City Of Heroes: Arena News: Observer Mode

Everyone's favourite guy-in-power-armour, Positron, brings us a little tidbit of info on something pretty neat that'll come with the Arena. Bare in mind that it is preliminary info and that it may change in the future. So, Positron... can we spectate on Arena matchs?

(NOTE: Any or all of the following information may change by the time this makes it to Training Room or the Live servers).

Yes... to an extent.

You will be able to view the events in "Observer Mode", either when they are running, or if you are defeated and players on your side are still running around.

Observer Mode is cool. You look like a floating camera and can move around the arena map, watching the action.

Now, of course, some of you are right to point out that such a system is ripe for abuse... you can scout out enemy positions for your buddies and the like.

Thats why we made these Observer cameras targetable and easily destroyable. This is a very cool feature that adds another dimension to gameplay.

This tries to give everyone what they want. Voyeurs get to observe, defeated players get to still watch the action, "spies" can try to gather intel on opposing teams, and at the same time, opposing teams can shut down those spies easily if they so wish.

Again, this is all being tested, and may make it to the Live servers in a different manner than described here.

You can read the thread here as well as provide feedback.