Steam: New Team Fortress 2 demo format almost in beta

Posted Jul 7, 2009 at 6:44PM by Mabie A. Listed in: News, Titles Tags: Steam

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There's gonna be a new demo type format from Steam, and presumably, we're gonna be seeing it either on Team Fortress 2 or an all of Steam's games. Robin Walker, Valve developer, explains the new system and discloses that "It's getting close to being releasable in a beta form."

Here's how it goes. After players die, or say for example, finish a round that you think you aced and would like to show off to friends, you can actually request from the server to send you a demo copy 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. In addition, the format has a some side benefits, like supporting full backwards and forwards time scrubbing.

Sounds cool, and actually responsive to the issue of players breaking their demo files after they've downloaded new updates.

For the full interview with Robin Walker, click on the source link below.

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