about all the issues the racing portion of the game has alone and how they pretty much were ignorant of it. When it comes to the technical issues of the game, I do agree that we all should understand that there is no way they are going to discuss issues with the game publicly. That would all be done privately, and even then is unlikely. They aren't going to discuss game issues with non-employees who then can smear their comments all over the internet, hurting their bottom line.
P.S. Did you really like your own post?