Age of Empires 2 HD Edition on Steam $3.59 NZD (Was $23.99 NZD)

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  Kiwi on 24/06/2016 - 18:20

  +1

  Cheers, does this one have LAN mode?

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    [Deactivated] on 24/06/2016 - 18:21

    No idea, just had a sick look at the website and found this review:

    This game is just as good as the original CD version. It is only missing LAN support. If you played this as a kid, do youself a favor and get this game and the expansions. It's lots of fun!

    Although one comment on OzBargain says:

    thanks, great LAN game!

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    [Deactivated] on 27/06/2016 - 16:40

    If you are interested I had a quick at the comments on OzB and it appears that it doesn't have a LAN mode though one commenter says:

    The game secretly supports LAN. You use the internet to connect to your friend's lobby, then you can disconnect from the internet, and continue playing through your local LAN!

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      Kiwi on 27/06/2016 - 16:41

      +1

      Cheers mate, yea, got it working, but the performance is unfortunately not as good as a LAN connection.

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        Nil Einne on 30/06/2016 - 20:05

        If you can disconnect from the internet (e.g. turn off your router) and still play, I don't see how performance can be any different for anything other than the part which requires internet (matchmaking?). It's possible it only switches to LAN after internet disconnects, but more likely the connection is always LAN only except for matchmaking part. (There's a very small chance it could end up going through the firewall/NAT router when normal LAN traffic doesn't but this is fairly unlikely given the way firewalls/NAT routers work. If they are intending to catch LAN traffic they generally always do, and if they don't they often don't at all.) It's possible performance is worse than the older version, could be any number of reasons for this.

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        Kiwi on 30/06/2016 - 20:17

        @Nil Einne:

        I'll test it later, but I suspect that it requires a consistent connection to the steam servers.

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  kiwijunglist on 24/06/2016 - 23:11

  +1

  its multiplayer as per trailer. Should support LAN play if all are connected to internet.

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    Kiwi on 24/06/2016 - 23:14

    +1

    Yea, signed wife up for Steam, got her a copy.

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  marlinz on 25/06/2016 - 06:58

  +1

  thanks for this one , man i used to spend ages playing this online on my original dial up account with mates , they used to disconnect you from the internet after 1 hour to stop people downloading and leaving their computer on unattended ahhh the good old days of NZ internet

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  marlinz on 25/06/2016 - 08:40

  +2

  man this is way better than the original :)

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    Kiwi on 25/06/2016 - 10:36

    +1

    Heaps of teams with the expansions too, really cool. The texture mods make it look heaps better as well. Add me on steam if you wanted to try an MP game at some point, shaw207.

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  Sam91 on 25/06/2016 - 19:37

  +1

  This is my childhood. I don't own a PC, only a Mac. Managed to get it working on my MB Air using this tutorial