Profile of Lebatron

No, nothing works better than a Razor Tartarus and mouse combo. Put the keyboard aside and use the programmable keypad instead. Having a d-pad for your thumb is really great. Even in FPS shooters it's way better. Why use WSAD when you can more comfortable use of your thumb like on a gamepad for consoles. You still have your mouse accuracy, only now you combine it with something that makes sense for your other hand.

Sure, and would it be hard to do reverse? How I wish there was a way to go back several seconds to see something I just missed. Sometimes the whole reason I load a replay is to see something and then I miss it only to have to reload the whole damn thing again and go 8x until I hit that part again. And that really sucks because if the event was long into the battle your fast forward can take several minutes. It's a standard feature in every video playback program that you can click on the progress bar where you would like to jump to. But no...

You can remove the fog effect via a setting. Awesome! Oh and that is one more thing that relic should add to replay by default. On some maps the fog got pretty severe when using a zoom mod to watch a 4v4 replay.

I'd like to know what I got to change via -dev to do that.

It's welcome news to hear that it is being done and that relic has been asked by casters to add it. Did not know about Dota 2 having it, but there you go, one great company seems to get it.

Ironic that I linked to the one caster that has in fact used it. haha

Casting my be mostly done for 1v1 and 2v2, but a replay zoomout for 3v3 and up is a must. When I want to watch a big 4v4 I was a part of it's so hard to follow all the action going on without using more zoom.

While allowing this for replays is fine, I see a problem with allowing live casters, observers to do this. Could one not set up a secondary PC and peak at their own game in super far out zoom, or have a friend spot stuff for them and give them a heads up. Of coarse setting the delay to max amount of minutes limits that cheats usefulness, but if made short this can become an unfair advantage. So no, I don't think live observers should be allowed access to a greater view unless a sufficient number of minutes is locked in for this. Am I making sense here, or did I miss something?

BTW thanks for the info everyone.

After considering the comments on this thread I paid more attention to my Volks with Shreks and looked at their performance with a more critical eye. The thing that stood out to me was the range and accuracy of the Shrek. Many times you'd think the vehicle was to far away for a hand held AT weapon to target reliably, but no. The Shrek travels as far as a V2! And is laser guided to boot!

After looking at them more critically I asked myself why did Relic give these things a rifle bullet range? In real life a hand held AT weapon at that time had no where near the accuracy of a round shot through the barrel of a tank. Troops had to get up close to ensure the hand held AT weapon did not miss. We've all seen that tactic in WWII movies. Zooks and Shreks need a range nerf. It's only logical. To observe them shoot AND HIT with a range similar to that of a standard tank clearly screams nerf the range a lot.