4Dev - [Docker, BGFX(DX9, DX11, DX12), LINUX / MACOS]

[pipitt05000]

4Dev
4Story 5.0, rebuilt from the ground up
4 months · 117 commits · 5 servers rewritten · ~80,000 lines of new C# · 1,100+ automated tests​

I'm sharing it because I think too many peoples are buying shits with lot of backdoor and come on discord to cry and ask me help for sources I don't understand
Just want to create a new standard with so many changes that everybody will be up to date and happy to have a good server running for 0$.

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The numbers​

	Before	After
Client startup to the login screen	14.1 s	4.0 s
UI file (TClientCmd.tif)	154 MB	4.3 MB (-97%)
UI load time	859 ms	31 ms (27x faster)
Map server CPU, idle	25% of a core	1%
Monster respawn tick	234.7 ms	0.042 ms (5,600x faster)
400 players on ONE map server	-	240 MB RAM, 0 disconnects
RAM per player	-	~85 KB
Renderer	Direct3D 9 + D3DX	bgfx (by default)
MFC in the client exe	everywhere	gone (-560 KB)
C++ map server startup lost in slow queries	~36 s	bulk loads + indexes

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The whole server side is now C# / .NET 10

• Login, World, Map, Patch and Control servers are all rewritten from scratch. They are byte-compatible with the original client and run on the original databases, unchanged.
• No more Windows services, registry keys or ODBC: one docker compose up boots the database and the whole cluster, on Windows or Linux.
• The map server alone is a port of ~54,000 lines of C++. Packet layouts were checked field by field against the original code.
• It has ~940 tests; the world server has 128.

Everything is playable

• Combat: skills, crits, blocks, buffs and debuffs, loop skills, multi-missile skills, a data-driven monster AI covering all 3,536 monsters
• 6,261 quests, loot, party exp, trade, personal shops, mail, crafting, cabinet
• Evocator: every summon, monster taming, summons fighting in PvP
• 200+ mounts (imported from 4Classic, 4Genesis and 4Revelation), pets and companions
• PvP: points, ladder, honour titles, duels
• All 25 territories: 12 forts, 4 castles (god balls and towers), 8 mission wars, sky garden
• Guilds: cabinet, board, fame, recruiting, mercenaries, castle guards, guild level and guild skills
• 380+ costumes: 7 from the official Gameforge client, 133 from 4Genesis, 90 from 4Revelation, with wings, auras and chakras

We fixed bugs that were in the ORIGINAL game

• Sky garden only gave a result for the first war after a server start.
• Every other fort war lost its "defended" result.
• Anyone could accept a resurrection to refill to full HP/MP, even alive.
• Deleted companions came back from the dead.
• Every Summoner character creation failed.
• Guild level and exp were never saved.
• Guild skills were deleted on the next update.
• A second audit of the guild port against the C++ fixed invite, kick, duty and peerage checks, and the founder was never saved as a member.
• …and dozens more.

Bots that play the game

• TBot logs in, creates characters and plays: parties, mail, pets, duels, PvP, a full castle war, a guild's whole life.
• Each run makes hundreds of byte-level checks, and the stress mode drives 400 players.

Modern client & tools

• Builds on VS 2026, CMake and clang-cl. GPU skinning, 16x anisotropic filtering, longer view distance.
• New render layer: the client now draws through bgfx (a shader that emulates the old fixed-function pipeline). D3DX replaced by our own math header.
• No more MFC: the app and window run on plain Win32, and the core classes are rewritten (byte-identical file format).
• SDL3 integration in progress, the next step towards 64-bit and Linux.
• Audio now runs on miniaudio; settings live in config.ini instead of the registry.
• Item Browser (web): every item with its correct icon (7,099 of 7,706).
• UI Editor (web): edit the game UI visually and save back byte-identical.
• ClassicPort, OfficialPort and GenesisPort: break the 4Classic, 4Genesis and 4Revelation asset encryption and import their content.

