Is it not possible to host a BETA server?

[LQuidador]

Me and my friends want to play together on a friends-only server but the multiplayer option does not appear in the MOD BETA

[Explicable]

No they basically ruined the game by dividing the community into multiplayer (old ♥♥♥♥♥♥ version) and singleplayer (new nice version) and wont let us play it despite it being early access... the entire point of early access is to play broken ♥♥♥♥. Yet they wont let us

[Are you Joshin' me?]

Originally posted by LQuidador:

Me and my friends want to play together on a friends-only server but the multiplayer option does not appear in the MOD BETA

Multiplayer is disabled in the beta, but i believe you can use the steam "play with friends" function to play, in 'split screen' although the host needs to have good internet to keep a quality stream going for the others. Its worth a shot, the beta is much better than the official release. that also means only one person needs a copy for up to 4 to play.

[LQuidador]

Originally posted by DeusVult:

No they basically ruined the game by dividing the community into multiplayer (old ♥♥♥♥♥♥ version) and singleplayer (new nice version) and wont let us play it despite it being early access... the entire point of early access is to play broken ♥♥♥♥. Yet they wont let us

I understand that the characters in the beta MP are invisible, the issue is not that they don't let us try the multiplayer 41.50, the issue is that we literally can't even play it

[DivineEvil]

Originally posted by LQuidador:

I understand that the characters in the beta MP are invisible, the issue is not that they don't let us try the multiplayer 41.50, the issue is that we literally can't even play it

Isn't these two are exactly the same tho? Also, what would allowing us to play an obviously broken/incomplete multiplayer would achieve? More complains and "bug reports" that do not uncover anything new?

[LQuidador]

Originally posted by DivineEvil:

Originally posted by LQuidador:

I understand that the characters in the beta MP are invisible, the issue is not that they don't let us try the multiplayer 41.50, the issue is that we literally can't even play it

Isn't these two are exactly the same tho? Also, what would allowing us to play an obviously broken/incomplete multiplayer would achieve? More complains and "bug reports" that do not uncover anything new?

Exactly, honestly I prefer to wait a little longer for the game to be much more stable to play it in multiplayer than to play a broken and unstable multiplayer. The question is, when will it be finished?

[Jimmy MacReady]

This has been discussed before but the closest you can get to doing multiplayer in 41.50 is by doing the below.

The mutliplayer was bad lol, Rubber banding, Animations not working. It was unplayable.

But if your still curious.. Then instructions below. Its for build 41.50 only so builds past that will not work. Its for demonstration purposes.

Highly Unstable and I do not recommend doing this. APPLICABLE FOR BUILD 41.50 ONLY.

Right Click Project Zomboid on Steam > Properties > Betas > Select "Build 41.50 - Previous Build to Complete Saves"


navigate to ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\OptionScreens\MainScreen.lua and open it up with a text editor (I used Notepad ++)

Go to lines 1518, and delete the "[[" and "]]" on lines 1518 and 1528 respectively.

Next, go to line 1465, and after the "--" add "[[" without quotes, and on line 1468, add "]]", without the quotes, after the "end".

Go to line 584. Remove the "--" from the beginning of the line, and add it to the beginning of the line below. Do this for line 596 as well.

On line 590, 592, 601, and 603 add "--" to the beginning of the line.

Save the file.

After this, multiplayer will be enabled.

Use at your own risk.