DRM News

The new iteration of AvP released in North America today using Steamworks as its DRM system.

The Beta for the game had consisted of a single multiplayer level, using what Rebellion claimed was an old build of the MP portion using a Peer to Peer matchmaking system.

Well, as of now the promised Dedicated Server support for the full game release is…coming soon?

Posted by a Rebellion employee in the Steam AvP forum :

Rebellion are busy preparing the dedicated server for the Aliens vs. Predator community. We hope to have a beta release with reduced functionality out in the next few days and further updates to improve functionality and fix bugs over the next few weeks.

The files will be available to download from the “Tools” tab in the Steam client and will be a free download.

This thread will be updated as and when there is more information to provide.

So, what happened? It seems odd that a game said to use dedicated servers would launch without that support in place. Was Rebellion waiting on using dedi-servers wile gauging interest in the game? Were they holding off until sales reached a certain level? Or was there simply a snafu somewhere along the way?

We’ll probably never know, but it is an odd sequence of events.