Now Capcom has released the GFWL version of Resident Evil 5 via Steam's Beta tab, but has warned those using it that it won’t be supported. The game has no problem at all distinguishing between two controllers.” “The only problem was that the keyboard would control both characters so it was forcibly disabled. We did not add anything extra to the game at all, it was simply enabled. 'I can confirm that all the code is FULLY functional and it worked flawlessly for the GFWL version. 'I don't understand why you claim the code 'simply does not work on a PC',' modder TheBlade said. These assertions were immediately challenged by two people who had worked on the splitscreen mod. “It's a difficult problem to solve since the original game's logic wasn't designed with multiple controller devices in mind.” “In other words, if you plugged in two Xbox controllers, RE5 has no way of figuring out which gamepad controls which character – or what happens if one player uses a KB+M versus a gamepad. “The crux of the issue is that the PC code base has no concept of multiple controllers,” the spokesperson wrote. He or she also claimed that the co-op code was “an orphaned code base from the PS3/Xbox 360 SKU which simply does not work on a PC”. However, on Friday gamers discovered via a release notes file accidentally left in the Steamworks build of the game that Capcom had intentionally “ripped out” the code that allowed said mod to function.Īfter an outcry, a Capcom community spokesperson told NeoGAF that the note being left in the build was an 'unfortunate oversight'. Capcom has been forced to re-release the Games For Windows Live version of Resident Evil 5 on Steam after complaints over the removal of splitscreen co-op from the Steamworks edition.Īlthough the game features splitscreen co-op on consoles, it has never been available on PC without the use of a mod.

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