Remove Fog of War from Replays

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Does anyone know of a way to permanently remove fog of war from replays, even when focusing on individuals?

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I don’t think you can do that.

Here’s a guide with all the replay commands though: Extensive Replay Hotkey Guide

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I thought not being able to disable them is a feature. To detect vision hackers by viewing replays.

It’s one of the few real cheats this game has had during its’ history.

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i dont understand how you have fog of war to begin with.
all my replays never had any , im kinda surprised to learn there was in the replays lol :rofl: i dont ever remember doing anything different . its just not there.

is this a joke or something because im falling for it so far lol

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If you highlight a specific hero using the number keys (0-9), it shows you exactly what they would see, fog of war and all. You can press E to set it back to viewing everything.

You even hear which announcer that hero had equipped!

(Yes, I mostly use Alarak. Deal with it.)

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The replay starts without fog of war and showing everything. As soon as you choose one hero to follow (0-9 buttons), it shows fog of war. Even if you press E to follow all heroes, it will follow all heroes but with fog of war. Basically there’s no way to remove it anymore if you selected 1 hero or all of them.

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I usually just clicked the character’s icon and it was following it. I didnt knew about the 0-9 .

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Fog changes gets cut in half when inspecting heroes, just to be clear.

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Yes. I am wanting a total removal of fog of war from the observer/replay system. I am developing an automated spectator and that involves selecting heroes, instead of manually moving the camera vision which would be far more complicated and out of my depth. I was just surprised there is no option to remove it entirely for replay purposes.

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Pretty sure thid wasn’t the case some time ago, it sounds like a bug.