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Oct 22 2006, 9:47 am

Keywords: software

Mike H

(Windows update) (notes) (Unix versions)

Version 351.910 is the seventh beta of BYOND 3.5. This version fixes the recent world.realtime bug and significantly improves the reliability of world status reporting to the hub. For these reasons, all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Many games now may not work properly in all older versions of BYOND due to problems with world.realtime.

Also added to this version is the new variable world.internet_address. Because most game hosts are behind firewalls or broadband routers, this variable allows worlds to see their true network address that is visible from the internet.

See the notes for a full list of changes. Please post thorough bug reports in the Bug Reports forum, and general discussion in the comments for this post.

Oct 22 2006, 9:48 am
Afghanimal519	sweet thanks

Oct 22 2006, 9:57 am
Basik	yay

Oct 22 2006, 10:05 am
Brian7878	:)

Oct 22 2006, 10:13 am
Silent Sage	god, that little bubble telling me friends log on better not be there. =(

Oct 22 2006, 10:53 am
Kunark	Does that internet address mean people can host without doing that port forwarding annoyance?

Oct 22 2006, 11:01 am
Audeuro	No, it just means we don't have to use some external script to find out our external IP. :D

Oct 22 2006, 11:24 am
Basik	Kunark wrote: Does that internet address mean people can host without doing that port forwarding annoyance? Can't wait for the day that happens.

Oct 22 2006, 11:28 am

Airjoe

Basik wrote:

Kunark wrote:

Does that internet address mean people can host without doing that port forwarding annoyance?

Can't wait for the day that happens.

I don't think it -can- happen. Just think of the logic behind port forwarding. If you have a router, it's probably because there's more than one computer on the network. When people are trying to access the game, how does the router know where to direct to? By port forwarding! You have to tell the router where to direct people.

I never really understood the trouble behind port forwarding. I mean, it does differ from router to router, but especially with portforward.com support for BYOND, it should be easy!

Oct 22 2006, 11:30 am
Elation	It's pretty goddamn hard. There's usually like a billion instructions and it never works. =P

Oct 22 2006, 11:32 am
Audeuro	Elation wrote: It's pretty goddamn hard. There's usually like a billion instructions and it never works. =P The last router that I tried to set up portforwarding for, all of the instructions had skipped the fact that you had to bind the internal IP you wish to forward to to your MAC Address.

Oct 22 2006, 12:16 pm
ADT_CLONE	Try using an ISP designed rip off of the DSL-302g router behind NAT. Hell I tell you, hell!

Oct 22 2006, 12:39 pm
Jon88	It'd be nice if BYOND got UPnP support. Many of the routers out today now support it for port forwarding.

Oct 22 2006, 12:49 pm
Disturbed Puppy	Yay Upgrades...but boo because 4.0 isnt out yet. Boo.

Oct 22 2006, 2:45 pm
Worldweaver	Well, it's one more beta down!

Oct 22 2006, 3:40 pm
Popisfizzy	Worldweaver wrote: Well, it's one more beta down! Now only an infinite amount more to go. =/

Oct 22 2006, 6:09 pm
SSJ2GohanDBGT	Port forwarding can be easy or difficult depending on the router you're using. So far LinkSys, NetGear, and D-Link routers have pretty good forwarding interfaces. Easy enough to do.

Nov 26 2006, 3:03 pm
AZA	Is the update worth it?

Nov 26 2006, 3:26 pm
Mike H	AZA wrote: Is the update worth it? Beta 8 is imminent, so probably not.