Hellkin1

yeah, see that's the weird thing, we tried everything you said, opened all the ports, even tried turning the firewalls off, and still no luck. we get to the lan multiplayer lobby. we can be seen there and chat there. being on a lan our ips are one number. One of use will change the ip number to match the other and then clicks create. when that happens the player createing the game continues. gets as far as the 'waiting' screen. the other player can not see a 'game' to join. not sure what the

the how to was written in june. as far as lan games go i think the updates have renedered that "out of date". For example: the line "If you're playing on a LAN, the player who will host the game should click on the LAN checkbox up near the server address and click on Yes when the prompt comes up asking if he wants to run the LAN server." doesn't seem to apply. there is no lan check box.......or i can't find it. still haven't been able to set up a lan game with retail version patched to 1.5</p

i think that is outdated after last patch. at least in regards to lan gams