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#lobby

3 items (1 guide · 2 fixes)

guides

P2P peer-hosted servers — from working co-op code to a friend actually joining

The operational recipe for shipping player-hosted (P2P) multiplayer in s&box — lobby mechanics, invite codes, the join handshake liveness contract, replication traps, and the three-rung testing ladder — covering the layer the official docs don't document and where live multi-peer sessions actually break.

networkingmultiplayer

fixes

✓ 26.07

"CreateLobby is async — IsActive is still false on the same frame"

Networking.CreateLobby is async — Networking.IsActive is still false on the same frame, so any branch on IsActive takes the wrong path. Gate on your own synchronous mode enum instead.

networkinglobby

✓ 26.07

"Published-build client join reloads the assembly, wiping all statics"

A published-build client join reloads the game assembly, wiping all statics — the reconstruct-not-reset fix from the scene-handoff case has nothing to reconstruct from unless join intent is persisted to disk.

networkingsteam