multiplayer for BS??:

[DetroitDieseL]

I just downloaded BS, in the process of downloading the patch.

 

Where do I go to play online??

 

Not in hyperlobby.

[CAT_101st]

Dcs has it's own online exe. To find severs

[Pyroflash]

if the multi-player shortcut did not install, you have two options. either go into \bin\stable, right click DCS.exe, and make a shortcut of this. Right click on the shortcut, go to properties, and then click at the end of the target line. Now type this text in on the target line.

 

 --net gui

 

**note: there is a space after the quotes and before the first - at the end of the target line. full shortcut should look something like this.

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Eagle Dynamics\Ka50\bin\stable\DCS.exe" --net gui

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Your second option is to create a batch file to autolaunch the multiplayer component, which is what Eagle Dynamics did. To do this, create a notepad file in the base ka50 directory. in this file, you can either type

 

@start bin\stable\DCS.exe --net gui

which is the default script.

 

or you can type

@echo off
@start bin\stable\DCS.exe --net gui

which is the default script, but will not display the command shell while launching.

 

save the file as the file type "all files", with the name DCS multi.bat

 

from here you can either just launch the game directly by double clicking on the .bat file you just created, or by making a separate shortcut of the .bat file itself.

[DetroitDieseL]

Yeah I have the shortcut, but I thought for sure it would be in hyperlobby. I used that multi-player shortcut and there were zero servers.

 

I have it patched up now so I'll see whats there now.

 

Thanks guys.

[EtherealN]

If you do not see the servers you might need to change some settings in your router or firewall to let the application's traffic through, both on UDP and TCP protocols.

[DetroitDieseL]

Rgr that,

 

what are the ports that need to be opened??

[Vitesse2l]

Just TCP/UDP 10308.

[coder1024]

see the below link.

 

http://portforward.com/cports.htm

 

scroll down to DCS Black Shark.

[DetroitDieseL]

Thanks guys, your awesome.

[coder1024]

also that port forward site has a nice test utility. once you've forwarded the ports, you can run a test to veirfy they're open.

 

note that sometimes it reports failures i think just due to latency. so if it says its NOT forwarded, click it a few more times.

 

nice way to test things out before you load the sim up.