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 <mondo...@gmail.com> 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 <mslee...@ismsleeperwrong.com > >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
