v0.7.1.2

Download

You play on	Get this one file
Windows (Steam, game build 35924)	TpF2Multiplayer-Launcher-Windows-Setup.exe -- install it, then Update & play
Linux / Steam Deck (the native game or Proton)	TpF2Multiplayer-Launcher-Linux.AppImage -- make it executable, run it, then Update & play

The launcher installs this version and keeps it up to date. Or install this version directly:

You play on	Get this one file
Windows	TpF2Multiplayer.msi -- close the game, run it
Linux / Steam Deck, the Windows game under Proton	install_proton.sh -- run it with sh; it fetches the rest itself
Linux, the native game	tpf2mp-linux-0.7.1.2-native.run -- close the game, bash tpf2mp-linux-0.7.1.2-native.run
A dedicated server on Linux or a VPS	TpF2Multiplayer-Server-Linux.tar.gz -- unpack it, sudo sh tpf2mp-server/setup_vps.sh; the guide: HOSTING_A_SERVER.md. A Windows server is the MSI above

The files zip, the Linux .tar.gz, install_proton.py and the checksums are in the update files. The two Source code archives at the bottom are the repository, not the mod. Everyone in a session needs the same version.

0.7.1.2 - companies rewritten, much faster big-map loads, no more big-map stutter

Update based on 0.7.1.1, for Windows, Proton and the native Linux game. Everyone in a session, including the dedicated server, must update to 0.7.1.2.

Companies (separate companies mode)

The rewrite tested as 0.7.0.8 is now in the release, on every platform:

• Companies belong to players, not to lobby slots. A company is tied to its players' Steam IDs (the lobby name for players without one). A save loaded with a different host keeps everyone in their own company, with their own money and vehicles.
• Every machine decides alike which company a command belongs to. New companies start with the same loan as the first one.
• The COMPANIES tab is rebuilt: your company and its settings on top, the list of companies below, one panel for the selected company.
• Company colours from a palette, one per company. Painting vehicles in the company colour is a switch per company, on by default.
• Delete a company with a company that takes over everything, or Nobody, which sells and removes everything after a warning.
• One headquarters per company, and only the owner can change a building.
• Old saves are migrated: the host keeps their company, every other player gets back the company of their lobby slot.

Big maps load much faster

• The terrain is not computed again on load. Every save now writes <save>.terr beside it: each terrain tile's finished height data. Loading that save restores the tiles from it and skips the terrain alignment pass, which took 44-75 s on a 50,000-tile map. On Windows and the native Linux game, a Linux dedicated server included (new there: terrain_sidecar=0 in tpf2_bigmap.cfg turns it off if it gives trouble).
• Joiners get the host's terrain file while they load. It streams to them after START from a host that has one. Each tile is used as soon as it arrives, and the game waits for the rest only when that is faster than computing it. A joiner on a slow connection loads as before.
• The terrain file is written on all cores (it added 12 s to every big-map save) and read on all cores at load.
• The ground-texture index is built faster (up to 2x per tile, identical result).

Big maps no longer stutter

• With little free memory, the game gave back 90% of its terrain at once and rebuilt it in front of the camera: the stutter around big maps. It now gives back only what it needs.
• A load under memory pressure could crawl at one terrain tile a second. Fixed.
• The game counts memory as tight only below 3 GB of free commit (it was up to 10 GB), so it uses more of the memory it has. commit_tight_mb in tpf2_bigmap.cfg sets it by hand.

Joining a running game

• Vehicles waiting at a stop, and cargo unloading from them, are handled in the same order on every machine. Two trucks standing at one stop could be loaded differently on the host and a player who joined, and the game desynced later.

Update

Use the launcher: Update & play (Windows and Linux), or install directly: the MSI on Windows, install_proton.sh under Proton, the native .run on Linux. A Linux dedicated server: tpf2server stop, tpf2server install, tpf2server configure, tpf2server start. All participants need the same version.

Validation

The terrain file was tested in game on a 36,992-tile save on Windows: both alignment passes skipped, all 73,984 tile versions served, also with the file streamed to a second game. The native Linux code passes 76 tests (including a growing file, a split record and a wait at the pass); its first game use is the project's dedicated server with this release. tools/test_terrain_stream.py tests the transfer on a lossy, reordering connection. The load-memory fix has a test that fails on 0.7.1.1. The ground-texture index matches the game's own code in 156 comparisons. The companies rewrite passed its model, rules and interface tests (0.7.0.8) and is ported to the native Linux game.

What's Changed

• Companies rewritten: player-keyed registry, delete, free colours, one HQ per company by @tearded in #15

Full Changelog: 0.7.1.1...v0.7.1.2