Hosting a multiplayer game

[Abdul-Fattah Abu Mahir 10]

Hi all, and because being polite could just be essential in my first post: good evening everyone,

Today, a friend and me had planned to play OFP online together. Our favorite game you see.

Now, he created a nice mission: we had to conquer a town, defeat a convoy with reinforcements, if necessary, we had to take new weapons or ammunition since the convoy was carrying weapons and ammo too, then we had to free two towns et cetera.

So, the mission was created, saved as a multiplayer mission, and then this friend of mine went to the main screen, chose Multiplayer, then selected the right map and the mission, and proceeded to the screen where you can choose sides.

I went to Multiplayer, and searched the whole list of servers over and over again, but I could not find him.

Does anyone have any idea why this is so and how we can fix this problem?

Best regards,

Abdul-Fattah

[zulu1 145]

Welcome to our world of OFP :)

The list of servers you see is Dedicated Servers, you will be making a host connection.

First since your friend is "Hosting" the mission, he needs to give you his IP address (ie. 64.106.32.200).

Second your friend (the host) needs to enter host mode by clicking the "New" button on the multiplyer screen, which it sounds like he's doing.

Now you need to click the "Remote" button on the mutliplayer screen, then enter your friends IP address, the default port for OFP is 2302. Now you should be able to make a connection. Keep in mind that everyone does not have a "Static" IP, some have a "Dynamic" IP (changes each time they log on). So you should verify his IP each game session.

[Abdul-Fattah Abu Mahir 10]

Thank you, Zulu1 =)

Yes, my friend did choose "New", so he was a host actually. But now what surprises me is this: I asked his IP adress (via a Dutch website he found it, www.ipee.nl), and he gave it to me.

Now I did choose remote, too. And then I copied his IP adress. But the only thing that happened was that the list disappeared, and nothing new appeared...

Should I perhaps have waited a little longer or something like that? =)

Best regards,

Abdul-Fattah

[zulu1 145]

That site gives the ISP IP connection address. You need to connect to his Local Connection IP. This site tells how to find it.

http://www.wikihow.com/Find-out-Your-IP-Address

You (your friend) basicly just needs to open a DOS window or Windows Command Propmt here option, then type IPCONFIG in the window. The Local Connection IP is what you need to enter.

Kegety's OFP Launcher displays your Local IP and is a great tool for launching different modfolders and connecting to game servers. D/L here:

http://andrew.nf/ofp/tools/launcher218.zip

[Abdul-Fattah Abu Mahir 10]

Okay, thank you!

I guess it will work out well now =)

If not, I'll post it here =p But I don't think that'll be necessary.

[rellikki 7]

If it doesn't work, make sure both of you have the same implementation setting. At the bottom left corner of the multiplayer menu in game, you can see that option. You can switch it between Direct Play and Sockets. Make sure both of you have set it the same. You should also make sure that you don't have a Firewall blocking anything.

[Macser_old 0]

Here's another alternative,if you're still having problems.Scroll down to post number 6.

Have a look around the net,and read a little about it,before you download.

Here's the download location. :)

[Abdul-Fattah Abu Mahir 10]

Here's another alternative,if you're still having problems.Scroll down to post number 6.

Have a look around the net,and read a little about it,before you download.

Here's the download location. :)

Thanks, as a matter of fact I do still have this problem.

I also checker other things, like whether my friend had an older version than 1.96 but that wasn't the case. We were both using Sockets, so that was the problem either.

But what I am curious about, is: why? Why do some people have this problem? (like me =p)

[Macser_old 0]

I don't know why.But I had exactly the same problem.Using hamachi solved it.