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Hello,
Is there an easy was to spectate someone ghost in Trackmania 2020 (single player mode)?

I found on the google (as there is nothing in game that would explain how to do this) that right now the way is to enter camera 7 and click on specific ghost by alt + mouse. However seems like this is broken, intuitive and bad designed.

  1. (At least in standard access) when you are driving with ghost from your region is hard to select the one that you want to observe.
  2. I don't see a way swap between them except trying to hit the one that you want to observe with alt+ mouse click.
  3. Clicking alt + mouse seems like can "stick" center of the camera not only to the car, but also to specific point on track with makes hitting ghost even harder and annoying. Car are moving all the time thus is hard to click on them
  4. When you want to restart run (respawn) you are again in free camera and what's follow, you are forced to try again hit on ghost that you are interested in.
  5. Even if you click on the ghost (spectating it) you can't change the camera angle. You need to manually rotating it.


Is there a better way? Or there is something that I do not know?

I want to observed ghost to see how they were able to get a better time but it's impossible because of how poorly spectating function works.

  1. You can't see only one, specific ghost (this function is available only for medal ghost except author). You are forced to see several of them from the region which makes hard to observe the one you are interested in.
  2. There is no any function to automatically stick to ghost, neither switch between them
  3. cam 7 and then alt+ mouse click ....... only the devil could design such horrible way
  4. Game does not even tell you/show how to spectate (I was forced to use google to find a way)


Kind Regards

over 2 years ago - Ubi-Milky - Direct link

Hello @DreamerDream thanks for getting in touch with us and thank you for your feedback on the ghost cars view.

In the default version of the game, you can only select general ghosts via the pause menu for your area, bronze, silver or gold medal opponents.

To select a specific player's ghost car or 'world record' run, you will need to use a mod called Open Planet where you can install a plugin that will allow you to view any player's Ghost run/author medal and compete against them, by selecting their names from the left-hand side of the screen and selecting the eye icon, to display their ghost on your current track > https://openplanet.dev/: (https://openplanet.dev)


over 2 years ago - Ubi-Milky - Direct link

Hello again @dreamerdream, I believe the plugin I tested may be called Ultimate Medals and can be downloaded from this website >> https://openplanet.dev/plugins/search?search=medals: (https://openplanet.dev/plugins/search?search=medals)

There is also a button on that website, once you have selected your plug-in. which will show you 'how to install plugins' once you have downloaded the file

over 2 years ago - Ubi-Perseids - Direct link

@DreamerDream Hey there! Thanks for the update, and apologies for the trouble. If you click on the names on the left hand side under "Records", do you see the eye icon that @Ubi-Milky mentioned? If so, you should be able to click on it and display the ghost.

over 2 years ago - Ubi-Milky - Direct link

Hello DreamerDream thanks for coming back to us and sorry for any confusion caused, but thank you for sharing that screenshot of your version of the in-game HUD.

I understand now that you are using the standard access version of the game, in this version of the game, there is no option to display the ghosts of specific players or world record holder ghosts. This is only doable if you own the Club version of the game.

In the starter and standard versions of the game, you can race against similar competitive medal time ghosts, but you will be unable to view the ghost of a specific world record holder and race against them.