How to Record and Playback a Demo in Team Fortress 2

Here’s a quick and easy tip for the TF2 players out there.

When your in an active game and you want to get a recording of your session there’s a simple way of doing that as follows:

  1. Open the console by using the ` key (to the left of the 1 key on most keyboards),
  2. Type in record demoname.dem where demoname is your filename of choice,
  3. Press Enter,

The demo will continue recording until you stop it which can also be done from the console by typing:

stopdemo

Finally, if you want to replay your recorded session you can type the following into the console:

playdemo <filename>

… where <filename> is the name of your desired demo for playback.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.