i got 100 Player TF2 Server running Perfectly Smooth. Here's How. (also proximity voice chat lol) 

SERVER INFO: search for the "shounic" tag in the server browser, or: add | 45.62.160.71:27015 | to your server browser favorites, but you really should join the discord specifically for the server: discord.com/invite/5RutXa3dGh (important updates, FAQs, voting & report a player) every time i stream people ask me about 100 players on < insert funny map>. maybe i should make a video on the "100 player meta"/what happens on hydro, junction, etc? vsh, arena?🤔 also lmk if the video was hard to follow etc, appreciate the feedback :)

The fact that you can grab a modern physics engine and throw into a 15 years older game and it just works, explodes my head.

Now we just need somebody to develop maps actually made for 100 people Edit: turned out it was somebodies lol

I didn't think of it until now but the idea of a TF2 proximity voice chat is hilarious, especially with this many people

Now you can easily get that one Rainblower achievement that's pretty much impossible to get in normal matches

"There's lots of people. There's lots of problems." People with social anxiety in public places be like:

You need to advertise your patron more. I think many people would be willing to donate to cover the cost of server

HOW ARE WE MEANT TO PLAY TF2 WITHOUT PORTALS Edit this is the first time I got 1k likes thank you guys so much

Shounic is like TF2's guardian angel. Bug? Sweeps in and instantly diagnoses/fixes the problem. 100 player server not working? Gets it running like oiled butter I never fail to be impressed by what you can do. Now where can I donate to keep the place running and to also play Hydro and Goldrush?

Im having a panic attack about the missing dust now. BRING IT BACK! BRING IT BACK!

I'm honestly impressed that y'all managed to get this working so well that only one single map out of all of them is unplayable. Huge kudos to shounic and the rest of the team behind this server!

Ngl, seeing them without hats, skins, or any cosmetics makes me happy. It feels like back in the simpler days, another thing This is not probably for everyone, but you minimise the clutter and optimise the game, which makes me more proud of you and the 100 players, and all-talk communication is good enough to keep me entertained.

the fact you can change the physics engine in tf2 is pretty impressive. didnt know it was even possible.

I never knew how much I wanted a phd in scanning bar codes until now

shounic deserves a community quality item dude

10:21 i love how a singular grenade launcher survived

12:51 You know, it’s quite amazing. I’ve seen so much content, talent, and garbage that the TF2 community will collaborate on for no discernible reason, yet no achievement comes close to the shared brain structure where everyone will come together to spray the most unhinged and horrific shit on a wall.

Imagine the chaos if Valve sees this video and updates entire game to 50 vs 50

i wonder how many RU-vidrs have done videos on this. this feels like a really cool topic to talk about.

I remember when the intire blue team gathered in their spawn and started spamming kazotsky kick as engineers, it sounded like demon summoning

I've never understood the need for multiple cores and you've just helped me understand perfectly in 15 seconds

Hopefully the item limit will be raised so we can get hats back!!! There's no possible way raising the limit could ever go wrong, right? ...Right?

Remember kids, it isnt a TF2 spray wall without at least one piece of NSFW art 12:56

Your videos are so entertaining to me because they are technical, but also explain them in a way that anybody can understand, as well as having great humor to go along with it.

Now my next desire is having all of this stuff used to make the server run nice and crashless public, while this thing is expensive, I'd love to see more of these out there.

wtf how can you remove dust from 2fort? literally unplayable

Gotta say though its quite an outstanding achivement to accomplish goes to show how long TF2 will go on for with this awesome community! so props to you and the people who helped and the people that play on the servers, Also the editing in this was great!

11:37 We cannot teleport bread anymore!

Ok dude, the explanation for the CPU core count vs Speed was actually insanely easy to understand

Just wondering if you tried merging all the models on the map into one/few combined megamodels so there's less entities but the same amount of stuff? Cheers

You definitely need to make VIP or donations available for the server, I'm sure multiple people would be down to donate, say, $5 each and that could pretty quickly cover the server cost.

Love your videos, dude!

