THIS MOD ONLY NEEDS TO BE ON THE HOST! UNMODDED CLIENTS CAN PLAY!

Big Lobbies

Mod made by "AdamMady" you can join my discord here to give me feedback or give me new mod ideas: https://discord.gg/5z3WvVhxCf

Features:

Fixes the main problem with the original "Bigger Walk" mod by adding voice support past 12 players!

Host bigger lobbies! Defaults to 25 players, adjustable up to 100 through Mod Settings.

Supports megaphones, walkie-talkies and radio stations!

Change player limit, voice quality, hearing distance and network update cap while playing!

Can (in theory) slightly reduce network traffic even in lobbies with less than 13 players!

Settings:

Get the Mod Settings Menu mod to change these settings in-game. Without it, settings can be changed in BepInEx/config/AdamMady.BigLobbies.cfg.

MaxPlayerCount: 25 by default with a 1-100 range.

QuietThreshold: 0.004 by default with a 0.0001-0.05 range. Quiet speakers lose priority only when a listener's voice slots are full.

Host Voice Quality: 100% by default with a 15%-100% range. Reduces your voice's quality for everyone in your lobby. (Lower values can reduce outgoing network traffic)

Voice Quality: 100% by default with a 15%-100% range. Reduces voice quality for guests talking to other guests. (Lower values can reduce outgoing network traffic)

Update Cap Hz: Normal (30hz) by default with a 5hz to 30hz range. Movement will look less smooth the lower it is. (Lower values can reduce outgoing network traffic)

Hearing Distance: 30 metres by default with a 1m-30m range. (Lower values can reduce outgoing network traffic)

Important:

Unmodded clients still have a limited number of people that they can hear. This mod reuses those slots based on item, volume, distance, so on but it does not let everyone in a huge crowd speak simultaneously. Each listener gets voice slots assigned to speakers they can hear.

The host will hear guests at the normal quality, Only other players will notice the lower voice quality. I recommend only touching network optimization if other players are experiencing lag or if you want to save on your internet plan.

Bigger lobbies need more host upload bandwidth and processing power. Expect the game to crash at any moment, not only on your side, but even sometimes on other people's devices, more optimization will happen as feedback is given, You can adjust values for network optimization in the mod settings menu.

This is not tested with any mods besides "Moderation Improvements". Do not expect all mods to work with this.

Installation:

Step 1: Got BepInEx? Yes? Good! Go to step 2! No? Get it here: https://builds.bepinex.dev/projects/bepinex_be find the latest one with "IL2CPP" in the name, make sure it's the x64 version for your OS and extract to game directory (game local files) and give the game a quick launch and wait for a bit, When the game opens, close it and continue on to step 2!

Step 2: Just take the zip file, Throw it into the game directory, and unzip!

Step 3: Host a game and invite your friends! Only the host needs this mod. Mod Settings Menu is optional.

Credit and license:

Based on Bigger Walk by glarmer: https://github.com/glarmer/bigger_walk

Big Lobbies source: https://github.com/AdamMady/Big-Lobbies

Voice routing and live settings by AdamMady. This is a separate modified version, not the original Bigger Walk release.

Licensed under GNU GPL v3. See LICENSE and NOTICE. If you distribute this DLL, provide its corresponding modified source and build files under the same license.

Thank you for installing my mod!