When Resident Evil: Revelations 2 was advertised on the Steam page, players saw that amongst the features being listed was offline co-op – a rarity nowadays in the days of online multiplayer. So imagine the disappointment when the first episode went live and this feature was missing.

Yesterday Capcom said about the omission: “The decision to prioritize a single local screen was made to ensure a stable user experience across a variety of different PC settings and devices. Raid mode will support online co-op shortly after launch when a free patch is available for players to download which adds this feature, but the main campaign on PC will only be available to play in single local screen.”

This made it sound as if offline co-op would never be a feature in the game, and understandably some people weren’t exactly happy about it. Now however Capcom have released a further statement, and while it’s vague it seems that they’ve decided to give the feature some thought.

“We apologize to our Resident Evil Revelations 2 PC players who purchased the game and expected to have local co-op as a feature. The feature wasn’t intended for this version and that caveat was mistakenly omitted from the product description on the Steam page earlier, and then included as soon as we were made aware. This was an unintentional error and again, we apologize for the confusion this may have caused.

“We are currently looking into the matter and potential solutions and we hope to have new information to share very soon, so please stay tuned. Thank you for your patience and understanding.”

So if you were hoping for local co-op stay tuned, it might happen yet.