I apologise for complaining, but I wish the commentators would pay a bit of attention to the layout and take two seconds at the start of the game to check that the player IDs are on the correct side and that the current score is right... It's really confusing.

Edit: Having said that, thanks a lot for casting!

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

November 10 2013 22:11 GMT

#10

On November 11 2013 07:05 GeLaar wrote:
I apologise for complaining, but I wish the commentators would pay a bit of attention to the layout and take two seconds at the start of the game to check that the player IDs are on the correct side and that the current score is right... It's really confusing.

Edit: Having said that, thanks a lot for casting!

Today we actually weren't the ones running the stream, but I'll keep this in mind.

FyRe_DragOn

Canada2053 Posts

November 10 2013 22:19 GMT

#11

i dont understand why you would have separate obs controlling the screen from what the commentators are talking about. Today there was an issue with the obs constantly turning vision on/off of the players which was really not helpful, but beside that it just doesnt seem like a good idea to not allow the commentators to show people exactly what theyre talking about all the time.
thnx for the cast ofc, just pointing out something i think would help to fix

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

November 10 2013 23:47 GMT

#12

On November 11 2013 07:19 FyRe_DragOn wrote:
i dont understand why you would have separate obs controlling the screen from what the commentators are talking about. Today there was an issue with the obs constantly turning vision on/off of the players which was really not helpful, but beside that it just doesnt seem like a good idea to not allow the commentators to show people exactly what theyre talking about all the time.
thnx for the cast ofc, just pointing out something i think would help to fix

Yea, I think the though process was that it would make the graphics and transitions and such better, which I imagine it did; but if the obs is heavily out of sync with the casters that would definitely be a bigger deal than nice transitions.

fearthequeen

United States785 Posts

November 11 2013 14:42 GMT

#13

I don't necessarily think that having a non-commentating observer is the problem in itself. It's just the observer was trying to be too fancy with the observing. It's cool to have only one player's vision in some cases, but it doesn't need to be switched on and off every 30 seconds like the obs was doing in this case. If the obs is listening to the cast they should be able to show what the casters are talking about 100% of the time...

As long as the obs knows that showing what the casters are talking about is the priority the cast wouldn't be diminished by this system imo.

Jaevlaterran

Sweden578 Posts

November 11 2013 16:17 GMT

#14

I made these rules for next cast (in case he will even obs then)

don't ever alt tab during a game
only toggle off vision if it is relevant to scouting in early game (max 1 time per player)
listen to the skype call and show what the casters talk about

Should solve any problems in my book. We are also looking into setting a delay so that casters are casting from the obs'd view til next week. As many of you might see we are making graphical changes from week to week.