Some Newb Questions regarding Multiplayer
 

Ahoy,

I'm new to the Forums, purchased DW about 2 Months ago, and after teasing my Boyfriend with screenshots for long enogh, i finally got him to try it out aswell, so we had our first few MP Runs together. I stepped on 3 Issues during MP which i haven't found a solution for yet so i decided to ask for help here.

1) When hosting a Game, it shows me my Hamachi IP in the Bottom window, even though Hamachi is turned off. We ended up having to turn on Hamachi and play over this network instead of 'true internet' which admittedly sucks since it's got a high desync (e.g. we saw eachothers rockets sinking down in the ocean and lagging across half of the map) is there any way to select which network the DW Game i hosted upon? (Hamachi is Net I, Internet is Net II, i have Windows 7 Professional 64bit if that helps and it's not an ingame menu thing)

2) Aircraft, aswell as DSRV's and Special Forces take incredibly long untill they are Deployed in MP. It's due to the 'Quick Aircraft Launch' beeing disabled i guess. Now for a mission with the FFG-7 i was wondering if it's possible to have the game start with the Heli on Alert 15 by default so i don't have to wait for an Hour. Is there any way to place a FFG-7, issue it a MH-60 and set it so it's on Alert status 15 already as the game begins?

3) Pause seems to work in MP, but time compression does not. Is there, once again, any way to turn on Time Compression so both player (e.g. in a multi station game) can agree on a time scale and fast forward a bit? Or give the host controll of Time Compression?

Thank you in advance if you could help me out!
Happy new Year and happy hunting -
Elena.

PS: Fourth Issue appeared :D If i controll a P3 or MH60 in MP, can i rearm it anywhere or are they meant for only one Flight per Mission? I know i can rearm a MH60 on the FFG-7 if i controll the FFG, but no clue if i get that possibility when the FFG is an AI or another player, and i'm in the Seahawk.

using the search option± :up:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sear...archid=1492414

Look about halfway down this page under "What settings (i.e. ports, etc.) do I need to play online?"
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=397529

To my knowlege, there's no way to do this. You CAN however, edit the scenario to have the copter or copters already in the air when the scenario starts. You can even get creative and have it really close to the deck when the scenario starts as if it just lifted off.

There is no time compression in multiplayer. Everything is real time. Some scenarios can take upward of 5+ hours to complete in multiplayer. The only game I've ever seen that does the "agreed upon time compression" is "Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare".

Thank you for the Help!

Sadly, the Internet Options simply do not seem to work. My respective Router ports are opened, aswell as i have given the correct IP to my Friend, not the Local one (192.186...) but it just doesn't want to work. However we figured out the lag issue as we managed to run DW without steam, saving us loads of bandwidth the game can now utilize, which then again means much better sync and ping and corret flying rockets.

About the Heli Quick Launch issue, this is unfortunate but i figured a way out. I simply added the MH60 as in-flight, and set it to be launched in future, with a 00:01:00 after mission start. So, a minute after we got started, the Helo took off from the deck.

Time compression, thats sad. (Btw, this agreement to a certain compression was used in NWAC, thats where i got the idea from) but we figured out we can simply run it windowed and switch to full screen once the action goes down. Meanwhile we would do anything else, and if someone's busy we can simply pause the game.

Once again thanks for your help, i hope this game remains its high entertainment value even after long time playing. A Player controlling a FFG in conjunction with a second one flying the FFG's Helo seems to be a promising combination.

Cheers - Elli.

Did you edit your DangerousWaters.ini to select the connection you wanted? That's how you force it to use a connection.
I sometimes had an issue getting DW to connect and I found that for me, DW listed two adaptors with the same name in my adaptors file. Also, It wouldn't connect for me as long as I had Hamachi running. All I did was shut down all the adapters except for one and it used that and connected fine.

Dangerous Waters IS fun with multiplayer, but you have to have an attention span and be prepared for a long game. It can be VERY rewarding with multiplayer. This game also does NOT like lag. It tends to crash on me if I have a laggy connection.

