Letting others play off your host.

Kai Beginner Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 38

I have a decent upload (620). Is it possible to let someone play off my host without me playing in the game?

I'd like to be able to create a kai private arena, and let some friends who do not have the best uploads to be able to take advantage of my connection. Is the only way around this, would be for me to be in the game and hand over party control to the person I want to run the show? Or is there a way that I can leave the game and everyone will still be playing off my connection?

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 4371

it depends on what game your playing .. i know rainbow6-3 has an option for dedicated host .. GR2 you can put yourself into observe if your the host and its more or less dedicated .. i don't know about other games ..

Kai Beginner Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 38

This is for Halo 2. I know kai has an option once you select private arena, and it says "dedicated host".

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 4371

ya kai can do it but that doesn't matter .. the game has to support it ..

Kai Beginner Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 38

does anyone know if Halo 2 supports this? If I set myself up as "Dedicated host", will others be able to play on my connection without me being in the game?

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1536

[TU]JoeBarbs @ Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:03 pm wrote:

does anyone know if Halo 2 supports this? If I set myself up as "Dedicated host", will others be able to play on my connection without me being in the game?

far as i know Halo 2 don't have dedicated host in the game...

Kai Lover Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 522

nope, no dedicated for H2. another way around it would be to set a timer and you would technically be in game...but im almost positive H2 does not have this option.

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:24 pm

Yeah llnk does this for people. He leaves himself as the host on a particular map and just leaves himself somewhere hidden on the map so people aren't going and randomly killing him. He's got a 1MB upload over in Canada. Played on his server a fair few times. It's a cheap way of getting "dedicated hosting" into Halo 2, since hte game doesn't support it explicitly.

Kai Lover Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 638

Create the arena.. pass the "party leader" to some1 - u will be in the game, but others will have the control ... That is the best way I know of..