[SOLVED]Why might a server crash when someone with the same mod installed joins?

[Shazam]

I have been working on my unit for the Battle Royale and it has been going great. It works in SP so I wanted to test its effectiveness against real players. I uploaded the all.lvl and the other person downloaded and installed it. I made a server and whenever they tried to join, the server crashed. I don't have any other non-OC mods installed. Why is the game crashing?

[Led]

They (and you) will also need the new mission.lvl that calls the new units.

[Shazam]

For now, the unit just replaces the Rebel pilot, so I don't see why I would need a new mission.lvl...

I didn't rename the unit. It's basically just a modified version of the pilot.

-edit:  Sorry. I should've said that before.

[Led]

is there anything in common.lvl that got changed ?

[Shazam]

Nope. The only thing I changed was the all.lvl, which I installed then uploaded for my tester to download and install as well.

And I went on a public server right afterwards and my game was working just fine.

[Snake]

Maybe he has a different mod in?

[Shazam]

Maybe he has a different mod in?

He was playing on a public server just before testing with me. He even went into single player and played on it for a while before joining me on my server (when it crashed).

I'll try to re-test it with someone tomorrow on the off-chance something weird happened.

[Phobos]

Some mods just crash online. It could be a weapon bug, odf or msh bug. Force lightning crash for me online for rancorland but works in single player. Hard to say without knowing more details.

[Ltin]

does the server need to be modded too?

[Phobos]

does the server need to be modded too?

server and client should be using identical LVL files

[Shazam]

Some mods just crash online. It could be a weapon bug, odf or msh bug. Force lightning crash for me online for rancorland but works in single player. Hard to say without knowing more details.

Strangely enough, I figured out what was causing it. It happens at purely random times, but all 5 times that my server has crashed has been right after I attempt to use my 5th weapon. It works great 99% of the time but for some reason it is crashing at random times.

Here's my unit ODF, just in case I did something wrong:

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WEAPON SECTION                  = 1
WeaponName = "imp_weap_inf_torpedo_launcher"
WeaponAmmo = 8
WEAPONSECTION = 2
WeaponName = "all_weap_inf_shotgun"
WeaponAmmo = 5
WEAPONSECTION = 3
WeaponName                      = "all_weap_inf_pistol"
WeaponAmmo                      = 0
WEAPONSECTION = 4
WeaponName = "imp_weap_inf_thermaldetonator"
WeaponAmmo = 3
WeaponChannel = 1
WEAPONSECTION = 5
WeaponName = "all_weap_inf_powerup_dispenser"
WeaponAmmo         = 5
WeaponChannel          = 1

[Phobos]

Strangely enough, I figured out what was causing it. It happens at purely random times, but all 5 times that my server has crashed has been right after I attempt to use my 5th weapon. It works great 99% of the time but for some reason it is crashing at random times.

Correct, 5 weapons always crashes online. Fate and I discovered this while testing Jet Wars Era MP compatibility. Because of the 5th weapon not working online was one of the main reason we decided to only make it a SP campaign. I suspect this is due to the fact you are using vehicle ODF commands for unit classlabel ODFs which the EXE is probably 'less tolerant' of for MP.

Pick a weapon to exclude and revert to the  standard 4 weapon format and it should work online (unless there are more bugs lol).

[Shazam]

Correct, 5 weapons always crashes online. Fate and I discovered this while testing Jet Wars Era MP compatibility. Because of the 5th weapon not working online was one of the main reason we decided to only make it a SP campaign. I suspect this is due to the fact you are using vehicle ODF commands for unit classlabel ODFs which the EXE is probably 'less tolerant' of for MP.

Pick a weapon to exclude and revert to the  standard 4 weapon format and it should work online (unless there are more bugs lol).

Oh, wow. Thank you! It would've saved me a lot of headache to know that earlier. Someone should edit the 5 weapon tutourial...