Thank you SO much for your work on this HeyThereCoffeee. I appreciate the work you've done for NOLF 1 and now NOLF 2. I hope you may consider Contract J.A.C.K. in the future as well! I am looking forward to the dedicated server in a future release. It is great to see the multiplayer menus and MOTD working again :) There are some great mods out there that have worked to get multiplayer working again, but what we really need is what you're doing - an all in one fix to support 2020 resolutions and operating systems, along with fixing the random crashes and multiplayer functionality. Will be waiting for more of your work!
Ya good job, HeyThereCoffeee. Crim, how do we get on to play multiplayer colafactory, now? I 4get--been a while...I rem we used to join via lan and tweak it. I keep getting that ws error when searching internet servers. Is it this info from 2016? https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/701-no-one-lives-forever-2-multipl...
Well the dedicated server doesn't appear to be ready yet for this mod, but excited to see how it progresses. For now, I think the listen server (i.e. host is in-game) should work over Internet now as long as ports forwarded/firewall unblocked. May preclude being able to alter runspeed/respawn scale (although it has a console now with the tidle ~ key, have to experiment with that)!
Yeah listen servers should work. There's no port punch through, so like you said criminalcola (good name btw), otterr (and others) have to open the ports!
I need to do some further work to stabilize things a bit. I had to re-write the entire server browser back-end (and adjust my basic gamespy emulator) for NOLF 2 (For nolf1 I was able to just hex edit the server address, there were a lot more dependencies in NOLF 2 that made that impossible.)
If you're interested in multiplayer make sure to check out https://www.spawnsite.net and their discord. They host weekly multiplayer matches on weekends. (For NOLF1, probably NOLF2 as well if you ask!)