Multiplayer

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Setting a multiplayer game is easy. First, to connect to the official game servers, you must create an account in the forums . Then, you have to either create your own room or join someone else'sThe first image is the room creation interface. You just select the map, the era, basic room settings such as name and password (optional) and you're good to go.I've highlighted some important things on the second image. Keep in mind that this is a view from the Host side.1- Number of player slots and Map name.2- "Choose Faction and/or Leader" Button.3- Information about your leader, color, controlling player and income.4- Players and Observers.- Colosseum: The fastest and best mode to understand the game (After the tutorials) since you only control one character and upgrade him after every round. Basically, you and other 2 or 5 gladiators choose each a character and fight against waves of monsters in order to survive. You won't learn combat tactics and tricks, but you'll get used to the combat system, keywords and terrain advantage. Plus, you'll be able to find factions that you like by playing with their units individually.- Standard*: You have a general that recruits troops and fight against other general(s) in order to win. It's similar to the singleplayer campaigns, except you win by killing the enemy generals.- Survival/RPG: Pretty much like Colosseum, but usually you have a map to explore or a fixed map and sometimes you can recruit units to assist you. I find it quite boring, so I don't know much about it.*I don't know how it's actually called, but that's how we call it in my group of friends.These add new factions and generals to the game.- Bob's RPG Era: One of the most complete eras for playing RPG modes.- Ageless Era: This is a collection of other player made eras. It adds 30+ new factions to the game, a lot of new keywords and mechanics. I suggest you download this after you get bored of the default era and want to try new things, but keep in mind that the game becomes unbalanced when you try to use different eras in the same game.Some players might have troubles to connect to the official servers. If you're willing to play with your friends, but can't connect to any of the official Wesnoth servers, you can try hosting a Local Server.The first step you must take is setting up a Hamachi or a VPN to simulate a Local environment, unless your friends are connected to the same network as you.For more information on how to setup a server using Hamachi, you can take a look at this Minecraft server guide . Even though it's a different game, the idea behind the server setup is pretty much the same. If it's still a bit confusing, try looking for another tutorial on the internet.This is the screen that you find after clicking on the "Multiplayer" button in the main screen. To host a LAN (Local) server, simply click on "Host Networked Game". Then, the message below will be shown.Simply click "Yes" and it will host a server on your local network. This is how it looks on the CMD:127.0.0.1 is your local IP, which means that it "masks" your true IP while working the same way for local connections. If the CMD shows something similar to this, the server is probably working.This is how the screen will look like to the hostAs for the client side, you must click on the "Connect to Server" button in the Multiplayer tab, then this will show up:Just change the Server to the host's IPV4 and you're (probably) in!If the instructions above are not working for you, you might try to connect to another official server. Just click on the "Connect to Server" button in the Multiplayer tab, then in "View List" and try connecting to either the second or third server.