Alpha: Allow offline multiplayer

RobB

<div class="IPBDescription">with the same key</div>Since the netcode is not working good enough, a proper testing is not possible.
That's where the offline mode could come in handy.

Invite a few friends over, build a lan, copy steam and NS2a on their systems and shut steam down to offline mode.
Now you should be able to expierence it if there is a proper lan game discovery and if NS2 is not depending on the masterserver for LAN games.

Alex2539

That's a pretty quick way to widespread piracy. If that worked, all you would need is a program called "Hamachi" which simulates a LAN over the internet and you could have as many people as you want all running off that single key, playing over organized Hamachi networks.

crakinshot

LOL... No way sonny'. :D

Revi.uk

You're just full of great ideas aren't you RobB

FocusedWolf

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Ok everyone's saying the alpha is "unplayable" and we're worried that some interested people may get to play?

Anyway, i was thinking it would be nice if the beta-people could play the alpha offline, purely in a developer-map-editor-testing-mode sense... it kinda sucks that the engine test is gone for us. I would of also been satisfied if my steam didn't automatically update to the non-runnable alpha build, and just stayed at the engine-test build till beta...

baosen

Hamachi is REALLY easy to prevent! JUST ADD A 30 MS PING LIMIT to join a game!!!! Why does no developers think of that, except Microsoft with their Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live (GTA4 has this limit, Halo 2 has this limit).