Hi everyone! We've been hard at work addressing reports of multiplayer issues and feel like we have a solution for the main issues now. MP is hard to test for us and to ensure that we haven't broken anything with our fixes we want to put this out there in an open beta. If you plan to play MP with your friends this weekend its strongly encouraged to use this version! If you aren't gonna play MP there is no reason to opt into the beta. Let us know if you have any issues.
Just to be clear, this patch doesn't try and fix the use of cheating software to boost yourself or mess with others inside a game. That kind of tampering is not something we are really set up for and we need to rely on trust among players here. HOI has many other ways you can wreck a campaign if you want to ruin peoples fun after all. The goal for us here is to stop issues where the host could not kick or ban people and in fact could be kicked themselves by invisible players who could bypass passwords etc :S
Patchlog 2021-01-29:
So how do I get this?
1. In steam right click the game in the list of games and pick Properties
2. Go to the Betas tab
3. in the drop-down select 1.10.4_beta (if it doesnt appear you might have to restart steam)
4. Close Properties. Steam should now queue up an update and will display the game in the list as Hearts of Iron IV [1.10.4_beta]
5. if all went well the last bit of the version number in launcher should match the one mentioned in this thread title - which should be the correct checksum.
6. Once we go official you can just remove the beta branch and go back to main by doing this again and selecting NONE.
If this seems even a little bit complicated just skip it and wait for patch to become official.
Other notes:
- Should be savegame compatible with 1.10.3
Just to be clear, this patch doesn't try and fix the use of cheating software to boost yourself or mess with others inside a game. That kind of tampering is not something we are really set up for and we need to rely on trust among players here. HOI has many other ways you can wreck a campaign if you want to ruin peoples fun after all. The goal for us here is to stop issues where the host could not kick or ban people and in fact could be kicked themselves by invisible players who could bypass passwords etc :S
Patchlog 2021-01-29:
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######## Patch 1.10.4 "Collie" #########
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# Stability & Performance
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- Fixed a security flaw in networking where a user could bypass lobby password protection
- Added extra checks to block clients with empty or blank username from joining a game
- Fixed a security flaw in networking where a user could kick/ban other players without being the host
######## Patch 1.10.4 "Collie" #########
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##################################
# Stability & Performance
##################################
- Fixed a security flaw in networking where a user could bypass lobby password protection
- Added extra checks to block clients with empty or blank username from joining a game
- Fixed a security flaw in networking where a user could kick/ban other players without being the host
So how do I get this?
1. In steam right click the game in the list of games and pick Properties
2. Go to the Betas tab
3. in the drop-down select 1.10.4_beta (if it doesnt appear you might have to restart steam)
4. Close Properties. Steam should now queue up an update and will display the game in the list as Hearts of Iron IV [1.10.4_beta]
5. if all went well the last bit of the version number in launcher should match the one mentioned in this thread title - which should be the correct checksum.
6. Once we go official you can just remove the beta branch and go back to main by doing this again and selecting NONE.
If this seems even a little bit complicated just skip it and wait for patch to become official.
Other notes:
- Should be savegame compatible with 1.10.3
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