Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-03-05T23:18:50+02:00

It's not ok, it's mandatory

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 05 Mar 2012, 23:18

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-03-05T18:46:54+02:00

Thank you for pointing that wiki article out! That would solve my issue. I was unaware that it was ok for us to use separate ports while connecting to each other. I'll set the room mate to use a different port and then forward it properly in my router.

That should eliminate the need for hamachi/offline mode entirely in my case.

Statistics: Posted by Leesam — 05 Mar 2012, 18:46

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-03-05T16:53:24+02:00

Did you check the wiki ? There are some infos about the way you should set your router in your case.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 05 Mar 2012, 16:53

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-03-05T16:47:55+02:00

I'll try to get the logs but the issue isn't quite connecting over the internet. The issue is created when two people are on the same lan connecting to X number of people elsewhere. FA only seems to be able to handle one person per WAN ip.

Another case i tried was two people (my room mate and i) connecting to each other over FAF lobby. It would never connect. I started the server and he tried to join it but it just sat at "Connecting...".

Could someone else try to replicate this as well? I'll be trying to get logs of the issue tonight or tomorrow night.

Statistics: Posted by Leesam — 05 Mar 2012, 16:47

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-03-03T20:42:01+02:00

the fix should be to route correctly FA so it works on the internet. Can you post logs on all the 3 pcs after an unsuccessful attempt ?

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 03 Mar 2012, 20:42

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-03-03T20:38:08+02:00

Hi,

I just wanted to put in my thoughts on this. Me and the friends i play with need an offline play button. The issue is that we have two people in one house playing with 3 people in other houses. FA can't handle this sort of connection unless we all use hamachi and then use the in game multiplayer/lan button to start a game.

Right now i have to explain to each person where to find the exe, how to make sure they've all gotten the updates needed and then maybe we can join together and not have desync errors.

Could there please be some kind of button in FA Forever Lobby to facilitate this?

Statistics: Posted by Leesam — 03 Mar 2012, 20:38

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-29T16:14:58+02:00

Well, then no icons. Find the exe yourself

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 29 Feb 2012, 16:14

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-29T16:00:59+02:00

Encourage, dont force.
(or make annoyingly inconvenient.)

Statistics: Posted by AdmiralZeech — 29 Feb 2012, 16:00

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-25T10:54:00+02:00

AdmiralZeech wrote:
Maybe the FAF installer should offer to make a desktop/start menu shortcut to this item, called "FAF - offline" or something?

I was planning to put in a menu item 'Launch FA Offline' but you'd still have to be online to really get FA/FAF updated. I also wanted to do something to live replays so they automatically open with FAF (probably making every FAF replay be called SCFAFreplay)

We really want to encourage players to experience online play with real human teammates and opponents, though. This is a multiplayer lobby...

Statistics: Posted by thygrrr — 25 Feb 2012, 10:54

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-25T00:35:13+02:00

Problem is that it's created after the installer (on first game/livereplay/...). But it's doable I think.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 25 Feb 2012, 00:35

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-25T00:28:12+02:00

Maybe the FAF installer should offer to make a desktop/start menu shortcut to this item, called "FAF - offline" or something?

Statistics: Posted by AdmiralZeech — 25 Feb 2012, 00:28

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-24T20:42:18+02:00

That did it. Thanks for the quick response.

Statistics: Posted by FireBrd — 24 Feb 2012, 20:42

Re: Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-24T20:37:42+02:00

This folder do not exist anymore.
You can find the .exe in (if I'm not wrong): C:/ProgramData/FAForever/bin.

Do not use the shortcut, only the ForgedAlliance.exe file.

Statistics: Posted by Nizar89 — 24 Feb 2012, 20:37

Offline/LAN Play

2012-02-24T20:33:23+02:00

I feel like a tard asking this but I cannot for the life of me figure this out.
How can I get offline play w/ the 3610 patch?
From digging around on the forums it says to go to the 'C:\Program Files\THQ\GPG\Forged Alliance\binFAF' folder and just run the EXE from there. My problem is, I don't have that folder. I see the 'bin' folder but not a 'binFAF' nor a 'bin\FAF' folder even.
Any ideas?

Statistics: Posted by FireBrd — 24 Feb 2012, 20:33