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This is a feature request. Feature requests can be voted up by supporters.
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Topic Starter
Sir Minelli
I'm not sure if this was posted already or not. I couldn't find it on search.

Anyways it basically works like this:

When on multiplayer lobby, you check the current games that are being played. You right click the tab, and an option will appear saying: Spectate game.

You will then spectate the entire game, not just one single player. But every player and their respective scores.

This can be really nice for tournament purposes.


Edit: When you go to the spectate screen for example when on "head to head", only the cursor of the player that is currently in first place will appear. It WILL change if someone else takes the first place so...

You will have the option to click on a players score tab and the cursor will change to that player's instead.
If you do so, if someone else takes the first place, the cursor won't change to that player. You will have to click that players tab if you wish to see him.

This way we don't see the 8 cursors going all over the place.

For tag it works the same.

Works only for osu! standart.
KawaiiLily
Haha! That would be sweet.
I often just sit and wait in the MP lobby while others are playing. This way i can sit and WATCH! :D

+1 Support.
anonymous_old
I would prefer something like this:

Click one of the user avatar boxes (right click?) to bring up the standard user menu, which includes the spectate option.
Topic Starter
Sir Minelli

strager wrote:

I would prefer something like this:

Click one of the user avatar boxes (right click?) to bring up the standard user menu, which includes the spectate option.

no, that takes away the "multiplayer spectate" that i want.

And about the right click... normal click works the same hehe. I keep saying right click just because im used to.
Kitty McWittles
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anonymous_old

Sir Minelli wrote:

strager wrote:

I would prefer something like this:

Click one of the user avatar boxes (right click?) to bring up the standard user menu, which includes the spectate option.

no, that takes away the "multiplayer spectate" that i want.
That's the part I don't like. =]

I guess it'd be just annoying to see eight cursors going around at once. Spinners would be crazy, as well as sliders, and there'd be eight hits at slightly different times... Ew.
Topic Starter
Sir Minelli

strager wrote:

Sir Minelli wrote:

strager wrote:

I would prefer something like this:

Click one of the user avatar boxes (right click?) to bring up the standard user menu, which includes the spectate option.

no, that takes away the "multiplayer spectate" that i want.
That's the part I don't like. =]

I guess it'd be just annoying to see eight cursors going around at once. Spinners would be crazy, as well as sliders, and there'd be eight hits at slightly different times... Ew.
Fixed that problem. You have a point. Recheck main post.
anonymous_old

Sir Minelli wrote:

strager wrote:

I guess it'd be just annoying to see eight cursors going around at once. Spinners would be crazy, as well as sliders, and there'd be eight hits at slightly different times... Ew.
Fixed that problem. You have a point. Recheck main post.
With the amendments, I agree with this idea. Spectating tag-team games would be interesting.

One thing I disagree with is the 'auto-go-to-first-place-player' thing. I'm more for the 'click-the-user-in-the-scoreboard' thing.
Topic Starter
Sir Minelli

strager wrote:

One thing I disagree with is the 'auto-go-to-first-place-player' thing. I'm more for the 'click-the-user-in-the-scoreboard' thing.
Well... if you start spectating an already started match, you need to start spectating someone... that will be the player currently in the first place. That's what i meant.
Gabi
i dont think it is possible to spectate 1 game and then just instantly switch to another player inside the game due to latency differences. alltho it would be a cool idea and i would support this ^^

for instance, pings might differ 5 seconds sometimes, so if you would be switching between 2 people constantly it would mess up and repeat notes.
qlum
i dont think it is possible to spectate 1 game and then just instantly switch to another player inside the game due to latency differences. alltho it would be a cool idea and i would support this ^^

for instance, pings might differ 5 seconds sometimes, so if you would be switching between 2 people constantly it would mess up and repeat notes.
5000 ms is extremely high and even if there is that much delay it's better than waiting for a game to end so support+1
anonymous_old

qlum wrote:

i dont think it is possible to spectate 1 game and then just instantly switch to another player inside the game due to latency differences. alltho it would be a cool idea and i would support this ^^

for instance, pings might differ 5 seconds sometimes, so if you would be switching between 2 people constantly it would mess up and repeat notes.
5000 ms is extremely high and even if there is that much delay it's better than waiting for a game to end so support+1
Indeed.

