TLD RevaMP 0.68.3

Players get their pockets back after the host restarts the game, the Car01's radiator breaks when its tank goes off, and the host's teleport-request setting is remembered.

Everyone must update. Players on different versions can't join each other (the game tells you).

Install

You need The Long Drive on Steam, beta branch: Steam > Library > right-click The Long Drive > Properties > Betas > choose beta. Back up your saves first (Documents\TheLongDrive\Saves). This is a test build.

Windows

1. Download TLD-RevaMP-0.68.3.zip below.
2. Steam > right-click The Long Drive > Manage > Browse local files.
3. Copy everything from the zip into that folder. winhttp.dll must sit next to TheLongDrive.exe.
4. Start the game. The overlay in the top left shows "TLD Revamp 0.68.3".

Linux / Steam Deck (Proton): same as Windows, then add this to Steam > The Long Drive > Properties > General > Launch options:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b" %command%

Updating from an earlier RevaMP: close the game and copy everything from the zip over the old files (say yes to replace). Your saves and settings stay.

Remove any other mod loader (TLDLoader/ModLoader) from the game folder first. INSTALL.txt in the zip has the same steps, plus how to uninstall.

Fixed

• Your pockets come back after the host restarts the game. Before, the host's file of players' pockets and positions was always saved empty, so pockets came back only while the host's game kept running. After a restart, a player who had left got nothing back, and the things they had carried were gone.
• The players' pockets go with the save they belong to. Before, if the host went to the main menu without saving and loaded the last save, something a player picked up after that save could turn up twice, and something they dropped could be gone. A new world with the same seed as an old one also gave players the old world's pockets. Now the pockets are saved next to each save of the world (and move with the autosaves), and a new world starts with none.
• The Car01's radiator breaks when its tank goes off. The game's own code stopped partway on that car (also in single player), so the radiator stayed. Now it breaks, for everyone.
• The teleport-request setting is remembered. It is now in Settings > Revamp > Multiplayer ("Teleport requests (when you host)"), and the button on the host card saves it too.

For developers

Pull requests are checked automatically: the test tools compile on Python 3.9 and later, their helper tests and the network reader's unit test pass, and a privacy scan finds no personal paths, addresses, IDs, keys, binaries or decompiled game code. tools/doctor.py checks your setup for the test tools (#4).

Example mods

Unchanged: Head Unit 0.2.0 and Car Trailer 0.1.1 (same files as with 0.68.2).

Reports

If something looks wrong, press Page Down right away to save a report (BepInEx\tldrevamp-feedback). If you turned on Settings > Revamp > Debugging > "Send my reports to the host", the host gets a copy too.

Tested between two PCs over the Steam relay.

Known:

• Pockets from before this version can't come back: the old file was empty.
• A hat you wore when you left is back on your head when you return, but the other players may not see it there (seen in tests, also with 0.68.2; being looked at).
• Right after a player comes back to a car, its doors and mirrors can look about 1 m off for a few seconds on the other screen (seen once; it corrects itself).
• Worn things, not tested yet: dying while wearing something, a wearer far away from you, three or more players, lighting a cigarette from its pack (it goes on your face), and the host restarting while a player who left had a hat on. Press Page Down if one of them looks wrong.
• A building missing for one player while they stand next to it: not reproduced yet; the host's report now names it. Press Page Down right away if you see it.
• A car that rolls down a slope on its own can end up slightly off (about 2 m) on the other players' screens.
• A car carried on a trailer can look up to about 1 m off the trailer for a moment to other players while the host tows it (it stays on the bed).
• The example mods are first versions: expect rough edges, and press Page Down if something goes wrong.