Situation:
While playing, the default colors are enemy: red, own team: blue. (These colors can be changed, in the following I will use the default colors to describe the problem.)
In the replay, this color scheme is not applied, instead the team colors are fixed. One team is blue, the other is red.
This might be desireable for some use cases, e.g. a turnament, but it is very confusing when analyzing someones gameplay. I find it especially confusing when spectating a player in first person, as he sometimes shoots at blue targets, instead of red targets.
This problem is described in several forum posts:
- https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/request-to-have-team-colors-in-replay-to-automatically-be-blue-from-whatever-side-of-the-teams
- https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/team-colors-in-replays
- there are more posts describing this problem, but I can only post two links
Improvement Suggestion:
Add two new options:
- A new toggle in spectator options: When in first person view, always show the spectated team as blue, the other team as red
- A new toggle in media controls: Switch the colors of the two teams. The red team becomes blue, the blue team becomes red.