Sep 07, 2019 steam library select tools up next to the search bar Portal 2 Authoring Tools. But it's not easy to use it's literally the tool that the developers used to make the levels, you should watch some tutorials or something. Imma make a basic chamber and use hammer to spawn GLaDOS in the middle. Information about Valve's Portal 2, including trailers, screenshots and preorders. HOW TO PLAY PORTAL 2 ON STEAM (FREE).
It’s been a rather odd period for Valve games, what with the announcement of a new Half-Life game called Half-Life: Alyx for VR and several old games getting patched. Now it’s the turn of Portal 2 which has received a few tweaks to its co-op settings. Essentially, you can now have one player on mouse/keyboard and another player on the controller.
The community co-op map queue also has local co-op support which is good news. Quickplay isn’t support though so keep that in mind. With Valve’s Remote Play Together feature also launching, it’s also possible to play split-screen with another player.
Check out the full range of fixes below. As for Half-Life: Alyx, it’s set to be revealed later today at 10 AM PST. Described as a “flagship” VR title, one can assume that it’s a spin-off from Half-Life 2 focused on Alyx Vance, Gordon Freeman’s cohort. Perhaps there’s something more to it though, maybe a relation to a long dormant third game in the franchise? Stay tuned for more details later today.
Windows
Fixed an issue where in-game audio caption language would use the system language setting instead of the Steam language setting.
Controller support
- Improved camera control through Steam Input – the sensitivity scale has changed so you may need to increase your configuration’s sensitivity.
- Add local coop support for one controller player and one Mouse/Keyboard player.
- Add local coop support from the community coop map queue. Quickplay is still not supported.
- Fix XInput related options being hidden when connecting a Steam Input enabled controller using a Gamepad configuration.
- Fix the challenge mode screen not having enough footer buttons available through Steam Input.
- Fix several more bugs where the incorrect action set could be set in Steam Input.
- Fix several cases where having a controller connected but not active would affect the glyphs and settings screen options.
Puzzle games are great, especially ones that let you play together with a friend or family member which would eventually result in both of you hating each other. Portal 2 is one such game that does that and Valve is just making it better at ruining friendships.
In tandem with Steam officially launching their Remote Play Together feature, Portal 2 just got a new update that introduces a few fixes and some cool new features including local co-op support for one player using a keyboard and mouse and the other using a controller.
One great thing about Remote Play Together is that it will allow friends to play games together with only needing one person owning the game. I suppose that’s also why local co-op support has been added into Portal 2’s community co-op map queue.
Here are all the patch notes for this update:
Windows
- Fixed an issue where in-game audio caption language would use the system language setting instead of the Steam language setting.
Controller support
- Improved camera control through Steam Input – the sensitivity scale has changed so you may need to increase your configuration’s sensitivity.
- Add local coop support for one controller player and one Mouse/Keyboard player.
- Add local coop support from the community coop map queue. Quickplay is still not supported.
- Fix XInput related options being hidden when connecting a Steam Input enabled controller using a Gamepad configuration.
- Fix the challenge mode screen not having enough footer buttons available through Steam Input.
- Fix several more bugs where the incorrect action set could be set in Steam Input.
- Fix several cases where having a controller connected but not active would affect the glyphs and settings screen options.
With games like Cuphead and River City Girls only featuring local co-op, it’s really awesome that Steam is launching a feature that allows these games to be played through online multiplayer. Another reason to not use other digital stores.