Question about replays

**Dayve** · 03-10-2009, 00:21

Don't bother with replays, they're broken. When you watch back a replay you're watching two AI controlled armies fight each other, you aren't actually watching a replay of the battle you saved.

**ArtillerySmoke** · 03-10-2009, 01:09

Originally Posted by Dayve

Don't bother with replays, they're broken. When you watch back a replay you're watching two AI controlled armies fight each other, you aren't actually watching a replay of the battle you saved.

What do you mean?

It's a replay...

**Sir Beane** · 03-10-2009, 01:11

Originally Posted by ArtillerySmoke

What do you mean?

It's a replay...

See my post above for why that might not necessarily be the case...

**Dayve** · 03-10-2009, 06:55

Originally Posted by ArtillerySmoke

What do you mean?

It's a replay...

No, the replays are broken like they were in Barbarian Invasion, until they were fixed.

If you fight a battle in a campaign against faction X, you win the battle and save the replay then go back and watch the replay.

When the replay starts you will see yourself positioning your units for the battle exactly as you did in the campaign. Your units and the enemy units will be exactly the same as they were in the battle, but once you finish deployment and the battle starts, that's where the replay stops.

From that point the game is showing you a battle between both sides controlled by the AI. You'll see your armies doing things you didn't do in the battle. The end result might even change, if you were originally the winner, you may be the loser in this.

Go save a replay and then watch it back, you'll see what i mean.

**Ishmael** · 03-10-2009, 10:32

???
Whoa that is weird. Its a pretty big error to make, im suprised no testers found this. Hopefully next patch it'll be fixed.

**knoddy** · 03-10-2009, 10:34

yes its broken my housemate told me of this epic battle he won as UP vs Spain when he was outnumbered 5 to 1 and just defended a hill top against a massive force, in the replay it all started out ok then he got smashed so go figure lol

Cheers Knoddy

**Mr Frost** · 03-11-2009, 14:11

Originally Posted by Dayve

No, the replays are broken like they were in Barbarian Invasion, until they were fixed...

Ok , how the hell did you manage to save campaign battles in RTW , or was this just a B.I. thing {still don't remember any record button after campaign battles} ?

I remember reading about a console command to save M2TW battles that I found didn't work at all {error mesage every time} . I gave up on it eventually .

**KaLiMeRo168** · 03-10-2009, 12:00

Originally Posted by Dayve

Don't bother with replays, they're broken. When you watch back a replay you're watching two AI controlled armies fight each other, you aren't actually watching a replay of the battle you saved.

EHH???????? So in short word my epic naval battle 9 vs 2, with 2 enemy ships going caboom will be never ever seen again????????????????????????????????

me wants cry, cry alot :(

**Jong** · 03-10-2009, 13:22

Eh? My replays worked fine. At least the one I watched. I saw pretty much exactly what I did, such as taking cover behind low rise while withholding fire and using a unit camping behind a stone wall to flank them.

I'm pretty sure no AI could do that.

Are we talking about the same replay function? I found my replays under Multiplayer Local Area Network.

**Sir Beane** · 03-10-2009, 13:33

Originally Posted by Jong

Eh? My replays worked fine. At least the one I watched. I saw pretty much exactly what I did, such as taking cover behind low rise while withholding fire and using a unit camping behind a stone wall to flank them.

I'm pretty sure no AI could do that.

Are we talking about the same replay function? I found my replays under Multiplayer Local Area Network.

Yes we are. I have tested this thoroughly and while some replays may work others will show an entirely different battle to the one the player fought.

I saved a replay of my heroic victory against the Maratha. When I showed it to someone else it showed my army being smashed and swept from the field. That did not happen.

Try out a few more replays of big battles and you will see what we mean.

**ArtillerySmoke** · 03-10-2009, 14:30

Originally Posted by Sir Beane

Yes we are. I have tested this thoroughly and while some replays may work others will show an entirely different battle to the one the player fought.

I saved a replay of my heroic victory against the Maratha. When I showed it to someone else it showed my army being smashed and swept from the field. That did not happen.

Try out a few more replays of big battles and you will see what we mean.

lol...."here check out this epic battle I won!!" "er, wait a second...that's not what happened, I swear!".

This definitely needs a fix in the next patch.

**goddom** · 03-10-2009, 14:51

Yeah that is a cheap way of doing it huh!

anyway.......

Any Idea of how to use the context camera in these flawed replays?

**ArtillerySmoke** · 03-11-2009, 03:02

Replay Bug: Confirmed.

After watching 20 or so replays, it's definitely a problem.

About halfway through the battle replay, the game will occassionally start displaying it's own version of what happened. Whoever said it's just two AI armies was right...and at times, the battle goes on it's own new AI vs. AI course of action.

I've had several battles that I won, where the replay showed it as a draw because the battle replay ended before the actual battle ended. Other times, it shows my general charging their entire main line, which I never do.

Confirmed. Needs a fix in the next patch.