The eSports discipline Couter-Strike Global Offensive is designed to allow ordinary users to watch competitive games directly from the game client. This is done for the greatest convenience: you can watch the gameplay on behalf of different players, as well as through a free camera. In this case, the game is recorded by the server and does not load the computer in any way. But did you know that players themselves can record demos and then watch them outside of competitive games? Let's see how to see the demo in "KS: GO".
Recording procedure
To see something, you must first create it. Therefore, let's start with the instructions for recording gameplay demos. To do this, open the console before the moment that should be recorded, and type the command “record clip name”, then press Enter. Now the recording will begin, and you just have to play.
To stop recording, you must open the console line again and enter the stop command. after that the recording will be completed. If you don’t know which key in CS: GO the console opens, then look at the game’s control settings. Now let's figure out how to watch the demo in "KS: GO".
View Instructions
If we are talking about recordings of competitive matches, then you can watch them as follows:
- Go into the game and open the "Watch" section.
- Now select the tab “Your matches”.
- Here is a list of your ranked games. You can not easily see the statistics (score, killings, weapons and so on), but also download a demo to view.
However, this method is not suitable for simple games. You will have to do this:
- Open the console again and enter the demoui command.
- After that, a window with the player will appear on the screen.
- Now click on the Load button and select the necessary demo from among those that you recorded yourself.
- After that, click on the Play button to start playing the video.
You can also enable the demo even easier. Open the console and use the command "playdemo * demo name *". After that, the video you need automatically appears on the screen. However, for this it is necessary to remember the name of the record in advance.
Where to find demos
Now you know how to watch the demo of the game "KS: GO". It remains to figure out where the files themselves are so that they can be downloaded or moved. All demos are stored in the csgo directory, which is located in the library with Steam games - steamapps. In this folder, you need to open the Counter-Strike Global Offensive directory, in which there will be a csgo folder with all demos. However, watching them as a regular video through any player will not work, because they have a special permission .dem.