Where is the modem play option!!
 

Argh. I don't understand it. Way back in the day, when Doom was the game to be playing, me and my friends used to love playing it over a direct modem connection. Coop games were so fun; one of us would host and the other person would just dial-in to their machine and the fun would start. I want to know what happened to the direct modem play option in FPS games. Every other genre has it: Sports, RTS, Racing, etc... Why has this stopped!? Maybe for people with cable modems who can just hop onto a server and play with no lag anyway this is not a big deal, but for us 56k'ers, this is a huge blow! I want to play online with a friend while having a low ping!

Someone mentioned that you can dial-up someones comp in Win98 using Dialup Networking. So I scouted around and got it working. I hosted Dialup Server, while my friend connected, but once I hosted a LAN game in UnrealT, my friends ping shot up to 3000+. It was completely unplayable!

Is there a better way to do this, because I certainly do not see how! Please Epic, add this feature back in! Me and my friends love playing eachother directly over the modems without having to dial-in to the internet. Considering Doom had this option along with every other genre under the sun, please incorporate this feature back into FPS games - it cannot be hard to implement.

P.S. Is there a place I can mail Epic to suggest stuff like this? It would be easy enough for them to add in the next patch.

ok, if you look through all the posts on this board..... (i think its aroind page 9 or 10 maybe earlier) there's a message "in case you wanted to know" or "if you wanted to know" or something like that, that i posted. it explains how to play a modem game..... if i can find it, i'll move it to the top so you can look at it easier..... it really works. i've done it many times..........

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Ryan


Hardcore Gamer Wannabe........Yup that's me!

Hey, thanks bro!