Coop Max Player Cap

[COMMISSAR VANE]

Is there any mods or hidden settings which allows to increase the player cap from 8 to higher?

[=UniSol=Oelmuvun]

Yeah, a "use at your own risk" option might be pretty handy to have.

[KrisRedbeard]

Not that I am aware of.
The cap is there because game was deigned that 8 max in mind.
While uncapped, 32 player servers were not uncommon and for some strange reasons the game was super easy and ran like crap :P

[=UniSol=Oelmuvun]

32 Is quite a lot. I don't know what the original poster had in mind, but personally I might like to see 12 plus a couple spectators in the training mode, or if a functional version of The Farm could be available in Deathmatch, or some such solution. That way two instructors could have their own groups and alternate running vs watching, or splitting off into other activities on The Farm.

[KrisRedbeard]

Dedicated spectators are not taken into account when dealing with max number of players.
They have their own counter.
So you could, for example, have 8 players connected as well as 2 dedicated spectators.

Additionally, I totally forgot that the 8 player limit is for listen servers only.
That is, a server that is both client and server in one.

Dedicated servers have 16 players max regardless of the type of server.
So with a dedicated server, you could have up to 16 players and up to 16 dedicated spectators.

[=UniSol=Oelmuvun]

Okay, I think I was remembering incorrectly there. It was a while ago, we had been using a dedicated server doing a training session on The Farm but had also done some stuff on Compound and for whatever reason switched to team deathmatch for that, but apparently I can't remember the details clearly anymore.

[COMMISSAR VANE]

Originally posted by KrisRedbeard:

Dedicated spectators are not taken into account when dealing with max number of players.
They have their own counter.
So you could, for example, have 8 players connected as well as 2 dedicated spectators.

Additionally, I totally forgot that the 8 player limit is for listen servers only.
That is, a server that is both client and server in one.

Dedicated servers have 16 players max regardless of the type of server.
So with a dedicated server, you could have up to 16 players and up to 16 dedicated spectators.

Thank you for the answer, this helps.

So in other words if i am not mistaken, listen servers aka you join a match hosted by a friend, it is hard capped to 8. But if one rents a dedicated server, it can be up to 16 correct?

More often in the weekends there are more than 8 friends willing to play so with this we could have bigger groups playing together. Now especially since the new update got released.

[KrisRedbeard]

Yeah, listen server are the type created when you select "Host Game" and invite friends to join.