Change the caption from Replay to Watch Replay. suggested by some user.
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Open the summary. Agree that the change makes sense.
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Successful build - Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Link to build: https://jenkins.wildfiregames.com/job/differential/465/display/redirect
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Noone mentioned any reasoning for the change.
I suspect it's to rule out the ambiguity to starting the same match with the same players again.
I suppose "Start Replay" has the same problem then.
(View might sound nicer than watch? I guess not because viewing is for pictures?)
Not really looking forward that we need this change, as Replay is a tradename and it's consistent with the other Replay buttons we have, but I guess one can't deny the ambiguity to firsttime feature users.
Could also add a tooltip (or a message box like we have for atlas).
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The issue is that newbies interpret a "Replay" button as "Play the a new match with the same settings and seed".
This button is the only button with that caption we have. The "Start Replay" button is imho not that ambigous, also because it has an other context.
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I guess that's more ambiguous in singleplayer than multiplayer, because setting up an 8 player game can take very long (20min+) and it's unlikely to ever get the same 8 players (at least with the current modus operandi of lobby players), whereas restarting a singleplayer game is always implementable.
So the closest construction site relating to this diff would be implementing that maybe. I recall jonbear had a diff on trac, but that was a session menu item, not a button at the summary screen. The mainmenu is getting quite crowded soon, so I wasn't happy to commit it. But for the summary screen it wouldn't hurt I guess. Anyway.