OWL Spectator UI Suggestion Basic Ability Tracking

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Pic is for rough outline of what I am talking about. Look under the Shock’s nameplates to see the example.

I can link youtube vids, but not other links. =[
Website: streamable
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Can we have boxes that show the cooldowns of the other two abilities of the heroes? With so many micro fights going on in OWL for OW2, I think it would be a great benefit to actually understanding what is going on in the fights by anticipating what people might do. I think being able to see their normal cooldowns would be the perfect way to achieve that.

The first person camera angle just doesnt tell me much in OW2. I would prefer a more third person/birds eye view type of angle. But regardless, I believe seeing the normal ability cooldowns would be a great help.

Also it might be good to make that area of the cooldowns more bluish or glowing blue around the ability cd borders, to signal that the person is nano’d instead of a small blue bar under their nameplate that is hard for even the casters to see.

In this example Colluge would be Nano’d. Obviously a glowing effect would be 10x better, but I just wanted to show how the added abilities provide room to make showing the Nano target easier.

What do you all think? Would it just be more clutter for you or do you also think this would make watching OWL games more understandable/fun.

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I think it should be some option you can have in a replay viewer maybe. Cause it seems like itll clutter the screen a bit too much. Good idea tho

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Thank you. I didn’t know that existed. I imagine I cannot find the download for the replay launcher on the battleNet launcher because we are not in an official OWL season?

Also, I pretty much just pasted the idea from World of Warcraft. They do something similar. Though obviously in WoW the cooldowns are much longer.

WoW example:
Website: streamable
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Well if you post your idea to http://reddit.com/r/competitiveoverwatch

Then you can link it back here.

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Thank you. Im not a big forum poster in general and did not know. Is reddit usually a better place for OW conversations and activity?

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Not really, but it’s nice purely for getting developer and pro eyeballs on stuff occasionally.

I.e. Good for views, bad for discussion

I’m mostly just mentioning out as a way to post images without crazy high trust levels

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