Hello, I'm hosting a private listen server to play with a few close friends every now and then, and I've been steadily filling the game with mods until the multiplayer got broken pretty bad.
I'm using Server Perks, with currently 10 perks, 138 weapons in the trader, 3 extra player skins, and a lot of new specimens (the standard zeds, the circus zeds, the halloween old and new zeds, some xmas zeds, doom 3 monsters by Marco, dead space and aliens monsters by WPC, specimens by the community like the shiver and brute etc., a total of ~100 enemy types). I first used the enemy replacing script from the doom 3 monsters mod, but have since written a new game type instead for more control over which and how many enemies get spawned.
Everything works perfectly in solo and with bots. The problem is when we do multiplayer, as we added more and more stuff we first noticed KF-Farm broke, when we tried to play that map, only I the host would load it no problem, everyone else trying to join will stay on connect f10 to cancel screen. As we kept adding more stuff more maps started acting this way until the most simple maps like KF-Horizon and KF-HeresyBeta3 would remain without connecting problems. Now after the latest additions of extra weapons even these broke.
After quite a lot of searching in google I found some old conversations here about how the game has a limit on how many packages can get loaded before this happens, and as a solution to try merging all the packages into a single package, which though seems way too hard to do, especially since I have to not only edit the .uc files to point to the new package, but also edit the .ukx and .usx files to point to the new sounds and textures within the new package, and all seems like it may take me months to do it properly. I was wondering if there is some other solution that you've found to this issue by now?
I'm deleting the steam_appid.txt file after I use ucc, so this is not the problem, ports are forwarded properly and the server works fine when I start disabling perks and weapons to lower the number loaded at once, or if I dont host on the new gametype with the new monsters, so I'm sure that the problem that I'm having is exactly this, way too many packages. And I really need some help sorting this out, because as it is now, we can't play multiplayer without removing all the content that Ive worked so hard to put together... I tried combining all the .uc files for the new enemies and weapons into a single .u package, but that didn't seem to change anything, I guess it's the asset packages that need to be combined...
I'm using Server Perks, with currently 10 perks, 138 weapons in the trader, 3 extra player skins, and a lot of new specimens (the standard zeds, the circus zeds, the halloween old and new zeds, some xmas zeds, doom 3 monsters by Marco, dead space and aliens monsters by WPC, specimens by the community like the shiver and brute etc., a total of ~100 enemy types). I first used the enemy replacing script from the doom 3 monsters mod, but have since written a new game type instead for more control over which and how many enemies get spawned.
Everything works perfectly in solo and with bots. The problem is when we do multiplayer, as we added more and more stuff we first noticed KF-Farm broke, when we tried to play that map, only I the host would load it no problem, everyone else trying to join will stay on connect f10 to cancel screen. As we kept adding more stuff more maps started acting this way until the most simple maps like KF-Horizon and KF-HeresyBeta3 would remain without connecting problems. Now after the latest additions of extra weapons even these broke.
After quite a lot of searching in google I found some old conversations here about how the game has a limit on how many packages can get loaded before this happens, and as a solution to try merging all the packages into a single package, which though seems way too hard to do, especially since I have to not only edit the .uc files to point to the new package, but also edit the .ukx and .usx files to point to the new sounds and textures within the new package, and all seems like it may take me months to do it properly. I was wondering if there is some other solution that you've found to this issue by now?
I'm deleting the steam_appid.txt file after I use ucc, so this is not the problem, ports are forwarded properly and the server works fine when I start disabling perks and weapons to lower the number loaded at once, or if I dont host on the new gametype with the new monsters, so I'm sure that the problem that I'm having is exactly this, way too many packages. And I really need some help sorting this out, because as it is now, we can't play multiplayer without removing all the content that Ive worked so hard to put together... I tried combining all the .uc files for the new enemies and weapons into a single .u package, but that didn't seem to change anything, I guess it's the asset packages that need to be combined...
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