RavenM Usage

Tips

Some content is not suitable for Official RavenM build!

Installation

Refer RavenM

When you can see a line of RavenM message at the left-down corner of game window, RavenM is installed successfully.

There maybe some message when plugin is probably not compatible with current game version or plugin has available update.

Remember to check updates on our github page, re-installing enquals updating.

Join&create a lobby

Open Instant Action Menu, press M to open the multi-player ui

HOST is creating(hosting) a lobby, while JOIN is joining a lobby.

Click HOST, you can edit some props of new lobby:

Props details:

Props	Details
LOBBY NAME	The name of this lobby
MEMBER LIMIT	Max members in the lobby (min is 2)
FRIENDS ONLY	Only your steam friends can join the lobby?
SHOW ON LOBBY LIST	Show the lobby in public lobby list? otherwise others can only join it by lobby id
JOINABLE MIDGAME	Can players join the game after the game is started?( Yes default is off because we aren't sure if it will cause extra bugs)
ENABLE GOD INSPECT	Can players press F8 to open inspect camera?
ENABLE WALLHACK	Can players press F10 to show others' position in game?
NAMETAGS	Whether to show a nametag above each player's head, and is it only for in same team(Eagle or Raven)?
LOBBY NOTE	Additional description for this lobby, will show in lobby info before join the lobby

Click START, will enter pre-gaming ui, click LEAVE to close lobby (return from map will not close the lobby), your friends can directly join the lobby by the lobby id:

You can configure other things like vehicles as normal (Bots still will spawn in game. non-host players can only select teams), then START to start game.

Click JOIN, one way is joining from public lobby list, another one is by lobby id.

Select a lobby, you can see the info and join the lobby (if the plugin or game they are using is different from yours, you can't join it).

Colors of member name stand for member status (green=ready，red=loading mods, grey or yellow=in respawn cd time).

At the left side of member names, there is the loaded mods count, or selected team after all mod loaded.

You can right click a member's name to copy his user id(in official edition is ban out sb.).

If the game has already started, you will enter the game directly.

Besides, the mods that host used will always loaded when joining the lobby, even you launch the game with no mods mode. So it is a good skill to launch the game with this mode if your friends invite you and it can reduce loading time.

In-game

Press P to show/hide chat field, press Y to send a global message (Enter is send, and Esc is close the text box), press U to send in team(Eagle or Raven).

Press Enter(or Esc in community edition) to open lobby list.

Press CapsLock to send voice messages (depending on Steam, positional, for same team only. using Discord instead is better)

Press F7 will show something for debug.

Press ~ to place a marker to a place(for same team only).

Squad order (G, B key) isn't avaliable between real players and players.

Left-up corner is the ping status, higher is your network worse.

Press Tab to show player scoreboard(may sync incorrectly).

Available commands（Some commands need permission, true=on and false=off in community edition, and word case ignored) :

command names	OP access need?	Details
/help [name]	No	Get all available commands or specific command's details
/nametags (on|off|team) (in community edition is /tags)	Yes	Enable player nametags or only for same team
/kill ?	Yes	Kill specific bot or player
/ban ?(in official edition is /kick)	Yes	Ban player out of lobby (applied before the lobby is closed)
/unban ?	Yes	Undo /ban
/tp ?	Yes	?

e.g. /nametags true

Have fun!

Q&A

My game stuck in mod loading when I launch the game

Do not run your game while Steam isn't running, and don't use pirated game.

Or you can unload(disable) RavenM temporarily.

Cannot run game while Steam isn't running

Please unload RavenM temporarily or uninstall RavenM.

My game showed tip “RavenM isn't compatible with ...“

Update RavenM or uninstall it if the update isn't released for newer game.

Cannot use local mods

Mod sync depends on Steam Cloud Services

Please use workshop mods instead of local ones.

This issue maybe solved in future version.

Hoe can I delete the mods synced while I joined other lobby

Open game directory like E:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Ravenfield and back to E:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\\, then open \workshop\content\636480\\, delete all the content(the mods you subscribed will also be deleted, so you don't have to care about this problem).

Big bug caused while I playing vanilla game

RavenM's bug or RavenM isn't really compatible with current game. Unload or update RavenM, or raise bug report, please.

How can I disable RavenM

Open Steam add -noravenm to Advanced launching arguments (If there are already other things, just type a space first), remember to remove it when you want enable RavenM :

Or open Ravenfield\BepInEX\plugins directory, rename RavenM.dll to RavenM.dall, anyway the file extension name shouldn't include “dll“.

Failed to multi-play with others

Please check:

• Reopen lobby or game first.

• Is your game is latest stable version, instead of ravenm-compatible branch, any legacy-ea**, pervious-ea, or test branch version, non-Beta version is suggested.

  In steam, what next to the START button is the current game branch tag, click it or goto Game properties goto Betas to set your game to stable branch, the choice "None" is stable branch:

  

• Is your RavenM is latest version, otherwise update it.

• Is your network high-quality enough and stable.

• Have something to do with Steam

  If you sure there isn't other problems and you can multi-play successfully last time. Then wait until a certain time if it is surely Steam's problem sometomes.

• Tell your friends to check together.

If these solutions aren't helpful, please ask for help in discord server or raise a bug report.

Ping is too high

Your network or Steam server problem(problem of Steam is rare), use network booster or wait until a certain time.

Where can I get RavenM's chinese build (or "chinam")

Here, not suggested to use it as it provides no English language support, but it updates more faster than Official RavenM now.

My message is sent automatically but I didn't finish it yet

A little problem of your IME, try another one.

How can I, the host, control the mods user quickly

Open steam game properties' workshop page, you can manage the mods directly without starting the game.

You can correct the checkbox of each item to enable/disable the mod. The search can find mods by name or tag.

Click the Advanced Options button, create a new collections by Save Filitered to Collection, then you can quick switch the mod collections you want to used to load in game.

Click link steam://gameproperties/636480/workshop can take you to there, or you can copy this it and create a quick link on your desktop.

How to reduce the time from launching game to joining my friends' lobby

Launch the game with no mods mode. Then you can jump out of loading your own mods and only load host's mods once.

Some mutators do not work as expected sometimes.

Yep, RavenM is not really compatible with them, as their script's logic cannot work in multiplayer well.

I can't save the map in my Map Editor

Please disable RavenM first. This issue maybe fixed in future.

What is build id (or client id)

It is a tag to sort the game environments that players are using, according to your Ravenfield version(Community edition only) and plugin version).

This stuff is used to make sure clients are compatible with each other.

For community edition, the client id is calculated like this following, including game version(EA32), plugin version(0-9), and plugin uuid(3d5fec24) that linked with exact plugin version:

EA32-0-9-3d5fec24