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It's WIP. I do not provide any help to setup ! (for now)

Full changelog in the next post ​

Full changelog
June 15 → October 17, 2026. [C++] marks a bug that was already in the original game.​

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SERVERS: C# / .NET 10 rewrite

Server	Lines	Tests	Handlers	Port
Map	48.5k	~940	~273	5816
World	19.2k	138	~194 (all)	3816
Control	3.7k	17	64 (all)	3615
Login	2.9k	17	13 (all)	4816
Patch	1.5k	14	9 (all)	3715

• Every server: .NET Generic Host, Serilog, async sockets and Microsoft.Data.SqlClient. No ATL, registry or ODBC DSN.
• Each one runs as a console exe (win-x64 / linux-x64) or in Docker.
• They use the original databases and stored procedures unchanged, and stay byte-compatible with the original client.
• Not ported: the relay plane (there is no relay server in this release).

Spoiler: 🗺️ Map server: core (46 phases, byte-audited against the C++)

Network & world

• Encrypted client listener plus a world link that reconnects. One serialized game task, so no locks.
• Full 10-step enter handshake. Runs without a DB (synthesized character).
• Movement, jump and block, with a speed-hack kick.
• 3×3 cell visibility grid (64-unit cells), with enter/leave diffs.
• Chat: near chat and whispers handled locally, everything else relayed to the world. Sender spoofing is refused.

Character & items

• Inventory, gear, skills, buffs and hotkeys loaded and serialized in the C++ byte order.
• Stat engine: 6 primary stats, HP/MP, melee/ranged/magic AP, DP, levels, attack speed, crit. The CHARSTATINFO packet (87 bytes) matches exactly.
• Moving items: move, split, swap, merge, drop. Equipping checks class, slot, level and wrap. Two-handed weapons evict the off-hand item.
• Potions, three-tier money, repair (single, equipped, all), NPC buy/sell, country-gated NPCs.

Monsters & combat

• Spawns from 4 charts: 18,346 points and 18,823 slots. Weighted type pick, scatter radius, respawn on death.
• Two-packet attack (skill use, then defend). The server recalculates damage and never trusts client numbers.
• Skill cost, cooldowns and group delays. Skill-data scaling, physical/magic and melee/ranged.
• Hit, miss and crit (+20–40%). Shield block, magic block, MP damage, lifedrain, HP/MP transfer.
• Buff engine: stacking rules, expiry, dispel, cure. Buffs are saved and restored at relog.
• Regen every 3 s. Battle mode. Monsters hit players. Player death and revival (town 30%, on the spot 40%).

AI

• Roam, chase and leash. A real hate table: warriors generate ×1.5, and a newcomer needs 10% more hate to take the target.
• Aggro on sight.
• Data-driven AI engine (TAICHART): 14 triggers, 15 opcodes, 3 condition kinds. 2 scripts cover 3,192 aggressive and 344 passive monsters.

Loot, quests, social

• Kill ownership at 10% damage. EXP formula, level-ups, anti-farm rule (no EXP at 10+ levels above, no drops at 25+).
• Money and item drops on corpses. Party EXP bonus and party loot.
• Quests: 6,261 quests, 5,712 conditions, 4,322 rewards, 10,687 terms. 18 subtypes. Timers, quest spawns, drops.
• Map switches and gates, with quest hooks.
• Cabinet (3×16 slots), atomic trade, personal shop.

Saving

• Character, quests and the full inventory, saved every 30 min, on logout and on shutdown, off-thread.
• Item changes are also saved within 1 tick, so a crash no longer loses up to 30 min of items.

Audits (5 passes, ~20 defects fixed)

• float vs double pow made stats and defence off by one.
• The equip-level (ELD) check let any level wear any gear.
• Monster DP was missing a term.
• Wrong hit and perform flags, damage-map truncation, client-echoed values.
• The .NET config duplicated channel 1, which doubled every monster (36,692 spawns).

[C++] quirks found

• Quest spawns never expire.
• Free NPC buy through the quest-id path.
• Party cap: the client shows 6, the server allows 7.
• Revive without being dead.
• Buying from your own shop.
• Repair is free when the level chart row is missing.
• The AI "change host" condition always passes. Kept on purpose, since monster behaviour is balanced around it.

