Setting Up A Lan Game

kashluk · November 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Help for a total newbie</div> I was thinking of exploring the maps and practicing with the comm chair a bit, but when I (traditionally) run HL with Natural Selection command line and enter "create LAN game" - section I see wicked map names: maps of original half-life (bootcamp, bouncer, frency etc.)!

So what am I doing wrong here? Do I need additional programs, plug-ins or addons to run LAN games or just a simple command line somewhere.

Please contribute, it seems that no one has been aware of such total noobiness as mine, so there has been no preparation in FAQs and archives for my kind whatsoever.

Cavey · November 2003

Sounds like you want a listenserver. Try creating a shrotcut to the half-life executable (hl.exe in most peoples case) and adding the commands to start a server to it.

Example -

"G:\Games\half-life 1110\hl.exe" -game ns +map ns_bast -maxplayers 12 +sv_lan 1 -console

Change "ns_bast" to whatever map you prefere and make maxplayers at least 2. The -game ns specifies that you want the server to be a natural selection server.

Thansal · November 2003

kash, it actualy sounds like you are running an old version of NS (like 1.0*). Simply b/c this was a known bug with the game back then (just don't use the desktop icon, instead you can boot up HL and then go to custom games)

make sure you have 2.0 downloaded though

list:
<a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/downloads.html' target='_blank'>http://www.natural-selection.org/downloads.html</a>

kashluk · November 2003

It's a new version, I can play online allright.

But thanks guys, I tried launching the regular HL first (which I did, because I'm stupid and lazy and wanted the easy way out), clicking custom games etc.

Now it works!

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But now another problem occured:

My and my bro's computer are connected via Hub. We've been transferring bigger files that way, playing Serious Sam etc. etc. But when he tries to refresh his LAN list in NS he can't see any available servers to join.

The LAN connection should otherwise be ok and we've played other games (newer than HL) through it.

Cavey · November 2003

This is probably caused by the primary network adapter being on the external network or some other such crap that used to render LAN games unviewable because the broadcast address is incroeectly set. The end result is that you need to simply specify the server to connect to on the client and it should just work. From the client, open the console and use

connect IP

For example, my server is on 10.0.0.1, so I use

connect 10.0.0.1

Hope that helps.

kashluk · November 2003

Well, uh, how do I know the server's IP then?

Sorry, but I really am a newbie in all this.

devicenull · November 2003

On the server computer
Win9x:
Start>Run>winipcfg
Win2k/XP:
Start>Run>command> type ipconfig

It will say Ip Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

kashluk · November 2003

Um, what about if it says 000000 and so on?

I don't know if it's the Hub/Router whatever that makes that.

The internet and file transferring between computers works fine, but IP's still all zeros.

Thansal · November 2003

like 000.000.000.00?

if so, try connecting to that.....

kashluk · November 2003

Um, it seems that there was this dropdown thingy with my old modem on top and new Ethernet-card below and I was looking at the modem's stats. Everything's fine now, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

kashluk · November 2003

OK, so I figured out where to see the IP and stuff but now I tried to play with my brother and everytime he writes connect IP bla bla bla to his console it brings back "bad server". Nothing else.

I then went to the view info-panel and told him to type the additional (:27015) which was after the ip in the view info-page. Still "bad server".

What's wrong?

Setting Up A Lan Game

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