Hey guys, I'm going to a LAN and we're probably going to be playing a lot of Planetside 2. Many of us don't know each other personally so it's hard to communicate in advance about which games to have installed on arrival. Is there a way to download a full and relatively updated client so we won't have to download all the updates 20 times? Thanks.
You're going to this big LAN party and are "probably going to be playing a lot of Planetside 2" but "it's hard to communicate in advance about which games to have installed on arrival." First off, if Planetside 2 is going to be prominently featured at this Lan party then if I were attending I'd assume I should probably install it before arriving. Secondly...how is it hard to communicate? How was the Lan organized in the first place? Email? Forums? Messaging? This sounds like another Tumblr DashCon fiasco in the making. Please don't tell me you have a ball pit.
Just download a fresh install somewhere and you can copy the files from one computer to another in your preferred fashion. When you run the launcher for the first time it'll validate the files before downloading them again.
You have no idea what kind of LAN it is and yet you make that many assumptions. Why did you make a comment here if you didn't have anything to add? I told you how it is, I won't hold it against you if you don't believe me. Thanks everyone else! I wasn't sure that that was possible. I did a fresh install on my computer yesterday, I'll just make a copy of that. Just to make sure I've got it right. 1. I give the other players a copy of my fresh installation. 2. I make them place it in the same directory as the install directory. 3. When PS2_setup.exe is started it starts verifying the files found in the install directory. Is that it?
For example if you have PS2 installed FROM STEAM: A. If they have Steam installed: 1. Copy the planetside2 folder from xxx\Steam\Steamapps\Common 2. Place that copy in their catalog xxx\Steam\Steamapps\Common 3. Copy the file appmanifest_218230 from Steam\Steamapps (that's mine, but you can open those manifest files with notepad, just look for the one which has 'planetside2' anywhere inside) 4. Place that appmanifest file in their Steam\Steamapps 5. Run the steam client, the game should appear in your friend's game list 6. Run the game and wait for file check 7. Play and have fun B. If they don't have Steam: 1. Copy the Planetside2 folder from your games (wherever you have it) 2. Place it somewhere at your friend's harddrive 3. Run the game, it 'should' work fine. If your buddies don't have Steam, then just follow the steps in B and it should work. Also, option A should work for any game which can be downloaded from Steam for free, I've tested that for couple of games so far.
Thanks a lot man. That actually helps me with a few games. Team Fortress 2 Trackmania Nations Forever DotA 2 Warframe I'm preparing a list of games for people to play. The ones who has the brains to have things running when they arrive are not the ones I'm preparing these installs for naturally.
Glad I could help I've found that after my recent OS reinstall. Like I wrote it 'should' work for free games, and it used to work for PS2 in the past too, I hope it still works
There's something I can assist you with in return btw the appmanifest file has the same number as the appid. The appid is always the same. The appid for PlanetSide2 on steam is always 218230.
