So general solutions are welcome, but a friend and I are both craving the old blizzard RTS games. The problem is: fuck that company, and they probably use a rootkit anti-cheat anyway

So is there a general solution for multiplayer in old PC games without company support, and is there a particular solution for, say, starcraft2?

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    5 hours ago

    For all their faults they don’t use kernel level anti cheat. Both StarCraft 1 and 2 are free. StarCraft 1 should at least have LAN play.

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    I cant help you with RTS games, but u should def try old wow private servers. My recommendation is Turtle-wow . Its old school wow with tons of players aaand because its old, every pc can run it.

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    7 hours ago

    If those games can do LAN connections (computers on the same network), you could use something like Hamachi to put your computers on a virtual network together. I’m sure there are more modern versions of Hamachi, but that’s how I used to do it in the early 2010s.

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    6 hours ago

    I’m playing Age of empires 2 definitive edition from Steam and it’s an awesome modernized RTS experience