Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

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While some of us have no problems configuring our routers to host listen servers, or torrents for that matter, it's seems their intended audience may not be quite as savvy. I mean, they're all too stupid to sort a browser and click on a server with a low ping, right?

[jesus]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

They don't even give you instructions. They just link you to the manufacturers websites.

http://www.infinityward.com/nat.php

Not only that, but the links to the manufacturers websites just take you to their very general support pages.

LoL.

[groundedzero]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

WTH is NAT?

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?



More fun with matchmaking...

[Numptie]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

WTH is NAT?

Its a router configuration limiting the type of packets being sent/received i think, Only covered it very briefly at college and wasnt really paying attention in that lesson.

The only way to do it is to go into the router to config it.


Found out the game is very short aswell.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

WTH is NAT?

Network Address Translation

Basically it's getting outside packets to go to the right internal IP through a router. And also allowing internal packets to go to the outside world through the same.

[CaptainKirk]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

NAT is something that will go die a very slow and painful death once IPv6 comes out. (At least for a few hundred years).

[jesus]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

Why do some games have that, anyway? Most games these days let you create listen servers. Everytime I've tried to host one, (like in CoD4 or FEAR) it's always worked successfully. Yet, in UT3, I had to configure my router.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

Hmm. I had to configure my router to get CoD4 to push my server out over teh webz. Since the ports were the same for WaW, though, I didn't have to change much to get Nazi Zombies working.

I just forward ports as I need to. It's not an issue for me anymore. 6 years ago I had some heartburn getting things working with a cheap LinkSys, but it took me all of 30 seconds to get Borderlands up and running.

[jesus]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

https://www.infinityward.com/hostmigration

Is it just me, or does that link not even work?

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

Ironic part of all this? Torrenters already have to use NAT Negotiation to seed. So many of the people most capable of getting this to work flawlessly are going to be pirates. :rofl:

[RangerXML]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

Ironic part of all this? Torrenters already have to use NAT Negotiation to seed. So many of the people most capable of getting this to work flawlessly are going to be pirates. :rofl:

Not gonna disagree with you there. I spend top dollar on good networking equipment so most of this stuff is done automatically.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

www.infinityward.com/hostmigration

Is it just me, or does that link not even work?

It's not balanced for .php...

https://www.infinityward.com/hostmigration.php

[jesus]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

It's not balanced for .php...

www.infinityward.com/hostmigration.php

oh, ok. Not sure how we were supposed to know to put .php at the end.... but whatever. How does that even help? It's for the xbox, lol.

[iQue]

Re: Much Easier for Casual Gamers, Right?

lol, IW fail.