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It's a current limitation of our authentication system. It breaks in cases of carrier grade NAT where the public IP used to access our authentication system is different from the public IP used to access the game server. The fix will require updated clients AND servers, and changes on the authentica...

It's a known issue between the version of SDL2 and BZFlag packaged in Ubuntu 22.04. You could try using our snap instead, or compiling the latest version of BZFlag from source. If you have a launchpad account, you might try indicating that this bug also affects you: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu...

Note the game clients since 2.4.12 can silence unregistered players if that helps. You can use "/silence -" for that.

The mini-http server is gone in master. Fastmap served the same binary version of the map that bzfs sends in-protocol, which is also what the -cacheout option uses (which can be used to write out a cache file that can be placed on an HTTP server and referenced with -cache). The getting started guide...

I wouldn't really worry about the overhead too much. We actually have extra overhead right now with the current implementation because we don't actually use the GETTOKEN action in the client. The client always requests the whole server list even if they're just asking for a new token. The protocol i...

Yeah, I don't like either of the alternative list formats we have right now. I'd go for a proper JSON encoding with named values for each server. I'm not yet sure I want to move away from the hexcode game info. I suppose if we did, we could have the game server send that as a JSON object and then st...

bzfls I don't have the current changes to bzfls in a repo at the moment. We have an archive of an older version in the bzflag-web repo on GitHub. Not too much has changed, but I should still get the changes published somewhere. Currently the lua format is being used by Strayer's BZStats and the JSO...

The mac version of 2.4.26 hasn't been released yet. Once it is, it would have that fix.

By default, the F1 key toggles fullscreen and the F4 key minimizes the game. You can change these keys in the input mapping menu if you prefer. Also, you may want to change the "confine mouse" option to either No or MotionBox so that the mouse isn't trapped within a windowed client.

Any idea what might have caused it? Client crash? Multiple clients running? Anything like that?

A few possible options to allow multiple players on the same tutorial map: Every tutorial user being on the same team, with team killing disabled. However, that might be a bit confusing. Multiple copies of the tutorial map/course in the world, with a plugin that automatically spawns each of the poss...

I'm not entirely sure that chat messages sent by the server are logged, so that might be why you didn't see them, The Noah. The log entry for the player leaving from a poll should have /poll ban or /poll kick as the removal reason, which might show up.

We are pleased to announce the release of BZFlag 2.4.26. Platform binaries and the source code are available for download using the following links: Windows: https://download.bzflag.org/bzflag/windows/2.4.26/bzflag-2.4.26.exe macOS (Intel): https://download.bzflag.org/bzflag/macos/2.4.26/BZFlag-2.4....

I did check the access logs on the server list and their IP wasn't changing, so it wasn't a ban evasion. I reached out to the game server admin yesterday but haven't heard back yet.

This has nothing to do with their client. The player you're referring to just rejoins from new IPs to evade the ban. They probably rejoined during the poll ban so that their IP didn't match what the poll was targeting. Basically, you'll need an actual server admin to handle them since polls are too ...

Some things to consider: The video should either be 1920x1080 or 1280x720 resolution at either 30 or 60 FPS, and include sound. Version 2.4.26 is coming out this weekend which fixes the popping audio sound and some texture skewing issues, so that should be used for videos. If shadows are enabled, se...

Here's what I've done to get BZFlag working well on the Steam Deck. Some of this you've likely already done, but I'll include it just in case someone happens upon this thread. Install BZFlag and add to Steam Switch to Desktop mode. While in the normal interface, hold the power button for a couple se...

The flatpak version is sandboxed and stores the .bzf directory at $HOME/.var/app/org.bzflag.BZFlag/.bzf/

Use our snapcraft or flatpak version of the game instead, or compile from source. The version of SDL2 in the latest Ubuntu (and therefore Mint) breaks BZFlag versions older than 2.4.24. There is a bug report for Ubuntu, but it hasn't seen any activity since August 10th. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub...

Could you explain a bit more about how it glitched out? Did you have to forcefully close the game?

I guess my other questions would be:
What operating system are you using?
Which version of BZFlag are you running?

Weird, it seems to be a 7334 byte file that contains just null bytes (so, not empty, but unprintable characters). Just deleting the config file was enough to fix it. Was there anything about the last time you played that might have been different than normal? A crash? Running multiple clients at onc...

Could you check the contents of your configuration file by using a text editor (such as Notepad on Windows)? If it contains a bunch of readable text, could you remove the password line and send me a copy via a private message ? Otherwise, if it's just blank or otherwise unreadable, could you also se...

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Done.

Well that's not how the API works. Another suggestion would be to define a custom map object that defines a valid spawn point and then pick one of those locations. Then the map would have a list of known good locations coded into it.