I allways thought more games should allow you to see your last few moments from your killers POV while you wait to respawn. Have a little notice on the HUD when dead that watching a replay is available if it is enabled on the current server(league games and scrims and such will probably need to turn it off).

I see a lot of "BS" and "OMG HAX" that would IMO all but dissapear if you could watch what your attacker actually did.

The few real cheaters I have actually come across in NS would have been much more likely to be noticed quickly with a death cam mode.

It gives you something interesting to do while dead.

It might be hard to implement. I'm thinking you would have to have a small buffer for each player on the server that is written to cyclically with the current information from each player, and then the last few seconds stored off when someone dies and the memory freed when they respawn. It would take very little memory, something like a hundred bytes per player per frame if you store even useless junk for the ease of it, this is a few hundred kB as the absolute highest, on a 32 player server with 100 updates per second and 10 second buffer(more than you would need as you're only going to show a few seconds). Tricking the client into thinking the demo is the current in-game situation during play back some how, to avoid having to mess around too much.

Would it be worth the trouble?

If you want to catch hackers, spectate their first person view and record a demo.

First, no the main point is not to catch cheaters, it's to stop the frequent "omg hax" comments and accusations and give the player something interesting to do while dead. The accusations far outnumber the real number of cheaters and do far more damage(IMO).

And going to spectator is a bad idea because you have to jump out of the game to do it. You're sacrificing your time and fun to do it and most of the time only to find that you were wrong. Also, there's cheats that detect if someone is spectating, it's not difficult for a cheat to get at this information because the players in spec mode are visible even in the scoreboard as spectators. Most servers dislike people going into spec, I have been kicked and even banned plenty of times for spectating and refusing to stop(I figure if you're not even allowed to spec I don't care if I am banned or not). Cheats can quickly toggle on and off, not all cheaters use their cheats full out to enrage people, most people know this and are quick to scream "hax" whenever something suspicious looking happens, where as if you had an instant replay mode you could clearly see that the player is(more than likely) not cheating straight away.

Accusations doing more damage that being convicted? If anything, accusations serve to prove that you are a better player and that they are too childish to admit it. (That's how I look at it when people accuse me)

In addition, 10 seconds isn't enough to catch a hacker, there can be a fine line between skill and hacking at times, and 10 seconds will not prove anything other than "His aim is really good"

Also, this may end up increasing accusations when people see their enemies extreamly good aim killing them in under a second. Good idea, but I think it will serve no purpose other than to increase accusations.

This would also give away tactics, positions, and other information if the attacker came from a base area.

I like the idea of replay!

U could actually see ur own faults and learn from them.

Also see interresting ambush tactics and how bad ur aim is.

Really like the idea!

Heh , it would be humiliating to have the point of view of an offense chamber , spiking you to death while you're crackhopping...

But I'm not sure if it would fit the atmosphere of NS...

Maybe for marines, but aliens watching other teammates view is an integral part of hivesight. Giving the spawning skulk some idea of what is going on in the map