So general solutions are welcome, but a friend and I are both craving the old blizzard RTS games. The problem is: fuck that company, and they probably use a rootkit anti-cheat anyway
So is there a general solution for multiplayer in old PC games without company support, and is there a particular solution for, say, starcraft2?
Parsec is probably what you need. Me and my brother played through BG1 (for ps2 I believe) with an emulator and parsec. For the most part there was no lag. We simulated us both playing on his computer the same way you would play couch co-op, just in different areas.
For all their faults they don’t use kernel level anti cheat. Both StarCraft 1 and 2 are free. StarCraft 1 should at least have LAN play.
If those games can do LAN connections (computers on the same network), you could use something like Hamachi to put your computers on a virtual network together. I’m sure there are more modern versions of Hamachi, but that’s how I used to do it in the early 2010s.
Tailscale is the one I use. It’s free for up to 5 devices.
Had problems with hamachi but Zerotier works great. Less hassle also.
OpenRA comes to mind.
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I’m playing Age of empires 2 definitive edition from Steam and it’s an awesome modernized RTS experience
I cant help you with RTS games, but u should def try old wow private servers. My recommendation is Turtle-wow . Its old school wow with tons of players aaand because its old, every pc can run it.
Comparing Warcraft to World of Warcraft is like comparing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 to Might and Magic 8
