Anyhoo, I haven't played OA for a very VERY long time and I've just downloaded it, trying to get into it again. I'm not seeing any multiplayer games, what am I doing wrong? The options are set to 'internet' but I only see one game running. Do I need to DL a server list or something?
Since when there is a Discord server (see http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=5287.0), much community activity happens on Discord (personally speaking, I use both but I still prefer the forum).
PS: inside the server browser, you did try to stop the search and then refresh it, right?
You might try changing the other options under internet. For instance game type, seems like the most servers running now are under free for all and choosing another type, at least for me gets an empty server list.
Windows Firewall doesn't appear to be blocking OA and I have adjusted all the settings in the game to allow me to see any multiplayer games that are running - but no luck, i'm completely stumped.
Can you actually connect to servers, specifying their address?
What about using a third party server browser (see (DO NOT LINK) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/Servers#Server_browsers) such as qtracker?
On multiplayer I've tried opening 'specify' and copied the address from http://openarena.ws/servers.html (the actual address I copied was '87.193.199.127:27961'). I then pressed back then refresh but nothing happened. Underneath the address area on the specify page it does mention Port: 27960, do I need to do anything with this?
qtracker? I've had a look at the page but I'm unsure what to do here. Is this something I need to download/buy?
Cheers for the continued help.
Qtracker is a freeware software to install.
You can also connect to a server from command console, using /connect ip:port command.
Did you try to temporarily disable Windows firewall?
Are you sure you are searching for gametype:all?
OK, I have Qtracker and I can see a whole load of OA multiplayer games. I've started OM but it's still doing that thing of only showing me 1 MP game (the one with a load of bots). What do I need to do at this point?
If you correctly set up qtracker (specifying your oa executable path), you should be able to connect to a server directly from qtracker, without passing through the in-game server browser (qtracker would invoke openarena.exe +connect server:port).
Just a thought, I went to an excessive server once and after downloading the files it changed everything so I could only see excessive games. I had to delete everything and download OA again and it went back to normal. Its been a while so I'm not sure of the details exactly but thats the gist of it.
Also not sure how your entering the addresses, but you need to copy just the server address and enter the port number separately, there are 2 separate boxes for them.
The "specify" button in the GUI has got two fields for ip and port (27960 is default and can be omitted).
The command I told you is through the command console (command line interface)... (also in this case default port 27960 can be omitted). You can copy-paste server address into the console.
QTracker works great and I've once again been enjoying some much missed Open Arena action, thanks to you and the other folk here!
Just one thing, as a game finishes and I press 'T' to type in a message a default message saying "messagemodexp" is displayed instead. How do I get around this and type in my own message??