"Replay is out of sync" - What does this mean?

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Jan 20, 2013 9:21 PM #856838
Is this simply an error message saying that what you see may not be what actually happened?
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Jan 20, 2013 9:25 PM #856850
I once had a replay that did this: I thought it was from being over 20 minutes long. What happened though, was in the replay I started to send wingdom units in front of my ghost, instead of the opposite. This result in the replay I lost a lot of units, verses what actually granted me the win in the actual game: Killing his units using the ghost for shield from giants, etc. If you continue to watch the replay I'm sure you'll eventually see big differences like this.
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Jan 20, 2013 9:30 PM #856863
Quote from PsychoticCheez
Is this simply an error message saying that what you see may not be what actually happened?

Exactly.
As to what causes this, it's being looked into to.
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Jan 20, 2013 11:35 PM #856973
I've noticed that over time when watching 1 out of sync replay the game actually started lagging more and skipping parts a bit.