Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot

Re:Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot by turpialito on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:19PM (#37008342)

Wait, Didn't Quake and Unreal used to network by self-hosting?

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Re:Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot by dustfinger on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:48PM (#37008816)

Back in the days of Duke Nukem, Quake and Unreal, we connected with no NAT using 1400 baud modems, if we were lucky ;-). Honestly though, I played direct (peer 2 peer) with Duke Nukem and conected over a centralized server for Unreal, but I hardly ever played Quake. I did this, with a 1400 baud modem and a phone-line that I paid for myself, with the earnings I made from a paper route job. It was the 90s and it was something special, for me at least.

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Re:Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot by loloquwowndueo on Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:25AM (#37009009)

1400? I doubt it. 14400 maybe.

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Re:Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot by zer0-c00l on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:39AM (#37009569)

you mean 14.4k - 1400 baud was outdated far before that

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Re:Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot by dustfinger on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:29AM (#37012340)

Yah, I was wrong on the speed.14.4k sounds right. I bieve I started on a 9600 baud, then 14.4k.

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Re:Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot by totetsu on Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:38AM (#37009076)

We preshared phone numbers

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Re:Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot by abwizz on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:49AM (#37010511)

most games back in the day had to have a self-host option for lan gaming w/o internet access. this usually also works with global ip addresses

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