View other player's UI?

[LintMan]

I started a MP game playing as a champion, with the other player as normal (with shared unit control).  At first, I was able to see his resource stats and use B and S hotkeys to select the build menu and research menu, etc.  And on the galaxy map, there was a message saying "viewing <player>'s UI".

Then somehow it reverted and now I only see the champion UI, and have to manually select his command center, science lab, etc to get the menus because the hotkeys no longer work.  I'm not sure how or why it switched.  Is there any way to control this?

Thanks!

Edit: I did look through the controls screen and saw a "switch back to local player's UI" command, but not one to switch to the not-local player's UI.  And I'm certain in any case that I did not ever press that key combo in the game, when the UI switched.

[Diazo]

Sounds like wierdness with the Champion UI to me.

(Note that I'm guessing here.)

What I think happened is you switched directly from Player 2's UI to Player 1's Champion AI without going through Player 1's UI first.

Does hitting that "switch back to local players UI" get you out of it? Failing that, does closing and reopening the game allow you to get back to Player 2's UI?

D.

[LintMan]

I didn't get a chance to experiment at the time.   I'll see what happens when we continue the game tonight.

The only thing I can think of is that when the game started, we immediately paused the game.  Player 2's homeworld base (and his champion - he was actually set to Normal + champion) were visible, but my champion was not.  Already at that point I was seeing the standard resource UI, unless I selected his champion.  I was quite puzzled, but after we unpaused, my champion showed up a few seconds later. 

The UI stayed like this for quite some time before mysteriously switching to my local UI.

[LintMan]

OK, We started up the MP game, and I started in my Champion UI at load time, repeatedly.  I have no idea how to switch to another player's UI.  The Ctrl-L "revert to local UI" command I had found had no effect.

It seems like this ability to see another player's UI is intentional, but I can't find any way to initiate it.

[Oralordos]

Try looking in the stats menu.

[LintMan]

That's where it is.  Thanks, Oralordos!