Tunngle?
Nordic
Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
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If you own the game, why do you need to trick it into thinking you're on a LAN? You aren't magically going to get any benefits just because the game thinks everyone else is local.
--Scythe--
This is the optimistic view of it. Otherwise, its for pirating.
a) Play pirated games (However: ANY VPN-Service would do the trick).
b) Play old, really outdated games (Again: Any VPN-Service may work).
c) Play purchased games online because somebody is not competent enough to open/forward his firewall/router-ports. (Also: Some games are just a pain in the ass to forward because they use over 10 different ports which is just stupid in my opinion).
Awesome games like NS2 shall not be pirated.
NS2 is anything but old.
Forwarding 2 Ports can be accomplished by anybody with a little help of Google. (If not, you're just lazy, sry).
Thus nobody in this community should ever feel the slightest need for Tunngle or Hamachi.
My personal opinion on Tunngle/Hamachi: <b>Software used by pirates and lazy people.</b> (<1% legit users)
Yeah it's for pirates, however I can see the benefit of using it like 10 years ago before people had things such as the steam server browser.
However its still for pirates
Well not entirely true, I used to play Company of Heroes a bit and we never were able to get the game to connect all 3 or 4 players correctly even with all ports open. So we had to resort to Hamachi, which made it possible for us to play the game with each other.
Now CoH is a different breed, I'm sure. A very oddball way of setting up servers and connection between players, thanks for that Relic... A game like NS2 that uses dedicated servers has a much more stable and robust way of connecting players to each other, so something like this is indeed redundant...
How does LAN support *over the internet* get you anything different then just connecting to a normal server? This really has nothing to do with pure lan support (if you and friends are on the same network). This lets you fake being on the same network... and I don't understand why that would be beneficial in any way.