Spring Replays

Recording Replays

Replays are automatically recoreded for every game you play in Spring.
They are saved to your Spring\demos\ folder.

Watching Replays

There are multiple ways to watch a replay:

1) Use the replays browser of your lobby. This depends on what lobby you use.

2) Drag & and drop the replay file onto Spring.exe

3) Associate .sdf replay files with spring.exe, the installer should do this anyway.

Then just doubleclick the replay file.

4) use rightlick -> open with -> Spring.exe

People watch replays to improve their skill by watching what they did wrong, and what other people did right. Use them to improve your skill.

Uploading Replays

The main upload-site is gone, sorry there is currently no page for this...

A good example on labelling replays:

0.76b1 AA 4FFA The Cold Place

This is pretty simple to decipher.

• 0.76b1 means that it was from version 0.76b1.
• AA is the mod. In this case, it is Absolute Annihilation.
• 4FFA is the number of players, and the team configuration. In this case, it is a 4 way Free For All. Other common names are:
  • 1v1 A One versus One game. These can be quite good.
  • 3v3 A Three versus Three. Two teams of three players battling it out.
  • 2v2v2 A Two versus Two versus Two. Three teams of two players battling it out.
  • 3v2 A Two versus Three. A team of two players battling a team of three players
• The Cold Place is the map. In this case it is, logically, The Cold Place. Some maps are typed out in full, while other maps are abbreviated. CPIA is Core Prime Industrial Area is a commonly seen abbreviation.

This gives sufficient information to read and decide whether to download it or not, yet its small enough not to clutter things up. You can provide a more detailed description in the description section if you so desire.

Note: Replays from different versions of Spring are not compatible. That is, if you have installed version 0.76b1, you can only watch replays recorded in 0.76b1. The replays are automatically labeled by spring with the current version number.)

Important keys to use while watching the replay:

L: Shows you Radar and LOS information of active player.

1,2,3...: Changes active player, this is usefull to check on economy and LOS information.

F12: Screenshots!

+ / - : adjust game speed

Pause key: Pause

Chat Commands

/skip n : fast forward the replay n seconds /skip 1 : At start of replay this can be usefull to skip long pre-game chatter and go directly to the action.