Playing POD online in 2021

This is a short update to my article “Playing POD online in 2018“. In particular, we will no longer use Hamachi as it was broken then and is worse now. Instead, we will directly use port forwarding (hooray!). If you need assistance or want to find players to matchmake with, feel free to join the POD Discord server. Being the host To host a game and control which tracks to…

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Playing POD online in 2018

Planet of Death (or “pod”) has been quite a simple, but captivating racing game from 1997, released by Ubisoft for many platforms. But you’re not here to read another Wikipedia-like paragraph. You’re here because you want to play it online again, after more than 20 years. It is indeed still possible to play Pod online with the help of Hamachi, but the menu screens to set up a game can…

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