So, i logged in this morning after a wake up to save my highlights from last night.
I did pretty good plays, nice sleep darts, nice dragonblades and i was excited to save my highlights. The problem is that i logged out from the game 2 hours before the new patch and now my Instant Captures are gone.
I know i can’t do anything right now to get my highlights back, it’s ok.
But is it really necessary to delete the highlights to introduce a new patch?
This was always a thing. A new patch, is, well, a patch. So new data to replace the old data.
Yes, i know that. I’m not saying this is something new.
I just hope dev read this Forum and maybe, if it’s possible, change this.
That’s why i’m asking if it is really necessary to delete highlights
As I said, new data replaces old data.
I assume that when a new patch happens, the game mechanics may have changed which will screw up replaying the highlight.
Are you blizzard dev?
Because if you are not, you can’t say that there is no other way just because “new data replaces old data”. We have many ways to back up datas
Yes, maybe.
But i hope they read this
I would argue that they have provided you the tool to keep your highlights around: Recording Highlights. I don’t think that this feature have that much demand.
I understand that this feature doesnt have much demand, but i see this as something to be fixed (if it’s possible).
Where i live you can literally play while the game is being updated, so if I save a highlight 5 minutes before a patch i will lose this highlight.
The Highlight player re-creates the battle based on the patch it was played on, when a patch changes, highlights can’t recreate the exact same scene. Always remember to export your highlights!
I’m pretty sure overwatch saves replays the same way smash bros does, so let me explain:
It doesn’t save any of the video, it simply saves all of the circumstances, such as the circumstances of every player and the inputs that were given to the server by every player. The highlight you see is simply the game recreating the scene as the server itself saw it. Saving all of the circumstantial data makes for a lot less server space than having to save the entire video recording.
That means when a new patch appears, the data that is saved won’t recreate the highlight as it’s supposed to, because the rules of the game changed and so the same exact inputs will result in a different output.
For highlights from past patches to be playable, blizzard would have to save all existing highlights as video footage before they patch the game. Instead, they provide a way for you, the player, to render the video footage that you want to keep and save it.
If you want to keep your highlights, you have to save them locally on your computer. It would be very expensive for blizzard to save highlights as video files.
(that said, it’d frustrating that we can only see highlights from our limited camera angle. It’s entirely possible for blizz to expand on the highlights feature by letting us view the highlight from a spectator camera.)
That feature is in the works. Remember that the World Cup Viewer was a step toward full replay features.
Ooh i see. I didn’t know that highlight was not a video but a recreated scene. I still would like to have some way to avoid the situation I described on my last reply, lol but ok.
I’m glad a tech support replied my thread. Thanks.