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Planetary Annihilation has just received an update adding the (much requested) possibility of playing offline and LAN games (see announcement).
This is the first-pass on it, and more features will come.
Please note that that the system requirements for hosting a local server are significantly higher than those for online gameplay!
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Colonize solar systems, annihilate homeworlds, and exterminate your foes in epic interplanetary battles with multiple players and thousands of units. Planetary Annihilation takes strategy gaming to a never-before-seen scale -- and gives players powerful tools to control the action.
Blow up everything, anywhere; dominate with punishing spacecraft, robots, and other futuristic machines of war. Arm asteroids and send them on planet-destroying collision courses. And take over an entire galaxy in a dynamic single-player mode with procedurally generated content. Don’t just win, annihilate!
Grab it from Steam, Humble Store or from the developers directly. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Planetary Annihilation has just received an update adding the (much requested) possibility of playing offline and LAN games (see announcement).
This is the first-pass on it, and more features will come.
Please note that that the system requirements for hosting a local server are significantly higher than those for online gameplay!
QuoteMINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (offline, local server):
OS: Windows 7 64-bit, Mac OS/X 10.7+, Linux Ubuntu 12.04/13.04, Linux Mint 14 & 15 (64-bit only)
Processor: Intel Quad Core, AMD Six Core or better
Memory: 8 GB
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTS 250, AMD Radeon HD 4850, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better (512 MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.2 or better)
Hard Drive: 2 GB available
Official About
Colonize solar systems, annihilate homeworlds, and exterminate your foes in epic interplanetary battles with multiple players and thousands of units. Planetary Annihilation takes strategy gaming to a never-before-seen scale -- and gives players powerful tools to control the action.
Blow up everything, anywhere; dominate with punishing spacecraft, robots, and other futuristic machines of war. Arm asteroids and send them on planet-destroying collision courses. And take over an entire galaxy in a dynamic single-player mode with procedurally generated content. Don’t just win, annihilate!
Grab it from Steam, Humble Store or from the developers directly. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I've noticed that one day after the offline release illegal copies popped up on the internet, so either I'm wrong, or people have found a way around it already. I'd bet on the second.
When launching the steam version without internet you have to press escape to make the game stop trying to connect (it doesn't seem to give up out of it's own accord) and the game states "Login Accepted".
No, the game isn't quite finished yet, or at the very least a bit unpolished. We'll see how long they keep updating it :-)
If you'll going to buy it on Steam game will ask you to register PlayFab account on first startup and at moment there no way to ignore registration as long as Steamworks active and is something developers have to fix. And if you remove "libsteam_api.so" from Steam version and run game directly using Steam runtime then it's won't require registration or login.
PS: Keep in mind that online (not LAN) multiplayer require PlayFab account and there is strict limit of one connection to PlayFab servers from one license/account.
This is also true. If Steam running offline mode game won't ask for registration or login.
Messages like "Login Accepted" or "Connection to server lost" appear because even if game being offline it's still made of two parts: client and server. So when you're offline it's work exactly same way like if you're playing on PlayFab server with only difference that server is running on your PC.