Spoiler: ⚔️ Map server: gameplay (July → October)

Party, mail, teleport, crafting

• Party relay with HP bars. Invites to dead players answer "busy". Only the leader can kick.
• Mail: normal (100 copper), package (300), bill (900). Unpaid bills go back after 3 days. A failed send no longer eats the postage.
• Long-range teleports through the world, with a loading screen.
• Upgrade (purify, gems, appearance, options, wrap, ELD, dye…), refine with 1–3 materials, gamble box.
• Hotkeys saved. Extra bags. Return point.
• Death penalty: 0.3% of base stats per step, recovering over time. Priest resurrection asks the dead player first.
• [C++] Refining with no material divided by zero.
• [C++] Accessory option search could loop forever.
• [C++] A living player could accept a resurrection and refill to full.
• [C++] Death penalty could wrap below 0.

Mounts, pets, companions

• Mounts: timed or permanent, renewal, list at login. Calling and riding are shown to everyone. Saddles. Teleport dismounts you.
• Companions: 5 slots, species taken from the rune chart, levels 1–20, upgrade points up to 30, food and exp caps, gear, bonus reroll.
• Companions lose stamina and gain exp every 60 s, give owner stat bonuses, and earn a PvP bonus.
• [C++] A deleted companion came back at the next login.
• [C++] Deleting with no companion summoned produced a bogus slot.
• [C++] Stamina above 32,767 broke the whole companion save.

Evocator

• Placed objects (rain, crystals, eyes, fireworks…) and main summons (rituals, mine, doppelganger).
• Summons cast their own skills with their own pools and cooldowns, using 55% of their owner's gear. Auto-AI summons deal ×3.
• The owner gets kill credit and hate. Monsters can target and kill summons. The Protection Crystal aura buffs everyone in range.
• Taming: Enslave Monster (617) on a corpse, Evocate Monster (618) to call it. The tamed monster comes back at login.
• Summons are saved at logout with their remaining life and buffs.

Skills

• Skill learning costs gold and skill points, with level, tab, parent and class checks. One-skill and full reset scrolls.
• 17 weapon masteries gate equipment. 73 weapon-bound buffs drop when the weapon is unequipped.
• Skill items, random skills (doubt potion, metamorphosis, lucky bag), loop/channelled skills, multi-missiles.
• Item use delays enforced. Stance rules.
• Buffs and debuffs on monsters and summons: DP down, AP and crit up, disarm, break armour, immunities.
• Buff erasers on attack and on hit, enemy dispel, damage share with your summon.
• Cooldown fix: before it, every skill cooldown showed as 0 on the client.
• [C++] A missing skill level row crashed the C++ handler.

Economy & character

• Corpse loot with a one-looter lock, hunter-mode party loot, take-all.
• NPC shops by class and country, PvP-point shops, conditional teleporters.
• Money pouches, special boxes, exp books.
• Exp boosts and premium (+20% for 4 h a day), saved across logout.
• Name change (umlauts allowed, no duplicates). Country change (level 9, or 130–179 via Broa). Daily aid country.
• Face, hair, race and sex change. Helmet hide. Profile comment. Target query. Inspect a player on another map server.

PvP

• Real defence, blocks and buffs in PvP. Debuffs land on players.
• Points: total and useable. Level-gap rules. The same victim 3 times in 600 s pays nothing. Party partners in view get 12 points.
• Last 10 kills and deaths recorded.
• Duel on map 0: 10 s countdown, knockout heals both, draw after 5 min. Enemies can break a duel up.
• Monthly ladder (33 slots per country, warlord, heroes) and titles (honour, gold, kills, win rate, quests, tournaments).
• Summons in PvP: they can be hit and killed, and their kills count for their owner.

Territory wars: all 25 territories

• Zone buffs, item level cap, peace zones, war phases with news, war-info window.
• Mission wars (8): suspended spawns, gatekeeper capture, 200 PvP points plus a reward item.
• Sky garden: 3 points, the boss kill wins instantly, 360 PvP points, side-based portals.
• Forts (12): gates, a boss after the first gate falls, capture by top guild damage, points and records.
• Fort owners get their own NPCs and portals (6001–6015) and discounts on shops, skills, repair and crafting.
• Castles (4): sign-up, 1,800 power (+ a share of 800 from forts), 2 god balls per side moving 1 power per second.
• Castle respawn timers 15/15/20 s, 5 min carry limit. Mailed rewards, plus 2,000 stat exp on capture.
• [C++] Sky garden "occupied" flag was never reset, so only the first war after a start had a result.
• [C++] Every other defended fort war had no result.
• [C++] Players saw the wrong castle on enter.
• Port fixes: character position was never loaded, and hits could land on a monster on another map.

