Successful Multiplayer (Over Network) Anything?

[skeezix]

I'm a week or two out of date with minimal free time right now, but I lost track of what options we have for MP over the network right now?

(once I get some free time, I will have to look into Nettrek, which is really crazy goofy fun (16 player pvp looking like asteroids)

- freeciv - should work okay; I don't think we have a working sdl-freeciv build (try angstroms?), but the windowed freeciv should be fine -- just some screens you'll need to lean on the shift/alt to move the over-big windows around; still, net play should work fine (even against non-pandora folks, since turn based would remove any handicaps.)

- Battle for Wesnoth -- I seem to recall this has MP, but never tried it.

- Quakes - I've not had time to attempt any of them for MP; I forget if we built Q3 to have networking support in there (I've not muddled with ioq3 much, since it has some transparency issues; I've only used Q3 proper), but it seemed my q3 could never detect existing servers, nor allow me to enter IPs so I couldn't connect to a server if I wanted to.
- didn't try Q1/Q3 deathmatches

What other Mp-netplay options do we have? Anyone had any network games go? How'd it work out?

Lastly -- any netplay games you'd love to see ported (ie: existing Linux netplay games.)

(Aside, yes, I'm working on BattleJewels multiplayer, but cut me some slack

jeff

 

[joseluisjazz]

I tried Wesnoth multiplayer for 5 minutes, and it worked, although screen resolution wasn't the best.

I tried also Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on console, after changing font size of terminal in order to be able to have the minimum cols/rows needed:

$ ssh -2C -c blowfish joshua@crawl.akrasiac.org

(password joshua)

 

[Claude]

Played some Q2 multiplayer on a public server. After some minutes my Q2 client starting to stutter/lag and also I had to try many servers until I found one which doesn't need additional files/mods on the client.
This server seems to work : 79.136.84.237:27920

 

[atomicthumbs]

The Ur-Quan Masters' Super Melee mode supports netplay.

 

[Hooka]

Also, someone might wanna give using the DC Q3 map pack a look for Q3 multiplayer, might be a bit friendlier on our limited resources

 

[MistaGiggles]

My port of OpenTTD works with multiplayer, you can join any PC server running the latest stable build.

 

[Wolfsclaw]

Played some Q2 multiplayer on a public server. After some minutes my Q2 client starting to stutter/lag and also I had to try many servers until I found one which doesn't need additional files/mods on the client.
This server seems to work : 79.136.84.237:27920

And why exactly can't we download the additional files?

Also, why does it lag so much? (questions for everyone btw, online gaming was a huge selling point for me)

@joseluizjazz: How badly does the screen size affect gameplay? How's ingame chatting? Any possibility you could make a video?


If the quake games never going to work online as expected, i'm going to rage hard.

 

[joseluisjazz]

@joseluizjazz: How badly does the screen size affect gameplay? How's ingame chatting? Any possibility you could make a video?

Not until I receive my pandora back, probably in a week, currently in its way to be have the screen cable repaired. On Wesnoth I only tried to install some add-ons, enter multiplayer, and watch 1 minute of a game, but I didn't play. So if nobody does it before, I'll make a video showing a game being played, although it will must be taken from my phone.

 

[Claude]

Played some Q2 multiplayer on a public server. After some minutes my Q2 client starting to stutter/lag and also I had to try many servers until I found one which doesn't need additional files/mods on the client.
This server seems to work : 79.136.84.237:27920

And why exactly can't we download the additional files?

Also, why does it lag so much? (questions for everyone btw, online gaming was a huge selling point for me)

@joseluizjazz: How badly does the screen size affect gameplay? How's ingame chatting? Any possibility you could make a video?


If the quake games never going to work online as expected, i'm going to rage hard.

Simply I'm too lazy to search for the proper files/mods

The lag could also be from the server or from my wifi connection !? I will try the same server with an USB Ethernet adapter.