No LAN play?

[Apreche]

I can understand some connection problems for people trying to play online, but my roommate and I can't even play on our LAN! If we try to start a LAN game, it just keeps trying to connect infinity times, and never works. I went to the router and forwarded ports. I set my roommate on 4000/4001UDP, and I set myself up on 4002/4003UDP. I double checked to make sure the IP addresses and the settings in the game all matched up. It still didn't work. In fact, it worked worse than before. We weren't even able to get a list of games, let alone connect to any of them.

The only reason I bought this game was to get some awesome LAN play going on. If it isn't fixed soon, I want a refund.

Also, this game desperately needs to let you change control settings. Who thought that it would be a good idea to have the mouse wheel scroll up for zooming out? That's totally backwards! Zoom out is scroll down, zoom in is scroll up. Also, I don't care, but my friends like to invert the Y axis on their mouses. Why can't they?

Of the Multiwinia that I've played, I've actually had some good fun. There are a lot of good ideas going on here. However, if the multiplayer doesn't work, and the controls can't be changed, I'm not going to play much more of this game. That's pretty disappointing for a game I paid $20 for and started playing this morning.

I mean, the game is called Multiwinia. Multi is in the title. Yet, the multiplayer is the part that is broken the most!

[bert_the_turtle]

As I see it, port forwarding isn't required (and even harmful) for LAN play. What should happen is that each MW entity determines its LAN adress and public IP from the metaserver. Clients that come from the same public IP know they're on the same LAN and use the LAN address to connect. Something in this process is not working for you two. To troubleshoot, could you please post
- your LAN IP addresses
- a screenshot of the screen you get when you try to connect
- the debug.txt files of both clients (they're located in your profile directory accessible over the Multiwinia start menu; be careful to edit your authentication key out of it)

Another question: you bought two copies, right?

[AngelaDeth]

My husband and I are having exactly the same connection problems here. We are on a LAN sharing our broadband cable connection behind a Linksys router. So far we have been completely unsuccessful at connecting to each other's games, though other people not on our LAN have no problems conecting with us. I am at work at the moment but will post files and information as soon as possible.

Gwen