Unhappy with Game

[Agrippa]

I hate to trash any game at Matrix, but I have not been pleased with COI. Over the past few years I have bought a number of game from Matrix and have been pleased with them. COI, however, has very insuffitiant direction; perticularly for get started with muli-play, which is primarily what I bought this game for.

If someone could give me step by step instruction on the best way to play on-line let me know.

Thanks

[Andrew Williams]

Go the the Multiplayer screen

Click on "Internet TCP/IP"

Choose whether to host the game by clicking on "Host"

Select a battle to play and adjust settings and then wait for you opponent to join.

or to join a game By clicking on "Host IP"

Enter the IP address of the host

CoI will search the internet for games at that Ip address.

when it finds a game being hosted you can select it and click "Join"

Once you have joined a game the "chat " feature is enabled so you may communicate with your opponent.

When you have joined a game each player needs to click on "ready" to indicate they are ready to continue.

Host clicks next, and both players move to the team selection screen.

when you have chosen your teams click next.

When the host clicks next you will move forward to the deployment screen.

When both players click "begin" battle will commence.

If one player breaks the connection or TABS out of the game then you may have to go back to the beginning.

Connections are good and stable, I've been playing H2H since 1999

[Agrippa]

Thanks for the instructions!  My friend and I were doing all you said,but we had many problems.  Either the connection couldn't be found or if we did get a connection it would disconnect after a few minutes.  My friend also had problems connectin to the HQ and Mod swap.  Any ideas what might be going on?  Maybe I should try connecting with another player to see if the problem is on his end?

[Andrew Williams]

One of you is certainly having internet issues, either firewall or port forwarding setup problems.

My friend also had problems connectin to the HQ and Mod swap.  Any ideas what might be going on?

If, when you click on ModSwap from Command Centre nothing happens then you haven't done a full install, so ModSwap a few other addons are not installed.


CLOSE COMMAND CENTER

Navigate to

C:\Program Files\Close Combat\Close Combat III\Support\CloseCombatCC.exe

and run CloseCombatCC.exe


This will install ModSwap and other addons

[Agrippa]

Thanks for all your help so far!
 
How do we deal with the firewall and port issues?

[Andrew Williams]

You must make sure your Firewall(s) is allowing CoI to access the internet

CoI Ports  to forward

2300 to 2400 udp/TCP
6073 TCP
47624 TCP


For MMCCIII

Ports 1939 to 1945 and 2108 to 2110 must be open/forwarded in your router/modem for this app. to function correctly.

[Agrippa]

How do I do that?

[Andrew Williams]

This problem is generally due to your firewall blocking the ports CC needs to play. You need to open up ports 47624 (for UDP and TCP) and the port range of
2300 to 2400 (for UDP and TCP).

 Unfortunately we cannot tell you how to do this. Every users setup is unique and it would be impossible to list all setups. This
site has a very comprehensive listings of most firewalls setups ---> http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm.