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Left 4 Dead demo - briefly|
| (hx) 05:28 PM CET - Nov,11 2008 | The demo for Left 4 Dead, Valve's zombie co-op shooter, should be free for
anyone to play via Steam today. The demo will supposedly 'conclude' next
Tuesday, Nov. 18 when the full game ships to stores and is made available for
download via Steam.The installation weighs in at a hefty 3.2GB, though, so folks with 128Kbps DSL connections should probably abstain. The demo includes two levels from the "No Mercy" campaign, allowing up to four players to shoot their way from the roof of an apartment building through to the bowels of a derelict subway network.
Meanwhile the demo itself has gotten
a solid patch
update via Steam. There are a number of issues fixed or improved in the
latest update including some matchmaking changes that have been the one major
source of problems with people playing the game. However, after the most recent
patch to the demo quietly removed splitscreen support, those same gamers were
left wondering the "feature" would make it into the final release of the game.
Valve designer Yahn Bernier has answered the question in a post on the Steam
forums:
Splitscreen was always something we only wanted to officially support on the
x360 due to the controller issues. However, we are planning on making some of
the functionality work on the PC as an "unsupported" bonus feature. We turned it
off for the demo because we didn't want to have to deal with any additional bug
reports etc. about it interfering with the demo experience, but the current plan
is to re-enable it after we launch the full product. There are a number of
tuning variables, the but tricky thing will be the controller. When testing, the
best setup on the PC is to have two joystick/x360 style USB controllers. I think
it will also be possible to have one keyboard/mouse and one joystick player. I
haven't looked into supporting two keyboards/mice, as I'm not even sure PC's can
deal with that and I doubt we're talking about lots and lots of possible users
for such a config.
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