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Osiris
07-29-2009, 10:53 PM
I know, this might be a little early since the replay function hasn't even presented to the community yet, but I've always hated watching replays of dota games on WC3. 90% of a dota game is boring to watch and i've often missed the other 10% because I wasn't able to stop fast-forwarding fast enough when I tried to skip the lame parts.
When I heard about the K2 engine being able to handle rewinding and jump-to-second-X-of-the-game seekers I was absolutely amazed. Because of this feature, my suggestion might be less of importance, but i'd like to see this implanted though.

Would it be possible to give players the ability to set bookmarks in a replay and add a little description about what exactly the bookmark is referring to?
I'd love to watch a league replay where I simply can click on a small mark over the game progression bar and the games jumps to one of the game highlights.

Also I'd like to be able to set comments in the replay that pop up when the game hits time X and tell the viewer for example, that in 6 seconds there is a really epic gang on the top lane that he shouldn't miss at all.
This could also simply be combined with a bookmark feature or other things like a small button within the pop up window that simply moves your camera to the predestinated location of the forthcoming event.

Might be useless because of the rewinding feature but I'd like to see something like that, though. Feedback is welcome.

Drasha
07-29-2009, 11:09 PM
try bumping this in a few days patch day means no one will see it.

FiNGERS
07-29-2009, 11:13 PM
This would be an awesome feature. +1

ATPX
07-29-2009, 11:18 PM
Notated replays +1

Marijuana
07-29-2009, 11:21 PM
Also +1. Great idea. Definitely should be taken into consideration by S2.

Osiris
07-30-2009, 09:07 AM
Thanks for the positive feedback so far. *bump* :rolleyes:

Psytruss
07-30-2009, 09:50 AM
I think this is a great idea. I can think of a few things to add to this as well. Firstly, the ability to make the replay jump from one bookmark to the other automatically, so the viewer can just sit back and watch. Obviously for this you would also need to specify an end time for bookmarks, so it knows when to jump to the next one, and also to set a camera point to jump to.
Secondly, taking the text annotation idea further, allow a voiceover to be added.

Osiris
08-04-2009, 06:57 PM
EDIT: thanks for moving this, Limi.

noodle0117
08-05-2009, 09:48 PM
Um... how do you watch replays again?

K3nichi
07-02-2011, 04:46 PM
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