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Planetary Annihilation Adds Offline Mode

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Planetary Annihilation has just received an update adding the (much requested) possibility of playing offline and LAN games (see announcement).

This is the first-pass on it, and more features will come.

Please note that that the system requirements for hosting a local server are significantly higher than those for online gameplay!
QuoteMINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (offline, local server):

OS: Windows 7 64-bit, Mac OS/X 10.7+, Linux Ubuntu 12.04/13.04, Linux Mint 14 & 15 (64-bit only)
Processor: Intel Quad Core, AMD Six Core or better
Memory: 8 GB
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTS 250, AMD Radeon HD 4850, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better (512 MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.2 or better)
Hard Drive: 2 GB available


Official About
Colonize solar systems, annihilate homeworlds, and exterminate your foes in epic interplanetary battles with multiple players and thousands of units. Planetary Annihilation takes strategy gaming to a never-before-seen scale -- and gives players powerful tools to control the action.

Blow up everything, anywhere; dominate with punishing spacecraft, robots, and other futuristic machines of war. Arm asteroids and send them on planet-destroying collision courses. And take over an entire galaxy in a dynamic single-player mode with procedurally generated content. Don’t just win, annihilate!

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Ilya Oct 14, 2014
Quoting: GuestDoes the game still need an internet connection "for activation"? As long as it does I’m not buying it. But anyway based on the comments for the announcement, the game isn’t quite finished yet…
Seeing as the game is only distributed over the internet by Steam and Uber I'd assume it still requires online activation on the first launch.
I've noticed that one day after the offline release illegal copies popped up on the internet, so either I'm wrong, or people have found a way around it already. I'd bet on the second.
When launching the steam version without internet you have to press escape to make the game stop trying to connect (it doesn't seem to give up out of it's own accord) and the game states "Login Accepted".
No, the game isn't quite finished yet, or at the very least a bit unpolished. We'll see how long they keep updating it :-)
SXX Oct 14, 2014
Quoting: GuestDoes the game still need an internet connection "for activation"?
If you'll buy it on Uber store then you can download it as TAR.GZ that won't require any activation or registration. These licenses are fully DRM-free, but I doubt it's possible to convert Uber store "license" to Steam key at moment.

If you'll going to buy it on Steam game will ask you to register PlayFab account on first startup and at moment there no way to ignore registration as long as Steamworks active and is something developers have to fix. And if you remove "libsteam_api.so" from Steam version and run game directly using Steam runtime then it's won't require registration or login.

PS: Keep in mind that online (not LAN) multiplayer require PlayFab account and there is strict limit of one connection to PlayFab servers from one license/account.
SXX Oct 14, 2014
Quoting: IlyaI've noticed that one day after the offline release illegal copies popped up on the internet, so either I'm wrong, or people have found a way around it already. I'd bet on the second.
There is zero protection on both client and server. Actually there never were any DRM on this game except fact you didn't have access to server-side.

Quoting: IlyaWhen launching the steam version without internet you have to press escape to make the game stop trying to connect (it doesn't seem to give up out of it's own accord) and the game states "Login Accepted".
This is also true. If Steam running offline mode game won't ask for registration or login.

Messages like "Login Accepted" or "Connection to server lost" appear because even if game being offline it's still made of two parts: client and server. So when you're offline it's work exactly same way like if you're playing on PlayFab server with only difference that server is running on your PC.
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