How do you become a spectator in a game?

[Bonebag]

Please send help.

[DasaKamov]

Which game mode are you talking about?

You can observe battles in the Army General campaigns by selecting your Battlegroups to be led by an AI commander (I believe - the last time I tried this was in Beta, so things may have changed).

You can "trick" the game into letting you observe a Skirmish battle by placing an AI teammate on your team versus an enemy AI opponent (or enemy team) and simply not take any actions, watching the AI succeed or fail on its own accord.

You can spectate games you have previously played by going into your "Profile" menu in-game and clicking on "Replay".

You *cannot* spectate other people's multiplayer games as they are taking place; you must either be an active player in an MP game, or watch the replay after the game has concluded.

[Bonebag]

That's pretty silly, but thank you very much for responding!

[Disposable_Hero]

If the host allows spectating there is a spectate button at the bottom in the multiplayer session window. Watch for games with a little camera icon.

[Redwood]

I wish there were more spectator games like the SD2 videos where you get these teachers/commenters for free. These guys did nice things for us.

[DasaKamov]

Disposable_Hero님이 먼저 게시:

If the host allows spectating there is a spectate button at the bottom in the multiplayer session window. Watch for games with a little camera icon.

I never noticed that, actually - thanks for the tip!

[Bonebag]

Disposable_Hero님이 먼저 게시:

If the host allows spectating there is a spectate button at the bottom in the multiplayer session window. Watch for games with a little camera icon.

Yeah. Those don't work. atleast not for me. Spectate is constantly gray.

[shblovetruth]

DasaKamov님이 먼저 게시:

Which game mode are you talking about?

You can observe battles in the Army General campaigns by selecting your Battlegroups to be led by an AI commander (I believe - the last time I tried this was in Beta, so things may have changed).

You can "trick" the game into letting you observe a Skirmish battle by placing an AI teammate on your team versus an enemy AI opponent (or enemy team) and simply not take any actions, watching the AI succeed or fail on its own accord.

You can spectate games you have previously played by going into your "Profile" menu in-game and clicking on "Replay".

You *cannot* spectate other people's multiplayer games as they are taking place; you must either be an active player in an MP game, or watch the replay after the game has concluded.

And as an active player slot in the Skirmish, it seems even if I don't make any actions, the exist of myself still effect the battle, because I was surprised to find that my AI teammates always reserve some areas for me to set and respawn units, which result in my AI team side always has a big area undefended, because that area has no friendly units at all, which is not good, and that's why for example, if I was on German side, and even if it's 4 German AI players (5 German players in total including me) versus 3 Allies , I found those 3 Allies even always can set units on every frontline, but these 4 German AI still have big defense gap !

So, devs, please either change your AI logic (let AI on human player side can spawn and set units on everywhere, but don't reserve some spawn positions for human players), or , just add a dedicated "Spectator" mode into the game !

[oneRupee]

I find that player made games generally don't allow spectators (button greyed out) Eugene games generally always do. I like to watch a few games myself

[Gardening Pudding]

Where is said button? Even in the Eugen games that all have the camera icon, there's no spectate button to click.
Has this been changed?

[Gardening Pudding]

Anyone, please?

[Disposable_Hero]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1844943872