Unfortunately this has meant the latest release currently does not work with the previous local co-op mod. “Some game code from the original GFWL release did have to be changed in the porting process so both Resident Evil 5 and the new Untold Stories Bundle add-on content worked seamlessly together. I really wanted to play through the game in splitscreen with my girlfriend like I did with Rev 2.”Ĭapcom’s official explanation was given in a statement to Eurogamer, which points the situation to ensuring that both the main game and the Untold Stories add-on work seamlessly together: “As the original Resident Evil 5 release on GFWL didn’t officially include local co-op, the mode is therefore not supported by the recent Steam release. I have no idea how difficult this would be to get working overall, but it’s a shame the feature isn’t there. “I was able to get splitscreen coop working fairly well except for a major problem with the game thinking player two is supposed to have their own savegame. There’s an array defining which controller ID each player is using, and if you change player two’s ID from -1 to 1, then you’ll have two controllers controlling player 1 and 2.

Otherwise no characters would have moved at all.”Īgreeing with TheBlade was Sectus, who said: ““PC version does at least have some code for handling multiple controllers.

Evidently the game knows to assign PAD1 to Player1, PAD2 to Player2 vise versa. The game has no problem at all distinguishing between two controllers. “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,” said TheBlade. The entire Resident Evil 5 campaign supports two player, drop-in/drop-out co-op online. Find co-op news, reviews, and more info about this game. As I was one of the key people who worked on the split-screen mod that enabled it on the GFWL initial release version for PCs. Co-Op gameplay information about Resident Evil 5 on PC. “I don’t understand why you claim the code ‘simply does not work on a PC’.

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