Valve kommer med nytt Demo system

Skrevet av Gaarulf, publisert 06.07.2009.

Folkene hos TFPortal.de har hatt et lite intervju med Robin Walker, hvor han svarer på en del spørsmål som allerede er besvart, samt lekker detaljer til ett nytt system for Demoer og updates.

TFPortal.de: In an E-Mail you mentioned a new demo type / format which you are developing. Many players have broken demo files after downloading new updates. Can you tell us a bit about it?

Robin Walker: It's getting close to being releasable in a beta form. The idea is that after you die or finish a round, and it was a round you were particularly happy with (maybe you scored an awesome kill, or saved the entire team with an ubercharge), 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. In addition, the format has a some side benefits, like supporting full backwards & forwards time scrubbing.

Høres ut som en mye bedre versjon av SourceTV demoer.

Resten av intervjuet kan leses hos Tfportal.de

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