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LANAllNight in Dallas is happening this weekend, it happens twice a year now. 200ish people, good old-school vibe. Minimum red tape. Quakecon is this July or A

LANAllNight in Dallas is happening this weekend, it happens twice a year now. 200ish people, good old-school vibe. Minimum red tape. Quakecon is this July or August in Dallas. Several thousand people. A sight to see, but a lot more bullshit these days, lots of security, metal detectors, etc. In fact, I'm wearing a Quakecon shirt right now! LANs even today are so much fun, just to escape reality for 2-3 days and play games, even single-player sometimes while you wait for friends to wake up. I can't stay up til 7am like I used to, no amount of BAWLS will help it. Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake Live/Quake Champions, Risk of Rain 2, Left 4 Dead 2. Golf With Friends is a fun casual game to unwind with after dinner (pizza) and before hitting the hard stuff. I predict Helldivers will be popular this year.

Joe_Cool 3y ago
Does Helldivers 2 have a LAN mode? The first one didn't. Or does this LAN have Internet? Where I am at LAN parties are completely offline, so genuinely curious.
- dc3k 3y ago
  I can’t speak for other events, but QuakeCon and Dreamhack have had internet access (and quite good access all things considered) for a decade or more now.
- intelVISA 3y ago
  Not sure, but it does have a kernel level 'anti-cheat' that enjoys eating cpu cycles and hates when you remove eth0.
  - unethical_ban 3y ago
    Yeah, I read about that over the weekend and decided not to buy it. I got AoE IV instead. The excuses by the company are foolish, too. It's PvE, period. Get out of my system.
- unethical_ban 3y ago
  Yeah the LANs I go to are online. Steam and many of the games have global browsers. Also, unfortunately, I don't think even the smaller one is literally one LAN. it's a routed network. That eti launcher looks neat, though.
- genewitch 3y ago
  No LAN mode but on PC the "host" actually hosts the game (not sure how they do TURN/STUN but it does work most of the time), so if you have all four people in the same building it should run as though it's LAN. There are server side checks for the items you find in the game so it has to run partially through a central server. battlefield bad company 2 is a similar experience to helldivers 2, IMO, and that is LAN-able.
  - Joe_Cool 3y ago
    Bad Company is a staple at our LANs, you need a server emulator though. It's really fun when a few dozen people are playing.

Joe_Cool 3y ago

Does Helldivers 2 have a LAN mode? The first one didn't. Or does this LAN have Internet? Where I am at LAN parties are completely offline, so genuinely curious.

dc3k 3y ago
I can’t speak for other events, but QuakeCon and Dreamhack have had internet access (and quite good access all things considered) for a decade or more now.
intelVISA 3y ago
Not sure, but it does have a kernel level 'anti-cheat' that enjoys eating cpu cycles and hates when you remove eth0.
- unethical_ban 3y ago
  Yeah, I read about that over the weekend and decided not to buy it. I got AoE IV instead. The excuses by the company are foolish, too. It's PvE, period. Get out of my system.
unethical_ban 3y ago
Yeah the LANs I go to are online. Steam and many of the games have global browsers. Also, unfortunately, I don't think even the smaller one is literally one LAN. it's a routed network. That eti launcher looks neat, though.
genewitch 3y ago
No LAN mode but on PC the "host" actually hosts the game (not sure how they do TURN/STUN but it does work most of the time), so if you have all four people in the same building it should run as though it's LAN. There are server side checks for the items you find in the game so it has to run partially through a central server. battlefield bad company 2 is a similar experience to helldivers 2, IMO, and that is LAN-able.
- Joe_Cool 3y ago
  Bad Company is a staple at our LANs, you need a server emulator though. It's really fun when a few dozen people are playing.