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Inktober day 5: cut, featuring Xi Ro

“On the fifth pace, the Tai Emperor Raven comes home to her Bridge, and she cuts a moon with her talons, she cuts it open and kills its brood.”

Remind me to never do 7 pages in a week.

Destiny 2: Season of the Witch

We know that the civilians watch the crucible.

I started wondering what that looks like.

Cos we obviously see it from person to person, sometimes when we're dead we can follow behind an ally kind of thing, but what does the average civilian see?

It's easy to imagine that they get an overlay and an external view, but I'm not sure about likely camera placement. Drones, easy, but where? Probably some Guardian cams feeds, for specific moments, but those are likely too chaotic and unclear.

Overlay would likely contain a map of the entire arena, like our radar but with a little more detail and markers of Guardians, likely our emblems, maybe with numbers assigned for the match. The little X when we die, like on our radar.

Rise suggested things like the overlay on the ESPN football games, where they mark the down line and project sponsor logos and shit, so we could imagine Tex Mechanica or Omolon symbols cast on walls.

Things like highlights, replays, slow-mo recaps; those intro scenes and player stat screens. Deadliest Guardian, scored the most points, etc.,

Between matches, things like interviews or player profiles, screens showing our ELO with full career and seasonal stats.

Did wonder how much gore is standard. Like if they only show a cleaned up (not clean, but just less brain on the walls) version for civilian feeds. I know everyone has seen it, but still.

Or if there's an actual league with team lists and known players and how far that not-fandom would go, like with trading cards.

I still don't know exactly what kind of angles the camera has, I can only imagine the ones on Titan hovering over the ocean outside the open areas--

But they follow like how League spectating works where it picks out to follow the most active/interesting location automatically.

Your own feed can also swap to a different camera. They've probably got letters for names and are indicated by dots on the map. Things like watching the points or heavy/special boxes, zooming in or out, pausing, probably even captures like in streams today are doable, depending on how you're watching.

(A prank amongst the fans is abruptly changing to somewhere boring, especially in the middle of interesting bits at gatherings)

I guess the cameras can be very very small, it hardly has to be Ghost-sized. Though inside ones could be mounted. Or the simulator I've headcanoned can see through the walls. 😁

I can think of a few standard locations on one map, I'm gonna get/make a diagram later.

The broadcast varies with the games, with the sta'r:ffrt-and-stop feel of modes like Rift, the drawn out Control, or the round-based Elimination matches, so there's probably things....

I am so fckn USian I can hardly imagine a world without commercials. I don't even know what anyone would be advertising.

PSAs, City news snippets, I can't decide if the commentators are Shaxx and Saint or if there's other Guardian or civilian ones. They discuss rules changes and the shifts in weapon and armor popularity. (They had just as just fun during The Craftening as the fighters did.)

In the absence of teams, score tracking on a match level is difficult and unnecessary for anyone that isn't gambling, but they do still cycle a scroller you can pull up which shows the score in the middle and the Guardians' names rolling along on their respective sides with their [e.g. points capped, longest streak, Sparks dunked] and K/D. It will cycle each match through three times on weekdays and twice on weekends.

This is the only arena I found ready to go in my head. Each color has its own camera zone by letter (familiar point names, then D, E, and F. You pick.)

Even with the idea of moving drones that can keep up with Guardians, there's still some really tight spaces in certain locations. Those have fixed cameras at the orange dots. These, when activated, always show in a little Picture In Picture box with the main big camera view. They might also go split-screen with the closest other fixed view.