Remove or add option to disable killcams in GRB

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Title - showing the shell penetration starting just meters from when it hits your vehicle: fine. Killcam showing the enemy, their position: no. It’s precisely the kind of thing that allows revenge CAS to be so prevalent and revenge killing in general. Rather than being rewarded for finding a good spot, someone can just respawn and flank you without ever having to actually lay eyes on you that life.

Arcade it’s fine, because it’s arcade. But it doesn’t belong in GRB. The killcam should be removed outright or given an option to disabled(both sending/receiving).

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Killcams are not how I know where you are after dying.
The game gives the dead far more information before the killcam than the killcam itself gives.

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I dont really care about killcams too much, but would be nice when it says “press space bar to skip” and you press space bar and nothing happens and you still have to sit and watch your tank get blown 1-2 times was fixed,

It should be

  1. I die
  2. I hit space bar
  3. im instantly on the respawn screen

There should not be 5 seconds between 2 and 3

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Yeah this is annoying. For years I’ve had to press space twice. You skip it, then it just plays it again, and you have to skip again. It’s ridiculous. Something so simple…

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@Rikers_Beard
Just disable the killcam like I did years ago…

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Or imagine if you click “skip confirmation” on using a backup vehicle, it would actually work.

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It does though. Checking that box prevents another window from popping up. Not really what you expect to happen but it does do something

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Hit cams are IMO a bit more problematic. They allow to direct fire quite efficiently when the target is obscured or at very long range.

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So the confirmation skips another confirmation. Nice.

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This is the screen without the option checked

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A stationary tank is a dead tank, regardless of the kill cam. And it’s right that there is a kill cam anyway, if you don’t like it, you can play the SGB.

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A stationary tank is not a dead tank provided it adheres to its playstyle. An AMX-50 Foch can stay 2km+ out in the same position for as long as it likes - the only thing that’s going to get to it is CAS, of which a killcam provides plenty of opportunity to be revenge CAS’d.

I’m not forfeiting the most popular gamemode in the game because I don’t like killcams. Sim is not just RB without killcams.

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Dude you have a lot to learn, a smart player with CAS will find you.

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ftfy

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Kill cams should be moved to the end of the game screen, as they give way too much information to the guy that got killed, which doesn’t feel right.

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Seeing the shell impact your vehicle is good, seeing the enemy straight up where they are for a few seconds before it then goes on to show you the exact trajectory the shot took - it’s even more ridiculous now that I write it out. What’s the point of positioning in the first place if you’re going to get instantly revealed/punished for killing someone?

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It’s been annoyingly broken like that ever since they added that new info card. It’s buggy too

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Many crutches in the game of WT.

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You forget that kill cam is very useful for catching cheaters.

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Cheaters are usually quite obvious anyway but post-game killcam is still available. Or add the option to flag/timestamp a death in-game to make checking it easier.

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