Watch a multiplayer match as an observer

NewPlanned for 0.2.0

A seat listed under [IsSpectator] in spawn.ini watches the match without playing. The observer’s house starts defeated with nothing on the map, sees the whole map with the radar up, and sees every house’s cloaked and underground objects, pips and rank insignia as their owners do. Its credit readout shows the match time, it can message only everyone or the other observers, and it is left out of the score screen, the radar pane’s name list and the statistics report.

A defeated player now sees the whole map as an observer does. The fog is lifted and kept from growing back, and every house’s cloaked and underground objects, pips and rank insignia are shown.

CoachMode=yes in the [Settings] section of spawn.ini lets a defeated player keep their allies’ vision and private chat instead of seeing the whole map.

Iran wrote the spawner’s observer seats, from the code he wrote for Red Alert. dkeeton added coach mode to ts-patches.

Affected entities

Credit: ZivDero, Iran, dkeeton