Also, for your enjoyment, here's the known issues so you can work around them when designing (or playing) scenarios. The DSRV is broken. It's steerable fine, You can use it to deploy your special forces. But whatever you do, don't order it to dock to your sub. It will just crash into it. It's docking abilites are completely FUBAR'd.
Aircraft also tend to like to fly until they run out of fuel and then crash. They have no instict that they've hit "Bingo Fuel" and need to turn back to land. If you set up scenarios, just keep these points in mind and you can make some fantastic missions. Also, check out the downloads section here and also look at http://www.subguru.com/
There's some great scenarios there as well as the excellent "Red Storm Rising" campaign.

Just to add a bit of info on the aircraft issues, you can set organic aircraft to alert in the mission editor; the menu is accessible by right clicking the launching platform. And there are airport and helipad objects that can rearm playable aircraft available in the editor as well.

Yep, thank you :)

I just figured out i'd add my P3 as in-Flight to an airport and can return to rearm and refuel with 'B'. Just, am i blind or does this plane not have a fuel indicator? (I can see the 'low fuel' lamp fine, but thats about it.)

@Blacklight:
I shutted down every connection but one. My friend had my correct IP for my Router, not the local ip, but the one that shows up if you e.g. check whatismyip.com. Still, we were unable to connect and i suspect that maybe the ports required are not entirely opened. They are on my PC but i did not come to check the Router i connect to, will have to wait until i get the password to check it out (it's a multip-pc-network over one router)

For the RS Mod, i already saw a lots and lots of nice videos and trailers about it, and i'd like to test it out.
But i cannot find any valid and up-to-date URL to download it.

I found this URL on ra-dwx.narod but it seems to direct on a russian page, and packs 1,2 and 4 are unavaliable. Does anyone got an up-to-date URL? Also the redrogers forum ( http://www.redrodgers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4912 ) only returns 404 Errors, and the topic here in the forum directs to an invalid URL aswell. Anyone got a valid link for this mod?

Update: Found this: Two Mods for Dangerous Waters but its only the OPFOR pack, the Russian and Chinese units. New plattforms on the american side, or e.g. the German U 212A are still missing.

My only issue with the RA Mod (I'm assuming that's what you meant with "RS Mod") is that it's kind of annoying and confusing to install and implement. I stick with LWAMI just because it's much easier to put in.
As far as multiplayer goes, make sure that BOTH of you have those ports open NOT ONLY IN YOUR ROUTERS, but also in your Windows Firewalls (or whatever software firewalls you use.) I discovered that the reason I couldn't connect when I did have problems was because I opened the ports in the router but not on my firewall. I had to create some "new rules" for incoming and outgoing stuff for those ports in Windows Firewall. Now we have absolutely NO PROBLEM connecting.

Yarp, ports are now open and we have no issues to connect via Hamachi. I was still unable to open them on the Router however, so we gotta wait untill this is done to play without Hamachi.

I meant the Reinforced Alert mod, you're right, and i bet i would be able to get it installed, but i cannot find any valid URL. You don't happen to have one, do you?

For LWAMI, does it add new units? I thought it's only about editing parameters on the config.

LWAMI adds a LOT of new units, but not new player driven units. It's well worth the download. I'll see if I can scare up a link to the RA mod for you too. I've tried both, but I've stuck with LWAMI because it's so much easier to install and work with.
Also, when you get LWAMI 3.11, get the Victorious patch that's right next to it in the downloads section. It fixes a texture problem with one of the ships.

Edit: Here's a link to Rienforce Alert Mod version 1.35 (I believe this is the most recent version). The website is in Russian. The mod comes in four files and there's a hotfix that you have to put in after you install it.
http://ra-dwx.narod.ru/

If you have enough space on your hard drive, you can actually set up two different installs of Dangerous Waters on your computer, one for each mod, if you want.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//arc...p/t-94277.html

Wow, thank you, it works (=

I have been playing with the RA OPFOR Pack which is awesome already, but that just kicks the game into a whole new direction (=

Thank you for searching the links out, funny thing is, i was on the exact same homepage, probably not even 2 clicks away^^