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Topic: Battlefield Recorders
MonK3yPsyCh0
Station Member
Registered: Jul 2001 posted 11-21-2002 10:36 AM user search report post
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I come from games (q3, sof2, cs) where you can record your matches with your oponent and use them for simple archival purposes, for strategy analysis and even for making promotional videos (like q3 opc promos). I may have missed any posts on this possilbe feature so let me know if this has been discussed and just ignore the rest of my post. I think it would be very benificial if people were able to record demo's of their own actions when playing...especially during major battles for review by commanders later or just for personal pleasure if you did something in the battle that you must share with your friends or view for you own pleasure later. This feature could also be good for recon missions as well. Say, team the record option up with the stealth suit to infiltrate enemy defenses and report back to your team with a video of troop counts and styles of defense setup. Yes, this can be done through just word of mouth but it would be fun to have a vid of it as well in case that person missed some HUGE detail. Don't let recon agents be able to record while in a stealth suit, but once they turn it off they can...just long enuf and dangerous enuf to get what they came for and get out. I'm sure their are many other ways this could be implemented OR NOT implemented because i'm sure their will be people who are way opposed to this for some reason or another. Hell, it could create a new posisition as a team cameraman just to promote your outfit and catalogue epic battles for others to see. Say if a player is less skilled in shooting but can frame a great shot of your teams takedown then that could be a possible option for people who are not as good at fps's as others. Let the cameraman be invincible during battles within the "bubble" of his own teamates and be able to record any action going on from a ghost perspective that is used in other fps's. That will keep a person like that from flying in to the other teams defenses and not be destroyed if he is relegated to a certain area in which he can record, or bubble, that contains combative teamates. If he breaks this area, he can be killed...simple as that. Any other ideas or concerns about this?

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BlackbirdPS
Station Admin
Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-21-2002 10:47 AM user search report post
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I don't think we have any plans for this currently. If we -did- explore this, I'm pretty sure the designers would want it relegated to a single point of view for fairness. Really, the problem I see with this system (and I'm basing this on my experience in other games that allowed this feature) is that a) you never turn it on due to memory constraints, or HD slowness, and b) when you wish you had it turned on, it's too late anyway. Do others agree?
Danny

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/p...ML/000230.html