Duke Nukem Forever

Developer: 3D Realms Entertainment, Inc. Publisher: Gathering of Developers, Inc Technology: Unreal Engine Release Date: When it's done Chat-Room: #duke3d Buy Physical: ebay.com Buy Digital: Steam

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Powered by the advanced 3D engine used in Unreal Tournament, it builds upon the interactive, real-world inspired environments of its predecessor.

Whether it's blowing equipment up with your arsenal, or using a vending machine to get a drink, you will find the attention to detail found in levels recreating Las Vegas and its surrounding areas immersive.

Interact with life-like characters, that feel fear, can give you additional objectives or turn on you in a gruesome fashion.

Using the included DukeEd, based on the editor for Unreal and Unreal Tournament, you will be able to create endless single and multi-player scenarios.

The most explosive and cinematic online multiplayer experience ever. Powered by Frag-Net (when using the Restoration Project)

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Servers

How-To-Play On-line

How-to-host On-line

[IpServer.UdpServerUplink]
DoUplink=True
UpdateMinutes=1
MasterServerAddress=master.frag-net.com
MasterServerPort=27900
Region=0

If you don't have this segment in your DukeForever.ini, then add it in at the bottom!

And now you'll automatically be talking to our master server. The patch below shouldn't be required to host either (only to join).

You still need to port forward. The default ports are 7777 and 7778. You need both of these ports to communicate to our master and players for when they want to query your game.

Note on using a custom port: You can change the port in the DukeForever.ini file. Changing the port to e.g. 4321 means you'll also have to forward 4322 for player queries.

Manually connecting via IP

Without our patch, you can connect to a known IP-Address by opening the console via F12 or Tab (while in-game) and entering the following command:

open ip:port

Where the :port can be left out if the server is using the default. Which will be the case most of the time.

Downloads

Getting 'the game' running under Wine (Linux, etc.)

• Use Wine-GE as your Wine runtime. We tested 7.1 and that worked very well!
• Your prefix needs to have 'winetricks dinput8' applied to it.
• You need a patched Engine.dll file to have the mouse not spaz out. Check the downloads below.

After creating your profile, you can change settings in the Players/PROFILENAME/DukeForever.ini file. Don't try using the Options menu for much else.

Note that windowed mode breaks mouse-look. Use a Wine virtual window instead.

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