Guilds (G1 → G4)

• G1: found, invite, leave, kick, disband, duties, peerages, guild window.
• G2: cabinet (grows with level), contribution, board, fame (30,000 PvP points), country-filtered recruiting, point log, PvP record.
• G3: mercenary ads, contracts and expiry mail. PvP point rewards. Castle guard shop with refund on failure.
• G4: guild level from member count, 10 guild skills (member, vice-chief and chief sets), 300 PvP points per 31-day renewal, guild-wide cooldowns.
• [C++] Cabinet layout mismatch between map and world.
• [C++] A partial cabinet take-out reused the item ID.
• [C++] Guild skills stayed after leaving the guild.
• [C++] Guild skills were deleted on the next update.
• [C++] Guild skill level was raised before checking the point.
• [C++] Guild cooldowns missed members already online.

Guild audit against the C++ 5.0 (October)

• World checks on invite, kick, duty and peerage now match the original.
• The founder is saved as a member. Board article title and length limits. Wanted ads expire.
• PvP week record, guild exp floor, cloak reset.
• Mail texts sent as net strings. Castle guard shop crash fixed.

Costumes & mounts

• 15 added: 7 official FR costumes and 8 orphans. Costumes take up to 4 magic options.
• 4Genesis: 133 costumes (incl. 6 wings with effects) and 13 mounts.
• 4Revelation: 90 costumes and effects (hats, outfits, effect wings, chakras, 14 auras and effect sets) and 65 mounts.
• Auras that 4Revelation hard-coded in its exe are now a data table in the client.

Spoiler: 🔥 Map server: performance

Metric	Before	After
Idle CPU	0.24 core	0.014 core (-94%)
CPU with 40 bots	0.35 core	0.12 core (-66%)
Respawn tick	234.7 ms, 147 KB allocated	0.042 ms, 0 B
Cost per monster death	5.5 ms + 640 KB	~0
Large-object heap	6↔26 MB	6.9 MB stable
GC committed	80 MB	61 MB
Peak RSS (40 bots)	227 MB	193 MB

Cause: an O(n²) respawn loop over 18,346 spawn points.

Spoiler: 🌍 World server: 100% of handlers

• One ordered game task with a 1 s scheduler. Every handler is isolated, so a bad packet can't crash the server. Boot loads are best-effort.
• Login handshake (fixed the stuck loading screen), main-server hand-off, map-drop cleanup, teleports, solo instances.
• World chat, TMS group chat, warlord and GM announcements.
• Party (round-robin loot, member recall), corps (orders, enemy list), arena.
• Friends and groups, soulmates (search, silence period, level-gap break).
• Guilds: core, cabinet, contribution, board, fame, recruiting, mercenaries, level, skills, 7-day disband grace.
• Monthly ladder and fame ranking, month rollover.
• BoW: solo and guild queues, rebalance, live score.
• Battle Royale: premades, voting, class-balanced teams.
• Tournaments: brackets, seeding, betting, payback.
• Fort, castle, mission and sky garden scheduling. Defender pick with the original tie-breaks. Captures relayed to every map.
• PvP routing, nation balance, level and country sync.
• Pets, mounts and summons with world-unique IDs.
• Cross-server inspect, mail, look and name changes.
• Cash mall gifts and sales, events, lottery, quarter draw, rock-paper-scissors, meeting room.
• GM tools: teleport, chat ban, item search, tournament admin, cash shop stop/resume.

Fixes

• Party notices and guild answers reached the wrong player.
• Contribution would have drained the treasury, and its save wrote the wrong totals.
• Volunteer accept/refuse was inverted. Guild country was never set. Guild level never changed.
• Mercenary contracts never expired after a restart.
• Castle captures never reached the maps (missing proc).
• Maps got no war state on connect.
• Two control message IDs were swapped. 10+ guild packet layouts corrected.

Spoiler: 🔑 Login · 📦 Patch · 🎛️ Control servers

Login

• 13 messages and 15 procs. The asymmetric RC4+XOR cipher has golden-vector tests and is reused by every other tool.
• Multi-world ready. Clears stale sessions on shutdown.
• Fixed the "Duplicate" login lock and the client freeze when character creation fails.

Patch

• 9/9 handlers on the 8-byte plaintext protocol. Runs without a DB. Checked live byte-exact.
• [C++] SM_QUITSERVICE was dead code. The download URL was hard-coded.

