Concerns about observer mode

Jump back to quoted post29 Oct 2014, 16:54 PMQueenRatchet123

Do some research b4 making pointless threads

Jump back to quoted post29 Oct 2014, 20:33 PMludd3emm

Since 8 minutes is a horribly long time in CoH2. 3 minutes would be perfect, it would give you a better feeling that it is actually "live". Since you don't seem to care about how long the delay is, would it have been better for you if Relic just automatically uploaded the replays of each game instead of creating the observer mode? It would probably have saved them a lot of effort when people like you don't care about when a game is taking place.

Jump back to quoted post30 Oct 2014, 00:39 AMtuvok

Actually the 8min delay has nothing to do with that...if they went from a game directly to the next you'd experience no idle time. Your idle time is exactly the time it takes them to be matched with an opponent and load the game.

Jump back to quoted post31 Oct 2014, 18:35 PMInverse

His point is that with an 8 minute delay, a game will end in the observer mode 8 minutes later than it actually ended. During these 8 minutes, the person you're watching is likely searching for another game. If he finished one game and then instantly got another game that very next second somehow, you could go straight from the previous game to the new game because the 8-minute startup delay will overlap with the 8 minutes that the previous game lasts after it has actually finished.

So if you're marathon-watching a single player's games, any time you're forced to wait after the first one is just time that player had to wait while searching for a game. It's pretty much impossible to avoid that if you're going to have a delay.