Have these features been considered?

Spectator Mode - great for shoutcasts or referees, or having someone spectate the matches. The spectator can follow the flag movemenents or freely watch the entire screen back and forth. Servers could set up if they allow spectators or not, how long specators can stay in spectator mode, and if spectators can talk to players or only fellow specators.

One useful scenario, in a shoutcast environment, people can meet in IRC and listen to radio/web telecasts (via Winamp, etc.) of the match by a sportscaster type person who spectates the game.

Demo (demonstration) Recording - This allows all movements to be recorded for later play back and viewing. It basically records everything a person sees and plays it right back - good for shoutcasting, reviewing possible cheats, and watching matches historically.

One good program that works great with demo recording is Fraps - www.fraps.com - it allows a person to actually record the images of a monitor, including sound, to a video/audio file. Then use a free program like virtual dub - http://www.virtualdub.org - to compress the file.

Fraps shows FPS (frames per second), allows you to take screenshots and videos in game, etc. Pretty nice.

Some examples of large video files I used with Fraps and Virtual Dub - warning these are fairly large so I recommend choosing 'save as' (normally you can make the files much smaller, I was just experimenting):

http://www.escapedturkey.com/mutantstorm.html

Click on Video 1 - 4

If the videos don't play properly, you may need the latest version of DivX (codec).

Grab the free version here - http://www.divx.com/divx

quote:Originally posted by escapedturkey
Have these features been considered?


yes, many times...

yup we already know about fraps and spectator has already been suggested many a time. it seems like a lot of your suggestions are based on CS...

Nope, mostly Quake 3. Never played CS.

as others said(and will say)
the spectator mode and demo recording suggestions, has been suggested before

and R, CS is not the only, not the first, and not the last in having spectator mode and demo recording as features, or maybe you was basing your comment in other suggestions that escapedturkey made?

spectator would be awesome.

Yeah spectator would be really cool, sometimes I wanna watch duels that my friends are playing but I can't, and that really sucks. So, spectator would be a fun, lag free way of watching games.