If you're getting lag and you don't like it, just don't switch. Spectate one person.
Gabi

strager wrote:

qlum wrote:

i dont think it is possible to spectate 1 game and then just instantly switch to another player inside the game due to latency differences. alltho it would be a cool idea and i would support this ^^

for instance, pings might differ 5 seconds sometimes, so if you would be switching between 2 people constantly it would mess up and repeat notes.
5000 ms is extremely high and even if there is that much delay it's better than waiting for a game to end so support+1
Indeed.

If you're getting lag and you don't like it, just don't switch. Spectate one person.
i didn't say i was against this, i was saying I DOUBT ITS POSSIBLE to do something like this because the internet latency is very high. also @strager, why would we need to add something like this if we only want to spectate one person? we can do that by pressing f9 and clicking spectate on that person. oh btw have you ever noticed how it buffers sometimes? i belive switching between players would cause it to buffer and make it useless anyway. "only the cursor of the player that is currently in first place will appear. It WILL change if someone else takes the first place so..."

since the internet latency is so high, the number 1 spot might change like every 2 seconds, and we would have to buffer constantly.

anyways i suggested something like this in another topic, and peppy said "Not possible until LAN play is implemented. Internet latency is far too high."

again with the latency, its very high. however those might be 2 completley different things.
anonymous_old

Gabi wrote:

i didn't say i was against this, i was saying I DOUBT ITS POSSIBLE to do something like this because the internet latency is very high.
I understand. I was just saying if you did experience lag and didn't like it, don't do the thing which initiates it!

Gabi wrote:

also @strager, why would we need to add something like this if we only want to spectate one person? we can do that by pressing f9 and clicking spectate on that person. oh btw have you ever noticed how it buffers sometimes? i belive switching between players would cause it to buffer and make it useless anyway. "only the cursor of the player that is currently in first place will appear. It WILL change if someone else takes the first place so..."
I was under the impression that you can choose who you want to spectate by clicking the name of the player on the left, where the score table is. Following first isn't such a good idea IMO. (See my posts above.)
Topic Starter
Sir Minelli

strager wrote:

I was under the impression that you can choose who you want to spectate by clicking the name of the player on the left, where the score table is. Following first isn't such a good idea IMO. (See my posts above.)
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Torran
Allow me to bump this. Also, Support~!

*bump*
DJNightmare
I SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because i always DC then very impatient lol Seeing people play is already good XD
Jeffro
+Support, awesome for tournaments and stuff :D would love to know how its going on in some rooms :)
Matykocska
+1, I also thought that this would be nice.
[Strike]
support!
laport
+support
this would be awesome, you join a game that's in progress and you get to watch the game and everyone sees you are a spectator!
wailord2700
support! we can know when the match will end as some songs are long and we do not know we need to wait till when
nate_old
Support because it is different than just spectating because you would see a live update of the scores. I think it would be much more interesting than just watching one person, and it seems easy to implement (since the 'spectate' option is already there, it would just mean juxtaposing the scoreboard and the spectate feature)
Shinigami_55
i agree to this idead.. it would be a time consumer when we are waiting to games to finish.. like mentioned above.
+1
AdRon Zh3Ro
Seems good.
Nekoroll
Support!

For when you don't have people to spectate since there are always games going on in Multiplayer and you just want to watch. I think it would be great for everybody and don't see anything wrong with a feature like this since it essentially makes the game more involved.
Lunah_old
Support, a nice idea
Kaona
+Support

I've always wanted this :D
Grabby_old
+1

Would love to spectate multiplayer matches like that...
Especially if you're doing something else like eating and can't play :)
Powerdrone
SUPPORT
Miu Matsuoka
definitely SUPPORT~
Turnyp
I was actually thinking of suggesting a "split screen" effect for Multiplayer, but I realized the flaws, mostly related to ping issues.
theowest
bump because

Being able to spectate multiple users in tournaments or just multiplayer rooms. Whatever works the best.
This could also bring up the multiplayer chat #multiplayer, or possibly a separate one.

