"Multiplayer" vs CPU

[butterburp]

#1637

Does anyone else find this game really hard when playing a non-campaign game vs the CPU? I feel like your build order has to be insanely precise or you’ll get run over. I thought Starcraft was hard enough when I first started playing vs AI, but WC2 is a whole ‘nother level. Ah well, it’s good to have a challenge.

[DavidN]

#1638

I’ve noticed that I tend to take a very long time to really get a base going compared to other RTS games – that hasn’t mattered so far in the campaign as the enemy tends to leave you alone before you start exploring on the early levels. What’s your build order like? 🙂

[Corgibuttz]

#1639

Is there anyway we can get the multiplayer going so we can VS each other?!?! It would be awesome to have a fully multiplayer perspective going into the podcast! That I have fond memories of playing modem games w/ my buddy on our 28k modems vs the computer.

[butterburp]

#1646

Yeah I think the campaign is specifically written to go easy on the first few missions. When playing free for all, I have to follow the build order here to the letter or I get mauled:
http://cade.datamax.bg/war2x/wc2strat.html

As for multiplayer, if anyone’s brave, there seems to be a server here: en.war2.ru
I hasten to add I have NOT checked this out, but I do see at least one video on Youtube about it, so there’s a good chance it’s legit.

[rnlf]

#1647

I think the original game supports IPX networking only (Battle.net didn’t exist yet in the beginning, IIRC, and there is a dedicated Battle.net edition).

But DOSBox supports tunneling IPX through UDP and we’ve done that for a few games already. It worked reasonably well (given what a makeshift solution that is). I think we’ll try that for sure 🙂

[Tijn]

#1649

Yeah, IPX-over-IP has worked pretty well for us so far, let’s go with that!

I don’t have the Battle.net edition of this game, but I do have the original one patched up until 1.4.

I hope the different versions of this game are compatible enough to get a multiplayer game going.

[rnlf]

#1650

I’ll just take your version. I need to run it in DOSBox anyway (still no support for connecting real machines to DOSBox’ virtual IPX net).