Hello All

Coming time to publish new release of HyperLobby. This release adding support for "IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover", IL2-1946 dedicated server, updating difficulty settings for IL2-1946 4.11m patch and fixing few outstanding bugs. Here is brief changes from the latest public release:

Whats new:

• Support for game "IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover".
• Added new difficulty settings for IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 introduced in 4.11m patch.
• Update difficulty and localPort settings for IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 dedicated server.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed default difficulty settings constants (Easy, Normal, Realistic) for IL-2 Sturmovik 1946.
• When changing difficulty settings "Maximum players" list was populated incorrectly.

Support for game "IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover" is done partially because IL2CLOD developer team silently ignored my requests. Oleg Maddox is not anymore part of 1C but in spite of this he help me with implementing basic functionality. Big kudos to him. To Use IL2CLOD with HL there must be done few tweaks to Steam and the game itself. Good news is its nothing complicated.

Known issues and requirements for the "IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover" game and Steam settings to run HL correctly:

• Steam must be run and be in online mode.
• Disable "Steam cloud config storage", Click "View>Game list" menu in the Steam main interface, right click "IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover" item "Properties", then click tab "Updates" and uncheck "Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover". Its because HL need mangle your ini files in order to setup game sessions correctly (Same way we do it in IL2 series for ten years).
• Hyperlobby cannot change your name in online game session, you must do it yourself in your Steam profile, Click "Steam>Settings" menu in the Steam main interface, Then click "Friends" tab and change your "Profile name"
• Hosting a game (not dedicated server) will not enter the game server screem like in IL2-1946, you must click it manually via the ingame menu "Multiplayer>Server".
• Dedicated server need special setup. Some hints you can found at 1C forum: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=22038&highlight=dedicated+server.
• Guide how to setup dedicated server with HL reflecting various needs: http://hyperfighter.sk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=20669#20669.

I hope You will like this release. If you found any issues regarding this release please post em in to our Community support forum.

If you use HyperLobby, and are happy with it, i'd love if you would consider donating. Donations help keep the updates coming, pay for bandwidth, and help pay for the time spent maintaining and improving the software.

Jiri

Hello all

IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 4.10m patch is out for a while and testing version of  HL too. So coming time to made 4.2.12 gold ...

Whats new:

• Added six new difficulty settings for IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 introduced in 4.10m patch:
  Reliability
  Real. Pilot Vulnerability
  No Player Icon
  G-force Limits
  Real. Navigation Instruments
  No Fog Of War Icons

Jiri

Hello all

After a while, next release of HL is done fixing outstanding issues reported by our members and adding few cool features ...

Here is cummulated changelog since lates 4.2.7 release:

Whats new:

• HL now can autostart game in to server mode via commandline option -a. First time you need setup game server options by classic way, then close HL and start it with -a parameter. HL connect to the HL server, register game session and autostart the game in to server mode. When the game exit , HL close itself. This feature is for example usefull to automatically run IL2 dedicated server within HL. This mode is compatible also with instancing.

Bug fixes:

• Do not show gameinfo popup when a mouse button is down. This will fix unwanted gameinfo popup during scrolling player lists with scrollbar.
• Friend list has not been cleared after room change.
• Slotkick has been issued when ignored user tried to use other game session. It was generated strange looking error messages from the server.
• When user is unignored his name may begin with character ?
• User from friendlist cannot be ignored anymore.
• Ignored user cannot be added in to your friendlist anymore.
• Save friendlist and ignorelist immediatly after its changed. It will prevent friendlist and ignorelist loss when HL or system crash.
• Mouse icon missing over player name in chat.
• Optimized network API.
• Fixed startup and profile selection sequence.
• Fixed several exploits.
• When DNS service fail HL will hung during reconnect session.
• Under poor network connection condition or HL server outage HL can leak socket handles during reconnect session.
• When user game end HL may fail reconnect back to HL server.

This release is primary published via HL autoupdate and support to older relases are dropped immediatly, since major bug fixes included.

If you got problems with autoupdate you may download and install this release manually from our download section and please report those issues in to our forum.

Jiri

Hello All

Some connection restrictions has been applied to the hyperlobby server to save bandwidth it consume. Those limits are max of 30 players in chat per HL room. This restrictions are not applied to users than are already in game since it not consume allmost any bandwidth.

Iam sory for this inconvenience, but i refused finance HL only by myself and for this i started HL donation system few months ago. Last moth was not enought to preserve HL service in state it was here for last ten years ...

Jiri

UPDATE: Problem has been fixed and the restrictions has been removed. Thanks guys for your support.

Hello all

Next release of HL is done. This version fixing long standing bug for users using East Asian regional settings and adding few new features.

Full changelog from latest 4.2.3 version:

Whats new:

• Popup menu have new submenu Options. Via Options menu you can show offline friends, disable friends status messages or disable automatic gameinfo.
• Added chat configuration interface. It allow configuration of any HL configuration values by a simple chat command. The commands are:
  
  /qc <item> - show value of <item> in [Configuration] section, example /qc scale will show actual scalling value
  /sc <item>=<value> - set <value> of <item> in [Configuration] section, example /sc scale=1.25 set scale value to 1.25
  /qg <item> - show value of <item> in curent game section, example /qc joinDelay will show time in seconds HL waiting before client session start
  /sg <item>=<value> - set <value> of <item> in curent game section, example /sg joinDelay=20 set wait time to 20 seconds
  
  This feature will help improve users support in future.

Bug fixes:

• HL crash when running with East Asian (China, Japan) Windows regional settings.
• Better error messages when creating HyperLobby data folder fail.
• Friendlist and ignorelist may be created in wrong location, whis can raise some runtime errors during startup.
• Some internal performance improvements.
• Input containing non ascii characters causes HL crash (4.2.6 hotfix)
• Pager messages do not accept newlines (4.2.7 hotfix)

Jiri