Was anybody able to play LAN with the Final Cut version of the game (OFFLINE character)? I wasn't able at all, me and my friend couldn't see each other. Any help would be appreciated.

I've been playing offline lan mostly successfully. If you aren't seeing the hosted game at all, you might have an issue with your firewall. If that's the case, you'll need to make sure that the game is unblocked on all of the computers you're playing on.

If you're having issues in game, there's a trick in another thread involving using different .exe files depending on your system that made a world of difference for us.

This game is a blast in co-op. I hope you get your problems resolved.

Sure thing. Long story short, I bought van helsing FC during summer sale, and almost a month later, I was able to get a free copy since I already owned it, so I decided to gift it to my friend. We tried to establish a lan game through evolve (vpn a la himachi) with no success. I'm using GOG galaxy, while he is not. I hope these info could be of some help. Anyway, thanks for looking at my post :) . Usually I'm hosting the game, while he just join. As I said right now (by replying to B0SC0) we used evolve to establish the lan game. I don't think the firewall is an issue here, as I can make lan games everytime with no issues at all. The only issues I found so far were with sacred 2 and van helsing FC only; with the first one we couldn't see each other much like van helsing FC, but the issue was evolve related, by using tunngle we fixed that (although I really don't like tunngle at all).

If you're having issues in game, there's a trick in another thread involving using different .exe files depending on your system that made a world of difference for us.

Really? Mmm...I simply launch the game from gog galaxy, I saw that there are many exes almost for every x86/64 bit and even for windows 10 (which I use), but since there is no launcher which let you choose, I thought that the game would recognize the right combination.

Hello.

I'm not very good with those things so someone else might have a better answer, but I think you solved it yourself :). You said he uses evolve vpn and you use galaxy but... (again, I'm not expert in this), as far as I understand, vpn like Hamachi create their own internal network, while galaxy is through gog servers (hope I'm not making a mistake here ^_^)

Anyway, to sum up, you were both connected, but you were on 2 different networks, of course you don't see each others o.Õ
Try using both evolve or both galaxy, that should solve it. I'm regularly playing VH FC with a friend these times with galaxy, no problem so far. We are using Hamachi for some other games, works too (didn't try with VH though)
Galaxy requires no configuration, while vpn do need some (it did with Hamachi, not sure what, he did it, not me), so, if you're not an experienced user, galaxy might be easier for you.

Also, be sure to have the same game version. This includes patch and mods. Any differences and you won't be able to join (though you should see each other)

If that's doesn't work... sorry, no idea. Hope it helped

EDIT: I would recommend using galaxy, simply to make the community a bit "alive" (someone was also complaining about this with grim dawn, no public games).
If everyone uses galaxy, it means more available games, so people can easily find a game and play co-op. Currently it's pretty much dead (no games). If you use a vpn, you're on your private network, so you don't appear in galaxy (meaning, if everyone uses a vpn, there are tons of private session, whereas, if everyone uses galaxy, there are lots of public game).
Of course, I not saying you must, you can also use galaxy and make a private session (password). Actually it's what I do (I know, doesn't help as "public game"), but we are irl friends, using skype, having a random player would probably make things really awkward for everyone, we move at our own pace etc...
But you get the idea :)


Regards

Nah, the both of us used evolve (you have to do that in order make use of the vpn in the first place), what I meantis that I was running the game through galaxy while he didn't (which again, shouldn't be an issue, as we simply wanted to do some lan play).
I understand your point, but I'm more of a single player, the multiplayers runs I do sometimes are lan ones, simply because I don't like to play with random people. But correct me if I'm wrong: with a public game, don't we need the online characters?

That's what I thought about the exes, but using the specific one did boost our network performance quite a bit, much less lag and dropped connections. But that's not the problem you're having, not yet anyway. I don't have any experience with virtual lan programs, so I can't really help, but maybe it's having the same evolve problem that sacred 2 did?

Yeah, The only rhing i can do is to try something other than evolve.

