The pursuit of a "Local Area Network" (LAN) experience in Company of Heroes 2 (CoH2)
No lag. No "connection to host lost." No Steam overlay begging them to buy skins. Just pure, deterministic RTS—where every shot was calculated locally, where a flanking maneuver succeeded because of reaction time, not ping. company of heroes 2 lan updated
"Next year," Sarah agreed, "I’ll bring a better router. Just in case." technical workarounds for playing CoH2 offline, or should we look into the LAN-capable Legacy Edition of the first game? The pursuit of a "Local Area Network" (LAN)
Valve updated the Steamworks SDK to prioritize local P2P connections. If two Steam clients detect they are on the same subnet, COH2 now bypasses external relays by default. This was silently rolled into Steam Client Beta builds in early 2023 and is now standard. "Next year," Sarah agreed, "I’ll bring a better router
"This is the update we’ve been begging for since 2014," writes user PanzerPants . "No more lag spikes because someone’s Steam client is downloading a wallpaper. It’s pure RTS chess again."