How do I increase the max player count in a party MP/ZM?

[MAR_Official]

Title. In multiplayer, the max amount of people I can have in a party is 3 people (in the multiplayer menu it says something like "1 Player [3 Max]"). I believe this is the reason why I cannot have custom multiplayer matches with more than 2 of my friends - out of us 5, only 2 people can join up (which I think is because of the party limit of 3 people). How do I increase this to say, 8 players? In zombies the "party limit" is 8 people but the actual limit for survival mode is only 4 people...

I found a similar post on these forums, but it didn't really help me - someone said "In the config there is a line that states player count", however I couldn't find such a config file searching through the folders on Windows File Explorer. Doing some digging around myself, the closest thing I could find were 3 files named "user_common", "user_mp" and "user_zm" (I assumed they were the "closest thing" according to this site which pointed to "user_sp" being the "actual" config file, however since Plutonium doesn't have an SP mode I assume that's why I can't find "user_sp" in the files). All the "user_" files that ARE available are encrypted however, so now I'm back to square one...

[Dss0]

Pluto doesn't support "parties" afaik and the custom playerlimit on zm prolly doesn't work in private matches.
If you want to play with multiple people just set up a dedicated server.

[MAR_Official]

Oh yeah, I know you can't actually have proper parties in Plutonium, just I thought that 4 of us being able to play together on ZM and only 3 of us being able to play together on MP might have to do with the apparent 3 player party size limit on MP. I just didn't want to have to run my own server to get around this issue. Thanks anyways.

Edit: Just to be clear on how we're able to play together, we all have that Hamachi VPN thing and so using that, I would start up a multiplayer match using the "xpartygo" console command then I'd get them to join the match using the "connect [my ipv4 address]:4976" console command.

Edit 2: Just found the "party_maxplayers" DVAR. Typing it into the console followed by a number (in this case, 5) while on the MP menu changes the "1 Player [3 Max]" thing to "1 Player [5 Max]". My friends aren't here yet, so hopefully when I play with them later, it works...

[Dss0]

Well it should work thought i've never tried it with that many ppl, usually dedi is the better choice for 5+ players. Doesn't hamachi have a limit of 5 ppl in the same room now without buying their premium service?

[MAR_Official]

Dss0 Yup. But since my online friend group only consists of 5 people anyway, it's perfect. I'll come back here and report if it works.

[luigistyle]

@DL-BBALL Yep, party_maxplayers 5 should do the trick for custom games

[MAR_Official]

Yup, it worked! Very nice.

Edit: just so anyone reading this at a later time knows, once you type in “party_maxplayers [NUMBER]”, you’ll have to wait a few seconds before the max player number changes in game!

[Nachitox123]

Hi there! Do you know if this way will work for a private ZM match? My party is usually 5 as well, so I was wondering if you tried it also there? In case it doesn't work, will a dedicated server allow 5 players at once in ZM?

[Xerxes]

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