Multiplayer?

[RIP Val Kilmer]

The description mentions multiplayer but the information panel on the right only says Single Player. Anybody know if it is working in this steam release?

[incogni87]

Multiplayer(as i remember it back from 2001) wasn't like multiplayer on diablo 2,etc.
Each player had to create a world map and host their custom made map online.There was no playable world like diablo 2,etc.

Single player is where it is at with this game.

Trust,I think Arcanum is a GREAT RPG game.

This is my opinion and i write this alone in Vegas.

[Bluebeak]

Multiplayer works over lan. I'm not sure about servers

[RIP Val Kilmer]

I remember playing through the game coop back in like 2004 or so? I thought it was just the main game but in coop? It felt like that but we never actually beat it.

[RIP Val Kilmer]

Originally posted by Owlakki:

Multiplayer works over lan. I'm not sure about servers

Aight can virtual lan that no problem then, thank you.

[[40-1]King_Kosher]

Originally posted by You can't stop the prophet!:

I remember playing through the game coop back in like 2004 or so? I thought it was just the main game but in coop? It felt like that but we never actually beat it.

Nah,due to limited editor and several other restrictions, the scope of the MP-modules could never reach dimensions of the original game. Some (russian?) modders made it possible with the WIP 6.0 coop mod to play the main game comfortable in MP up until the black mountain clan. After reaching that place, the module went bonkers back then and couldn´t be finished further. This may have changed in the meantime but i doubt it

[RIP Val Kilmer]

Originally posted by 40-1King_Kosher:

Originally posted by You can't stop the prophet!:

I remember playing through the game coop back in like 2004 or so? I thought it was just the main game but in coop? It felt like that but we never actually beat it.

Nah,due to limited editor and several other restrictions, the scope of the MP-modules could never reach dimensions of the original game. Some (russian?) modders made it possible with the WIP 6.0 coop mod to play the main game comfortable in MP up until the black mountain clan. After reaching that place, the module went bonkers back then and couldn´t be finished further. This may have changed in the meantime but i doubt it

Damn okay that might have been why we quit was the game just didn't work anymore.

[gunderfeet]

Originally posted by Owlakki²:

Multiplayer works over lan. I'm not sure about servers

apparently there should be a patch/mod for this somewhere (matchmaker), but I can't currently find it, gamemaster doesn't register my steam version of the game and when playing over lan I can't see the other player and the other player can't join me (even though my game is visible)

[gunderfeet]

Originally posted by Daegon of Aurelium:

Originally posted by gunderfeet:

apparently there should be a patch/mod for this somewhere (matchmaker), but I can't currently find it, gamemaster doesn't register my steam version of the game and when playing over lan I can't see the other player and the other player can't join me (even though my game is visible)

Try a program called GameRanger, I was able to successfully host my own servers back when I was making a custom multiplayer module. At one point, I recall having 4 people on the same server without issues.

gamermaster* = gameranger (my bad :P)