a master demo recorded by the server that shows every player, freely specable.
A: great for scrims/Tournaments
B: even better for bot hunting
Server-side demo's are featured on multiple developer todo lists, so it's just a matter of dev time and priority.
<3 WTB.
Make everyone able to make freely speccable demos, PLEAAASE? :(
Well, since the server already records player and projects positions, it shouldn't be an epic step. I only hope that it won't take up epic amounts of space.
It would be smaller than the size of one demo per player, since every player has the positions of everyone in their vis area included in the demo.
You would have to store snapshots of all the entities every frame (every 50ms), which can take up quite a lot of space. It could also be possible to only save modified entities but then more processing would be required.
Server-side demos are on my TODO list, but I am not working on it atm.
Bungie could do it, so can we.
Screw those cheapasses at Bungie, better look at MVDSV (http://www.qw-dev.net/projects/show/4) on how to properly do multiview demos.
Someone want to splice their code into a trem server?
You would probably need a modified client too. so that you can move around while viewing the demos.
No, that's the whole point of a server-side demo. You are a spectator, can't join teams, and all the other players are like bots