How to play MP
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:16 pm
So you're tired of conquering the AI over and over again and are looking for a challenge that only human intelligence can provide.
There are several ways to play. eWarzone, Hamachi, Direct IP to name a few.
Inspired by carcher's subtle hints ;-). I'll make this guide for playing on eWarzone. Follow these instructions to play BotF MP.
Step 1: Install BotF and patch it to V1.02 using Jokers fantastic 1.02 patch found HERE
Step 2: Download and install the eWarzone client found HERE. To play on eWarzone create a user account and go to other games, this is the room for botf right now.
Note: If you are using Vista you will have to right-click the warzone desktop icon and run as administrator for it to work.
Step 3: If you have a firewall running you must allow trek.exe and the ewarzone client through or turn off the firewall while playing BotF. A guide for windows firewalls can be found HERE
Step 4: There is a bypass feature in ewarzone but it doesn't work very well for me so you may need to forward certain ports on your router to allow tcp/ip communication. A guide for forwarding ports can be found HERE. Find your router and look at the msn game zone for steps on how to open ports. If you don't know your routers IP address, open a command prompt, (click run, type cmd, hit ok) type ipconfig, record your default gateway and put that in a web browser.
The ports that must be open for botf to work on ewarzone are as follows: 47624 2300 2301 2302 2303 2305 2350 2400
I'm not too sure which ones are tcp and which are udp so I open them all for tcp and udp. (If anyone knows tell me and I'll edit)
For direct IP or Hamachi just open these 3 ports:TCP/UDP 47624 TCP 2300 UDP 2350
Step 5: Log in to eWARZONE-> open a ROOM-> select CHANGE from your room options-> in the game drop down select birth of the federation. (You can also turn on the BYPASS FEATURE from here) Have your opponent join your room and click launch.
Enjoy! :-)
Note: For compatibility ensure anyone you're playing against has same patches and mods installed.
Tips: When you're in the game try to keep chatting to a minimum and don't chat at all during battles, this may cause the game to crash more frequently.
Joiners never choose continue when loading a game after a crash, always choose new mulitplayer game. The host can go to continue to load auto.sav.
When receiving a saved game it could take up to 10 minutes to be sent to your computer even though the file is only a few hundred Kb's in size
Feel free to add anything I left out.
There are several ways to play. eWarzone, Hamachi, Direct IP to name a few.
Inspired by carcher's subtle hints ;-). I'll make this guide for playing on eWarzone. Follow these instructions to play BotF MP.
Step 1: Install BotF and patch it to V1.02 using Jokers fantastic 1.02 patch found HERE
Step 2: Download and install the eWarzone client found HERE. To play on eWarzone create a user account and go to other games, this is the room for botf right now.
Note: If you are using Vista you will have to right-click the warzone desktop icon and run as administrator for it to work.
Step 3: If you have a firewall running you must allow trek.exe and the ewarzone client through or turn off the firewall while playing BotF. A guide for windows firewalls can be found HERE
Step 4: There is a bypass feature in ewarzone but it doesn't work very well for me so you may need to forward certain ports on your router to allow tcp/ip communication. A guide for forwarding ports can be found HERE. Find your router and look at the msn game zone for steps on how to open ports. If you don't know your routers IP address, open a command prompt, (click run, type cmd, hit ok) type ipconfig, record your default gateway and put that in a web browser.
The ports that must be open for botf to work on ewarzone are as follows: 47624 2300 2301 2302 2303 2305 2350 2400
I'm not too sure which ones are tcp and which are udp so I open them all for tcp and udp. (If anyone knows tell me and I'll edit)
For direct IP or Hamachi just open these 3 ports:TCP/UDP 47624 TCP 2300 UDP 2350
Step 5: Log in to eWARZONE-> open a ROOM-> select CHANGE from your room options-> in the game drop down select birth of the federation. (You can also turn on the BYPASS FEATURE from here) Have your opponent join your room and click launch.
Enjoy! :-)
Note: For compatibility ensure anyone you're playing against has same patches and mods installed.
Tips: When you're in the game try to keep chatting to a minimum and don't chat at all during battles, this may cause the game to crash more frequently.
Joiners never choose continue when loading a game after a crash, always choose new mulitplayer game. The host can go to continue to load auto.sav.
When receiving a saved game it could take up to 10 minutes to be sent to your computer even though the file is only a few hundred Kb's in size
Feel free to add anything I left out.