Plutonium

Supported or not, it does work. Place your reshade files in appdata\local\plutonium\bin.
I personally use it just to boost the saturation on my monitor, and to add film grain. I'm 99% sure depth effects wont work however, so no RTGI or MXAO.

Yea okay but who cares what other people enjoy? If you want to play a different map, you always have the option of making your own server. I did and I love having full control. I mostly play zombies, but for multiplayer I just add in the maps I like into the rotation, and its really not that difficult to set up.

This forum is filled with instructions on how to make your own custom server, I'd seriously suggest looking into that as a solution. hope that helps

@Mr-Android thanks for the reply
Allow me to share what I found, and why I'm doing this.

So first off, the reason for this is simply to reduce number of clicks to get in game, nothing more. Its not that its bothersome, just some people prefer a 1 click solution. It is a nice feature that the launcher auto updates/verifies the game files, but I feel like that could be handled in the background on launch anyway, before the client starts. Maybe that wouldn't work here, but that's how I personally would prefer it to behave.

Now looking into the code, I see that its set up much like a website, with html, css, and js files, which I can somewhat comprehend. I see the launcher passes variables to the bootstrapper, and somewhere along the chain it submits this info to your nix systems for authentication. hard to say, since they are obfuscated well enough to prevent me from knowing exactly what's what.

creating a bat file which points to the bootstrapper, will tell you no app is specified. Passing the parameter /t6 zombies (my mode of choice here) allows it to progress to the authentication step. This is the part where I don't fully understand the syntax required to pass, but essentially it tries to authenticate, fails with error 401, and exits.

This leads me to believe that this would be possible, but I don't think I could figure out how to do it myself.

On an unrelated note, I was successful at launching the client after the server on the same computer, and it has not triggered a ban, thankfully. This was more important to me than the shortcut anyway.

If you read all that, thanks for listening!

that's a permission issue. where is your game folder located? Recommended location is C:\games to avoid issues, but you can place it anywhere as long as you have the correct permissions set.

I suggest try either moving the game to the recommended location, or run takeownership on the game folder in its current location

hope that helps!

My player health, which I have displayed onscreen is somehow set to 190 instead of 100, while everyone else on my server is at 100. I'm not sure why, I don't think I changed anything related to health. which dvar do I check?
thanks

EDIT: After restoring a backed up gsc, my health was normal. I tracked it down to the change I made to phd flopper to be 2000 instead of 3000 on all maps. Not sure how those things are related, but oh well.

@S-p-a-m I like this answer

Its possible they've removed support for steam controllers, seems a lot of features have been stripped out. I would kind of liken it to the opera browser when they switched over to chromium, took them a while to add all the important stuff back in.

that said, have you tried adding the bootstrapper to the list of non steam games? they're under C:\users\username\appdata\local\plutonium

If that works let me know! I have a friend who's switch controller won't work anymore and if this works I'll want to let him know he doesn't have to spend on a new controller

broken168 thanks for sharing this script, could definitely come in handy when playing with younger siblings or people who don't game much. Especially Jugg. I know easy mode already exists but I'd also prefer when playing with such people to not have to restart on round 3 all the time or something.

thanks again!

THANKS CHEATERS WAY TO RUIN IT FOR EVERYONE
then again what did I expect? really not shocking

and ofc thanks for confirming Xerxes

I haven't tried, but how about reshade through geforce experience? I'd assume that won't work but doesn't hurt to ask

If that shortcut doesn't work, though I'm sure it will (and also for other keyboards without F10) you can also try autohotkey to make custom keyboard shortcuts. I also hear MS has a new program in powertoys that also allows you to make custom keyboard shortcuts, but easier. Could be a great solution.

Dss0 all 4 points you mention are correct, I agree with everything you are saying, and I'm aware Pluto is secured well.

your last line there though, I'm dying because of how true that is. THIS IS A VIRUS PLS DL RIGHT NOW hahaha

just a small bug report,

everything works fine, except the game will not launch with the server running. However the server will launch with the game running, so you have to do it in that order for now.

Im also getting ^3Unknown command "resetCustomGametype" which doesn't seem to affect anything, but I thought I should mention it. I can't find that command anywhere in my config or in any gsc script, so it must be coming from somewhere else I think.

Thanks!

yep, welcome to the internet hahaha
I work in tech support and deal with that alllll the time. I answer the same handful of questions like 10 times a day, and all things you could just google and find the answer in 2 seconds. Last week I had to explain what the start menu on windows was to someone.

people who actually research at all are very rare, I find

btw, my fav website that Im obviously not allowed to use at work, but I love anyway is lmgtfy.com

Lupercal happy to help bud! you'll also notice your ping is better

Martix glad you fixed it!
however it doesn't solve the issue from OP, that will need to be handled by the devs. hopefully soon, but it sounds like its not a priority, which makes it impossible unfortunately to join mid game without booting everyone from the round.

I suspect this has to do with the new anti cheat system, so they can tie an ip to an account, which, fair enough.

yes the server will launch with the game running (but not the other way around), however it comes up in the server list for me.
if its on the same physical pc and you don't see it in the server browser you can still connect to it by typing "connect localhost:portnumber"