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Is this coming to GOG with multiplayer DRM tied into it, or will it be truly DRM free experience, multiplayer and single player?

IE: I buy, install to two seperate machines off internet network, same version #, both can play in a LAN lobby on non internet connected lan?
Post edited May 10, 2021 by supernet2ec
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supernet2ec: Is this coming to GOG with multiplayer DRM tied into it, or will it be truly DRM free experience, multiplayer and single player?

IE: I buy, install to two seperate machines off internet network, same version #, both can play in a LAN lobby on non internet connected lan?
The version sold on the Epic store doesn't have LAN multiplayer (at least from what I can tell), and I don't expect that to change with the GOG /Steam release.
I do wish more companies supported offline LAN play
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mechmouse: I do wish more companies supported offline LAN play
It's the only true multiplayer. While the protocol might change, layers can be done for it. (See: IPX/SPX games still are playable with a tunneler.)

If the single player of MW5 is 100% DRM-free, I'll still get it because MW's not a game I ever found joy in MP.
Post edited May 10, 2021 by mqstout
I always find it interesting that early sci-fi authors etc thought that giant walking robots would be the military weapon of the future, when it turned out it's almost the opposite (weapons becoming smaller). The wheel (ie, the tank) still proves to be the best.
Post edited May 10, 2021 by Crosmando
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mechmouse: I do wish more companies supported offline LAN play
I do wish more video game companies supported Dedicated Servers and A Server Browser List and make the multiplayer 100% Digital Rights Management (DRM) free without needing to log in a email account or type in CD Keys, like Unreal Tournament, Red Faction, and Unreal Tournament 2004.

Those are the only three video games sold on gog.com that I know from the top of my head that have 100% Digital Rights Management (DRM) free multiplayer.

Maybe the first Unreal as well with the multiplayer patch made by PC modders who got rid of GameSpy for the first Unreal.
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Crosmando: I always find it interesting that early sci-fi authors etc thought that giant walking robots would be the military weapon of the future, when it turned out it's almost the opposite (weapons becoming smaller). Th wheel (ie, the tank) still proves to be the best.
Not quite, Azerbaijan won the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict because of drones. A ~$5 million unmanned drone armed with two Hellfire missiles could take out two $20+ million tanks with a crew of 3 each. That single conflict will have big implications for the future of warfare.
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Crosmando: I always find it interesting that early sci-fi authors etc thought that giant walking robots would be the military weapon of the future, when it turned out it's almost the opposite (weapons becoming smaller). Th wheel (ie, the tank) still proves to be the best.
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SCPM: Not quite, Azerbaijan won the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict because of drones. A ~$5 million unmanned drone armed with two Hellfire missiles could take out two $20+ million tanks with a crew of 3 each. That single conflict will have big implications for the future of warfare.
While this is true, a drone cannot capture a city or hold territory.
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SCPM: Not quite, Azerbaijan won the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict because of drones. A ~$5 million unmanned drone armed with two Hellfire missiles could take out two $20+ million tanks with a crew of 3 each. That single conflict will have big implications for the future of warfare.
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Crosmando: While this is true, a drone cannot capture a city or hold territory.
Agreed. To your original point, I also wondered why certain futurists thought giant walking robots would be the weapons of the future. Besides the fact that so many more things that can go wrong with bi-pedal locomotion machinery than wheels, I always figured they could've been easily attacked from the sky or space.
Post edited May 10, 2021 by SCPM
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SCPM: Not quite, Azerbaijan won the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict because of drones. A ~$5 million unmanned drone armed with two Hellfire missiles could take out two $20+ million tanks with a crew of 3 each. That single conflict will have big implications for the future of warfare.
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Crosmando: While this is true, a drone cannot capture a city or hold territory.
You are just a droneist, wait till I spread the word to my cronies on twatter and fckwitbook!
A giant armed robot is expensive, is a big target, and it's maneuverability is debatable. But if you can offset this with some sort of sophisticated defence mechanism, its drawbacks become moot and is a completely viable weapon platform. More so because it can autonomously lug around big kill-ya-dead armaments. If you could build it smaller and with more static ground points (more legs or wheels, tracks) it would be even better. If it could fly, the best. But again, the defensive factor is the key. Defeat that and once again small and mobile/airborne gains the advantage.
I dont know, it just doesn't sit well with me a product being sold that has implemented DRM when the selling platform proclaims it DOES NOT sell DRM tied products. Kinda a major let down if it does.
low rated
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Crosmando: I always find it interesting that early sci-fi authors etc thought that giant walking robots would be the military weapon of the future, when it turned out it's almost the opposite (weapons becoming smaller). The wheel (ie, the tank) still proves to be the best.
they didnt , just walking Huge robots are cool , same with space fighters , no way those will be ever used in the future , still they are cool , if you think about it most games are bs just cool
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Crosmando: While this is true, a drone cannot capture a city or hold territory.
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nightcraw1er.488: You are just a droneist, wait till I spread the word to my cronies on twatter and fckwitbook!
Exactly , he should be cancelled for hating on drones
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supernet2ec: I dont know, it just doesn't sit well with me a product being sold that has implemented DRM when the selling platform proclaims it DOES NOT sell DRM tied products. Kinda a major let down if it does.
Times are changing, even if the most rabid fanboys can't accept it
This game without mp coop is nothing, probably the worst game in the series
Maybe they will make a drm-free mp for it , but I cant see why would they
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mechmouse: I do wish more companies supported offline LAN play
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mqstout: It's the only true multiplayer. While the protocol might change, layers can be done for it. (See: IPX/SPX games still are playable with a tunneler.)

If the single player of MW5 is 100% DRM-free, I'll still get it because MW's not a game I ever found joy in MP.
nope
it doesnt even make sense to call something true mp...
guess what all those centralized server using games have true mp as multiple players can game together with them
Post edited May 12, 2021 by Orkhepaj
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supernet2ec: I dont know, it just doesn't sit well with me a product being sold that has implemented DRM when the selling platform proclaims it DOES NOT sell DRM tied products. Kinda a major let down if it does.
GOG have never counted multiplayer as part of that, right or wrong.
even that i really like Mech warriors and the mechs (STK) my favorite mech altough i also really like Nightstar
it will never be a future thing that people will ever use in a real world war/skirmishes

only scenario i can think of they can use mechs should be on alien worlds with environments absolute hostile to humans.