[Borderlands] You restocked your ammo supply from where ?

[Thermal Ions]

Yes, well it's not where I expected to find ammo either, but then I obviously hadn't thought through the process logically like Shamus here:

The Escapist : Stolen Pixels #140: The Circle of Ammunition

A couple of other BL themed Stolen Pixels:
The Escapist : Stolen Pixels #138: On the Borderbus
The Escapist : Stolen Pixels #139: BorderLAN

[Reoh]

Hahaha hadn't seen those first couple.

[Bort]

I lol'd

[Powello]

Lol especially at the last one, as i'm still having trouble >

[Firebrand]

Unknown told me you should only need to place an exception for port 7777 udp in your Firewall if you wanna host. I had done the whole port forward thing by the time he told me that. I did it too so I can't tell you which made the difference. I'm running XP. I'm hosting when I wasn't at first. That's all I know.

[Unknown]

Originally Posted by Firebrand

Unknown told me you should only need to place an exception for port 7777 udp in your Firewall if you wanna host.

That's all a few of us do and as long as:

1. you have that port forwarded (by your router) correctly to your gaming PC;
2. you have either that port or the Borderlands.exe added as an exception to your gaming PC's firewall; and,
3. Gamespy doesn't screw-up...

...you should be good to go for "private" hosted games (you may need more ports open for "public" games).

The key here is (3) above - even if you have no firewalls at all, Gamespy can still manage to stuff-up. We've found the following helps (but is not a dead-set guarantee of success):

• host should start a single player game, then when ready send out invites to friends to join; and,
• if the connection fails, the clients (ie., not the one hosting) may need to restart either Steam or even their whole machine (yes, we've found a Steam or PC restart can sometimes make the whole thing work when the host hasn't changed anything and was still running around in-game).

Others have had their own success with Hamachi (or other VPN solutions) or GameRanger.

[Reoh]

My hosting *was* working fine.

But it isn't now.

Ports are forwarded and all, can join games no issues first time every time, but... no more hosting. Its like something just went newp, you can't be a host anymore.

[Firebrand]

Getting a round started is like a puzzle game in itself. And Gameranger is DLC. And mandatory for some.

[Thermal Ions]

Originally Posted by Unknown

• if the connection fails, the clients (ie., not the one hosting) may need to restart either Steam or even their whole machine (yes, we've found a Steam or PC restart can sometimes make the whole thing work when the host hasn't changed anything and was still running around in-game).

I've found restarting steam and sometimes even the PC to be required if I've played any other steam games since booting up. Whether coincidence or not I don't know.

[Firebrand]

Here's a quirk for yas, I tabbed out to fiddle with mumble. Happily it had not crashed in that instance but I absent-mindedly double-clicked BL in the steam menu to get bck to the game. I should have hit the windows taskbar of course but, well, you know. Instead of the warning that I couldn't have 2 instances of the game running, I had the Claptrap tellin me he was dancin' to the 2k intro music.