Battle recorder

[Bertominus_Rex]

@Peccath

@Rev0verDrive

2142 had a Battle Recorder. It was the full game round in a code format. 10MB demo files. You had to play it locally through the game. You could see every action every player took with full 3D camera control. speed control, pause etc. That Battle Recorder should definitely return.

DICE has had that in some shape and form in every title - that’s how they get the footage to the trailers. But some dev said that it’s problematic with all the destruction in the game, as once it happens, you can’t go back in time with the software without glitches. That’s why they haven’t released it to public use.

I can’t give any source for that and I can’t promise I got it perfectly right, because it’s been a long time since I read about that issue…

The Frostbite engine was designed to remove elements from the world, but never add them back in. Seems like a lot of work to allow for it, but it would definitely be worth it, imo. It could lead to the development of a battle recorder, as well as allowing cover to be constructed by players, or allowing destroyed cover to be repaired.

This is the only source I was able to find:

@dirtydeathdog

We investigated the repair tool repairing damaged buildings etc. but it is not possible at this time, the amount of work was quite large. Maybe for the future, who knows. I don’t think we’d go so far as restoring entire skyscrapers or anything but I can see some cool scenarios where this might work. For example, I wanted to let cops construct “road blocks”, but we decided against prototyping it due to the work and risk.

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