THE FOURVISUAL CALLS

All three words become small stickers in the corners the kill doesn’t use: KILL CAM bottom right from the trigger (where today’s rate tag already sits), then after the big moment the victim line top right and the kill’s card stacked over the tag.

• Works everywhere: round-ending kill cams and mid-round skin kills (no bars needed).
• The camera frames the fighters in the middle: the corners are free in nearly every kill.
• Reads like the game’s own HUD stickers.
• Still on the picture: a kill that ends in a corner has to declare its safe side (like its needs).

The kill cam already has black cinema bars. Everything lives inside them, like subtitles: KILL CAM and the rate top left, the victim line top right from the K.O., the kill’s word and its sub centred in the bottom bar after the big moment. Not one letter touches the picture.

• The picture is clean the whole time, from the trigger to ROUND OVER.
• The most cinematic of the four: it reads like a film’s subtitles.
• Nothing to place per kill: the bars are always there.
• The smallest words of the four (the bars are ~8% of the screen).
• A mid-round skin kill has no bars: it would still need the corner stickers.

After the big moment the whole kill cam squeezes back to the left, like a TV replay, and a side panel slides in with the card, who killed whom with what, and the kill’s rarity. The kill keeps playing, whole, beside it; at the end it opens back to full screen for ROUND OVER.

• The card can stay big and loud without covering anything: it has its own space.
• Room for more: the weapon, the rarity, the kill’s name.
• The kill shrinks to ~73% for its last seconds.
• The heaviest to build: it re-frames the whole picture.

No words at all while the kill plays: the bars, the colour grade and the cream frame already say KILL CAM. When the animation ends, one recap card (KILL CAM REPLAY, the card, the victim line) pops beside the winner, then ROUND OVER.

• The purest: the animation plays completely clean, start to finish.
• One moment to read everything, in one place.
• While it plays, nothing but the bars says it is a replay.
• ROUND OVER comes about a second later.

What TF-POLISH built (UI/HudGloatKill.cs), drawn at its exact sizes in the HUD’s units: the gold GLOAT disc high on the right edge with the window ring (mint, red in its last quarter). The tap turns it purple and drops the four favourites straight down the edge, one column, 55 ms apart. The pick fills with its slot colour.

• Built and working today; the round result already waits for the pick.
• One edge, one column: nothing crosses the kill.
• Mirrors to the left edge for left-handed controls.
• The top of the column is a reach for the thumb on a big phone; the labels are small.

GLOAT takes the FIRE button’s place under the right thumb (the touch controls hide during the kill cam, so the thumb is already there). The tap blooms the four on an arc around it, the emote wheel’s shape, each name out along its spoke.

• No reach at all: the thumb is already on FIRE’s spot.
• The emote wheel’s language: nothing new to learn.
• The arc reaches into the picture’s lower right, where some kills end.
• Needs its own mirror for left-handed controls.

GLOAT rides in the bottom cinema bar, right end, its window running along its bottom edge. The tap slides the four out of it in a row, each with its glyph and its name, all inside the bar. The picture above stays clear.

• The picture stays clear: the tray lives in the bar.
• The names sit beside the glyphs: the most readable of the three.
• The leftmost favourite is far from a right thumb.
• Shares the bottom bar with set B’s option B, if both are picked.

After the drop a stage lamp is lowered on its cable into the sky over the arena. It clicks on (a flicker, a hum), its beam lands on FARIS BASHA, the arena dims and the others go dark. The 3-2-1 runs in its light; the lights come back up on 1; the lamp clicks off and flies up on FIGHT!

• Unmistakable from across the room: the only lit thing on the screen.
• No camera move: safe under Reduced Motion as it is.
• It feels like an entrance, every round.
• For a beat the others are dark: you see where they are, not what they hold.
• The lamp needs a bit of sky near him (it hangs to the side when a platform is above).

The four drop in; the camera zooms onto FARIS BASHA (his name, the star pin, the gold ring), holds a beat while he pumps a fist, then zooms back out to the AUTO framing, and only then the 3-2-1.

• The biggest view of your own fighter (skin, hat, weapon), every round.
• Pure camera: no new art in the arena.
• It is a zoom: under Reduced Motion it falls back to the pin (option C).
• For a beat you can’t see the others.

No camera move, no dimming: the game’s own star pin falls from the top of the screen onto FARIS BASHA’s name, a gold ring pulses twice at his feet, then the 3-2-1.

• The lightest: the marker the game already has, made to arrive.
• Never hides the others; safe under Reduced Motion.
• The quietest of the three: on a busy arena the easiest to miss.