Save Camera and Mouse movement, Key presses and Chats in Multiplayer Replay

[xezon]

Save Camera and Mouse movement, Key presses and Chats in Multiplayer Replay. Perhaps. Needs testing and bandwidth cost evaluation. Camera movement recording already works in Singleplayer.

Advantages of camera and mouse recording:

• Useful for Anti Cheat purposes
• Useful for users who enjoy watching replays
• Useful for video presenters

[MTKing4]

Does that mean you will see the cursor of the player as well? I hope so because that's literally what next Gen RTS games are doing

And if we have resume from replay or rewind like in SC2 then I'll be settled for life :>

Also being able to rejoin a game you failed to load at the first time would be epic

Let me add more:

1. Pause During game
2. Referee/Caster Choice
3. A player can replace another dropped player before the game starts

[xezon]

Can also record chats, which will be useful for event replay streams and cheat investigations.

[MTKing4]

Add Voting System ingame for

• Kicking Abusing/cheating/idle Player from the game
• restrict player from pause ability to avoid pause spam abuse
• Stop/Restart the game
• Resign a team to avoid prolonged defeat

[xezon]

abdsaf:

Can we implement a feature to export game replays with an extension that includes details on the winner and the armies used? This would be highly beneficial for documenting statistics automatically in gentool.

[xezon]

Recording the camera perhaps needs to be done in a smarter way. If we just record camera raw values that the Client makes up, then this is unsafe for Anti Cheat purposes.

If we would include camera movement in Network messages, then this would increase Network traffic, but also conveniently record it for all players into the Replay file. And then we could also implement additional verification where on screen unit selections are only possible if they are selected while actually in the view frustum of the communicated camera position. Violating this (cheating) would then mismatch the game.

This will not prevent sending wrong camera positions when peeking into the fog however.

Being able to guarantee that reported camera positions are correct would be a nice deterrent for fog cheats in competitive environments.