It doesn’t have LAN multiplayer sadly.

Neither UFW nor Firewalld are enabled. I guess I’ll whip out ye olde tcpdump+wireshark…

You, uh, didn’t turn multiplayer off in your options, did you?

Ha, good question, but I specifically made sure I enabled it. In fact, last year I could play with friends on the same installation. Something must have changed, but trying to find it is like finding a needle in a needlestack.

I can’t see any bases either.

One of these might help: https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/601902145259725017/

The only thing I didn’t try from these was disabling IPv4. Didn’t work :(

EDIT: and I tried with another Steam account. Didn’t work either.

multiplayer was fine on my work computer, but did not work on my home PC. It’s a constant dumpster fire.

Jesus Christ, so much this. I had so many issues with Multiplayer. After so many years they ought to have fixed this.

Regular Arch. My Steam Deck has the same network and works fine.

It used to work fine. Idk what changed since I played last, but reinstalling several times, deleting all files I could find, didn’t fix it.

Thought maybe it’s the file system but doesn’t make a difference between xfs, ext4, ext3 and btrfs.

Proton doesn’t really affect networking and focuses more on Graphics

Proton actually contains quite a lot of libraries, some responsible for networking.

firewall

Not really, I have IPv6, a regular consumer router and no client side firewall. The Steam deck is in the same network.

other games

Work fine. Never had issues with online functionality. Palia, CS2, Satisfactory, Warframe, BG3, GW2, Forza Horizon 4+5, … all work fine

Installed via pacman.

Ah got it, thanks

Can you repeat that in plain English please?

I haven’t actually done it yet because the idea of flickin the bean to, say, cooking shows on YouTube sounds just slightly too weird for me.

Why? There’s people who actually have a fetish for anthropomorphic planes going down on each other. I’d say cooking shows might be arousing to a higher percentage of people than airplane porn is.

Well, that’s a new sentence right there, lol.

The pavement of all things? Why?

I’m not a capitalist, I don’t care about outages. I can live with Facebook being down for a few days, or my bank not accepting transfers for a day or so. Then again, I grew up with the internet in the 90s and prioritise good software and tools over availability, I guess?

Obviously at my job I have to do what my employer thinks. But if nobody cared I’d definitely do our Gitlab upgrades once a week once they’re out and not in some weird “maintenance window” mandated by SLAs and stakeholders.

most trouble is probably caused in the first few days. Doesn’t matter if it’s 45 or 90 days, it would have to be a few hours to be meaningfully short. Given that automating things like this is annoying sometimes, you’ll be sure people will max out the 45 days…

I’m pretty sure it’s the SSL seller lobby just wanting more money, tbh. Selling snake oil security.

Could you please elaborate or link to further information?

So you think techaro paid them?

There are also ham-adjacent projects like Meshtastic that I’m not as familiar with.

Why don’t you buy a node and try it out?

Why don’t you simply build your own network aswell? https://dn42.net/

Packet radio has such a low bandwidth usually. You should get more out of directional Wi-Fi, as in 60GHz point to point connections. One downside: if it rains you’re out of luck. You’d better run cables ;)

This person fucks! 😅