drink yer drink,fall, over, and then stumble into this thread....

.

Mein Komputer ist tot nowadays, so I'm iPad only for a little while until I get something sorted :/

No worries mate, if you get time, we´ll be here. You are more than welcome.

*edit* WTF? A Scandinavian, talking German, to a Brit who lives in Spain. Has el mundo gone loco?

Currently downloading the BF42 + DC files. No helos for me this time I'm-a going to play a groundhugger


And a Brit terrorised daily by Czech interactions

No helos? No tappity tap tap on the keyboard? It won´t be the same.

Yes, but the Czech girls are amongst the most beautiful girls I have ever seen!

Well I won't say I won't take one for a nostalgic spin now & then but nowadays I get more of a kick fighting for survival than dominating a battlefield


Gawd tell me about it summer in Prague is the best thing ever.

"BallzSh*tF*ckOhNoOhNoOhNoF*ckF*ckF*ckChristAlmightyYESSSS....NOOOO....OooohRightF*ckBallzB*llockySh*tF*ck"

^Me trying to fly a BFDC helo after ~10 years or so out of the saddle

*edit*
I guess there is some "fruity language" text filtering happening on this forum

LOL DM, Yep, I did that too. SOon comes back though.

Bunch of goofy accented bastages the LOT of ya!

Guys Pitts is also possibly going to game. He is sending out friend invites on Steam as well so don't just ignore it. Also Scout is also possibly going to do this as well.

rgr dat CH,
law of averages. If we have 20 people we can notify of a game night, 8 will turn up

Sadly that is the truth isn't it! Remember I tried to have a big meet up of all the minds a couple years ago and when it got time to do it even though everyone signed up they bailed. We shall see on this

im good for anything which is keyboard/mouse, or driving (ive got a wheel and pedals), my HOTAS setup died many moons ago, my HOT ASS is still available for mooning.

No probs with that, mate. Same as me.
My HOTAS arrives Friday. Cheapo TM thing, 50 bucks. But it´ll do.
You may keep your HOT ASS under wraps for now, but later? WHo knows

Flatout was a good game back in the day. The guys who did it are making a new game also.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/228380/

though you'd have to get your system updated to play it. We've had a good time playing it though. Just put it on 20 laps of oval or 8 and see who comes out alive

p.s. Another good one for up to 6 I think is spintires. Its just about hauling logs but it's a lot of fun in MP because people get stuck in the mud and you have to drive over and wench them out.


http://store.steampowered.com/app/263280/

Nice stuff there, mate. Thanks
Well, some of us haven´t got the horsepowers to run new stuff, unfortunately, so we´re (I´m) stuck with older titles. But, we used to game them very succesfully and that´s another reason to try ém again.

Spintires. That´s the Russian one innit? Yeah I tried that. I quite enjoyed that.:)

HOLY CHIT!
Just looked at that trailer. That is incredible!

Hey troopers
´K.
Me and Doc tested FlatOut tonight for the ablity to connect. No Go.
Here´s what we did...

I have GOG Flat Out (henceforth known as FO) ergo we can´t use FlatOutNet which is the little exe we used to use to connect. GOG has a different file system, apparently.

Doc has retail FO with orig exe. No connect either way
we scratch our heads and drink some beer

Doc changes exe to the Eu 1.1. No connect either way.
we scratch our heads and drink some beer

Doc D/ls the GOG version. no connect either way
we scratch our heeds and drink some bear

Doc changes to EU exe. No connect either way
we scritch our hoods and slink some boar

We use the CMD Line Batch file host and joiner method (ask if you´re interested) No connect either way.
We scratch our beer and drink some heads

We try with Hamachi.
Now, as neither of us has a CLUE how this thing works.....No connect. Any experts out there? Regular users of Hamachi? Because this could be the way forward. Post up, jump in.

We look at each other (not easy) say Feck it. Call it a night.
we scratch our bollocks and drink some Aramis

Done.

Follow up post in a minute.
xdxx

Not an expert but I've started using Hamachi successfully in the past few weeks.

Download LogMeIn Hamachi Getting Started Guide

It's 22 pages long but I think you can get it set up pretty easy just by following the instructions on pages 13-15.

Once you set it up, and others connect as clients, you set up your multiplayer session as if you are on a LAN rather than via TCP/IP.

There is a limit to the number of clients that can connect to the free version of Hamachi, not sure what that is however. Five maybe?

