Battlespire Online : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:08 pm

I remember awhile back I believe Magnus attempted to organize some online battlespire action, but as I recall it never amounted to anything. Has it been successfully done recently? Would anyone want to give it a shot sometime? Does anyone else even own battlespire anymore? :biglaugh:

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:03 pm

I would totally do this. I don't have BS installed right now, but I will try to get that done and working properly soon.

What are your experiences with multiplayer? Do you like playing the storyline or deathmatch/ctf better? I've never played BS online, but I can imagine getting hacked up repeatedly by other players while trying to get myself equipped or looting someone.

» Tue May 17, 2011 1:23 pm

Coop is what I like the most, deathmatch has issues since you can abuse the character creation to make some really epic characters. I've not tried to MP with satellite, but I'd be willing to try.

» Tue May 17, 2011 1:30 pm

When was the last time anyone got it to work online? What method would we even use?

» Tue May 17, 2011 1:29 am

Last time I played was '04 or '05 with Sinder and some others. Used Kali. This is not very usable now, and not required since we can use the ipxconnect command through DOSBox to connect to people.

» Tue May 17, 2011 8:03 am

Nice, I thought battlespire didn't work through DOSbox?

» Tue May 17, 2011 5:36 am

It takes some tweaking, but yea it works. Not as smoothly as Daggerfall does, but well enough.
I'll try to get it installed this weekend and we can work out a time to test it out.

» Tue May 17, 2011 8:11 am

Battlespires worked fine in DOSBox for me since .70ish. And that was on a AMD 3100+. Runs smoooooth as silk in .73b3 *Grins* on a 5800+

» Tue May 17, 2011 4:53 am

Ahhhh how I would love to join you but my gaming PC is not connected to the Net. Co-op seems fun.
By the way, what happens in Co-op when a player talks with a creature? Do everyone enter the dialogue screen and look at the player chose the dialogue choices? (Just a random thought...)

» Tue May 17, 2011 9:46 am

You can't talk to them. Coop takes all the 'dialogue' ways of completing pieces of the game out and instead leave the actiony parts. Which is a good thing, since it keeps the action going.

» Tue May 17, 2011 11:52 am

I tried to play online about a month ago but I never got it up and running

» Tue May 17, 2011 8:36 am

Hello,
What a nice thread to read on! Ample information is available in internet today.

» Tue May 17, 2011 5:42 am

Alright, well would anyone object to me attempting to plan out a battlespire online shindig?

First off, lets take a poll of how many people actually have it and would be willing to give it a shot. I've got a copy, and I'm down.

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:32 am

I am installed and ready to rumble.

» Tue May 17, 2011 3:32 pm

I can play anytime tomorrow (before 9PM EST), between 3-9PM EST on Thurs, and then not again until Monday.

» Tue May 17, 2011 2:45 pm

How about monday? I have to find my CD over the weekend.

» Tue May 17, 2011 3:54 am

Monday would be great.

While we're here, this game is a bit laggy on my computer. The first level was OK, but the second is almost a slideshow. Other than putting the detail on Low and shrinking the screen size, anyone have tips to speed this game up?

» Tue May 17, 2011 1:43 pm

Use a CVS build of the game? Don't run with the CD (no music/dialogue - in MP no problem).

» Mon May 16, 2011 11:56 pm

You can't talk to them. Coop takes all the 'dialogue' ways of completing pieces of the game out and instead leave the actiony parts. Which is a good thing, since it keeps the action going.

Most useful indeed. Less talk, more action. I like it.

Do any of you three mind to take screenshots while you play? I'm just curious to see how Battlespire multiplayer looks like.

» Tue May 17, 2011 9:57 am

Oh, I plan on to, if I can remember ingame that CTRL+F5 is the screenshot button.

And Monday looks good for me.

» Mon May 16, 2011 11:30 pm

Yea, I'm going to try to remap the screenshot key to something more accessible, so I can get more action shots.

» Mon May 16, 2011 11:17 pm

I don't remap keys in DOSBox anymore, the keymapper made it so my 'w' key for the longest time was a left mouseclick, it caused issues.

» Tue May 17, 2011 3:04 pm

Oy, I'll be careful then

What happens when you die in multiplayer? Do you just respawn or does everyone have to start over?

» Tue May 17, 2011 10:53 am

Nice way of me not to pay a attention to this interesting thread /gone all weekend.

Yes, you go to the score screen and press okay to respawn.

» Tue May 17, 2011 9:09 am

So is the how-to for running battlespire in DOSbox in the sticky up to date? I'm going to try it out if it is.