Q? about network games

Dasha · Post by **Dasha** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 11:07 am

Hi,

I've few questions about network play.

First, I don't understand the option "advertise game online". Do you know what it's doing ?
Second, is it possible to host a game and people on local network are joining but also people from other networks ?

Regards.

Graion Dilach · Post by **Graion Dilach** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 11:35 am

Advertise game online means that the game will pop up on the list at http://www.openra.net/games/ - but not necessarily the server browser afaik.

To allow external players to join you either have to enable UPnP (which tends to crash if your router is unsupported) or setting up a port forwarded in your router for OpenRA.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 2:34 pm

Graion Dilach wrote: ↑Advertise game online means that the game will pop up on the list at http://www.openra.net/games/ - but not necessarily the server browser afaik.

It is always both. The homepage is just a web interface to the master server and the game also fetches the list from there.

You can play via LAN using Direct Connect. If you want to with your LAN crew against the world, everyone needs to connect to the internet and join a public/advertised game.