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?

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[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Minnels@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago

Had problems with hamachi but Zerotier works great. Less hassle also.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Tailscale is the one I use. It's free for up to 5 devices.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 3 days 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.

[–] phneutral@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OpenRA comes to mind.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hell March Intensifies

[–] Hippy@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] tomat0223@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Parsec is probably what you need. Me and my brother played through BG1 (for ps2 I believe) with an emulator and parsec. For the most part there was no lag. We simulated us both playing on his computer the same way you would play couch co-op, just in different areas.

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago

Comparing Warcraft to World of Warcraft is like comparing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 to Might and Magic 8