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[J.Alias]

As said above, can anyone provide me a tutorial on how to run a LAN game, using VPN like Hamachi? Our friends and I have major ping issues so i thought LAN would do the trick.
Thanks in advance!

[Handepsilon]

Um....

 

there's a LAN option in the client. It's VERY straightforward

 

However, if your friends' case is bad internet, and you're too far away to play LAN directly, try to check in the Advanced tab when hosting the game, if there's any tunnel server close enough to you. I used Japan for example due to being in Asia

[J.Alias]

Yes, I know there's LAN option in the client, but I got confused. Hamachi's supposed to solve the "distance" between me and my friends, but it seems it doesn't. Do we have to be connected physically?

Thanks!

[Handepsilon]

We have yet to test LAN with Hamachi, really. I know it works with physical cable LAN.

Where do you and your friends live anyway? Maybe you picked the wrong tunnel server.

[J.Alias]

We live in Asia, so I picked the Japan tunnel server, but my friends' ping crossed 200ms, while i stayed steadily between 50-65ms.
So i figure we have to wait.
Thanks for your help!

[Handepsilon]

200 shouldn't be bad, it's normal especially for me to have it, and there's usually little to no lag issue. You got severe lag ingame?

[J.Alias]

No, but my friends did. They said when they deployed the buildings, units, etc there were 3-4 seconds delay until the deployment, while i had no delay at all.

[Handepsilon]

That's weird... really weird. RA2 has this net code where every lag is shared between users. If they lag, so should you.

[J.Alias]

I didn't know there'd been such mechanism... so I told my friends to do a clean uninstall, and reinstall using my files.

But these days, neither they nor I can play to test, since we are studying to take a national test. It will be a month until I can reply again so I'll call this solved.

Thank you for your help, Handepsilon. 

Regard.