Last Sun., I got Mercs reinstalled. Hooked up with some friends, hoping to do a little online bashing. Here's the deal...

We're all running NM4, but had no luck connecting. If Cannon hosted, and set it to advertise, I could see his game in the list, but couldn't join. Got the old networking problem or server may be gone bit. If I hosted, it was the same thing on Cannon's end. Redeye and Max just plain couldn't even see our games in the server list. No luck if we tried hooking up by ip addy, either. Couldn't even see it in the list.

Anyone got any ideas or suggestions? We've got the urge for some Mercs goodness, but we're kinda getting frustrated here.

Sounds like at least one of you needs to have the correct ports on your router/firewall open to host - Mercs is from before the time when uPnP was popular, unfortunately. Make sure the following TCP ports are forwarded/open for Mercs:

27999
28805
28806
28807
28808

And UDP port 28800 if you want pings to show up properly, I think.

Those are port #s I found through a page regarding Vengeance, but I don't think they changed over the years.

/moo

Thanks, Ment. We'll give that a try.