LF2 Multilayered Server Public Beta

[Jernemies]

You made my day! I started thinking you forgot about this or something bad has happened to ya.

[RenanDez]

Updates?

[LutiChris]

oh...i was kinda hoping for an australian server, coz then it wouldnt lag for me
but meh, most people here are from germany, or around that region. So yeah
i hope you finish it. Simply so i can enjoy a good multiplayer game, as i've only played one and it lagged so bad i couldnt even play

I've designed it in such a way that more servers can be added

For now it will be in Europe however if theres enough users i plan to add some servers for America and Australia ~ we'll see how it goes though

So you have done this Australia so far?
how bout America i live there too?
PM me the link to it if ur not busy...or anything
(lolz first time i actually looked at this)

[Chiko]

So you have done this Australia so far?
how bout America i live there too?
PM me the link to it if ur not busy...or anything
(lolz first time i actually looked at this)

see above

it's only in Europe for now

[SparK]

guys, I will be online from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM on the lobby (Brasilia time (GMT-3 southern DLS))

@Chiko
I'm very curious to know how you got the protocol thing solved (f.e. what commands the socket is expecting, etc... )
I made a multiplayer flash game once but it was way laggy than what I wanted because I used a TCP socket and a bad protocol (everything was client-side XD)

edit:
it's been hard to play
people join the room, we click start, we load and then comes the waiting openents screen...
after a while ! Connection lost!!! (somebody is using mods?)
sometimes it goes further, you freeze at the char selection screen...

edit2:
played with some people, but it was laggy, they must be from far away...
(why I can't play with player 1 controls while still being number 3?)

[snorsorbet]

It's easier to figure out what's wrong if you organize a game with some friends or over the LFE IRC or something. It works perfect for this purpose, at least in Europe.

The fact that the lobby as of now completely lacks communication doesn't make it ideal for just hopping on to a random server.

[Chiko]

SparK yeah the server doesn't really point out where the problem lies at the moment im working on better tracking for issues and giving each client more information on what the problem is and what possible actions can be taken

yeah the lack of communication is a bit of a problem and its hard to tell if anyone is on the lobby or if anyone will appear any time soon ill be working on a communication method hoping to make it real easy to setup a game (perhaps clicking a link someone creates to join their game)

if anyone has any ideas give me a shout i'm watching this thread via email notifications so shouldn't take me to long to respond

[SparK]

maybe if we hex the client we can add a button to join your network
the game would automatically go to a waiting state (opening the game lobby) and when you join a room the game would try to join 127.0.0.1 ...
that would require some work

ps: guys... why is the IRC so empty?

[Chiko]

not a bad idea i wanted to have the lobby automatically launch LF2 but with that we could control it to automatically connect would just have to ask the user at startup to specify which installation of lf2 they would like to use (assuming they have more than one)

It was better on xp you didn't need to enter 127.0.0.1 you could just press enter and it would default to localhost

the reason we couldn't have autojoin is due to the fact players have to set which player they control (1,2,3,4) but i've already got a fix for that so we shouldn't need to worry about that anymore

keep em coming ^_^

[SparK]

oh btw
when I join as the third player, I must use the third setup on my keyboard???
cause last time player 1 didn't get added, but player 3 worked
and when im the host, only player 1 can enter... (weird stuff, I hope I'm not player 4 next time cause I don't have numpad on my laptop)