Can you play offline in P2P or LAN mode?

[Lord Elathorn]

If I have the game installed but am away from internet connection, can the game be played on a peer to peer set-up or LAN/WLAN mode? Essentially, do you need internet to play?

[Liesel Weppen]

No, it does not work without internet.

 

However, the only internet traffic that is required is the server authenticating the steam ids on player connections. The actual game runs completely in the LAN.

[outhous]

Hope this isn't another how to play pirated games thread??

[meganoth]

14 minutes ago, outhous said:

Hope this isn't another how to play pirated games thread??

Hope nobody derails this thread by mentioning pirating!! 😆

 

[Lord Elathorn]

No - not a play pirated games question. I have the game legitimately, but I wanted to know if I can play it when I'm out of internet range on my boat

 

[Vampirenostra]

17 hours ago, Lord Elathorn said:

No - not a play pirated games question. I have the game legitimately, but I wanted to know if I can play it when I'm out of internet range on my boat

 

3G or GPRS ?

 

Edited February 4, 2021 by meganoth
clean up (see edit history)

[Roland]

On 2/3/2021 at 2:58 PM, Lord Elathorn said:

No - not a play pirated games question. I have the game legitimately, but I wanted to know if I can play it when I'm out of internet range on my boat

 

Did you come by that boat legitimately or are you an actual pirate?

[Pichii]

If you put steam in offline mode maybe 1p will work? (Test it and if it works you have your answer since you own a copy. :))
This game requires a 3g connection minimally to play with friends tho. Even if its LAN which only improves ping.

Also, just putting it out there but satelite internet works anywhere and if youre in 1p it wont matter what your ping is cuz youre connected to yourself. lol

Edited February 8, 2021 by Pichii (see edit history)

[Lord Elathorn]

Thanks for the advice guys. I tested the game by disabling wifi on the laptop and launching from the c:Drive rather than Steam and it worked for a solo game, so I think I'll be good when out of internet contact

[Roland]

Aargh!!

[Liesel Weppen]

15 hours ago, Pichii said:

This game requires a 3g connection minimally to play with friends tho. Even if its LAN which only improves ping.

Pretty sure not. The connection speed between clients and server should be at least at 3G-speed. If playing in LAN, THIS connection part is way faster than 3G.

 

Not tested in a real environment anyway:

The server in opposite only verifies the logindata of players via internet. That's very few traffic volume and not time critical (at least not in matter of ping times, of course the requests will timeout at some time). Basically from what i saw from all my traffic, this should work with minimal internet connectivity (like GPRS) and should even work if the clients have no internet access, but only the server.

So if you e.g. put up a LAN with 4 clients + server on a boat and (only) the server hast internetconnection, e.g. by using his built in cellular device, you should be able to play multilpayer.

Edited February 9, 2021 by Liesel Weppen (see edit history)

[Pichii]

On 2/9/2021 at 1:22 AM, Liesel Weppen said:

Pretty sure not. The connection speed between clients and server should be at least at 3G-speed. If playing in LAN, THIS connection part is way faster than 3G.

 

Not tested in a real environment anyway:

The server in opposite only verifies the logindata of players via internet. That's very few traffic volume and not time critical (at least not in matter of ping times, of course the requests will timeout at some time). Basically from what i saw from all my traffic, this should work with minimal internet connectivity (like GPRS) and should even work if the clients have no internet access, but only the server.

So if you e.g. put up a LAN with 4 clients + server on a boat and (only) the server hast internetconnection, e.g. by using his built in cellular device, you should be able to play multilpayer.

Still have to have a data connection to play 7d2d in the first place tho.
Even if its LAN or you cannot login.
I have tested this when my internet has gone out.
Data traffic is about the same as discord usage. Its just that you have to have a data connection in the first place.
Its kinda laggy depending on the network you connect to but playable.

Using LAN merely avoids going thru steam servers and routing so you get alot of ping boosts.
(If you do a 3G connection, I strongly recomend LAN to make it a enjoyable experience.)

Edited February 26, 2021 by Pichii (see edit history)

[ungkor]

I find this to be major issue for me.  I'm trying to continue a solo game in my living room, which has a weak wifi signal.  Why should I be required to connect to the internet to play a solo player game?

 

I think a simple solution would be to allow a download of 7days that is solo only, that does not allow multiplayer.  No internet, solo only.  If you want multiplayer, steam required, internet connection required. 

[Maharin]

I know you can launch Steam in offline mode and 7DTD will play while Steam is in offline mode.  You do have to be able to launch Steam first to play the game though, regardless of how you launch the game (from Steam or from the game folder).

[Canute]

23 hours ago, ungkor said:

I find this to be major issue for me.  I'm trying to continue a solo game in my living room, which has a weak wifi signal.  Why should I be required to connect to the internet to play a solo player game?

It is a kind of cheap DRM protection, Ubisoft/Epic is much worse then steam.

And not to forget they want to monitor your playing times for their statistics.