Community Effort: Starsiege on Xfire

[Feret]

MTX worked fine for me, it just takes a day and a half for me at least to complete the download. IT installed with no problems. (Although admittedly since I've got my 250 GB drive partitioned I had to install both MTX and the game onto the same partition (not the main)

[Cpt.Raynor]

Bloody hell, MekTek finally finished the free release! To the mechs!

Edit: Provided of course whenever they fix the download problem with their software...

[Feret]

That's great, but MW4 Mercs is where its at now I love me that Marauder

[Crow!]

For reference, we had a 14 player TDM going yesterday night (Tuesday). 10 players (simultaneously) per night is pretty common these days.

[DisPilotSoMe1]

Save Starsiege!

[Aldaron]

Or some of us just get tired of trying to "Revive Starsiege". We tried to get Xfire support six years ago, nothing came of it. We tried again three years ago, nothing happened. And on all attempts we always had full custom Xfire support via xfire_games.ini and always left a note "All you have to do is add support server-side." We're no closer now than we were back then.

[Feret]

Maybe because some of us could care less about another messenger protocol. Back in the days it was ICQ and AIM, then MSN and Yahoo got popular for a time. ICQ has fallen off of late with Aim and MSN being the biggest ones, but now Gmail's GTalk, Jabber, MySpace, Facebook, and so many other tangent sites with their own remote login/messengerlites, and then now there is the Xfire one, sorry, I just sigh. I guess I personally don't get the point. I know my one brother uses it, and good for him, but I've never seen the need.

[LordVaati]

I really hate the fact im the only one driving this thing...
We are so close too!!!

http://www.xfire.com/communities/starsiegeplayers/

Get in here and on the xfire forum and make a mess people

[Crow!]

The XFire community needs more forum activity.

[Crow!]

I'm guessing "XPorn" was the result.

[Aldaron]

won't it like the fact that it was taken from an unofficial game?

That. When you try it checks to see if the screenshot is from a game that it supports. They learned that lesson years ago when people could take a screenshot in any game, overwrite it with a picture of anything, and upload it to the Xfire servers.

[Crow!]

Can you upload screenshots and videos from that to XFire's site, or won't it like the fact that it was taken from an unofficial game?

[LordVaati]

Xfire Ingame Support Fix version 2 [100% ingagme functionality]
Coded BY: alderon == Tested by LordVaati



Add to your xfire_games.ini

[9999]
LongName=Starsiege
ShortName=starsiege
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Dynamix\Starsiege\Path
LauncherExe=Starsiege.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=+password %UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=+connect %UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
ServerStatusType=TRIBES
InGameRenderer=OGL
InGameFlags=USE_DINPUT1|ENABLE_MOUSE|USE_DINPUT_MOUSE
InGameOGLTextureOffset=32000

The dirty work is done....
And as for official support: now we wait.......

[LordVaati]

There is no set number. They don't really pay attention to the Xfire groups most of the time.

You can still add Starsiege to your Xfire_games.ini file and get Xfire in-game and be able to do a live stream.

I haven't time to thoroughly debug this bit of code, but it will add custom support for Starsiege: CLICKY. You must be running Starsiege in OpenGL for it to work. Xfire does not play nice with games running in software mode. I don't think server support is there either since we no longer have the Dynamix master server.

I CAME, also.....they will as long as we have a permenant solution...aka: duster/eye's community servers
also: ever heard of direct ip join?

[Aldaron]

There is no set number. They don't really pay attention to the Xfire groups most of the time.

You can still add Starsiege to your Xfire_games.ini file and get Xfire in-game and be able to do a live stream.

I haven't time to thoroughly debug this bit of code, but it will add custom support for Starsiege: CLICKY. You must be running Starsiege in OpenGL for it to work. Xfire does not play nice with games running in software mode. I don't think server support is there either since we no longer have the Dynamix master server.