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Korevas17Korevas17 Member Posts: 57
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Hey everyone,

I have some friends coming over for the weekend and we were going to try and play multiplayer with an iPad, Mac, and pc. Does anyone know if this is possible yet using the IP address option to connect?

Any insight is much appreciated,

Thanks

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  • GrakkelGrakkel Member Posts: 55
    Yes, indeed it is.

    I was able to host multiplayer with both my iPad and my Mac with a friend on a PC. I needed to set up port forwarding with my Airport Express to make it work (thankfully, not too difficult). If you're on an internal network, that may or may not be necessary.
  • Korevas17Korevas17 Member Posts: 57
    @grakkel wow that's very encouraging news thanks for the response! By "internal" network do you mean if we were all to connect to my wifi in my apartment that port forwarding may not be necessary? I'm no computer guru so hopefully I won't have to worry about that -_-
  • GrakkelGrakkel Member Posts: 55
    Right, if you're on wifi in the apartment, not sure if you'll need to do port forwarding. What sort of router do you use?
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  • Korevas17Korevas17 Member Posts: 57
    @bhaaldog I see what you did there ^^

    @grakkel I think the cable modem is Ubee and the wireless router is a netgear. Don't know much about either I just went with what comcast gave me..for better or for worse i suppose
  • GrakkelGrakkel Member Posts: 55
    You may need to look up how to handle the port forwarding.

    This site might help you find how to change the necessary settings for your netgear router.

    The basic theory is that you:

    A) Associate an internal IP address with the MAC address of the device that is going to be the host. (MAC address is just the unique identifier for your device on the network; has nothing to do with Macs or Apple.)

    B) Set the router to listen to a particular port (47630) and forward all traffic coming into that port to the newly assigned internal IP address.

    At least that's my understanding of what's going on.
  • IkMarcIkMarc Member Posts: 552
    On a sidenote: "Online multiplayer will be upgraded at a future date to include matchmaking functionality"

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