Ok to be clear, the replay viewer is an amazing tool at this moment. It has made catching cheaters, throwers and others way easier and it has also made content creation way easier as well. The sharing method that blizzard uses is also pretty neat and polished.
However i believe that it can use some more improvements.
1: Different replay viewer client. Im starting with this one so i can use it as a base for the others. Firstly, a different client for the replay viewer isn’t for everyone. This would be helpful for content creators including myself because then we could have all kinds of luxury. From unlimited replays to maybe access to replays from multiple versions which i’ll talk about in a bit.
2: Customizable hud. This one has been mentioned by supertf on twitch as well. Being able to hide each part of the hud separately as oppose to all of it at once. I want to make a montage and i only want the reticle and the kill feed showing. What i have to do now is record 2 separate clips of my moment (one with and one without hud) and then mix them together with opacity masks in post. It would be nice if the health, the hero icon, the kill feed and all the other stuff were on separate check boxes.
3: Camera speed. Currently there are only 3 standard speeds, the normal, the slow and the fast. I want to be able to change the camera speed with my mouse weel. This is already done, when you are a spectator you can change the camera speed with your mouse weel.
4: slower slow motion. I want to be able to slow the gameplay down to 0.05 speed instead of using 3rd party plugins to do it in post. This is another thing that is already done in the owl where they slow the clip down to 0.05 speed right before the widow pulls the trigger for example.
5: Markers. That’s propably the easiest thing to do. I just want markers for each player that show stuff like when they died, when they ulted, when their ult came online, when they got a kill and the list goes on. They could be in check boxes as well.
6: Depth of field control. That’s more of a film making term… its basicaly the blurry back ground. It makes clips look way more professional and help isolate the subject from the back ground.
7: Key frames. I want to be able to key frame camera movement, FOV, playback speed, everything. I want to make pre planed pan and tilt shots.
8: Ability to view old replays. This is a feature that i think only overwatch doesnt have. Csgo has it, fortnite has it, and it’s really a pain in the butt to be worry about lossing your replay due to the game making a sudden update. If we cant do that, we can have multiple versions of the separate replay viewing client where we can view certain replays. Kinda like minecraft where you can load the game into a different version and have different features.