Replays: a daring suggestion, perhaps

posted on January 23rd, 2009, 4:19 pm

Hi all,

Community-run multiplayer games benefit greatly from their ability to save and watch replays. an adequate example of this is Warcraft III.

I know it might be a long shot with the A2 engine, but would replays be possible somehow?

/discuss

posted on January 23rd, 2009, 6:06 pm

hehe jep thats a "dream feature" for us too.. if its possible it will be in some day

posted on January 23rd, 2009, 6:57 pm

actually that feature was planned for armada 2 by the developers back then. there is still a lot of abandoned code within armada 2 that actually allowes to create replays. however this replay mode generates very large files soon, as they won't get optimized in any way. btw. i don't talk about a screen capture or something but a real replay feature that is comparable to the one used in starcraft. basically it creates a lot of bzn files in one file but like a few hundred times per second of a played game...

posted on January 23rd, 2009, 8:48 pm

Cool, nice to know you guys have thought of this, too! Too bad it's so hard to implement, though. Let's hope FO lives long enough for this feature to be realised.