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Shadowcat on 7/7/2011 at 12:19

Quote Posted by gunsmoke

Did they get online coop working properly? sNeaksie and I about pulled our hair out one week trying to get it to go. Apparently, the servers are dead and you have to go through an insanely roundabout way to play online.

Yeah, SWAT 3 seemed like one of the first online games I'd played that didn't simply let you enter an IP address (at least as an option), which is just incredibly frustrating when the inevitable server shut-down occurs.

I don't believe GOG have attempted to somehow resurrect the original servers.

The game does have support for LANs, so I gather that nowadays you need to use the likes of Hamachi to simulate a LAN game over the internet. I presume that is what you guys were doing? I've not tried that myself.

sNeaksieGarrett on 7/7/2011 at 23:45

That's exactly what we were trying to do, IIRC. I was curious about it as well. Being able to play swat 3 online again would be great.

I think the hamachi route is more complicated than at first glance. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like windows 7 all that much, but it might also be the version of it too. I remember reading about trying different versions of hamachi to get games to work. Then again it may just be my friggin firewall, but I thought hamachi was supposed to get around that problem so I really don't know.

gunsmoke on 8/7/2011 at 06:54

Yeah, dead on Shadowcat. We were slinging Hamachi around. At the time I was on Vista and sNeaksie on 7. THe problem, iirc, was on his end.

sNeaksie: I have Windows Vista, Windows 7, and a new MacBook Air. I am going to try to get SWAT 3 to play nice. I'll take my Windows 7 notebook next door and see if I can get Hamachi to work with one of my other computers here at home. I'll keep you posted, we need to get in-game this summer!

Shadowcat on 8/7/2011 at 11:45

I just had a look at the GOG forums, and this will likely be of interest:
(http://www.gog.com/en/forum/police_quest/swat_3_multiplayer_callups)

It mentions an alternative to Hamachi called Tunngle, and it also mentions that the current GOG installer causes an issue, whereby one of the files is inadvertently treated as a game mod, which prevents the GOG version from playing nicely with other versions. A workaround is detailed.

If your non-GOG version is not fully up-to-date, this should help:
(http://www.gog.com/en/forum/police_quest/swat3_patch_guide)

gunsmoke on 8/7/2011 at 13:26

Shhweeet! Thanks, I'll give it a go.

sNeaksieGarrett on 10/7/2011 at 20:12

I've set up my tunngle, hope it works. Apparently you have to join a pre-made network based on your game, then launch your game and look for the LAN functionality. (http://www.tunngle.net/wiki/Tunngle#How_To_Play) Link

I've tried launching Swat 3 to see if tunngle works, but I didn't see any games in LAN. That's probably just because nobody is playing right now.

I'm up for a game sometime.:D

gunsmoke on 11/7/2011 at 15:52

Kewl. Next time I am home, I'll grab my discs. It may not be unti;l wed. though, sNeaksie.

sNeaksieGarrett on 11/7/2011 at 19:56

Alright cool. I've been messing with firewall a bit, as I loaded up tunngle today and i got an error message about "network location mismatch", (http://alt.tunngle.net/wiki/Error:2-106?scolor=tunngle) link

Hopefully it will work....

gunsmoke on 12/7/2011 at 20:23

I'll look for you on Steam chat Wed. or Thurs. and we can work it out somehow.

Shadowcat on 14/7/2011 at 12:58

GOG have just released (http://www.gog.com/en/news/new_release_normality) Normality, an adventure games from Gremlin played in first-person, using the game engine which they subsequently used to make Realms of the Haunting.

I remember people mentioning this after ROTH appeared on GOG, but I'd never heard of it before. It sounds intriguingly different, but my backlog is telling me to pass, at least for the time being.

Has anyone here played this?