I see the same difficulties with some games, for instance those that do not lend themselves to a simple score board.
When I join a stream of someone playing a strategy game which also has a tactical layer, you are usually equally clueless as to what is going on. Certainly at the strategic layer but also as to what a good outcome of a tactical encounter is.
I'm not sure how technology can fix this. On the other hand, other spectators can usually pretty easily do this in chat.
What games are you thinking of? I find RTS really easy to jump into at any point, but that is he only genre I watch really, so I'm curious what issues come up in others.
When I join a stream of someone playing a strategy game which also has a tactical layer, you are usually equally clueless as to what is going on. Certainly at the strategic layer but also as to what a good outcome of a tactical encounter is.
I'm not sure how technology can fix this. On the other hand, other spectators can usually pretty easily do this in chat.