and I guess the demo is for pre-order folks only right now, as I got nothin in my steam client :(
--mauirixxx -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Sugar Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:25 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D2 Demo Hes talking about cilentside preloads. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Matthew Gottlieb < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm not seeing any changes on the hldsupdatetool list > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:12 PM, msleeper <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Confirmed, restart steam if the demo isn't in your game list. Hey what > > do you know. > > > > > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:08 -0500, Matthew Gottlieb wrote: > >> I'm told that the demo is preloading now. I have yet to preorder l4d2 > >> so I can't confirm. > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:34 PM, msleeper <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Just because Gamestop is handing out the demo, that doesn't mean > squat. > >> > Look at Borderlands - they handed out that game and it won't unlock > >> > until the 26th. > >> > > >> > Anyway - I imagine that we'll get our fair share of bug fixes and > >> > updates for the demo. I more or less agree with your assumption on the > >> > tag and the cross-game serving. At least I really hope we will be able > >> > to do something like that, I really do not want to split up my game > >> > servers for 2 games that are fairly similar. > >> > > >> > I don't think we could preload the demo, but we did preload the actual > >> > game. > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 18:29 -0700, Jonah Hirsch wrote: > >> >> Well first of all it's *4* days to the demo release. :P > >> >> If this is *JUST *like the L4D demo, we'll get the server files the > day > >> >> before, but who knows, we could get it a little sooner, although it's > >> >> getting close. > >> >> > >> >> I'm sure the demo won't need as many little patches as the L4D demo > did (I > >> >> hope), so it should go nice and smooth. > >> >> > >> >> Also I'm really curious about the "g:l4d1" tag too. Here's my best > >> >> hypothesis: > >> >> > >> >> L4D2 will be backwards compatible with L4D. You will be able to play > the L4D > >> >> campaigns natively in L4D2. (Possibly, an update to L4D would be > released > >> >> that supports cross-game support, so people with L4D2 can play with > people > >> >> who only have L4D). I'd guess that you could set up L4D2 servers, and > the > >> >> "g:l4d1/g:l4d2" tag would tell the server whether to switch between > >> >> l4d1/l4d2. This would also confirm an update coming to L4D that would > make > >> >> it supported by L4D2 servers. > >> >> > >> >> Anyway, I'd also like some official word on this, but since today is > Friday, > >> >> I wouldn't expect anything until Monday, and hopefully NOT Tuesday > since the > >> >> demo is supposed to be released then. > >> >> > >> >> Does anyone remember if we could preload the L4D demo? That'd give > some > >> >> insight into if we might be able to preload this one. > >> >> > >> >> Jonah Hirsch > >> >> ----------------------- > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM, MONDO <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > Agreed. We'd like to get things running so our communities have a > place to > >> >> > play as soon as the demo opens up. > >> >> > > >> >> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:20 PM, msleeper < > [email protected] > >> >> > >wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > > So here we are, a week or two out from the L4D2 demo release. I > wonder > >> >> > > if we can get any sort of heads up on what to expect for this. > >> >> > > > >> >> > > The big question I think most of us have is - Are the servers > going to > >> >> > > be backwards compatible with L4D1, or will we have to run L4D1 > and/or > >> >> > > L4D2 servers? As someone mentioned a while ago, a new tag showed > up in > >> >> > > sv_tags which seems to indicate that we may only have 1 server > running > >> >> > > for both games, but some confirmation or denial on this would be > great. > >> >> > > > >> >> > > I am going to guess that we are going to get the server files a > bit in > >> >> > > advance like we did the last go around. Are forked servers still > in > >> >> > > play? I would hope so, they are awesome. > >> >> > > > >> >> > > Are there any new cvars we should know about before hand, stuff > like the > >> >> > > Steamgroups? > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > >> >> > > please visit: > >> >> > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> >> > > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > >> >> > please visit: > >> >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> >> > > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > >> >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
