mac user - decent multiplayer dead?

davey · Post by **davey** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:08 am

hi, I used to play multiplayer descent all the time, but now when I click the multiplayer button and try to connect to pxo it doesn't do anything. is the network dead ? can only one on one games be played now ?

hope you can fill me in as I'm not up on all the latest news but loved playing descent. cheers!

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:11 am

hey davey,
nope d3 isnt dead. pxo is, and probably wont come back.

now that pxo is gone, all servers switched to tcp/ip, a good site do browse is esas tracker descent.cx:

http://d3.descent.cx/tracker.d3

a very good standalone tracker with d3 support is kquery, but i am not sure if there is a mac version:

http://kquery.com/

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d3-chat:

all d3 player are now on gamesurge irc-server.

irc.gamesurge.net
#descent3
#descent3rookie
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and of course some are on kali (browser+chat):
http://kali.net

davey · Post by **davey** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:03 am

so how do you launch/ join a game ?
do you type in the dns address in the 'launch' column into the tc/ip section of descent game ?

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:12 am

cx offers a automated process with a batchfile but i guess that wont work on mac.

so do enter the ip/port manual in d3:

d3->multiplayer->direct tcp/ip->

type in the adress like this:

217.160.167.30:2094

(for example, 217.160.167.30 is the server ip-adress, 2094 is the server portnumber)

and then press "search for games"