Posted by apitman 1 day ago
For games that are fun I think you can leave in balance issues and even features-not-bugs. It's trickier for things like netcode bugs that are purely a negative.
Really grateful Id release their source eventually. Really hoping the same will happen for AoE2 someday.
while i think that it is well worth it, i am not the person who pressures other people to buy things for a single-digit-attendence one-time get-to-gether LAN-party.
1. the game connecting to multiplayer services
2. coordination server for the LAN setup itself.
I think this covers #2. #1 appears to be more complicated unfortunately, and involves tricking Steam into thinking you're connected.
Battle.Net has "PVPGN" that covers Diablo 2 up through Warcraft 3, and the Westwood Online games (ish) but searching for an AoE equivalent turned up nothing
This seems to work with the Remasters as well. Even better :)
Please add AoM support as well.
There were some questionable changes to the names of things to make them more politically correct but the game play is better than ever.
* AIX