I think it would be cool if the ragdolls were client only and only appeared on servers for one frame just to tell the client’s that one spawned and then the client simulated the rest

0:52 i dont know why but this scene is really funny to me

i too require my 500 different groceries to be scanned by Goku, who holds a PHD in cashiering

Bloodwater very obviously has a very high object count. The cart itself uses about 40: - 16 ambient_generics (which could have easily been condensed into just 3 by using sound scripts), - 12 models (which could have been merged into just 1 by using any modeling program), - 6 particle systems (could have been merged into 1 because they all play at the same time anyways), - and essential entities, like the func_tracktrain itself, the invisible dispenser, and several trigger volumes. All wooden fences are made from brushes and are tied to func_illusionary entities, same for all the cobwebs (even though there's a cobweb model in the game) and all the windows (even though they could have just been playerclipped instead), totaling to another 64 objects. Almost every stair also has a func_lod, because the original Badwater used those to fight the t-junct limit. (That's another 31 objects right there.) Then, being a Halloween map, it is littered with various particle effects, such as fire on the torches or souls rising everywhere (224 particle systems, including the cart), and gameplay objects such as spell books (54), pumpkin bomb spawnpoints (98) and soul gargoyle spawnpoints (only 5 somehow). Being a payload map, it has 124 path_tracks for the cart path. So, counting everything I just said, we have 634 objects. And there is still more I ignored, such as the entities related to the bosses (the bosses themselves + func_nav_avoid volumes), ropes, lights and doors. There are also 4 separate env_beam entities in one spot, all named "test_beam1". And another 27 ambient_generics in hell, some of which are duplicates to make the sound louder. DISCLAIMER: I'm not sure if the pumpkin bomb spawnpoints actually count towards the limit. The resulting pumpkin bombs definitely do, though.

Realest man this side of the mississippi. Love that you've found ways to make the server work without compromise

I get that TF2 still probably wants good core count, but calling the fastest consumer CPU "OK" is crazy

12:55 Uh... one of those sprays is not like the others.

Can you make a video on all of TF2's network console commands and how they work? I think you have a pretty good eye for explaining complicated backend stuff to people who've never done programming before, and it'd make an interesting video.

So, if you update less, game runs better? I think Valve took that logic to heart.

0:50 The better-fitting analogy would be a cashier working at German Aldi.

12:55 Uhh.. Interesting spray on the right hand side! Surely it wasn't a mistake adding this feature! :D

dude that is so much work and he talk about it so casually!! "yeah we imported a new physics system to tf2 and then fixed it patrially" it mustve taken ages to figure all of this out and fix it, incredible haha

Shounic please mention your Patreon in your video about the 100 player servers and your server too, some people would want to donate some money to help with the amount of money you have to give to keep the server up.

0:03 always loved how they not only admitted it was unsupported, but also that they straight up DIDN'T recommend it

7800X3D "not that good" being the second-best CPU on the market

Can I just say the supermarket analogy, is probably the best explanation of parallel computing I've ever heard

12:54 you probably would want to censor some of these sprays 💀there is literally a no no comic shown

12:42 The "WEEEEEE" as the phlog Pyro runs in is oddly fitting.

GOKU WORKING IN WALMART???

"So we're fine as long as nobody fills a server with a hundred players" "Question!" "What's your question Shounic?" "I filled a server with a hundred people" "What..??" "You said I could"

This really shows how much effort other servers like Skial put into optimizing their own 100 players servers

Enabling sprays was one of the biggest mistakes you ever did because half the medics were looking at femboy sprays when I was burning to death right next to them

12:41 Love this part. Everything about it. Just the Phlog Pyro going Weee :] and then he's immediately followed by 3 uber medics. So much whimsy in one clip. It's incredible. I have rewatched this part about 10 times already.

I’ll be most impressed when someone gets one of these 100 player servers running with cosmetics! Though there is a certain amount of fun not knowing who’s a Noob and who’s a pro… in the meantime skial has fully functional 100 player servers that I’ve been playing on, lol. But I’m impressed you have sprays and stuff enabled!

