Why no 1st person spectating?

joederp

I've heard a lot of people complain about "hax" and I myself have seen some really suspicious behavior from certain players. And before you judge, know that I have owned & administered a few game servers such as CS, CS:Source, TF, and a few other FPS over the course of several years. I have seen just about every kind of hack in action. One thing that any other admin will agree with is being able to spec a player via 1st person view is the only way to accurately judge if someone is full of crap.

So UWE, please add 1st person spectating. Every time I encounter a player who goes 50 & 2 in a match I'm not sure whether to applaud him or curse his downloadable skillset. And I'm sure it gets very annoying for those players who are very good to constantly be accused of hacking. What better way to prove they are not than to challenge the accuser to "spectate me" ? It has proven to be the <i>only</i> effective anti-cheat system for online games. That and a vote-kick feature. Which brings me to my final point..

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Kouji_San

Wrong forum and also been asked about many times before... I'll leave this one open, but still phasing it to I&S...

reasa

That is a good question tho, and I've missed the answer before if there was one.

Is first person spectating coming? There is no reason I can think of as to why it should not already be in the game.

I'm pretty confident cheating in NS is a near insignificant issue as making cheats for this game would be time consuming and we have a rather small community which tends to be more behaved than other games.

Still I've seen at least one cheater so far but of course couldn’t 100% prove it. The 68-0 kill death ratio was pretty damning.

Kouji_San

Huze created one while Insight wasn't part of NS2. But that was a hacky lua version, the devs are working on coding something on the engine side, so work is being done. No idea when this will be implemented :)

wulf

true to ns1, not having 1st person spec for 1.0 ;)

flain

i think this is a great idea, i've also seen a bit of sus behaviour recently but i'll never accuse someone unless i can be sure. Currently its impossible to be sure.