By your description it sounds like the client will refuse to run if it can not connect to a steam server to verify it has a license. However, I have not tried running it in LAN environment. Meaining the people needed to connect the server straight through its ip as it is then not present in the steam server browser.
I have ran the server with the steam not running on the server (it is installed, though, as I logged in in there to install the server through steam) and have, in the past, also used the option to turn off the steam networking.
I kind of just assumed, that the question might have been related to that and answered the question I thought was maybe asked. Which was relevant for me, because we made a LAN-Party where we had no internet connection at all, and that was the reason why we couldn't play 7d2d. Have you tried if the server runs without any steam installation? Even if this works, you can run a server, but without a connection to steam nobody can join the server. If somebody asks if a game also runs without steam, i assume he doesn't have and don't want to have a steam account (or steam installed) for whatever reason, but play the game anyway. There is even option to turn off the usage of steam network libraries, if you have a static ip and the right ports open to allow connections directly to your server.ĭon't know from where you know what the actual question was? OP didn't answer that. Server, though, does not need to go through steam. The clients are required to authenticate through steam, yes. As this seems to be the usual source of confucion for some subset of people starting to wonder how/if they would like to host a 7d2d server then I thought I'll just point that out, if the question was, actually, about that. Yes, but you do not need to buy 7d2d on a two different steam accounts if you want to run a dedicated server on one of them and a use second steam account as a client connecting to that server.
An "offline" (without connection to steam) LAN-Server doesn't work. It does authenticate each player by steam on login. The dedi server also requires steam (steamCMD is also steam, just without a gui).
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