No Lobby screen!

[Wasgood]

I keep Defcon on my flash drive with a demo key, sometimes when I open and try to host a game the only thing that appears is the chat box. It works on rare occasions. I run it windowed at 800x600.

[frenchfrog]

Network problem. Defcon is probably firewalled.

[Wasgood]

Any options ingame to make a lan game work?

[frenchfrog]

Defcon in client/server architecture. Which means it need to open a server port to play even _single player_ game.

[Wasgood]

Well it works very rarely. But a strange occurrence happened when I was fiddling with it I set it to compatibility mode for windows 95 and it worked. Not sure if it had to do with it or was just one of the rare occasions.

[trickser]

I am having the same issue with the linux version.
I think its strange that you need a internet connction even for single player. I have a dull memory that i played it once without i-net.
And the box cover states: Internet Connection requiered for multi-player. Which implies its not needed for single player.

A way around opening the firewall, is to start a dedcon and connect to it. But it will use my key 2x at the same time, dont know if this is an issue. And i dont have a GUI.

[frenchfrog]

No internet connection is needed. Simply need to unblock the server port and permit the client to connect to it ...

[trickser]

Ok. Thanks for pointing this out.

[Wasgood]

So why would it work sometimes and not others. Must be a crappy firewall.