Briareos
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You can watch demos for a room by hitting F6 in the restore screen, as I found out rather by accident...

How about adding a "View Demos" button or something like that so you don't always have to search for F6 on the keyboard when everything else on the way to a demo can be done via mouse?

np: Fluke - Amp (Risotto)

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Oneiromancer
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Well...you can't watch a demo while in a room by using the mouse, can you? You have to use F6 there too. I'm not really against using the mouse to watch demos, even adding another button to the bottom left of the room display, but F6 is pretty ubiquitous in this game as the "watch demo" key. Granted, it isn't covered in the tutorial, but it is definitely in the Help files.

Although I do think it would be a really good idea to have a "Keyboard shortcuts" section in the Help files, because people are always asking about playing/recording demos, or not knowing about Shift+(key) to repeat movement, etc. It would be the first place I would look for this kind of thing in a game, I know.

Game on,

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Briareos
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Oneiromancer wrote:
Well...you can't watch a demo while in a room by using the mouse, can you? You have to use F6 there too.

Yeah, but during playing a room I have my hands on the keyboard most of the time; here I'm actually using the mouse to select the room, then have to hit the key, then use the mouse again.

Yeah, it's no biggie, but I'd find it nice to have.

np: Four Tet - You Could Ruin My Day (Pause)

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