Content Warning: BetterLobby 🌐

BetterLobby is a mod that improves the matchmaking system of Content Warning by adding a FILL LOBBY button in the pause menu

Features

Invite your friends in the lobby, and then fill it up with other people
Fill the lobby back up when someone quits, even after the game has started
Avoid the standard matchmaking experience, which makes it hard to join a session without an error

Usage

Install BepInEx in the Content Warning game directory
Copy the BetterLobby.dll file in the BepInEx / plugins folder
Launch the game, click on PLAY WITH FRIENDS, and host a game
Invite the friends you want to play with, then press ESC to open the pause menu
Click on the new FILL LOBBY button to open the matchmaking to the public

Notes and Safety Measures

Late-join is only enabled when on the surface, to avoid other players getting put directly in the underworld mid-game. If you want to fill the lobby back up, return to the surface first.

When using the late-join feature (pressing FILL LOBBY while the game has started), BetterLobby will wait for the lobby to reach its maximum capacity, and then disable the late-join.

I implemented this because I suspect that leaving the lobby open would disrupt matchmaking even more, as players would attempt to connect to our full game. (this happens with Virality)

Simply put, if the game has started, you opened the lobby, all players joined and then someone left, just press FILL LOBBY again and it will fill back.

Furthermore, if the lobby you are trying to make public is already full, the operation will be ignored.

Incompatible Plugins

The following plugins may not work correctly together with BetterLobby!