r/lanparty
▲ 49 r/lanparty
2008
Back when you performed better with your hands tied behind your back than with a €1,500 setup.
u/boostnight — 2 days ago
Solo and LAN party Battlefield 2 build
Hey guys, how can I share my Battlefield 2 build with the community? I put together a mod with some minor QoL tweaks, 64-player maps, and 32v32 bot battles. I originally made it for my own solo sessions and LAN parties with friends. I know direct links usually result in a ban here, so what's the approved way to share something like this?
u/Optimal-Gur-3052 — 2 days ago
[Research] 3-Min Anonymous Survey on Gaming Hardware, PC vs PS5 & Local LAN Culture in India
Hey everyone,
I am conducting an independent, anonymous research survey to study how hardware access, home space/family constraints, and offline multiplayer habits look across Indian cities today.
Whether you play competitive ranked on PC, casual FIFA/co-op on console, or face hardware and space limitations at home, your inputs will help map actual ground reality versus what is currently accessible.
Survey Details:
- ⏱ Time: 3 minutes
- 🔒 Privacy: 100% Anonymous (No email collection, no names, no login required)
- 📊 Output: I will compile and share an aggregated infographic back with the community once data collection closes.
🔗 Survey Link: https://forms.gle/QiNDDTJJsWTRpro79
What is the biggest barrier you currently face when trying to play games with friends locally?
Thanks a lot for your time!
u/powroti — 1 day ago
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Lan Party Software
Yes this is for a software project, yes I might end up making some money out of it.
That being said I'm putting together a SaaS and want to include ESports as one of the tournament types. So I'm here looking for some feedback from those of you that have run Lan parties, what would make your party better, what would you be looking for in tournament software, do you charge fees for your lan parties? Do you want those fees collected for you or just 20$ at the door? What kind of brackets and data are you looking to see? How much is to much before you'd just rather do it on a spread sheet? 50$ for 20 participants?
I'm really not sure what would be different from usual bracket tournaments but hoping you guys/gals don't mind providing some feedback.
u/wthreddit93 — 2 days ago
▲ 117 r/lanparty
EPIC.LAN | LUX5 sponsored by Overclockers UK | 150 player luxury LAN party
EPIC.LAN, organisers of the UK's largest LAN party, hosted LUX5 last weekend. Tickets were put on sale back in April but sold out in minutes!
Lobbies were filled in LAN classic games such as UT2004, TF2, Blur, Left 4 Dead 2, Worms, and many more!
A few modern favourites we also saw being played lots were PEAK, BF6, Civ VI, Arc Raiders, and Golf with Your Friends!
u/CaptainAweSam — 3 days ago
▲ 100 r/lanparty
Here's a short clip from the aftermovie of this year's MunkGarLAN. An annual garage LAN somewhere in a Swedish forest. Thought you guys might enjoy :)
u/ZipsteroX — 5 days ago
IF YOU PLAY LEAGUE, STOP PLAYING ALONE!
https://reddit.com/link/1vq6xoj/video/w1kvimrplsjh1/player
League is better when you have people next to you IRL.
We are hosting a League of Legends Tournament at Goat Gamers Lounge
You will meet local League players and become part of a tight, ongoing community of gamers that everyone loves.
Your teammates will become REAL connections!
Saturday, August 29th from 8pm to midnight.
Casuals and Pro's welcomed
Call us 8788671629
Find our hub on Start.gg
Bring your own bottle :)
Bring your own friends OR come alone and we set you up.
Bring your best game
Come Connect. Collaborate. Compete.
Goat Gamers Lounge
4805 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA
#LeagueOfLegends #PittsburghGaming #LeagueOfLegendsCommunity #LoL #PCGaming #Esports #GoatGamersLounge #GamingLounge
u/GoatGamersLounge — 4 days ago
▲ 52 r/lanparty
I built proper LAN support into my space combat game because I missed games you could just run at a party without accounts
This is my own game, and the LAN side of it is pure nostalgia.
Strike Wings runs a real dedicated server on the local network. You start it, everyone on the network sees the room in the browser, and up to 24 people end up in the same space battle. No account, no login, no internet needed. There is a spectator seat too, so whoever dies first can watch the rest of it on the big screen, and two people can share one machine on a split screen if you are short on hardware.
I put this in because the multiplayer I remember best was a room full of machines on one switch, and almost nothing ships that way now.
