Why can't we rewind replays?

[Gold Merchant Lev]

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[Pumpkin]

yeah i found this stupid too . You download file before even start watching so why no rewind ;/

[Fully operational death star]

go into options and you can make it so you can rewind

[Pumpkin]

Originally posted by Totally not joe:

go into options and you can make it so you can rewind

thank you !!! thats make watching replays so much easier !

[xCrossFaith]

You can, there's a setting for it that records a rewindable replay, and let's you set how often do you want to get the "marks" to go back to them


Just don't over do it too much since it sometimes can crash the replay and you have to restart the game, only happened a couple times for me, but still :P

[Dave]

Thanks!!!

[Gold Merchant Lev]

Well you always learn something new. Weird that it's disabled as standard but glad I no longer have restart replays! Thanks for the answers lads

[Agezak]

It's disabled by default because it can reduce fps in game.

The reason for that is because the replay is not a video, it's just a save of all action taken during the game that the engine can then read to rebuild every thing that happened. To allow rewind there, the game need to save additionnal information during a match which put additional on the computer performance.

[Gold Merchant Lev]

Originally posted by Agezak:

It's disabled by default because it can reduce fps in game.

The reason for that is because the replay is not a video, it's just a save of all action taken during the game that the engine can then read to rebuild every thing that happened. To allow rewind there, the game need to save additionnal information during a match which put additional on the computer performance.

Also pretty interesting. That explains why what I previously thought were recordings can sometimes have glitches or crash even.

[Fully operational death star]

btw, if you want better replays, then go to gaijin.net and you can watch the serverside replays where you can get anyones view and there are less glitches

[Agezak]

Originally posted by Totally not joe:

btw, if you want better replays, then go to gaijin.net and you can watch the serverside replays where you can get anyones view and there are less glitches

That's a very good point. And if you compare the server replay with the client replay, you can see clearly the desync with rubberbanding on the client and a smooth flight on the server.