Hello.

Sorry, I thought I had found your problem :p

anyway, to answer you

>>But correct me if I'm wrong: with a public game, don't we need the online characters?

I'm not sure what you call "online character", so I'll just go with the explanation (I talked about that in another thread, guess it's hard to keep it all together)
You cannot switch between offline and "registered" characters (obviously). However, you can switch between offline/solo and "not registered" multiplayer (I called it private multiplayer, that would be Lan and galaxy). Which makes it more "friendly" to play multiplayer since you can use your solo character and don't have to make 2 separate (which was part of the reason I made a digression about multiplayer and the community in my last post)

(NB: I did try to make a solo/offline character, and then host, my friend could join. This is 100% confirmed. I did not try with registration (since I usually don't register), so I'm not 100% sure about this, but it wouldn't make sense, saves are supposed to be on the server, not the user pc so...)

You need the same game version though, otherwise you can see the session but not join.

I understand you don't like to play with random people, I wasn't blaming your or anything, since I'm a bit like that too. It was just for the point as you noted :)

Well, my last answer didn't help and I lack knowledge to answer better for technical stuff, but I hope this time with characters it does help :)

Regards

Woops, yup, with "online characters" I meant registered characters :P . So you succesfully hosted/joined in a lan game...Can I ask you a question? Were the both of you using galaxy? Also, were you using soem vpn software like hamachi? I suspect that the cause was due to my firend not using galaxy (although I hope to be wrong). Yeah the game version was the same for both of us (we just downloaded it at the same time (me through galaxy, while him from the browser library).

Hello.

Sorry for the late reply, I don't log regularly.

>>Can I ask you a question?

it's already a question but sure :)

>>Were the both of you using galaxy? Also, were you using soem vpn software like hamachi?

It was a while ago, so, I don't remember for sure. We are currently using Galaxy, so, I suppose it was already with it. We do use Hamachi with some game (depends), but not in this case.

>>I suspect that the cause was due to my firend not using galaxy (although I hope to be wrong).

Well apparently there was some misunderstanding... because it's what I answered you in my first post, but you said no... o.O

So, I'll try again. As I said, Hamachi (and other vpn etc...), create a private/separate network. Again, apologies if I'm wrong, I'm no expert with computers. Anyway, it's an emulated lan, which is like a closed tunnel.
Now, if you guys were both connected with a vpn (you mentioned evolve), and tried to connect with/through galaxy to play, of course it doesn't work. Because you both are in a private (closed) network, and galaxy cannot reach the server. It was what I answered (and thought was right, but you said no, so I wasn't sure anymore)

However, you are supposed to have a lan option in VH FC (I never tried), so, if you were connected with a vpn, used galaxy for achievements (and **not** to connect to the game), and used lan connection, then it should have worked.

You said "no", but maybe my first post wasn't clear, and I'm not sure what you did either, so it's hard to say. If you tried vpn and lan connection (not galaxy!!) and it did not work, you should try to check the vpn configuration or connection (like pinging), to be see if it works. If it doesn't, the problem is rather on the vpn side than VH side. If it works, the problem seems to be VH

A last time, both user with galaxy: ok. Both user with vpn, and "lan", ok. But using vpn and then connection with galaxy, not ok!

I hope it was clear this time.

Regards

Today I have installed the game (Version 1.1.0) because I want to play offline with my girlfriend. We can see each other, but if I connect to her or she to me, the game want to connect and nothing happens. The game freezes at the client. On the hostside I can see 2 trys to connect:

PlayerXXX has joined
PlayerXXX has left
PlayerXXX has joined
PlayerXXX has left

We use both Win7 64Bit with all Updates and the newest graphic driver.

I remeber a try with the normal version of Van Helsing 1 for a few months and there were no errors or problems.... What can I do?

Sadly I wasn't able to succesfully do it, as my friend never wanted to bother with it and instead insisted to play with the online mode (ugh).

Still, I'd like to know if this can be somewhat fixed :/