Can't play BZFlag?

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Justicar Alexandros
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Can't play BZFlag?

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Hi guys,
My friend, Zhangerang, hasn't been able to play BZFlag for quite a while now, so I decided to ask you guys if you could help him. Whenever he clicks on "Find server," only three servers appear, and when he tries to go on one of them the screen blanks out. Any advice?

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Sounds like he's still running the 2.0 version of the game. If he upgrades to the 2.4 version of the game, he will see more servers.
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blast wrote:Sounds like he's still running the 2.0 version of the game. If he upgrades to the 2.4 version of the game, he will see more servers.
To explain a little bit on why this helps, 2.4 broke protocol with 2.0, so 2.0 clients can only talk to 2.0 servers and 2.4 clients can only talk to 2.4 servers. After the upgrade, most all servers switched to 2.4, so there aren't but 3 or 4 2.0 servers left for his client to talk with, that's why he only sees 3 or 4. Once he switches to 2.4, he will see all the 2.4 servers.
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