Suggestion - Resume game from a replay

Hi guys,

I was just playing Supreme Commander with some friends and our game came down to a 1 on 1 monster battle wherein I neglected to pay attention to my ACU as well as the area behind my primary base. I had a giant army heading towards my opponent and he had just moved his army out of the way leaving himself wide open. I thought what a great opportunity, there's a huge opening and I am going in for an assault. However, the he managed to spot my ACU who was less protected than I had meant for him to be and instead of our massive armies doing their thing, he was able to win via sneak attack behind my base using only a few well placed (and very strong) units.

This is all fine and good and I applaud his win - but it made me think, what if we could rewind time and see what could have been? What if my army managed to bypass his and reach his base? What if he managed to intercept and our armies collided? What if his army managed to reach my base before mine reached his?

It would be amazing to resume play from any point in a replay, provided you have the same amount of players as there were alive at the loaded point in time. Our massive battle could have gone so many ways and now we'll never know. But in PA I want to be able to find out!

Cheers,

Ryan

See my posts on this subject from last year. So yes this is how save/load works in the game by design.

We are going to be showing off more of our replay system in the near future. It's serious badassery.

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Can't wait until we get more info!

Oh, awesome!

I looked through the list of confirmed suggestions and noticed some regarding multiplayer saves but I didn't see anything about resuming from a replay. I'll do another search.

I can't wait for this game to come out. And I am so happy that users get to give their input. There are so many good ideas that've been missed in the past.

Basically there is no such thing as a regular save. There is only marking places in the replay to load from.

If we play against AI. Can we load from a certain point as AI and play the AI site while our site is played by the AI?

I like the detail above - the game should be able to swap AI for humans and vice versa from save games.

I also think that you should be able to swap an AI out for a human during a live game, and vice versa. Perhaps someone has to leave but you don't want to remove them from the game completely. They could even come back in later and take over for the AI, etc.