Multiserver 2.0

[ayalx]

Man if this could be rewritten in C++ to work on Linux too that would be awesome. But if you make it open source someone else may take the initiative. Waiting for it.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the cheat "herofighter.com" also seems to work.

Yes it is possible, the code is not very complicated.
If someone will want to do it he is welcome

And I added to the subject that herofighter.com works too. Thanks.

I would love to hear about what multiplugin does and how, good wrok! And can't wait to see open source version of it!

In multiserver 1.0 the nicknames of the players were not appeared in the game.
I wanted to solve it, and by accident I've found out that I can connect 8 players without a lot of trouble!
Apparently there are 8 integers in the memory, that indicates LF2 how each player is controlled.
-1 : controlled by remote player
0 : not in the game
1,2,3,4 - controlled by local player 1,2,3,4
The problem was that if you tried to connect more than 4 players, the additional players got '0' in their control settings.
So the plugin changes it to '1' and then the player can control it.
I also send 4 player names in the normal way like LF2 does, and if there are more than 4 players I am encoding the remaining nicknames in the random buffer
I scatter the letters across the buffer, so the buffer remains pretty much random. And of course the players names and the connection order are haphazard too.

Wow, it is so nice to see LF2 still being developed in 2016 by the community

I believe this can make great 4vs4 or FFA competetive games. Are you thinking of further development? Maybe share the source with Chiko and improve the lobby for 8-man games with a chat? But LF2 lagg sucks, eh, it is nice only when people play within the same country

Thanks! I will share the source code soon, I just want to revise few things.
At lf2.co.il we are using LFN, it is a centralized Multiserver I have built with chat capabilities.
But the games are hosted on a server at Israel, so it is not relevant currently to people outside the country because of the lags.

And we made at lf2.co.il 8 players battle for the first time
http://lf2.co.il/n/8_Players_game.zip