Via email, Valve mentioned that it was developing a new demo type format — for Team Fortress 2 or perhaps all Steam Games. This comes as players have been breaking demo files after downloading new updates.
Tell us about that Robin Walker! The Valve developer explains: “It’s getting close to being releasable in a beta form.”
The basic idea is that after players die or finish a round you are particularly proud of, you can ask the server to send you a demo of it. “The server then sends you a demo that it recorded, which has the complete game state instead of just what your client saw, and it’s in a format that’s robust and won’t break as easily when we update the game,” Walker adds. “In addition, the format has a some side benefits, like supporting full backwards and forwards time scrubbing.”
Not bad!
Robin Walker interview [TFPortal]
Joseph
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 11:17 PMThey wouldn’t want to announce it for L4D as well… just in case they can’t do it, and everyone goes FRIGGING BONKERS.
Dave Plint
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 3:03 AMthe other night i pinned a rocket-jumping soldier to a wall right at the top of his jump
i could watch that over and over and over and over!