Changing Colors in the Killfeed [PATCHED] 

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Got to love the tiny amount of silliness in a very professional video.

Winton

Winton 🦍

@@OrigamiAhsoka why do I keep seeing you in comment sections💀

True. Deletion would happen only after the animation/particles of the character/object ends

@@TheSodaWave that makes a lot of sense

Can anyone confirm if that happens with Bob?

That would also explain bob's weird 10.2 seconds thing, since normally he would do the jump animation to leave the battlefield right on the 10 seconds mark and then dissapear for good, he's probably scripted to be deleted after the 10.2 seconds (ult duration + jump animation) regardless of his current state, even if he died, wonder if inmortality and tire also behave like that if you somehow avoid their extremely quick death animations

@@LuigixD Bob's entry is deleted 0.2 seconds after ult ends as he leaps out of the map. For player he doesn't exist anymore, therefore it can be deleted at an instant when he finishes his jump out animation without long delay. For 7.5 seconds after death - idk, maybe to make it similar to players' respawn timer cuz he is big major threat and autonomous separate character with vulnerabilities and hit boxes similar to normal heroes

Agreed. People have been asking for this pretty much since replays debuted.

Does anyone know in those replays how the red and blue teams are chosen in modes like Control and Push, when you have the same neutral area to be taken by either team?

@@ccricers I would guess that it has to do with the order in which each team is populated. The match maker selects the first person, and then places that person into team 1. Then the match maker runs its algorithm to decide which players out of the pool will be that players teammates and enemies. Which group is on team one or team two likely also decides which is attacking or defending. Obviously I don’t know for sure, but I would guess this is how it would work since it is irrelevant which players are on which team, but it would still make sense to index the first player selected as team one (basically the first player is in the first element of array one aka team one). Then again, I am looking at this from a data engineer perspective, I’m not a game dev and I don’t know how good or bad overwatch’s data structure practices are.

As a workaround you could use the color blind filter to set colors correctly, if your team is red, just switch it out. Just remember to reset them before going into game again lol

I think it happens when the person that got killed leaves the game while the killfeed is still active, so maybe bc their data gets deleted or something?

yes, this also happens when player entities are deleted. I showcase this at 2:26 by manually deleting winton via the workshop. I had trouble getting it to occur "naturally" by leaving a server, but it's good to know that it is sometimes possible.

Ah, this explains why all of the player entries on the leaderboard start turning blue at the end of an FFA match.

winton

I've had this happen with echo dupe where an ally killed an enemy echo dupe and said ally turned red in the killfeed. I don't even want to imagine the hellish spaghetti code that results in this glitch.

Same here

I on the other hand dont play as much ow2 to notice these details, but i love how he goes detective mode on all those bugs

it must occur when a player finds a game after getting a kill/being killed -- they are taken out of the server and their entity is deleted. I tried to reproduce this manually by leaving a game myself via the pause menu, but couldn't get it to work. thanks for the info!

@@Marblr i've seen it happening in queue deathmatch since OW2 launch, if right after you kill someone they get put into a game their killfeed icon changes to blue from red

@@Marblr well you can consider 2 things maybe 1 the entity data isn't deleted until that space on the team is filled by a new player, or 2 that entity data is linked to players specifically and not just in the one match so when they join a new match their entity data is taken with them. That's why it occurs when they find a match and not when they just go back to the menu.

​@@Marblr It happens very reliably for me in the final FFA deathmatch screen after POTG. Everyone who leaves then turns blue.

there is something even stranger going on with the targeting UI color, since it changes back and forth between the friendly color and the enemy color for both teams. perhaps related to this, but it definitely does not share the same characteristics.

just adding that I also have experience the UI color change on Zen! It changes to blue for enemy targets and every time causes me to take a second a look at who I'm discording!

That has happened to me a few times, thought I was going crazh

Indie devs you guys

Yes! I thought I'm the only one. I don't know exactly WHY I got there, but I used Echo's Flying ability and didn't die in that spot. Only if you move a mm to the side, you die.

Always been there 🗿

thats been in the game since ow1's release

Yep. If you boop practice Tracer off the map there as Brig, she'll just sit there on the rocks mocking you.

There are a lot of places like that in the Practice Range, I've spent a lot of hours with my friends with Pharah trying to find all of them. (Mei's wall and Sym's teleporter could help too)

Did they hit a wall before falling?

@@laststanding9998 No, I don't think so. It's hard to remember.

Int endorsement; Int pEndorsement; Void AfterMatch() { If (GainedEndorsment()) pEndorsement = endorsement++; If (endorsement ‰ 20) LevelUp(); If (pEndorsment == endorsement) endorsement--; }

They've kept the system a highly guarded secret. Regardless, I lose endorsement levels when 5 stacked, when I literally can't get endorsements. So I dont think they bothered to fix it for OW2.

It doesn't matter because if you use endorsement to track anything in Overwatch then you are part of the problem of overwatch. The endorsement system is only for getting extra XP of you want it

@@SuperLifestream It was fun to endorse the enemy team after a match to make em less salty

@@GummyDinosaursify for generations, the dreaming city housed one of the awoken's most closely guarded secrets. it is known as the endorsement system, the endorsement system of a thousand voices

I use a mixture of the in-game workshop, comments made by overwatch developers, and my own experience in game development. you are correct in saying that overwatch is closed source; I can't actually look at the code, it's just a "best-fit" explanation given all of the publicly available information.

@@Marblr gotcha! makes sense, ty!