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Robot Arena Matches => Tournaments => Online Battles => Topic started by: Herpaderp64 on May 24, 2017, 08:03:57 AM

Title: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Herpaderp64 on May 24, 2017, 08:03:57 AM: sorry if thjis is in one of the topics that have already been posted but im a bit short on time today so i was hoping by posting this i could get a quick response to the problem, as the title says i have no idea how to play multiplayer help would be appreciated
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: cephalopod on May 24, 2017, 08:54:13 AM: Local or online
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Reier on May 24, 2017, 09:04:23 AM: Online play in ra2 is possible but not worth it. Terrible lag, crashing. It's awful.
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: kix on May 24, 2017, 12:28:04 PM: Online play.. There is gameranger but the lag is so bad that it makes it unplayable
You can try if you have a Nvidia card (GTX 650 and higher, i think) gamestream. But you need bot from the opponent and bind ithe controles different than yours (bassicly it acts like you are playing with opponent side-by-side)
But as reier said. It is just not worth it!
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Reier on May 24, 2017, 04:39:10 PM: that being said, our alternative is AI tournaments. Sign up for one in the tournament section of the forum (read the rules), and you basically send a bot to the host who AIs it and makes it fight the opponent's bot. They record the fight and put it on youtube or whatever. It's not as much fun as driving it yourself but it's all we have really.
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Herpaderp64 on May 26, 2017, 12:44:50 PM: ok thanks for the help, shame theres no proper multiplayer function anymore, maybe one day someone will take the time to make one
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Herpaderp64 on May 26, 2017, 01:57:19 PM: hold on what about hamachi? i swear i keep seeing that mentioned in nearly every multiplayer related topic at least once
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Reier on May 26, 2017, 06:28:09 PM: using hamachi or gameranger are main ways to play online, and both of those are as bad as I mentioned above. I've played in matches with 15s lag. It's almost impossible to play unless you're the host.
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Herpaderp64 on May 27, 2017, 08:05:48 AM: well i played online earlier on that hamachi with one of my mates and there was almost no lag apart from one match, could it be due to the location of players? eg:uk and usa
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Avalanche on May 27, 2017, 09:15:25 AM: Quote from: Herpaderp64 on May 27, 2017, 08:05:48 AM
well i played online earlier on that hamachi with one of my mates and there was almost no lag apart from one match, could it be due to the location of players? eg:uk and usa
The host sees much less lag than the other participants.

Again, I'm afraid AI tournaments are your best bet.
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: 09090901 on May 27, 2017, 04:26:12 PM: Connections are actually Ok if you're connecting to someone who is relatively close by.
Title: Re: How do you play multiplayer on ra2 and dsl?
Post by: Herpaderp64 on May 27, 2017, 07:19:43 PM: basically if i try to play with anyone outside of my country (uk) then the lag just screws the game up before it even begins........starting to sound a lot like what it was in ra3 not being able to play with anyone outside the uk :facepalm:

(edit) thanks for all this info on multiplayer though, nice to see that on here people are willing to help when your in need