If you still run LAN events, I would like to know what breaks them these days. Is it games dropping LAN support, the launchers, or just getting people in one room?
u/StrikeWingsGames — 6 days ago
New friends command centre
hey. i have a favour to ask all of you.... so i downloaded a game with my brother and once we downloaded it we had to add eachother on that specific platform. i got thinking and thought why isnt there a central command for all platforms where you could add them everywhere at once so you dont have to open a game just to realize you arent friends yet. you can also ping a squad so everyone is notified to play, see mutual games, see what theyre playing across all platforms. like discord but not meant for chats. strictly adding across all platforms. so my favour to ask is to just open the link and tell me if you all think its a good idea, if youd use it with your friends, and share it with others. chatgpt made a prototype
u/Muted_Mission_3658 — 5 days ago
▲ 324 r/lanparty
Is there any bigger LAN party still active today?
This is Euskal Encounter's 34th edition in Bilbao! around 4000-5000 participants :D It's also one of the oldest lanparties of the world.
I am not sure but i think most big lanparties sadly shifted to eSports tournaments and similar , and left back those big partyplaces where thousands of people bring their own computers!
u/DjGaNiX — 10 days ago
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Old games with dedicated server
I've been brainstorming a bit about how I'd set up a LAN party.
Right now I'm looking for games from the late 90's and early 00's that have a dedicated server variant that I could host in a central server.
I know of Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena, OpenTTD (not totally retro, but based on a 90's game), but after those I'm a bit stuck.
Anybody have good suggestions?
u/MrKrueger666 — 9 days ago
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CoD lan server not appearing in the server list?
I'm trying to play CoD 1 through 2 computers but the server isn't appearing on the other computer
u/justslayer876 — 8 days ago
▲ 73 r/lanparty
Nobody in my friend group owned a gaming PC, so I started buying them. There are 20 old laptops in my house now.
LAN parties were most of my teenage years. Friends over, cables everywhere, soda and chips, gaming through the night. Battlefield 1942, C&C Zero Hour, Warcraft III, Left 4 Dead 2, Robot Arena 2, Soldat.
Then I got older, moved, and had kids. I kept gaming but never in the same room as anyone I was playing with. Most of my friends had stopped and nobody owned a gaming PC, so hosting a LAN didn't seem viable.
A few years ago I was feeling nostalgic and started searching for LAN parties then found this community. I realized a LAN didn’t need the latest games or high-spec machines, it just needed people getting together to play. So, I bought five Dell Latitude 5580s off eBay for $300 and set up Windows 10, Playnite, and my favorite classics. When my friends turned up the laptops were ready to go without all the patching and debugging. For four hours, there was shouting, food, drinks, and gaming. It was so much fun and it all came back. It was the social side of gaming I'd been missing.
It grew from there with more laptops and more people. Any time I came across someone who gamed IRL, I invited them to the next one. It's around 30 people and 20 laptops now, and my favorite thing is watching people rediscover games like Red Alert 2 and nerding out over them.
It's taken a long time to get the setup to a good state. Changing anything now means doing it 20 times which has been a real challenge. So I've been turning what I've learned into an open-source Linux distro built for exactly this job: flash a USB, image the machines, and they're LAN-ready with games installed, a launcher, local multiplayer with no accounts or internet, and a clean reset after every event. I have something working, but it's still early, I'll be testing it at my next LAN.
The part I most want to fix is joining a game. Right now sometimes there's someone shouting an IP address across the room and twelve people trying to find the right screen to type it in on. I want a list of what game servers are running in the room and one click to join.
I'm keen to share more once it's in a stable spot. In the meantime I'd like to know what I'm missing. What's the thing that always goes wrong at your LANs?
u/gnomation — 11 days ago
▲ 19 r/lanparty
Xbox 360 Lan party Mansfield, Ohio. Saturday 8.15.26
Hey everyone, come play with us this Saturday from 3-6pm at The Ontario Center Mall in Mansfield, Ohio during the Rare Swap Meet.
We will be playing Xbox 360 and it's free to play!
Game list:
Halo 3
Gears of war 3
COD Black ops 2
Left 4 dead 2
Splinter cell double agent
Battlefront 2
Crimson Skies
I have plans to create a local gaming group in Mansfield for events like this in the future.
u/Lightliquid — 8 days ago