Feature Request: Masterdemo

[yetshi]

a master demo recorded by the server that shows every player, freely specable.

A: great for scrims/Tournaments

B: even better for bot hunting

[Plague]

Server-side demo's are featured on multiple developer todo lists, so it's just a matter of dev time and priority.

[Bajsefar]

<3 WTB.
Make everyone able to make freely speccable demos, PLEAAASE?

[Death On Ice]

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.

[techhead]

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.

[Amanieu]

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.

[Paradox]

Bungie could do it, so can we.

[Lava Croft]

Screw those cheapasses at Bungie, better look at MVDSV on how to properly do multiview demos.

[Paradox]

Someone want to splice their code into a trem server?

[Vector_Matt]

You would probably need a modified client too. so that you can move around while viewing the demos.

[Amanieu]

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