Will LAN be supported?

[=)EC(= Critical Pwnage]

Will LAN multiplayer be supported?

[irk]

I certainly hope so. Titan Quest was my first Lan party game and the game for many occasions.

[MAikL]

We live in 2023, what is LAN good for? You want to make a LAN Party? Just connect every PC through LAN to the Internet and play ONLINE together. No need for LAN nowadays, or am i getting sth wrong?

[FoxTurret]

Originally posted by MAikL:

We live in 2023, what is LAN good for? You want to make a LAN Party? Just connect every PC through LAN to the Internet and play ONLINE together. No need for LAN nowadays, or am i getting sth wrong?

Playing multiplayer without a stable internet connection, after the servers go down, or keeping latency as low as possible.

[♥ Sorii ♥ -A-]

I'm not sure if this is a troll or a serious question?

Originally posted by FoxTurret:

Originally posted by MAikL:

We live in 2023, what is LAN good for? You want to make a LAN Party? Just connect every PC through LAN to the Internet and play ONLINE together. No need for LAN nowadays, or am i getting sth wrong?

Playing multiplayer without a stable internet connection, after the servers go down, or keeping latency as low as possible.

That comment is just stupid, sorry.

[=)EC(= Critical Pwnage]

Originally posted by ♥ Sorii ♥ -A-:

I'm not sure if this is a troll or a serious question?

Originally posted by FoxTurret:

Playing multiplayer without a stable internet connection, after the servers go down, or keeping latency as low as possible.

That comment is just stupid, sorry.

Can you actually disprove anything he said? Games like AOE2 only had playable multiplayer after the servers shutdown because of features like LAN/LAN-Tunneling and TCP/IP

[&rew]

Of course they can't disprove it, because it's all true.

[Vipsu]

LAN and/or ability for players to host servers themselves would be great these days.
Personally would just be happy with just offline mode where I could play the single player without having to deal with any live service stuff.

[MegalomaniacNG]

Its our plan to offer a LAN mode but we probably have to make LAN characters not be able to continue playing online as there is a higher risk of having cheated characters.

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Originally posted by MAikL:

We live in 2023, what is LAN good for? You want to make a LAN Party? Just connect every PC through LAN to the Internet and play ONLINE together. No need for LAN nowadays, or am i getting sth wrong?

There isn't an internet connection in every room of every house. A LAN party takes up a lot of space so the dinning room is usually the place. Running a cable between rooms is not great and we can just forget WiFi. Even if its a strong access point cable will always be better.

Even with good internet and being US West chances are the actual server is somewhere in Michigan or US East so the ping is around 70ms+ which is garbage. LAN is 12ms or less. I know most people don't notice issues with ping below 100 but I've played enough PvP games (like Unreal Tournament) that it makes or breaks in precision timing.

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Originally posted by MegalomaniacNG:

Its our plan to offer a LAN mode but we probably have to make LAN characters not be able to continue playing online as there is a higher risk of having cheated characters.

Without PvP, does that really matter though?

If it is a problem, would it be possible to have a checkbox of the character to make them "unofficial"?

This way anyone who cares about cheaters can stay out of the ecosystem of those who don't. I mean I would not want to play with cheaters, however I play online with specific people and Lan party with those people also when possible. So restricting characters to Lan only seems like the wrong direction to freely use the characters we create.

[&rew]

Enabling LAN characters online with a checkbox from the host sounds like the right call, but honestly, as long as LAN is an option, I'm on board. Thank you, devs! When you get around to it, please do mark it as an official feature on the store page.

[Sol Mundus]

Originally posted by &rew:

Enabling LAN characters online with a checkbox from the host sounds like the right call, but honestly, as long as LAN is an option, I'm on board. Thank you, devs! When you get around to it, please do mark it as an official feature on the store page.

Can't agree more. LAN is a must for me

[GodfatherPlunger]

Originally posted by MegalomaniacNG:

Its our plan to offer a LAN mode but we probably have to make LAN characters not be able to continue playing online as there is a higher risk of having cheated characters.

Does this imply that you can not host a game and play modded online coop with a friend ?
Playing Titan Quest with mods like XMAX with friends is one of the best experiences in gaming I ever had. I wouldn't call that cheating as it makes the higher difficulties insane, but it does mean that you have altered files.

[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]

LAN is outdated just login online with your friends its the same

[&rew]

Originally posted by S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:

LAN is outdated just login online with your friends its the same

LAN is an insurance policy against the inevitable day that servers go offline. As long as there's LAN, multiplayer will be playable indefinitely. Plus, with LAN, you can do stuff like playing multiplayer in a place with bad internet or no internet, like on a train or out in rural areas.