Gungame sourcetv delay

Watching a gungame match is pretty anticlimactic when you're unable to see the final knife. And then you rely on people that share a vent with the teams to figure out who won the last map and who lost.

I can understand how having a delay of 0 could cause problems with ghosting the location of the last person, but I don't think shortening it to 10-15 seconds would cause an advantage for people that ghost. Even professionals who ghost with a 0 second delay arguably don't have that much of an advantage as was seen in the thermaltake tournament.

If this were to be changed, we could change the time from when the map is won to when the map gets changed to be 15-20 seconds, and people in sourcetv would finally be able to see how the maps ended rather than seeing the server switch to the next map.

I have to say I 100% agree with this. I should be done because it needs to be done. We a match where 25 people were watch a long drawn out map when the last round was crazy as all hell and not one of those poeple got to see it.

That moment in the game is what everyone wants to see. I really hope we can do soemthing to change this.

I agree for all the reasons mentioned above. I say let's put it to a vote.

Agreed. I say put it to a vote.

This would create a whole list of problems.

10-15 is enough time to get someones position if say he is trying to win on a knife round by hiding a little.

0 would defiantly create a whole bunch of ghosting and therefore disputes

I don't see this getting changed

What teams can do is to record sourcetv demos and upload them to our site for those that are interested in the match.

Not sure whats entailed in this, but can you set something up like esea has where the sourcetv records the match and then is available to download from the site for x amount of days before expiring'?

If a team was attempting to ghost with a 15 second delay, calling out positions that are 15 seconds old, it's really not going to be useful in gungame. Even if the person has been camping for that long, they could easily move within that time and the bad call could cost them the match. I really don't think it will be abused. And even if people do attempt to ghost, they won't get any benefit from it. Hell, I wouldn't care if the opposing team does it with the 15 second delay. It's not going to affect the outcome of the match.

And people want to see a match live. The final round is usually the most exiting to watch. I really think it takes away from the spectator aspect of the game. Imagine ESPN not playing the final minute of any game.

You can set the STV relay to delay map changes until the whole game is broadcast. All you have to do is add tv_delaymapchange 1 to your server.cfg

Thanks a lot.

Wow thanks alot HaHaLaughingMan, that will be done to our server right away.

This won't matter if someone changes the map manually though correct?