Where is starcraft replays

Where are the StarCraft 2 replay videos stored and can I share them? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 3 months ago. Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed k times. Are these stored locally or on Battle. Regardless of where they are stored how can I share these replay videos?

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One of the main reasons why they're still used for entertainment might be the option to watch it with multiple persons at the same time. In a more basic understanding replays are nothing more than text files.

These contain information about the map, participating players, minerals, critters and so on. Every given command is recorded and literally replayed by the engine afterwards, thus enabling the file to maintain a relatively small size. The time is meassured in so-called stamps , with five time stamps being around one second in real time. This method to log the actions gives the user more options to gain information out of a replay.

Maps, that do not use special triggers, can be extracted from any replay. Furthermore build orders, APM , hotkeys used and more can be read out. A replay archive can help to find out a known player's smurfs account he uses to play anonymously or to check for possible hacks. Manually saved replays can be seen in this folder. The last played game is automatically saved as LastReplay.

However, this particular replay file will be overwritten with every new game. To keep this replay the file needs to be either re-named or moved afterwards. Even when a game is saved under a special name in the post-game overview, a LastReplay will be saved by the engine. There are several ways to watch replays. The easiest being to open StarCraft's single player menue and select the "Watch Replay" option.

To watch online e. However, if the replay is hosted in open Battle. Outdated Versions Since the replays record the commands using the information from Brood War's engine replays from older patches are mostly broken. To fix that open Brood War with an older version. It is usually not needed to completely un-install the game and re-install it with the older patch.