Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition is out now (www.moddb.com)
from setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 11:19
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 13:16 next collapse

Word in forums is that this definitive edition doesn’t have LAN, a feature that the game had before Steam.

otter@lemmy.zip on 16 Aug 13:42 next collapse

Yeah, that’s stopping me from getting it. This was the first game I played after getting my first graphics card, and I was really hoping to enjoy it without this BS.

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip on 16 Aug 15:02 next collapse

I vaguely recalled DoW was a Gamespy Arcade game so did a bit of googling

Looks like most versions removed that when Gamespy Arcade shut down… 11 years ago? steamcommunity.com/app/…/522728268959131532/ and reddit.com/…/lan_multiplayer_patched_out_of_souls…

Been more than a minute since I tried DoW online but other games of the era basically used Gamespy Arcade as a drop in server browser. So if they were just switching to Steam/GoG for that, it really depends on what kind of LAN support those packages have.

So… annoying but doesn’t seem unique to this release?

absquatulate@lemmy.world on 16 Aug 16:00 collapse

Damn. The original was (to me) the highlight of many, many lan-parties.

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