Does the unofficial community patch work with online play?

[The Guy]

Or does everybody need the patch for it to work?

[Bringoutyerded]

Yes, but please don't use it in public games without letting people know beforehand.

People not interested in using the CP can lose guns from their inventory when joining a CP-hosted game. Not cool, nor respectful of those that do this.

Also not everyone likes using the CP or other mods. If looking for players to join you, post in the "looking for players" forum, and indicate level and that you are using [name] mod.

[The Guy]

Yeah i was just wondering if it would work for my friends i wasnt planning on doing public matches

[mat]

Originally posted by Bringoutyerded:

Yes, but please don't use it in public games without letting people know beforehand.

People not interested in using the CP can lose guns from their inventory when joining a CP-hosted game. Not cool, nor respectful of those that do this.

Also not everyone likes using the CP or other mods. If looking for players to join you, post in the "looking for players" forum, and indicate level and that you are using [name] mod.

Why do weapons dissappear? I use the UCP 4.1 and often host matches without thinking it could do any damage.

[Bringoutyerded]

Originally posted by Big Mat:

Originally posted by Bringoutyerded:

Yes, but please don't use it in public games without letting people know beforehand.

People not interested in using the CP can lose guns from their inventory when joining a CP-hosted game. Not cool, nor respectful of those that do this.

Also not everyone likes using the CP or other mods. If looking for players to join you, post in the "looking for players" forum, and indicate level and that you are using [name] mod.

Why do weapons dissappear? I use the UCP 4.1 and often host matches without thinking it could do any damage.

Someone else will have to comment on the technical aspect. I don't know the reason why. It's been discussed here before. Losing guns does happen.

Had two friends indicate the same just days ago, they were pretty angry, even though they'd backed up their save files beforehand. Seems they'd independently joined the same modder's game in public, at different times. But with the same result. They were angry at something else the host did, just can't recall at the moment. They were running a series of mods. I think the CP was one of them.

My layman's guess is simply to say that the CP wasn't thought through enough to prevent this, or perhaps it couldn't be avoided for a technical reason yet it went live anyway. I've heard that a lot of work went into it, but not nearly enough to prevent this in my opinion.

Originally posted by Jeff:

Yeah i was just wondering if it would work for my friends i wasnt planning on doing public matches

Good to hear, thank you. Have fun, I'm sure it will be for you.

I mentioned the issue here as comments are public. Not everyone looks to keep things like this among friends. Some do it out of ignorance; these are the people the message is meant for.

[pyromaniac420710]

Originally posted by Big Mat:

Originally posted by Bringoutyerded:

Yes, but please don't use it in public games without letting people know beforehand.

People not interested in using the CP can lose guns from their inventory when joining a CP-hosted game. Not cool, nor respectful of those that do this.

Also not everyone likes using the CP or other mods. If looking for players to join you, post in the "looking for players" forum, and indicate level and that you are using [name] mod.

Why do weapons dissappear? I use the UCP 4.1 and often host matches without thinking it could do any damage.

the weapons disapear when someone uses a different mod than the ucp to change the "legal" parts that a weapon could spawn therefor making sanity check think the moded gun is legal and the origional isnt. Somone can run one of these mods without the ucp. the ucp 4.1 can do this to the pot o' gold shield if you set it to do so first

[Fredrikorex]

Yeah as a general rule if you host ALWAYS MENTION IF YOU'RE RUNNING UCP! People have the right to leave if they're worried about their equipment being ruined but as long as you haven't changed any of the weapon drops I don't think all that many things can break with the latest patch (items with changed parts come to mind), I'm no expert on this so I might be wrong.

But the best solution is to just host private games for friends that like to run the patch as well, looking for players subforum has plenty of people who like using the patch.

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by Bringoutyerded:

Originally posted by Big Mat:

Why do weapons dissappear? I use the UCP 4.1 and often host matches without thinking it could do any damage.

Someone else will have to comment on the technical aspect. I don't know the reason why. It's been discussed here before. Losing guns does happen.

Had two friends indicate the same just days ago, they were pretty angry, even though they'd backed up their save files beforehand. Seems they'd independently joined the same modder's game in public, at different times. But with the same result. They were angry at something else the host did, just can't recall at the moment. They were running a series of mods. I think the CP was one of them.

My layman's guess is simply to say that the CP wasn't thought through enough to prevent this, or perhaps it couldn't be avoided for a technical reason yet it went live anyway. I've heard that a lot of work went into it, but not nearly enough to prevent this in my opinion.

Originally posted by Jeff:

Yeah i was just wondering if it would work for my friends i wasnt planning on doing public matches

Good to hear, thank you. Have fun, I'm sure it will be for you.

I mentioned the issue here as comments are public. Not everyone looks to keep things like this among friends. Some do it out of ignorance; these are the people the message is meant for.

Your guess is reasonable. Although I'm happy to discuss the program privately with friends because I used it during its first year and worked on it with the developers, as a rule I'm uncomfortable discussing third-party software on this forum ~ Steam doesn't like seeing these conversations for a number of valid reasons and I respect that.

['MC' Gizmo]

Originally posted by Big Mat:

Originally posted by Bringoutyerded:

Yes, but please don't use it in public games without letting people know beforehand.

People not interested in using the CP can lose guns from their inventory when joining a CP-hosted game. Not cool, nor respectful of those that do this.

Also not everyone likes using the CP or other mods. If looking for players to join you, post in the "looking for players" forum, and indicate level and that you are using [name] mod.

Why do weapons dissappear? I use the UCP 4.1 and often host matches without thinking it could do any damage.

i lost 2 hide or terra shields in 2 different games with the ucp enanled when i spawned with a character that had this shield equipped or had in backpack same happend to my bone of ancient relics..