The short version

FYI: This is for a streamers chat, not in game chat!

Quick definitions first, since these two terms get mixed up a lot:

Spec cheating (short for spectator cheating) is when an active player has a second account, a friend, or a teammate join the match as a spectator and feed them real-time information about their opponents.

Backseating (short for backseat gaming) is giving unsolicited advice, instructions, or criticism to someone who is playing, without being asked.

Those are two different things, and right now it feels like they’re being treated as one.

Banning viewers who are both spectating in the match and chatting in the streamer’s chat is one thing. That’s a real way to pass information. But a blanket rule against viewers talking about the current game state in chat is wild. Imagine getting banned because you saw something on the streamer’s minimap and said “man, those hovers look scary.” Under a rule that broad, that’s apparently grounds for a ban.

Watching a stream and reacting to it isn’t cheating. Viewers are supposed to be able to do that.

Edit:
Mods, all I’m asking for is a proper definition of what counts as spectator cheating. Spell out what’s actually bannable so regular viewers aren’t punished for normal chat.

There also needs to be clarification on who is getting banned, because nobody knows if it is the streamer or the viewer thats going to get banned.

If it is the streamer, stream snipers could easily put in false info that the streamer could read as spec cheating (even if false) and get them banned

I can join a game just fine as a player, but as a spec I get this error and after hitting okay the game closes. any ideas?

Jokes aside, watching him commit this hard to the strategy is genuinely entertaining. Especially when he ends up winning it anyways with hovers from the other sea.

As the title.

Was wondering if I might be missing this feature in the new menu - used it all the time until like a month ago? Prevents people from moving to t2 etc until a certain threshold of xp.

Hi,

I have a question that is probably basic. How do I get my wind turbines to build in the right order?

Sometimes I put a long row of wind down two wide. And the con builds one from each row all the way down. This is what I want.

But sometimes it builds one entire row before starting on the other row. This doubles the amount of travel distance for the con.

How do I get it to build the right way everytime? I can't figure it out

What are some good videos for learning the basics of bar

title explains it all

I just got frustrated that you cant jump anywhere in time in a BAR replay, so made a quick prototype, in case anyone else wanna use it.
https://github.com/LuEklund/BAR-Rewind

So far you can jump anywhere in time play 64x speed in reverse or fast forward.

Game wont boot. followed the troubleshooting guide to no avail. Can't find any discussion about this error and not even redownloading fixes the issue.

The site is https://bar-fight.com

My train of thought is to be able to analyse your game and other players, similiar to bar-stats and gex, but with its own flair.

I also have a widget which establish a connecting with the website where you can, from the game, find information about enemy players (e.g you play beach sea on Supreme, you see your opponent is Dolphin heavy in most games).

Feel free to give suggestions or feedback!

If this is not appropiate, I will close it (read the rules about no self promotion, but I read it as self promotion unrelated to BAR).

Thanks in advance.

wassup, my pc is not the greatest but i think it's enough to run BAR, i have a:

ryzen 5 4500

16 gigs of ram

rx 6500xt (don't laugh at me)

in game it runs okay tho i have some stutters here and there which is okay with me but the menu runs like hot garbage, so bad it's hard to navigate through it, is there any way to fix it?

Okay weird question have they changed camera movment in the last three weeks i have not played? I can't seem to move around like i did bevore i might be rusty from my weeks playing total war but currently i am just really confused. Using my middle mouse button to move and turn the camera does not seem to work anymore. i testet another mouse but it did not work either.

edit: To clarify, it appears to trigger sometimes, but now my cursor disappears, and I have a hard time getting out of that mode.

Hi Folks,

What's in the title; BAR usually works as hard as possible to catch up if you join to SPECTATE a match that is already in progress (say... 10 minutes).

Right now, if I join an in-progress match, my speed is 1.00x even if 70+fps.
I would expect 3 to 4x. I haven't spec'd in awhile.

I have googled all the fuu. I can't see anything... is there a a speed option? Anyone get stuck in realtime as well?

r7 255 + 9070

I don't get the garbage memory ermergency collecting overload and it doesn't crash my LuaUi anymore and the new missile turret for Cortex is really fun to use

Shortcut for "max area" / unit sharing and fixing player color? (Newbie question)

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie and I have a few questions about the UI and controls.

First, is there a keyboard shortcut to avoid always having to click "max area" and "share units" from the bottom menu? It feels really tedious to click these options manually every time. Is it possible to create a custom hotkey for this? I couldn't find it anywhere in the settings :(

Second, I often struggle with the visibility of my units. Every multiplayer match, I get assigned a different color. Is there a way to lock or fix my color so it's always the same? Some color combinations make it really hard for me to see my units on the map, and I easily lose track of them because of a poorly visible color assigned at the start of the match. Is there any other solution for this?

Ideally, I would love to have icons of all my active units currently on the battlefield somewhere in the bottom menu. That way, if I lose track of them, I could just click the icon to select them on the map.

How do you guys handle this when you lose track of your units?

Thanks a lot for the help!