So here's what I had in mind. You spectate anyone in a multiplayer game and you'll be able to spectate as if you were in the multiplayer game. Team vs with country vs country would be viewable and you'd be able to see which team is winning.

For the coming OWC and pretty much every other tournament. It'd bring more order and quality compared to live stream based tournaments.

What do you think?
jabberwockey
I want this so badly hhhh
ShiizuoXx
Definitely support this idea! :D
Tshemmp

theowest wrote:

This could also bring up the multiplayer chat #multiplayer
Better not for owc because I can already see the chat being spammed by koreans if Cookiezi is playing. I think the players should still have there own closed chat. So

theowest wrote:

a separate one
would be better. In this - let's call it #multispec - are all people who spectate one of the players in the room. This extra chat would be accesable for the players, too ofcourse.
QHideaki13
I wholeheartedly agree... :D

EDIT:Also agree with the statements by Tshemmp...
DJKero
Support!
TheDragonXD
Bump.

I honestly think this is a cool idea , you should also get the option to do the 8 cursors flying over the place. +1

P.S. this could work for all the other modes , sinse they could show like the names above/below the cursor if your doing the all players screen thing.

It would be nice instead of waiting.

This could also implement people being able when using the "free mods" to choose DoubleTime/HalfTime/Nightcore , then after you beat it before everyone else, you can spectate
Soner Wolf
shut up and take all my stars I don't have!

+1
-libili

Gabi wrote:

i dont think it is possible to spectate 1 game and then just instantly switch to another player inside the game due to latency differences. alltho it would be a cool idea and i would support this ^^

for instance, pings might differ 5 seconds sometimes, so if you would be switching between 2 people constantly it would mess up and repeat notes.

so? sometimes they play on realtime as you can see the scores are going on 300th's at the same time when ur playingg on multi.

sometimes its right, ssomeone is delayed, but wwho cares if some notes are messsing up on changed player .. better than nothing or? :3
Bells
I've seen this break up into many separate ideas in this thread.

What would be great would be to have it mimic what we see with the live stream of the OWC. Have all players displayed and actually see what they all doing simultaniously. If you then want to spectate a specific person, you click on their window and you spec them. If you want to go back to seeing all the players. You click a button and go back out.

I agree that a totally different spec chat would need to exist and the private rooms chat needs to remain. You can even add features to Multiplayer rooms where the players can set the room to private so they cannot be spectated.

There is actually so much you can do with this idea, I think its brilliant and if I knew how to get more stars I'd send them all in support of this thread
Plushies
I know this thread is a fossil but this is a great idea with much support and shouldn't be dead.
DJKero
Hell yeah. For Unnoficial Tournaments and Official too, this should be preeetty handy.
Dusk252
Bumping this dead request because it's a fantastic idea overall. No need to explain why since all reasons are well stated above in the thread.
- Marco -

Dusk252 wrote:

Bumping this dead request because it's a fantastic idea overall. No need to explain why since all reasons are well stated above in the thread.
I agree!
xasuma
Bump!
Make this happen please.
This is a no brainer addition , and it was requested 6 years ago already. :(
Chirimu-Chan
There is already the "Tournament Client", which is able to spectate a whole room (with the correct configuration even 16 players at once). The thing is, its not public and the staff is not going to release it.
Xenocidel

Chirimu-Chan wrote:

There is already the "Tournament Client", which is able to spectate a whole room (with the correct configuration even 16 players at once). The thing is, its not public and the staff is not going to release it.
How about requesting access to the Tournament Client like how League of Legends does it, with Tournament Codes given out through application/request? Also, from what we've seen with OWC, spectating an entire room is really unreliable and laggy.
Green Platinum
I feel this should also come with an ability to abstain from playing for the round too. Allowing you to spectate but also not slowing the room down due to you being afk.
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