Bruh it’s hilarious that the best solution was to force it with a better server

Been programming C# in Unity for over 8 years. Done HTML, CSS, some LUA, struggling like hell and failing as HLSL for shading. I can't even find out online how to integrate a simple package into Visual Studio and into a project and class using the word "using PackageNameHere". Yet there are people so skilled and talented they take a random open source physics engine, port it into an old gen game engine AND somehow port it into an old game. My jealousy and self hatred for my stupidity and incompetence is 200% justified. If we were learning a new language and I got 2 years head start. They'd be hired translators at the EU meeting in Brussels right now while I would still struggle to fully understand a let's player's commentary or a conversation.

12:48 All of those sprays and all of that spam... That really takes me back... I miss 2008 TF2 so much.

i've been botting these emotions i have had for a while now, but i can hold it in any more, my life has been ruined by the removel of the dust in the light. my wives have all devorced me over the missing dust, my parents and grand parents and aunts and uncles have all take me out of their wills, my dog died because no dust, my house burned down, i became an amputee with every desise and medical condition, and i have infinete debt. iu need the dust back to revert all of this. and i have daly panic attacks over no dust.

Good old dust, it's great I love when there's dust on map. I hope nothing bad ever happens to it

the time, effort and money that goes into this is nuts for a tf2 server. keep it up man, great video

thank you so much for this thankless task, shounic. This is the most fun I've had in a videogame in years, I can't even play normal tf2 anymore. I'm completely rooted and chained to these trenches

"there are lots of people. there are lots of problems." god i love this funny soft spoken man

gay furry porn at 12:55, don't blur or edit it out though, it's funny

11:51-11:59 "Never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon"

Genuine question(s): is it not possible to change the entity limit of the server by disassembling through IDA or something and patching a new hardcoded value? Would patching the binary trigger VAC or something? Would the clients also need to patch their engines as well?

shounic: makes a 100 players server for meme valve: adds it as a halloween gamemode next year

You should censor the butt spray 😉 ‏‪12:55‬‏ Btw Great video 👍

Hey DUDE, you *might* want to blur some of the sprays at 12:56 ! *ESPECIALLY* the one on the right!

0:26 insane analogy

Quick question: is there not a way to increase the object limit in general? Is there something preventing?

1:45 gallowsCalibrator homestuck spotted

Lmao, TF2 really went "instructions unclear, what is a med kit?".

200 a month??? Just buy the hardware yourself at this point. Electricity cost will be negligeable

Phd in scanning barcodes is crazy bru 😭

Please, set up a way to donate to you, atleast a tracker so people know they've covered the 200$ a month for the server, the people love it and will gladly pay for the costs

Being angry is now banned on this server.

the fact the teleporter bread is working makes me happy

TF2 patch note in 2028: "increased object limit to 32,768"

12:49 enabling sprays was a good idea

no cosmetics should be a toggle-able setting in the normal game

I appreciate the sprays being on

Shoutout to the sniper with the kickass conscientious objector at 1:00

Thanks for creating this amazing server! It’s been a blast the last few months and has helped me enjoy playing tf2 again via trying to gunspy in this chaos.

We totally need TF2 Dustbowler map like Highertower but it's Dustbowl to support 100 people xD

Spending 200 a month to keep your own server running is some serious dedication.

If one of those solutions doesn't involve getting rid of Unusual effects, paints and cosmetics and seasonal fluff, I'm gonna go berserk.

Shounic you're legitimately a public hero

Playing 100 player tf2 is technically SERIOUS BUISNESS

12:57 has actual, honest to god uncropped furry porn

0:59 that guy moving like pre 2023 skeletons

I cant tell if the deadringer part was meant to be funny but damn that was great

a decade of updates and you just put valve to shame.

The right most spray at the end be looking real strange

This is incredibly cool and all, but I wanna see someone make a multithreaded 64-bit TF2 server some day, there is plenty of leaked code out there for them to get started - a new wave of tf2 servers is about to begin!

one step closer to recreating the battle of helm's deep

Playing on the server has been extremely fun, I really enjoy all the work you've done to get it the way it is now :D

Shounix doing more to fix TF2 than the actual devs at this point, jesus fuck I'm kidding, of course, these are all issues the original framework wasn't built to handle simply because 100 player TF2 was probably never intended. No idea why they even added the functionality, not that I'm complaining

You’ve achieved something Valve would never care to achieve. TF2 should be given over to the players to support since the player base does more actual work on it than the people paid to do so.