War thunder replay player update#

Navigation through replay will only work for client replays with the release of the Danger Zone update. The player has the ability to jump forward or return to any snapshot on the playbar to start playing the replay.

We have implemented navigation between the so-called 'snapshots' - virtual images of the events of the game session, placed in the course of the replay. If the replay recorded the state of the entire game world at every moment in time, the size of the replay file would be very large, and recording such a huge file would slow down even the most solid gaming PC builds. In the usual sense, free rewind is impossible in War Thunder, since a replay is a sequential parallel recording of each player's control commands and server events. Well, we did it! The replay rewind is coming with the Danger Zone update, and here's how it will work. But the constant requests from the community forced Gaijin programmers to come up with another solution for navigating through replays. In one of our Q&A sessions, we even made an official statement that this feature is not planned for the game. Previously, we tried to solve the problem of navigation in game replays, but it was impossible to solve the issue quickly and easily due to the peculiarities of the game engine and replay recording algorithms. It is also needed by the content creators of our huge War Thunder community, masters of video and graphic editors. This tool is useful not only for ordinary players who want to see details of a cool moment of the past battle. Rewind in replays has been amongst the most requested features for players for a long time.

War thunder replay player update#

The ‘Danger Zone’ update brings the long-anticipated rewind in replays! Read our DevBlog about the new feature and how it works in War Thunder.