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Forum » General Discussion » LAN details 2 posts - page 1 of 1
Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by T1mmay » September 25, 2013 3:50pm | Report
So dota now does LAN, awesome!
But how does it work?
This is gonna probably sound really stupid to most people, but how does LAN work?
I know it's for offline group playing, but how does that work off the Internet?
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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by PeachFuzz » September 25, 2013 7:08pm | Report
It doesn't work off the Internet. DOTA 2 now supports Local Play, not Local Area Network games. You still need an Internet connection with the DOTA 2 Network in order to play games. This is the main difference from WC3 Dota.

That being said, Local Play lets you host the game on a computer on your LAN instead of Valve's servers. This brings down ping to effectively 0ms. I'm pretty sure your cosmetics are still visible because you logged in through Steam.
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