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Offline Timmay9/11

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Spectator Mode on full servers
« on: 10-02-2010, 21:02:58 »
Don’t know where to put it

It happens sometimes that the two servers I’m used to play on are full.
Both 64/64 players. That’s not a problem, would also enjoy just to join as a spectator and enter the game later but that is not possible.
My suggestion would be a mode that you can join a server as spectator even if the server is “full”
Is this possible or does the network code limits it?
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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #1 on: 10-02-2010, 21:02:41 »
Not possible. 64 is the limit.

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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #2 on: 11-02-2010, 10:02:39 »
this is not red orchestra ;)
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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #3 on: 11-02-2010, 14:02:38 »
Thank god it's not possible. I don't want ghosts floating around and seeing where I'm hiding and telling the enemy where I am

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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #4 on: 11-02-2010, 20:02:28 »
Not possible. 64 is the limit.

When in doubt, it is not possible.

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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #5 on: 11-02-2010, 20:02:21 »
Thank god it's not possible. I don't want ghosts floating around and seeing where I'm hiding and telling the enemy where I am

completely agree

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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #6 on: 11-02-2010, 22:02:03 »
Spec mode is a good admin tool to spot trouble makers and cheaters.
I don't know if such tool exist for this game, as I never was an admin on a BF2 server.

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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #7 on: 12-02-2010, 10:02:56 »
The only way to spectate a full server would be if the BF2 engine had a dedicated "broadcast" function like other games such as Half-Life and its successors, which relay game play to a separate spectator server.

As far as I'm aware it doesn't and never will, unless there is a very enterprising modder out there.

Now if someone could figure out a way to stream Battlerecorder to another server.

It is not playing a movie of the round, it is actually replaying the round as it occurred when recorded within the Battlefield engine.

Hmmm...

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Re: Spectator Mode on full servers
« Reply #8 on: 12-02-2010, 14:02:52 »
Yeah, this was a feature I missed very much at the bf2 start...


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