Death Replay

[Tankoz]

Whenever I see a hardcore character that has died on the realm, I often wonder "How did that happen?" I think the new battlenet should handle the ability to play the last 10 or so seconds of a dead hardcore characters life for all to see and learn from or laugh\cry at etc. At the very least, there should be some stats indicating what you got killed from, what area, items, time\date etc. If the replay is too much to store for everyone on the realms, maybe it can be an option to those who are placed in the ladder. I know this is sounding like COD4, but it would really suit in this aspect of Diablo IMO.

Thoughts?

[KiLLJOi]

I think a lot of the deaths would be Tppk related
I, on the other hand, seem to always die when someone presses a Seal in the Chaos Sanc.

But yea, I would like to see this on Bnet

[lionheart]

When i read this it gave me an image of a guy watching those 10 secs over and over again with tears in his eyes over the loss of his character lol

[5zigen]

Originally Posted by lionheart

When i read this it gave me an image of a guy watching those 10 secs over and over again with tears in his eyes over the loss of his character lol

The image was funny, but this idea is freaking awesome.

It would be an awesome 'hardcore only' feature. Something like if you could store say 5 of them on your account and when someone asks how your character died you could direct them to the video.

Dunno if it's practical for the dev team, but what a cool idea.

[lionheart]

I guess it could be instructive for other players in HC. I think they would need the more indepth of the actions and of the build though to really get some good instructive points out of it

[ThulRasha]

It's a nice idea. Recording it should not take much space, if it is recorded in the same way that starcraft does.

[MoUsE_WiZ]

Originally Posted by ThulRasha

It's a nice idea. Recording it should not take much space, if it is recorded in the same way that starcraft does.

Well the thing is SC is client-client. If they managed the recording server side then that'd be a fair bit of extra load, given that they'd have to be constantly recording every action of every monster/player in HC, as they can't just decide to go back and record the last little bit. If the recording were done client side they may have to send information to the client that the client has no business knowing, which opens up various hack possibilities.

Not to say it'd be impossible to do it like SC as I haven't given it much thought, but if it were that easy I imagine we'd see recordings in a lot of games without the need for fraps or similar. For instance, I bet we'd see options to save arena replays from WoW.

Also if recordings as in SC/WC3 were possible, there'd be no reason to keep it HC only or just 10 seconds before death, you could record your character's entire life without too much stress on them.

And just straight recording is far too much load either for their servers or our machines (with some exceptions of course, but those guys can just run fraps if they want... I know I'll be trying to ^^).

That said, I love the idea, just not sure it's feasible.

[cbr]

Originally Posted by lionheart

When i read this it gave me an image of a guy watching those 10 secs over and over again with tears in his eyes over the loss of his character lol

Trust me that would actually happen. I know people that were so fond of their chars, one guy when his char was tppked in russian cows on Europe in 1.09 swore revenge on the russians and started pking them in their own cows. Forced the russians to stop cowing for 2-3 months because he was killing meteor sorc.

[mouseman]

Yeah and when you see those grey names on HC ladder you could just double-click them and watched how they died Would be so much fun.

[Pyratheon]

it could be useful, for example if tppk'd you'd be able to get evidence of who got it, and therefore get them on a ****list, or even better, if the features in the game, banned.