Plutonium

Watch the reveal trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabtwDUEzG8

Installing/updating:

• Ensure you have the game installed (there should, among other things, be a main folder and a jb_mp_s.dll file in it). If you're missing discord_game_sdk.dll or EOSSDK-Win32-Shipping.dll, or if you're getting an "Invalid game version" error, download this and copy the files to your game folder.
• Download the latest plutonium-quantum.exe and place it in the game folder
• Run plutonium-quantum.exe to play

Logging in:
When clicking Windows LIVE in the main menu, the game should open a browser and authenticate automatically, as long as you're logged in to the forum. If you aren't, login in the browser when prompted to. The authentication flow should continue automatically afterwards.

If anything goes wrong, make sure you're logged in to the forum in your default browser and restart the game and try again. Some browsers (like Brave) may block the authentication flow, disabling "privacy protection" features temporarily may help (like Brave's "Shield"). You could also try a different browser, and visit https://forum.plutonium.pw/eos/auth after clicking Windows LIVE at least once in-game.

Joining parties:
Parties in this game have been implemented with the "invite to group" feature in Discord. When you're in a party (anywhere but the main menu), you should see "Invite x to Play Plutonium Quantum" in various places in Discord, use these to invite other people. Party members should also be able to do this. Read through this support article for more information.

If you have the Discord Overlay enabled, you should be able to invite straight from the game using that too (requires manually whitelisting Plutonium Quantum in Discord settings first).

Finding games:
Matchmaking is implemented and can be accessed by pressing Find Game in the menu. If any matches for a specific playlist are found, your game should attempt to join it. Otherwise, you will become the host for a new lobby and wait for other people to join.

If you are unable to find games, try backing out and searching again. You can also ask people in #looking-for-games on Discord to make sure there're other people playing.

The game uses peer-to-peer lobbies, so your IP address may be shared with other people.

Changing advanced settings:
To change settings such as cg_fov, com_maxfps, or to set an exact value for input_viewSensitivity, you have to modify the player config manually. The file path is <game folder>\saved\players\<user id>\config_mp.cfg. The file format should be familiar to anyone wanting to do this.

Note: Unlike our other games, we have not made the in-game console accessible. The reason for this is to improve the quality of public lobbies, we may enable it later.

Common issues:

• Connectivity issues (other people not being able to join your party, private match or public lobby)
  • Make sure Windows Firewall and any other "anti-virus" software isn't blocking the game. Additionally, make sure UPnP is enabled in your router, or manually port forward port 1000 to your computer.
• Settings not saving while in-game
  • Open and close the Controls menu (after changing other settings), it should trigger a save

For security reasons we can't unlink it at this stage.

I took another look and it is actually linked to a different account (which does share an IP with your account). If you own this account, you can unlink your Steam account from that one at https://forum.plutonium.pw/me/edit

I definitely get the appeal, and think it could attract new, more casual players if done right, but there're a couple things that makes it problematic.

First off, it'd be very difficult to ensure no one spoofs their/someone else's stats, since we can't trust any single party in a given game. Secondly, I think there'd be little incentive for server owners to run servers like this, since we'd have to restrict most of the customizability that allows them to run unique servers.

With that in mind, we'd most likely have to run them ourselves, which we don't have the funds nor time for at this point, so I guess that's the bottom line on this matter unfortunately.

This Steam account doesn't seem to be linked to any account, are you sure you're logged in to this account when linking? Are you using the forum or the launcher to link?

The ban has been lifted.

Miaa_ said in Fully Open Source?:

gijoebo Anticheats again at the root of all problems. I only play zombie so for me the only thing I see are limitations because of it (like the entire Steam Deck platform being banned because of it and ReShade being banned even in LAN mode), but a cool thing would be to see the stats. I love seeing those kind of things it's interesting, it'd be great to have a page somewhere where we can see how many plutonium users got banned by it, how many where in MP, how many where in ZB etc

Steam Deck users account for ~0.6% of our player base.

Cool!

We've decided to extend the deadline by two more weeks. Link a Steam account before the 16th of September!

Hi everyone,

For the past few months, we've been hard at work improving infrastructure and various non-game related services such as the forum. This has allowed us to erase a lot of technical debt, and we’re now ready to introduce ownership verification like we set out to do in late May. It’s not going to happen overnight, and we’re going to start with server owners.

Roadmap

Starting next week (on the 21st), only accounts that have verified ownership will be able to create new server keys, and only for the games that’ve been verified for that Plutonium account. Existing keys will continue to work until the end of August the 16th of September, after which we'll prune all unverified keys, so make sure to verify your account in time to avoid interruptions.

Verifying ownership

There’re currently two methods of verifying game ownership:

Verifying on the forum:

1. Make sure your Steam profile is public, both "My profile" and "Game details" need to be set to public during the verification process.
2. Head to https://forum.plutonium.pw/me/edit and press “Click here to associate with Steam”.
3. Login to your Steam account and follow the instructions, you should be redirected back to the forum.
4. Click “Steam Games” on the left navigation bar (https://forum.plutonium.pw/me/steam-games) and verify that all your games have been detected. If no games are listed, make sure your profile is public and press the sync button.

OR

Verifying using the launcher:

1. Make sure Steam is running and that you’re logged in on the correct account.
2. Open a fully updated Plutonium launcher.
3. Open “Game Settings” for the game you want to verify and click the “Verify Ownership” button on the right. Repeat this step for all games you want to verify.
4. Go to https://forum.plutonium.pw/me/steam-games and verify that all your games have been verified.

So, what do I need to do?

If you’re just a player, nothing just yet. We’re doing this staggered rollout to ensure our verification strategy works as intended, and so that we can make the transition as smooth as possible.

If you’re a server owner, make sure to verify ownership for all games that you host servers on, and do it before the end of this month to ensure no downtime and additional hassle.

FAQ

Is family sharing allowed?

• Yes, game copies obtained through family sharing will work using the launcher method, as long as the logged in Steam account hasn’t been linked to any other Plutonium account. Only share your copy with people you trust, since any abusive actions performed by them will affect you as the original owner too.

I’m VAC banned on Steam, does this mean I can’t use that account?

• No, we don’t check VAC status.

I own the games across multiple Steam accounts, what do I do?

• You can link multiple Steam accounts, using either of the two methods.

Do I have to own the DLCs?

• No.

Do the 'Dedicated Server' variants qualify as verification?

• No, you have to verify the actual base game.

Don't know what to tell you, you literally aren't banned.

@TheeGamerMaster said in not to be rude but i liked the previous look of the forum page :

The old theme of the forums by the way is the same as Opera's Forums. Just letting you know.

No it wasn't, Opera's theme is closed source made by themselves https://community.nodebb.org/topic/11541/opera-theme

The old theme we used has been unmaintained for 3 years, and was incompatible with newer versions of NodeBB. This current one is the new default and surely has its issues and annoyances, but there aren't any better ones either

Try again now, should be fixed.

This ban is on the staging environment, and seems to have been caused during unrelated backend testing on that environment. I've lifted the ban but please use the regular production builds to prevent things like this from happening in the future!

Microsoft is notorious for silently dropping emails, even if they are legit and use proper security features. This is something that has plagued us for a long time, but we have something in the pipeline that hopefully improves deliverability without costing a fortune.

Make sure the clock is correct and synced on your server.

The ban has been lifted.

The ban has been lifted.