I was wondering, is there a way you can spectate a friend who is in a game? I know you can watch old recorded games in the camera mode, and on the last couple patches i noticed something about being able to spectate someone by typing /spectate [Player Name]. I have tried this in the system chat a few times but it never worked, so im wondering is this even something you can do and if so, how do you do it. Thanks!
Spectator Mode is still a work-in-progress, as it doesn't seem to be available for casual matches yet. Not to mention I heard spectated games have a 5-minute delay between the actual gameplay and what the spectator is seeing.
There are concerns about a spectator feeding information to an in-game player. Because of this, not everyone has spectator mode at this time. If they can figure out how to keep cheaters from abusing spectator mode, then I think we'll see it.
Think of this, too. A single player "multi-boxing", one account playing and a second on a second monitor simply spectating. One could, theoretically, use this system to give you perfect map-wide information about all enemy gods and teammates in the game. This could be disastrous for the competitive scene, and hugely annoying even for casuals.
There are concerns about a spectator feeding information to an in-game player. Because of this, not everyone has spectator mode at this time. If they can figure out how to keep cheaters from abusing spectator mode, then I think we'll see it.
Think of this, too. A single player "multi-boxing", one account playing and a second on a second monitor simply spectating. One could, theoretically, use this system to give you perfect map-wide information about all enemy gods and teammates in the game. This could be disastrous for the competitive scene, and hugely annoying even for casuals.
Not possible for 2 reasons, 1) a 3 min delay thats unavoidable and 2) Smite.exe can only run once on a PC, he would need 2 different PC's but there is still reason #1
Why not everyone has it: It's very buggy and causes a lot of random crashes to people who have it. (I'm one of the lucky once who's game doesn't crash that much) and 2 their servers can't hold that much information since spectating is very heavy on their processing.
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