Replay requests

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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One of the things that annoy me the moment as a returning player is the lack of replay functionality, reliability and support.

Functionality:

  • Why can’t we slide the timer in a replay?

Reliability:

  • Occasional replays that go out of sync even a replay created right after a 1V1 ranked game.
  • Record game invalid when closing aoe3, reported this bug in the bug section already.

Support:

  • No dedicated ingame replay host and search functionality filterable by player rating, civ, etc.
  • A mismatch in naming standards between a 1V1 ranked and a hosted game, just make it consistent.
  • This is a nice to have, but a tool to allow watching older replays, I understand that this is no easy feat since the game clients needs to be able support multiple patch states.

Please add to the list if you have additional wants/concerns/needs.

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Because it’s not a video but literally re-playing the match, and the game’s engine is unable to play the game logic backwards. Some game engines are able to do this if they’ve been designed from the start with the ability to rewind game logic. However, taking a complex finished game engine and implementing such a fundamental feature would be a monumental task, possibly more than a year of development work. Even AoE4 with its massive budget was unable to do this.

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because the game support have been ended.

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I see, thanks for explaining, makes me appreciate Valve and Dota2 even more.