[Suggestion] Battle Recorder

I know the 3D engine addition is a long way off and tactical combat even further but I figured I'd make the suggestion.

Basically an option to save tactical battles so that you can rewatch them or show them to friends. Say you had a cool fight against a dragon and you want to show it to a friend that also has the game. Since the battle would just be info like units stats, orders issued, and random seeds generated for outcome the files shouldn't be to large making them perfect for sharing.

Also it's unknown how tactical combat will be handled if the player chooses not to fight. Personally I hate how most games use a completely different set of rules for when the player fights vs auto calculation. Because it makes curtain units more powerful given which menthod you choose. I hope that elemental doesn't use this "cheat" method and actually really runs the battle behind the scences for a player who chooses auto. If it does and there is a battle recorder the player if interested can then check on why they lost a battle.

This could also be handy in multiplayer as sometimes players don't like sitting around while the other players have their battles. The players who don't have any battles that turn are often left out waiting thus most MP games insist on auto-calc to keep things moving along. Well with a battle recorder if the player has extra time on their turn they can spend it watching a battle that happened that turn or the previous turn to see why things played out the way they did.

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Reply #1 Top

Good suggestion, I like it! :thumbsup:

Reply #2 Top

Thirded. Output like that could also be a neat supplement to AARs.

Reply #3 Top

fourthed.  Also, if you have the auto combat done like you said, there could be an auto button in tactical combat so you do not need to manually clean up the rest of the battle, just watch it happen in super speed (AI takes over you troops and issues commands as fast as your PC can handle)!!!!!  MoO 1 and 2 had that feature.  Was good for cleaning up after your outstanding tactics had already won the fight.

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I like the idea of replays. Won't make it by 1.0 but definitely can be looked at as a post release update.