F4UDash4
Thanks mate, very much appreciated. I´ll get on that tomorrow.
Are you available, at anytime, on TS?
Good info, thanks

Ok, so what did we deduce from all this drinking..err..sorry..TESTING?
That we´re a pair of tossers who shouldn´t be allowed out into the community is what we decided

Conclusion. If we want to use FlatOut then we may have to use the retail version with FlatOutNet as the connection app.

Don´t go buying it yet though, I can sense you straining at the leash. Just chill for 24 hours

More testing with Hamachi tomorrow.
Wait out.
xxx

*Update*
Been messing with Hamachi for a while...it´s waaay to much editing of this and that involved And it´s only for 5 people, aftr that it´s payware. And, tbh, I really don´t understand it.So, bin it .

Looks like the next job is to *aquire* Flat Out, the old retail version.
Sit tight, hang loose.I shall keep you up to date.

*anyone seen me fag papers?, I had em a minute ago ffs!*

It´s on its way, should be here Friday.

I know, I know, but it´s better than nothing, which is what I have right now

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Fatman and I got BF1942 and DC installed and tested today. Found plenty of really empty servers to have fun on.
As mentioned, we can offer our teamspeak server for use as it has 250 slots and no issues with lag as Stewie and Fatman tested today talking to me in Australia all the way from Europe.

As far as I can tell, all we have left to do is nail down a time and make some Battlefield nonsense happen.

I'm GMT +10 so your Euro evenings are my early next mornings which means Saturday or Sunday mornings my time would be possible otherwise my afternoons/evenings are your mornings for mid-week gaming with the semi-retired :P

Yep, no discernible lag. Mind you, I couldn´t get a word in edgeways and do you HAVE to speak with that foreign accent?
Just kidding
Back in the day we used to have some lag probs but I think that, with the interweb being fibre optical these days, it´s a lot quicker.

Well, because of the probs with FlatOut ( a possible solution on it´s way) it´s kinda narrowed down to Bf42+DC Final. SO lets make it happen.

Bono, I didn´t bookmark your server, can you PM details, please? Or Phil? Whoever s awake.

But, just to re-iterate, we´ll jump on the SimHQ server to start with, but we have yours as a great back up if we find we need to do Amin type stuff.Thanks guys.

I´ll bang a game thread up, see wháppen.

xxx

ok ive got BF1942, road to rome and secrets of WWII, no idea if its patched correctly, ill try and join a public server now and see if i can even log on...

little known fact, ive never played bf1942 before

ok so im on version 1.61, couldnt see any "internet" games currently ongoing, though that maybe cause a 14 year old game doesnt currently have any

Turns out I have BF1942, must'a been from when I bought that big box of games from that english guy who buggered off to New Zealand.

I got the FO installed on my GOG library, but needs tweaking. It doesn't handle multiple controllers and looks bad when it's stretched across 3 screens.

Doc, for a man of science you have a #%&*$# memory...really.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/desert-combat
Halfway down the page is a window, "Files"
Get the Desert Combat 0.7 patch, and get the Desert Combat 0.7 to Final Update patch.
Here are the direct links...
Desert Combat 0.7
Desert Combat 0.7 to Final
Alternatively, look at post 1 in this thread

xxx

Aight J.
Bf 1942: Just a thought, it might be better to DL the BF 1842 from the lins. It might already be patched up. Might. Doc, did you patch your manually or was already at 1.61?
Anyways J, snag those patches linked in the post above, mate.
Well, they´re not patches really, more 2 parts of the Desert Combat mod. After installing, you´ll have a helmet icon on your desktop. That´s the shortcut. It can also be activated within Bf1942. Go to Custom Games tab in game. Or it might be the Community tab. One of the two anyway.

Hang fire on Flat Out for now. problems getting it to work in multi play, unless you know a solution?

xxx

Bannerman, yeas, you should see bf42 games online. it´s still played. Do a Refresh then a Update at the servers tab
1.61 is the correct version.

ok, ill install DC tonight (the two bits of it) then click on my helmet until the magic happens

LOL

I´ll chill on SimHQ TS server, while surfing, from 7 ish onwards. Just in case you need info.
(That´s 17:00 GMT, 18:00 UK, 19:00 EU )

BTW, I didn´t say thanks to you for spending two hours with me the other night trying to get flat out working. Cheers bro.