Lan game with same account

[President]

I have two laptops, both of them have steam installed and both of them logged in with same account. Left 4 Dead 2 is installed on each laptop. I tried to start it in offline mode so I can play a lan game with that only one account.

My question is: Is this action legal?
I do not want something bad happen to my account.

[Blaquicat]

You cant do that, even if you are able to open both games at the same time, they will be unable to join the same game because both games will have the same steamid.

[Sonic]

I don't know if you can do it, but I know it's legal yes :)
Nothing agaisnt that.

Originally posted by Blaquicat:

You cant do that, even if you are able to open both games at the same time, they will be unable to join the same game because both games will have the same steamid.

No because steam id will be STEAM_ID_LAN which is lan auth

[Blaquicat]

Originally posted by カンムル:

I don't know if you can do it, but I know it's legal yes :)
Nothing agaisnt that.

Originally posted by Blaquicat:

You cant do that, even if you are able to open both games at the same time, they will be unable to join the same game because both games will have the same steamid.

No because steam id will be STEAM_ID_LAN which is lan auth

Dont work anymore..
Now even on offline mode it show your steamid

] status
hostname: Left 4 Dead 2
version : 2.1.3.7 5764 insecure
udp/ip : 192.168.0.50:27015 [ public n/a ]
os : Windows Listen
map : c1m1_hotel at ( 2782, 6782, 2799 )
players : 1 humans, 0 bots (4 max) (not hibernating) (unreserved)

# userid name uniqueid connected ping loss state rate adr
# 2 1 "Blaquicat" STEAM_1:0:33788855 00:12 35 0 active 30000 loopback
# 3 "Coach" BOT active
# 4 "Rochelle" BOT active
# 5 "Ellis" BOT active
#end
] sv_lan
"sv_lan" = "1" ( def. "0" )
- Server is a lan server ( no heartbeat, no authentication, no non-class C addresses )

On another computer on the lan you got "STEAM validation rejected", even in offline mode and the server with sv_lan = 1

[Sonic]

Originally posted by Blaquicat:

Originally posted by カンムル:

I don't know if you can do it, but I know it's legal yes :)
Nothing agaisnt that.



No because steam id will be STEAM_ID_LAN which is lan auth

Dont work anymore..
Now even on offline mode it show your steamid

] status
hostname: Left 4 Dead 2
version : 2.1.3.7 5764 insecure
udp/ip : 192.168.0.50:27015 [ public n/a ]
os : Windows Listen
map : c1m1_hotel at ( 2782, 6782, 2799 )
players : 1 humans, 0 bots (4 max) (not hibernating) (unreserved)

# userid name uniqueid connected ping loss state rate adr
# 2 1 "Blaquicat" STEAM_1:0:33788855 00:12 35 0 active 30000 loopback
# 3 "Coach" BOT active
# 4 "Rochelle" BOT active
# 5 "Ellis" BOT active
#end
] sv_lan
"sv_lan" = "1" ( def. "0" )
- Server is a lan server ( no heartbeat, no authentication, no non-class C addresses )

On another computer on the lan you got "STEAM validation rejected", even in offline mode and the server with sv_lan = 1

Well I guessI am wrong then. I didn't know it was changed. It has been a really long time since I've played a game on LAN :D

[Blaquicat]

Originally posted by カンムル:

Well I guessI am wrong then. I didn't know it was changed. It has been a really long time since I've played a game on LAN :D

No big deal about it, i didnt know either, i tested and edited my previous post =)
Sorry if i was rude, i should mention the edit.

[President]

It's possible. Latest update.
"Nothing against it". Okay. Legal. I'm happy now.

[orbital.sfear]

https://pcgamemonster.blogspot.com/2012/06/left-4-dead-2-lan-offline.html

TLDR;

Host of the game should get into the level they want.
Press ~
sv_lan 1
sv_allow_lobby_connect_only 0

Then the client should hit ~
connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[Kenn_Ethic]

You are 7 years too late, time traveling dumbass.

[orbital.sfear]

Originally posted by Kenn_Ethic:

You are 7 years too late, time traveling dumbass.

I found this post while trying to accomplish this task; which is largely unsolved. I posted this here for the next person in 2021+ that is given this thread as their first search result. Good day sir.

[Kenn_Ethic]

Originally posted by orbital.sfear:

Originally posted by Kenn_Ethic:

You are 7 years too late, time traveling dumbass.

I found this post while trying to accomplish this task; which is largely unsolved. I posted this here for the next person in 2021+ that is given this thread as their first search result. Good day sir.

That's cool. Sorry for the last part.

[f0kus]

Originally posted by orbital.sfear:

Originally posted by Kenn_Ethic:

You are 7 years too late, time traveling dumbass.

I found this post while trying to accomplish this task; which is largely unsolved. I posted this here for the next person in 2021+ that is given this thread as their first search result. Good day sir.

Thanks, G.

[Katie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.