DirkRockface i feel like plutonium probably keeps transaction records with who opened which transaction, but having the txid would probably be pretty useful still, but afaik eldor is still the only one able to handle this

Wondering if theres a way to have several servers connected to 1 entry on the server list, where you would join the server, it would handle some sort of match making, then move you to a relevent server, i was interested in getting a dedicated server and hosting purely vanilla servers so the standard game experience could be in place, but since plutonium doesnt support match making was gonna do it this way if possible

oh that new notification bar is cursed.
also, luckily the plutonium devs are now aware of the issue involving AYNs and are looking into it

Yep, you can either contact the server owners and ask them to whitelist you to their server, or you can attempt to contact the admin at https://www.xdefcon.com/ who runs the blocklist that most if not all iw4madmin (Common server plugin almost all servers use) use.

Hi y'all, so it seems people want to be pissy about Plutonium's updated launcher, y'know the launcher you have to see for a solid like 30 seconds while you launch your game.

So I made a tool that creates desktop short cuts for your games with plutonium.

What this script does:

• Creates launcher shortcuts for each game you want (Comes with game icons too!)
• Auto-detect your games location, even if they're on different drives like D:\ (Except for MW3 due to the update)
• Creates a background service to update plutonium without opening the launcher you hate so much, it does this once a day or when you login (This requires admin rights, if you don't want plutonium to auto update for whatever reason just deny the admin request)

What this script doesn't do:

• Work with pirated files, coulda added that but fuck you. Pirated files are unsupported anyways!

Anyway here is the GitHub link, its not obfuscated or anything so if you're mildly competent you can read it to make sure its safe yourself!

https://github.com/syncholex/PlutoniumLauncherSkip

Just download and run setup.bat, it does download a copy of plutonium.exe to %LOCALAPPDATA%\PlutoniumQuickLaunch so you may need to add that path to your exclusions.

If you have any issues please let me know.

Demonstration:

https://youtu.be/zVhlXKoxqO8

ZoeAwesome it likely thinks all the AYN thors are the same device, so it will add 14 days everytime someone tries to log in.

Gothic_lemon ive noticed that appears to be happening now, luckily after a bit more information, you dont actually need anything from 42750/42751, only the other ones

iCherNobyLSvK Thats irrelevent to this guide.

it is a false positive, i believe gamehub messes with the dlls to get upscaling working, i have seen a lot of ayn devices get banned and been trying to get the devs to at least give it the steamdeck LCD treatment

xSNAFUx The new update added a couple scripts itself i believe, the best way to do this is to clean up the mw3 directory itself before downgrade, just delete all the mw3 files and retry, i believe that error should go away

KanonAlfa the one on steam probably doesn't like being launched in the downgraded state, if you play the game on steam i would recommend just making a copy of that folder elsewhere for plutonium, and change the app manifest back to not being read only

Been seeing a couple bans related to people using ayn thors. I'm assuming they're having the same. Some times GameHub lite gets mentioned with these reports as well, so it could be that software instead. I'm just wondering if its all AYN thor, maybe some other AYN devices, or the software thats causing the issue, and issuing something like the steamdeck LCD system for them instead of account / hwid bans for the people who use it. I don't own one of these devices so I can't help attempt to figure out what's causing them.

DOWNLOADING DEPOTS HAS NO PROGRESS BAR. IT ALSO TAKES LONGER THAN STANDARD DOWNLOADS. WAIT FOR THE DEPOT DOWNLOAD COMPLETE MESSAGE TO APPEAR BEFORE CONTINUING.

IT APPEARS THAT THE 42682 / 42751 CANNOT BE DOWNLOADED BY EVERYONE, USE 42680 INSTEAD OF 42682, ALL OTHER NUMBERS SHOULD BE THE SAMEM ALSO 42751 IS NOT NEEDED AND PROVIDES 0 BENEFIT

If you get a message stating something about ragdoll.cfg then you either didn't copy all the files over properly or you didn't wait for the downloads to complete.

Here are video instructions as well, it is slightly different than the tutorial, but is straight forward and easy to follow, and still gets the game running, the 2 copy and pasted ones in here are:

download_depot 42680 42682 2661317971072643596
download_depot 42680 42683 1595601894688570808

video

• Press Win+R to open the run dialog.
• Enter steam://open/console into the box that appears, this will open Steams console.
  
• In steams console enter this for the English version of the files, see bottom for instructions for other languages.

download_depot 42690 42682 6067691797475126381
download_depot 42690 42683 6381783964590594065

For languages besides english ONLY DOWNLOAD ONE LANGUAGE PACK
Swap out the line

download_depot 42690 42683 6381783964590594065

For the relevent language below.

Spanish

download_depot 42690 42684  2528087911534752870

German

download_depot 42690 42685 3657601166463056212

French

download_depot 42690 42686 7088412265150636376

Italian

download_depot 42690 42687 8273360275068894160

DOWNLOADING DLCS IF OWNED
You can only download DLCs with this method if you own them.

download_depot 42690 42695 9005316271397236436

download_depot 42690 42696 2478272765185873756

download_depot 42690 42697 5810618727794750362

download_depot 42690 42698 5997898371746217629

• These files will likely download to their respective folders in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_42690\depot_42682
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_42690\depot_42683

• Download and run this script by double clicking it, it will move all the files to C:\Games\MW3, this is configurable by editing the variable in the script if desired.
  move.bat

If you ever need to verify the game files, this script is an interactive way to pick what files need to be verified, and it will tell you which depots need reinstalled. Once downloaded it will move them to the C:\Games\MW3 by default, and is configurable the same way as the move script from before. (this only includes base game + all language packs, it will be updated for DLCs soon)
mw3verify.bat

To my knowledge the DLCs were not updated and wont need redownloaded, I may be wrong. Feel free to correct me.
Hadi77KSA informed me that they were, I verified this on SteamDB as well. However, you cannot legally obtain the DLCs with this method without actually owning them.

Some of the information here I found from YourPalTaika, I just wanted to provide a more in depth guide since his was a bit lacking in my opinion.

Eldor made a joke (potentially) about rolling out a matrix server again. With discord adding its bs age verification globally in march is there any chance this could really be done?

be glad it only doubled lol, from what i hear thats usually a perm ban

Plutonium never got a C&D, and I highly doubt they intend on making any of those games, and if they do they will probably have the exact same verification as the current games.