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Full rewrite of the original server emulator project with more features and better stability, now available for everyone!

Features

• Play multiplayer over VPN or LAN
• Host matches from within the game
• Load any original map file
• Customize your inventory with the newly added ingame inventory editor
• Use any item you want, all synced with players in your network
• Tracks team score, kills, assists, deaths and score during matches
• Tracks usable and destroyable bricks like glass, crates, cannons and trains
• Configure rooms and switch teams just like in the original for easy match setup
• Players sync movement, hits, shots, deaths, respawns and playerstates
• Various bug fixes over the original game

How To Play

• Download the newest BfLauncher.
• Start it to install the game and receive the newest updates (can be disabled in launcher settings).
• Get into a network (VPN or LAN) with other players (recommended free VPN Service: Radmin).
• Make sure to allow any firewall exceptions that may pop up in the process.
• One player will act as host, make sure to put his network IP in the Host IP text field after starting the game (default value can be set in Config).
• You can use localhost as Host IP (127.0.0.1) if you just want to test alone.
• Put your custom username into the regular E-mail text field.
• Host needs to click Host Match, after that the other players click Join Match.
• After connecting, click Play to proceed to the main menu and create a room (others may need to refresh the room list in order to join).
• Make sure everyone has the files for the current map loaded.
• Room master can start the match once every player is ready (you can also start alone).

Host Menu

• Shutdown: Kills the current session and sends everyone back to the main menu, can help when network is laggy.
• Reset: Sends everyone back to the main menu.
• End Match: Ends the match instantly.
• Clear Buffers: Clears the server's write and read queues, use if the server gets stuck.
• Clients: All connected clients, click on a client that isn't host to disconnect them.

Paths

• Maps are located in Brick BrickForce_Data\Resources\Cache
• Assembly-CSharp.dll is located in BrickForce_Data\Managed

Controls

• F4: Host Menu
• F5: Inventory Editor
• F6: Setup Menu
• F7: Config Menu
• F8: Debug Console

Limitations

• There are still a lot of bugs, if you encounter any, open an Issue or head to our Discord
• Freefall, Defense and Defusion don't work
• No ingame progression
• No Missions
• No Pick'n'Win
• No Clans or Friends
• Map Manager does not work
• Weapon Upgrading does not work
• Performance needs improvement
• Temporary Shop prices
• No user information persists apart from Inventory and Config
• Action Panel untested
• Build Mode: No Swappie or Streamliner
• Item stats are mostly backup values loaded from disk and are different from Infernum servers.
• Most rare weapons and max up variants have empty stats and are therefore useless in game.
• Game languages need to be english, otherwise you will get stuck in the loading screen.
• Can be changed under registry path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\EXE Games\BrickForce (set BfVoice & BfLanguage to 1 for english).

How to develop

• Install Visual Studio
• Open the solution file Brick-Force.sln
• Install the Launcher and the Game into the same folder where the Brick-Force Repository Folder is to resolve all Dependencies
• Change Build Output Path to Brick-Force_Data/Managed in project properties to match original game folder
• If necessary reimport ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll as reference
• To Debug select the Brick-Force.exe as the external Program

Notes

• This is a non-commercial fan project and not associated with any of the companies originally involved in the development and publishing of the game.
• Code in _Emulator folder is newly added to the game.
• Other code is mostly reverse engineered (decompiled) from the original game and refined so it compiles as a VS project.
• Therefore commercial use of this project is not recommended.

Troubleshooting

• Stuck in "Downloading Once..": Most likely something is faulty in your config. To fix this issue go to the Registry Editor and go to the path: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\EXE Games\BrickForce and delete the EXE Games Folder. Now restart the game and it should work