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Free to Play Windows games using purely UDP

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Started by starbasecitadel March 14, 2014 12:45 PM

1 comment, last by oliii 10 years, 1 month ago

starbasecitadel

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March 14, 2014 12:45 PM

My current game project is creating a high-speed gaming network, specifically optimized for League of Legends but also extendable to other games down the road.

I have a very early version ready for testing, but it only supports UDP tunneling, not TCP. I certainly need to add TCP tunneling as well but that is still a few weeks away even if it goes smoothly. In the meantime, I'd like to find a free-to-play Windows 7 game that does not use TCP, only UDP, to test my tunnel/proxy with. Anyone know any?

I've tried several games (League of Legends, TF 2, Dota 2, Netrek) but none of them work since they all use a combination of TCP and UDP and expect the client IP address from TCP to match the client IP address from UDP.

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March 14, 2014 04:42 PM

Maybe the original StarCraft? Don't know if it's free.
The open source releases of Quake are free to play, and use TCP. Try Quake III.

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March 14, 2014 11:39 PM

Quake 3 is pure UDP. Not sure about Unreal tech. Wouldn't be surprised if they were also pure UDP.

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