As it was brought up on another thread:

http://zone.msn.com/en/root/cdclassic

This is the link for MSN Zone, you will need to create an account and install a small piece of software.

Once done click on the CD_ROM tab and select 'direct play' from the menu. If it does not show click the tab again and it should.

My 'handle' on this site is 'icedg_2', if you add me to your friends i'd be happy to play BOTF and time your online.

If everyone else wants to post there MSNZone handle plase do.

Puggs,

Can you play any game you want on there?

only certain ones

ok, ive got that. added u as a contact puggs, my handle is Holden_Cage1

I do it when i get home at school at mo but i prob be Captain_Billy_Bacon no one eles will have it so add me

Tis the weekend!! So i hop eto see you all online this evening.

See you there.

Puggs,

will do!

im busy on friday nights, and wednesdays and sundays, free all other nigths so hopefully sum1 will be online sumtime.
maybe, it takes the first half of ur hotmail/msn address and adds a random number on the end of it.
thus the 1 on the end of mine.
i was not impressed lol

ha not good for me then got strange e-mail name have to set up new account!

have to rember number lol cant rember name let alone a number

Nope you can set it as anything i think, my handle does not match my MSN

im on ................................. captain_billy_bacon@yahoo.co.uk
dont know what the hell to do know lol

Ah, you ned to go to the link i posted and sign up with MSN Zone. You'll need a hotmail account...

i have got hotmail one now


so what now no BOTF in the list of games

hit cd-rom the ndirect play, you may need t orefresh after directplay for the direct play lobby t oshow up, it`ll be at the bottom. i`m in there now in fact.

i think i got the hang of it ! does it work for elite force

Question :



Can someone please tell me everything you have to do to play a online multipler game though MSN game zone

i tried to at the zone but you left.

sorry but just tried to play again and got all the way to loading up BOTF and i wont do it!

what do you mean it begins to load and then stops? were you playing at the zone against someone? you need t obe specific.

Thanks to those who played me this weekend, great fun to play against a human rather than the AI. You forget how much harder it is when you’re playing on-line. Thanks to Jig for teaching the power of the Klingon Scout II, lol, it served me well in another game afterwards.

Billy_B, did you manage to get a look at those patches that I pointed you towards? If you need any more info just shout me. If I recall you need to be patched to 1.02 to be able to play at the Zone. You may need to apply one of the XP patches too, but I don’t run XP so I’m not sure what they do.

Now I would like to try and get a Large 4/5 player game running next weekend. Any volunteers let me know what spec you like and who you’d like to play as.

Peace! (Or if you playing as anyone other than the Feds, war!)

Puggsley1980 yea i know i think thats why it didnt work lol so have to try agin when im online thanks for info mate

bacon, i have the same or close problem, and I spent a day on it alone, since i wanted to play really really bad. If what puggsley said doesnt work, then try these instructions i made. What happened to me is when the game started, it froze and wouldnt go any further. When we tried direct IP in the game, i couldnt see the game at all.

I concluded that my problem could have been caused by 2 things, the patch or a firewall. The "fixes" are for internet connections that have a internet router (DSL/CABLE/ISDN/ETC) and not modem.

Faulty Patch (XP or 1.02) (VERY UNLIKELY)
- reinstall and get the patch from a different site. I tried this many many times without success.
.
Router/firewall settings (Likely)
Whats happening: your router or firewall(s) are blocking the ports the game needs to host or to connect to a host.

Solution A) This is solved by manually allowing the ports to get through in your router or firewall. I dont know exactly what ports they are, so i used the DMZ function on mine. DMZ will allow all ports to go though. However, i still cant play since i have two routers and one server in my way.

Solution B) (if multiple routers) If you do have many routers one after another with firewalls that you cannot access, you can always bypass it. Just haul your computer to the first router (the one connected to the internet) and try to get into that one's software. If you havnt touched it, it should be on default password, you can find it online. Then plug in your computer into the back, and get the IP of your computer. Then when in the router, turn on DMZ to your ip, ie. 192.168.1.2.

Solution C) You have a software firewall installed on your computer. This may be the windows one, or zone alarm or something. i dont use them, for multiple reasons, so you can ask someone else how to disable them.

That should fix it. Yes, i hope you do know a bit about firewalls/Local area networks/the internet/routers, or this may get a little complicated for the person who cant work on computers well. I may write a simple easy to understand version and post it online somewhere so more people can play.

--EDIT--

you may need the Tactical patch if the game crashes when a human goes into tactical combat.