I get to write this as the perspective of the streamer, I guess. I mean, I only started last season as a backup streamer, but that means I did get to see some time streaming games from DDSPF 16. The new sim is great. No denying that, the added visuals, the added animations, all of it leads to a very nice show for everyone checking out their football dots. But damn it adds a lot of time for streaming. Last season I would do doubleheaders of DSFL (8 games) in 50 minutes. 7 games this season are taking an hour 15 to record. Which it turns out, also takes quite a bit longer to upload and process on youtube. The sim itself is great though. The visuals of the new layout are really nice (though again, more tedious to set up... what you see on video is 3 window captures, and a white background filling in the rest. Previously, it was just 1 window capture, but cropped and scaled up. Not a big deal to set up. And this one, it seems to keep moving around slightly. Where sometimes my window captures aren't quite lined up exactly where they were. Why? I have no idea. Just some of the quirks of DDSPF 21. I think it's still worth it as a nice upgrade visually.
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