Spectating attack animation bug

[DkCd]

lol I always thought people where animation cancelling for some reason... don't really spec much but yeah it looks weird

[Cbas]

+1. I also have this bug when spectating games

[9sky]

I've been asking around about this issue for weeks now and no one even replied in my threads. What I particularly wrote was that the game stutters (animations, movement of creeps/heroes and the fact that if a creep is killed the gold thing doesn't pop up right away but a second later, which may refer to lag?).

[Flyspeck]

I have this problem too.

[Zizy]

Bump again, its really annoying and it really ruins the joy of watching the game.

[sapax]

Same problem here, kinda kills watching games... so +1

[IdealPoint]

This will be my last post.

It appears you want to make Dota 2 an E-sport. That means people should want to watch the game. This bug kills absolutely any possibility of people wanting to watch your game through spectating. It's been a long time since the bug was found.

If you look at my Dota 2 usage you will see I first logged in practically every day to watch some games. Then, when the bug manifested I basically only logged in to check if the bug was fixed, and slowly logged in less and less. Streams aren't as fun, and without most of the content from Dota yet Dota 2 isn't worth playing atm. But I was still trying to watch. The issue wasn't resolved. This is how you lose your audience. I played literally thousands of games of dota over the past 8 years, and would have happily payed $15/month for a worthy successor. But you'll have to do better than this.

[SAK_ATAK]

This started happening to me with the latest patch (4/19), but it was never a problem before

[Flyspeck]

It must have something to do with our connections to source tv (or whatever it is in Dota 2). I wonder if there is someone here who knows anything about adjusting these settings on our end through the console that could give us some suggestions to try?

It must be a problem with our connections if it is only a few of us that are getting this problem.

[Zizy]

It must have something to do with our connections to source tv (or whatever it is in Dota 2). I wonder if there is someone here who knows anything about adjusting these settings on our end through the console that could give us some suggestions to try?

It must be a problem with our connections if it is only a few of us that are getting this problem.

Well it might be a issue with our connection, but if we didn't had this bug before the patch(can't recall what patch it was,think it was Destroyer one or might be even before) then I doubt it's because of our connection.

And I really hope we will get some response from devs because this is my 3rd of 4th post in this thread about this and its really killing the joy of watching the game.

[reun]

wow, I am surprised this problem still hasn't been solved. It's over 2 months, jesus

[rjames1295]

Same here. I've noticed that this only happens when there are about 20+ spectators watching the game. When there are only a few spectators (e.g. around 5), the game is smooth. I thought I was the only one with this bug.

[reun]

Valve please solve this problem, I love watching live games and this bug is really annoying. And the default watch mode now is Directed but it is not usable, it keeps shaking the screen. Please do a survey, I am sure 100% people don't use Directed mode

[okrane]

yes, this problem is a real pain when watching games and has been here for more than 2 months

[ectomorphling]

I've had this problem for months too. There is no joy in watching live games with this attack "lag".