LC Mic Recovery

LC Mic Recovery is a small BepInEx plugin for Lethal Company. It is designed to recover cases where in-game voice capture becomes stalled or unavailable without requiring a full game restart.

The plugin focuses on conservative recovery behavior. It attempts a local microphone capture reset first, optionally invokes the game's own Dissonance reset path when available, and avoids running recovery while the game is in unsafe transition states.

Features

• Automatic microphone recovery checks while in a valid in-game state.
• Manual recovery hotkey for cases where immediate recovery is needed.
• Local ResetMicrophoneCapture recovery path.
• Optional game-side Dissonance reset when the target method is available.
• Compatibility fallback when game-side reset reflection targets are unavailable.
• Guards for teardown, scene transition, and unstable object states.
• Cooldown handling to avoid repeated recovery spam.

Installation

1. Install BepInExPack for Lethal Company.
2. Install this package with a compatible mod manager, or copy the package contents into your game directory.
3. The plugin DLL should end up under:

BepInEx/plugins/LCMicRecovery/LCMicRecovery.dll

Usage

The plugin runs automatically after installation. If automatic recovery does not restore voice capture in a specific case, use the configured manual recovery key from the plugin configuration.

Configuration is generated by BepInEx after the first launch.

Compatibility Notes

This plugin targets Lethal Company V81-era behavior and relies on BepInEx and Harmony. The game-side reset path uses reflection and may be unavailable if the game changes internal method names or object lifetime behavior.

When the game-side reset path is unavailable, the plugin falls back to local microphone capture reset behavior instead of failing hard.

Troubleshooting

• If voice capture fails after joining or leaving sessions, wait for the game to finish loading or transitioning before using manual recovery.
• If recovery appears to be skipped, check the BepInEx console or log file for cooldown, teardown, missing device, or compatibility messages.
• If Thunderstore reports a package validation issue, confirm that the package root contains manifest.json, README.md, CHANGELOG.md, LICENSE, icon.png, and BepInEx/.

Scope

LC Mic Recovery is intended to recover microphone capture failures. It does not replace Dissonance, change voice chat networking, or modify lobby behavior.

Changelog

0.3.7

• Added LanguageMode with Auto, English, and Chinese modes.
• Added LC-Chinese-Project / V81TestChn detection so Auto mode follows Chinese modpacks while keeping vanilla game installs in English.
• Added HUD font-safety fallback behavior: Chinese mode keeps BepInEx logs in Chinese while in-game HUD notifications fall back to English when Chinese HUD font support is not detected.
• Added recovery completion detail logging when five-step, debug, or state logging is enabled.
• Updated recovery, manual trigger, automatic detection, game-side reset, and startup logs to follow the selected language.
• Recovery completion notifications now use compact in-game text, while detailed completion context is recorded in the BepInEx log.

0.3.6

• Improved manual recovery reliability by allowing local ResetMicrophoneCapture even when the game-side reset path is not currently safe.
• Improved automatic recovery so local Dissonance checks are not skipped solely because StartOfRound or the local player object is not ready.
• Added AllowLocalRecoveryWhenGameSideUnsafe, enabled by default.
• Improved debug and five-step recovery logs for manual trigger state, local reset execution, and game-side reset result.
• Updated build references and release metadata for the V81 test build.

0.3.5

• Hardened recovery cooldown timing so failed local reset attempts do not consume cooldown.
• Added safer manual recovery guards for teardown, room exit, menu, and unstable object states.
• Improved recovery logging so local reset, game-side reset, skipped reset, and failed reset outcomes are distinguishable.
• Added watcher instance protection to reduce duplicate polling and duplicate recovery attempts.
• Added one-time compatibility warning when game-side reset reflection targets are unavailable.
• Hardened cached Dissonance comms lookup against Unity destroyed-object references.
• Added local failure handling around manual microphone device list queries.
• Improved manual recovery reliability by adding a direct safe local reset fallback when the normal recovery path cannot proceed.
• Synchronized assembly and file version metadata with the published package version.

0.3.0

• Added automatic microphone recovery checks.
• Added manual recovery support through plugin configuration.
• Added local microphone capture reset behavior.
• Added optional game-side Dissonance reset integration.

0.1.0

• Initial development release.