Multiplayer?

[Cal]

Do any of the classic call of duty, brothers in arms, or medal of honor games have playable multiplayer? wondering if any other classic ww2 shooters have MP Would really like to revisit these games

[The Devil of Yorkshire]

AFAIK, one can play Classic COD MP, but most servers are for UO, so don't waste your time in vanilla. As for BiA, services for MP were shut down, but I think there are alternatives like certain mods and hamachi( Max players being 4, hamachi and other lan-simulators are acutually viable).As for MoH, you'll have to be more specific, but I wouldn't know anyway.

[lewosch]

I think Battlefied 1942 and Medal of Honor Allied Assault are still playable online, but I assume their communities are pretty small and server variety is rather limited (both games are from 2002, after all). these games aren't available on steam, and finding a retail key might be required if they aren't sold in other digital stores.

online servers of Medal of Honor Pacific Assault were shut down about a decade ago. Battlefield Vietnam servers are still operating fine, but GameTracker says the game is in agony.

Medal of Honor Airborne still has a tiny community, but apparently, EA limited creation of new in-game accounts some time ago, so new purchasers of the game cannot play online anymore, but people with existing accounts still continue playing.

for information about CoD2, you can check this topic where the status of multiplayer is discussed: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2630/discussions/0/2965021152077539743/

[The Devil of Yorkshire]

Originally posted by lewosch:

I think Battlefied 1942[...] are still playable online

Battlefield 2 also. with bf2hub. thing is, you'll need to have a pre-existing game to play or to find it somewere, but there are still people playing it

[lewosch]

Originally posted by The devil of Yorkshire:

thing is, you'll need to have a pre-existing game to play

fortunately, I had bought it on Origin, sometime around 2012.

[The Devil of Yorkshire]

Originally posted by lewosch:

Originally posted by The devil of Yorkshire:

thing is, you'll need to have a pre-existing game to play

fortunately, I had bought it on Origin, sometime around 2012.

nice. you can play it. GL

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https://www.gametracker.com/search/cod2/?searchipp=50&sort=0&order=ASC

[scootiebob]

Call of Duty 2 has hundreds of dedicated servers.

[lewosch]

Originally posted by scootiebob:

Call of Duty 2 has hundreds of dedicated servers.

yeah, true. but most of those servers rarely see anybody playing in them, so I think concurrent player counts would be a better indication. numbers at steam-charts isn't really great for that, as it includes campaign players on steam, but doesn't include those who play MP on retail copies. GameTracker would be a more reliable source, aside from certain servers on in-game browser not showing up on GameTracker's list for various reasons.

a safe estimation for playerbase in CoD2 MP on PC would be ~ 300 people at any moment. numbers can reach up to 400s on weekend evenings, but can also come down to low 200s on weekday mornings (I'm taking NA & EU regions as criteria of timezone in this sentence).

however, (imo) the most annoying thing about server variety in CoD2 is many of them having weird custom mods, or being filled with silly bots, or even designed to allow cracked copies. for people who prefer things as close to vanilla ruleset as possible in MP modes, CoD2 might not be a suitable purchase in 2021.

[isabella]

ik this is not related to the topic, but is it still worth it if i want to buy the game for the multiplayer? i really want to try old COD multiplayer and i feel like modern warfare 1 and 2 are the must try

[Zhukov]

MOHAA was still played

[Lethum]

Do any one konw how can I launch a server in LAN mode? I don´t care if we play with bots, I Just wanna play with my friends, we use Radmin VPN for our network.

[lewosch]

Originally posted by Lethum:

Do any one konw how can I launch a server in LAN mode? I don´t care if we play with bots, I Just wanna play with my friends, we use Radmin VPN for our network.

it's been a long time since I was messing last with such steps in old-school CoDs, but I think the host needs to set the "dedicated" option as "no" while customizing server settings. doing this will create a "listen server" (antonym of "dedicated server") on host's PC, which is often the better method of playing private matches which are gonna last a few hours at most.

back then (a decade ago), I used to play on Hamachi with a few friends. firstly, we were creating rooms on that program, then one player used to host a server just as explained above, and server host was sharing his "IP" (visible on Hamachi window) with other guys. to join the recently-created server, they were typing on the developer console /connect "IP"

I suppose the steps are somewhat similar or even the same for Radmin VPN today. but if you don't have any special reasons not to do so, I recommend you using GameRanger instead, which is a little software used for playing numerous (old) online games that support LAN feature. it's actually a more convenient way of playing CoD2 MP with friends, imo.

hope this helps.

[Lethum]

Originally posted by lewosch:

Originally posted by Lethum:

Do any one konw how can I launch a server in LAN mode? I don´t care if we play with bots, I Just wanna play with my friends, we use Radmin VPN for our network.

it's been a long time since I was messing last with such steps in old-school CoDs, but I think the host needs to set the "dedicated" option as "no" while customizing server settings. doing this will create a "listen server" (antonym of "dedicated server") on host's PC, which is often the better method of playing private matches which are gonna last a few hours at most.

back then (a decade ago), I used to play on Hamachi with a few friends. firstly, we were creating rooms on that program, then one player used to host a server just as explained above, and server host was sharing his "IP" (visible on Hamachi window) with other guys. to join the recently-created server, they were typing on the developer console /connect "IP"

I suppose the steps are somewhat similar or even the same for Radmin VPN today. but if you don't have any special reasons not to do so, I recommend you using GameRanger instead, which is a little software used for playing numerous (old) online games that support LAN feature. it's actually a more convenient way of playing CoD2 MP with friends, imo.

hope this helps.

Thx for the reply, We will try on Game Ranger

[Lethum]

Originally posted by lewosch:

Originally posted by Lethum:

Do any one konw how can I launch a server in LAN mode? I don´t care if we play with bots, I Just wanna play with my friends, we use Radmin VPN for our network.

it's been a long time since I was messing last with such steps in old-school CoDs, but I think the host needs to set the "dedicated" option as "no" while customizing server settings. doing this will create a "listen server" (antonym of "dedicated server") on host's PC, which is often the better method of playing private matches which are gonna last a few hours at most.

back then (a decade ago), I used to play on Hamachi with a few friends. firstly, we were creating rooms on that program, then one player used to host a server just as explained above, and server host was sharing his "IP" (visible on Hamachi window) with other guys. to join the recently-created server, they were typing on the developer console /connect "IP"

I suppose the steps are somewhat similar or even the same for Radmin VPN today. but if you don't have any special reasons not to do so, I recommend you using GameRanger instead, which is a little software used for playing numerous (old) online games that support LAN feature. it's actually a more convenient way of playing CoD2 MP with friends, imo.

hope this helps.

I´ve just try on Game Ranger to host a game, but when I try to start the game it sends me a message that "cant find Steam" instead of launch the game, I noticed that, when try to start directly from the aplication in the game folder it sends me the same error.

[lewosch]

Originally posted by Lethum:

I´ve just try on Game Ranger to host a game, but when I try to start the game it sends me a message that "cant find Steam" instead of launch the game, I noticed that, when try to start directly from the aplication in the game folder it sends me the same error.

I was playing with a retail DVD copy of CoD2, during the times I was using GameRanger years ago. I haven't personally experienced this error and can't guarantee any success, but you might copy "Steam.dll" file from where steam is on disk, then paste it to the directory where the game is installed.

"Steam.dll" file can normally be found inside; Program Files (x86) / Steam
CoD2 must be installed at; Program Files (x86) / Steam / steamapps / common / Call of Duty 2