LAN Gaming - We're Screwed Huh?

[CodeZero]

This post is coming from a long-time Epic fan and UT player. I'm old enough to remember playing Jazz Jackrabbit but I've also been there since Day 1 for Unreal Tournament's original release. We affectionately call it UT99 around here, but the local LAN scene has been playing it as well as UT2k3 and UT2k4 for as long as I can remember.

With UT3's release I was one of the biggest advocates of the game and how the LAN scene needed to throw an event around the game's release. Lots of people obviously saw the high requirements and choppy gameplay for PCs not running high end hardware and a lot of gamers abandoned the idea.

Now that we're finally having another event here in Indy I'm pretty jazzed about getting people interested and getting some LAN games going. As a owner of the CE version of the game I loaded everything up last night again, patched, and downloaded the new Bonus Pack. I turned off my internet connection (because the LAN event can't support 200 people on Cable), and came to the realization that my profile is useless (even though I hate not having my name anyway because it's already registered). It threw me into a LAN game as [iG]Player.

So uh... I've been pushing for people to buy UT3 to play it tomorrow and Sunday at our LAN but now I realized no one will be able to know who's fragging who...

There absolutely HAS to be something I'm missing here. Some way to configure our names offline. Please... tell me there's something.

It's also worth mentioning that Epic Games has sponsored our event for years and there's been such a huge call of support from us for Epic and it's releases... but without any of us actually being able to enjoy UT3 at the event isn't going to resonate well.

[Stringer]

There's a Bonus Pack??? when the hell was that announced??!??

[MTL]

could you put ur name in your clan tag? But of course that only shows up in the scoreboard..

[Stringer]

You can still have your name just have it entered like you would for an online match but click play offline..LAN games still work do it a lot on my home network with meh m8's

[RCizzle65]

There's a Bonus Pack??? when the hell was that announced??!??

Just today I believe.

[luttman23]

I installed it a two days ago - it features new versions of the old CTF Facing Worlds and DM Morbias.

There wasn't much announcing of it though.

[haslo]

You can still have your name just have it entered like you would for an online match but click play offline..LAN games still work do it a lot on my home network with meh m8's

Didn't work for me when I tried it at a LAN recently. I think you have to have an online profile first, and log in there, before you can have your own name in an offline profile.

I think there's a mutator that allows you custom name changes as well, but I'd have to search it as well.

[haslo]

There's a Bonus Pack??? when the hell was that announced??!??

Here you go

[D-Hunter]

I don't see the point of turning off your internet, all it does is send your login info and that's it. It doesn't have to stream 200 games to the master server.

[haslo]

I don't see the point of turning off your internet, all it does is send your login info and that's it. It doesn't have to stream 200 games to the master server.

True, but that LAN I was at didn't have internet in the first place

[bclagge]

There absolutely HAS to be something I'm missing here. Some way to configure our names offline. Please... tell me there's something.

Probably too late to help you seeing as it's sunday, but you type "setName ****" in the console where **** is the name you want.

[RanShak]

Probably too late to help you seeing as it's sunday, but you type "setName ****" in the console where **** is the name you want.

I did not know about that. o_o

That is, however, some excellent info. Cheers for that one.

[bclagge]

Sure, np. I think it only works offline though. I've tried it in an internet game and even though the command goes through, it won't change my name.

[3leggedFreak]

gg gamespy.

[CodeZero]

Probably too late to help you seeing as it's sunday, but you type "setName ****" in the console where **** is the name you want.

Cheers For The Fix!

At the LAN we actually just found that changing the UnnamedPlayer file in your MyDocs to your name fixes it too. =]