Multiplayer - what to click on to join LAN game?

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Hi, I’ve seen all the posts about editing the user_settings.json files (seems a really painful way to have to do it), anyhow, once this is done, on my ‘host’ machine, I have a game running, WHAT does the 2nd player click on to join ?
If they click New Multiplayer Game, then they JUST get the option to start a new game, NOT to join an existing one ?
How is this supposed to work, none of the posts addresses this, or am I missing something obvious ?

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I’m pretty sure the posts do address this: the client also needs to modify their user_settings.json to include the connection info, and when they launch the game they’ll automatically (try to) connect.

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I’ve made the client changes too. Surely there is a button/option to look for/join a game, it can’t just be automatic, what if they wanted to do single player ?

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If they want to do single-player, then they don’t put that instruction in their user_settings.json to connect to a specific server.

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if your both playing through steam you just bring up your steam overlay and right click friend to join your friend ect

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Thanks, but we’re clearly not playing though Steam, else would have done this without having to hack into the config files, which is absurd.

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But why not playing through steam everyone who bought the game should have a steam key to activate and on Lan you can connect the sameway through steam?

Highly recommend to use Steam for Multiplayer and Mods

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