On February 28, Capcom announced,resident evil 5]The Steam version has been updated for the first time in about 8 years. In addition to supporting offline split screen play, the function for linking with Game for Windows Live has been removed, and a problem at startup has been fixed.
Resident Evil 5 is a TPS game released in 2009. The main story is set in a certain country in Africa, the Kijuju Autonomous Region. The main character, Chris Redfield, becomes an agent of the newly established anti-bioterrorism unit “BSAA”, and uncovers the huge conspiracy that is progressing in this area, and the involvement of Wesker. In this work, Sheva, a local BSAA agent, accompanies Chris. It also supports two-player co-op.
This time, the Steam version of this work has been updated for the first time in about 8 years. With the same update, the Steam version of this work supports offline split-screen play. In addition, the Games for Windows Live compatible function has been removed, and various bugs have been fixed.
The game was also released for consoles, supporting offline split-screen play. On the other hand, the PC version only supported online co-op play. About 14 years after its release, it finally supports offline split-screen play.
The Steam version of this work is a product that makes the Game for Windows Live version compatible with Steam. Game for Windows Live is a PC game platform provided by Microsoft that is no longer supported. The Steam version of this work has a function that allows you to transfer save data and achievements from the same platform. However, the platform has been discontinued. There were also many reports of errors occurring at startup due to this function. It was dealt with in the form of deleting the function in this update.
After a long time since its release, “Resident Evil 5” has supported offline split-screen play and fixed bugs. “Resident Evil 6” and “Resident Evil Revelations 2”, which were released later, also support offline split-screen play in the Steam version, and are finally in line with their successors.
It should be noted that this time only offline split screen play was supported, but related works can be played comfortably with Steam’s Remote Play Together even in offline split screen.ReportSince it was done, this work may also be able to be played online via the Steam function.
“Resident Evil 4”, the predecessor of “Resident Evil 5”, has been remade with RE ENGINE,Resident Evil RE:4]will be released on March 24th this month. This update may be intended to make it easier to play the work that draws the continuation of the newly released work.
『resident evil 5]is on sale for PC (Steam) / Nintendo Switch / PS4 / Xbox One.
