New TF2 Update Nearing beta Stage

[PS360]

[url]http://kotaku.com/5308976/new-demo-format-for-team-fortress-2-nearing-beta[/url]

[quote]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![/quote]

Basically instead of forcing you to record a demo yourself the server records it automatically and then you ask for it at the end of each round.

Pretty cool new update.

[R E D L I N E]

Pretty awesome.

[Lawnchair]

That's awesome

[rosthouse]

Awesome, we'll now always get our funny engi partys (or whatnot) from the FP server :v:

[Everen]

That'll be awesome.

[Acegikmo]

I always play worse while I am recording a demo. Does this mean I'll be terrible at TF2 all the time now? :tinfoil:

[ray243]

Cool, TF2 always got awesome updates and the team always got awesome ideas.

[SappinMyNick]

Yes, yes!

[thisguy123]

this will save a lot of mucking around.

All those missed funnies. All those times you set to record a match and nothing happened.

[TheDecryptor]

This is great. Now I can record the cool, lucky, once off kills I get.

[Joerdgs]

That's pretty cool.

[HubmaN V2]

Yess scrubbing yess without a sourcetv bot yesss

[Flaming Neko]

Awesome.

[mixshifter]

An update for [b]demo [/b]recording eh?

[DuncanFrost]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djtl9Kv64c8&feature=related[/media]

[Doomv2]

So basically it's just an easily download-able HLTV/STV?

[Shugo]

That sounds pretty awesome.

I came into the thread expecting a class update, though. I saw the title and went "already!?" :downs:

[IDTL]

Sweet, I've been wanting this feature for awhile now.

[QUOTE=Doomv2;15903535]So basically it's just an easily download-able HLTV/STV?[/QUOTE]
Basically, yeah.

[Ghosevil]

Pretty cool? Pretty fucking awesome, especially for a game like TF2.

[Doomv2]

[QUOTE=IDTL;15903561]Basically, yeah.[/QUOTE]

Too bad it's not going to come to GoldSRC engine... God, protocol updates are so fucking annoying...

[HOUSEMASTERR]

This will be cool.

[Daimao]

Finally an update.

[chills2]

I thought it was my demoman update. :(

[DementNeo]

This should be pretty awesome

[smurfy]

I got a boner reading this.

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[QUOTE=Daimao;15903911]Finally an update.[/QUOTE]

Yeah TF2 never gets updated! We're so unlucky :( Valve don't support their games

[SteveS]

If this is a Source-wide update, even better. Sounds pretty cool

[Dlaor]

Wouldn't this lag a lot?

[reviewmad]

[QUOTE=Dlaor;15904248]Wouldn't this lag a lot?[/QUOTE]

have you never recorded a demo before

[TheDKer]

Will my old demo-files ever work? im probably dumb

[reviewmad]

[QUOTE=TheDKer;15904389]Will my old demo-files ever work? im probably dumb[/QUOTE]

yeah if not that's gay