Control

• 64/64 handlers: operator login, 1 s service monitor, GM relays, event engine, patch management.
• The Windows-only parts (services, perf counters, SMB) sit behind interfaces, so it runs cross-platform.
• Audit fixed 4 wire defects.
• [C++] Lottery and gift-time parsing were broken.
• [C++] Chat-ban counter could underflow.
• [C++] Dead localhost gate.

Spoiler: ⚙️ Original C++ servers

• Load timing logs. Startup lost ~36 s to N+1 queries (quest tree, spawns, drops, portals, NPC lists, topology); these are now 10 bulk loads plus 6 indexes.
• [C++] Companion runes never got a species, so creation silently failed or crashed the client. Fixed with a new rune chart and stamping at item creation.
• Retargeted to VS 2026 / SDK 10.0.26100. Source tree converted to UTF-8.
• A temporary "C++ Test" world was used for side-by-side comparison with the C# servers.

Spoiler: 🐳 Docker & 🗄️ database migrations

• Stack: SQL Server 2022 (host port 11433), an importer job, then login, world, map, patch and control.
• 5 multi-stage Dockerfiles. Configuration through env vars. Secrets in .env only.
• Importer: restores the .bak baselines once, applies each migration exactly once (tracked), retries a failed migration, and waits for the DBs to be ONLINE.

1. Test account
2. Local network config
3. Map server load indexes
4. [C++] Missing companion species (Easter Squirrel, Humpty Dumpty)
5. Companion rune chart (44 rows)
6. 31 missing mount and pet items
7. [C++] Summoner character creation (TCreateRecallMon)
8. [C++] Char ID reseeded past ~88k orphan rows
9. Evocate Monster summon lasts until it dies
10. 4Classic mounts
11. Remove Red Fox
12. Remove 5 unfinished mounts
13. Renumber Classic mounts (40–49 and 55–123)
14. 15 costumes
15. [C++] Missing TSaveGuildStats proc
16. [C++] Guild skills: chart, table and save proc
17. 4Genesis costumes, mounts and wings
18. Remove a duplicate 4Genesis mount
19. 4Revelation costumes, effects and mounts

Baseline proc traps worked around

• TSaveChar wiped player buffs.
• TSaveRecallMon inserted an empty row.
• TSaveRecallMaintain cleared player buffs.

Spoiler: 🤖 TBot: live test bot & stress test

• Headless .NET client: login, create character, enter, play.
• Scenarios:
  • features: ~108 byte-level checks.
  • castle: 15/15.
  • guild: 29/29, guild skills 59/59.
  • guild tactics.
  • stress.
• Bugs it found:
  • Broadcasts were encrypted in place per recipient.
  • Party notices went to the wrong player.
  • Logout saves deadlocked; all saves now go through one ordered DB queue.
  • Wrong bag type constant.

Bots	Map RAM	Map CPU	Login p50/p95	Enter p95
5	138 MB	0.03	203/227 ms	-
100	183 MB	0.2	55/85 ms	77 ms
200	210 MB	0.5	59/73 ms	63 ms
400	240 MB	~2	74/128 ms	73 ms

• Test conditions: ~18,800 live monsters, debug logging on.
• 0 server kicks; ~4,000 moves per second at 400 players.
• Remaining bottleneck: SQL lock waits on the login DB during burst logins.

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CLIENT

Spoiler: ⚡ Startup: 14.1 s → 4.0 s warm, 8.7 s → 4.5 s cold

Step	Before	After
Exe checksum (8-byte reads)	1,164 ms	4 ms
Loading screen (11,210 redraws)	2,923 ms	62 ms
Animations / meshes / objects	2,685 / 1,395 / 2,112 ms	48 / 86 / 38 ms
D3D init (DxDiag removed)	~2,300 ms	~250 ms
Animations + meshes, cold (prefetch)	2,131 ms	484 ms
UI parse (TIF v2)	859 ms	31 ms

• 64 KB buffered reader. 2 prefetch threads (~734 MB).
• Shorter intro. Loading image 3.1 MB → 270 KB.

Spoiler: 🎨 Rendering & gameplay

• GPU skinning (vs_3_0 shader with a fallback). No more software/hardware vertex-processing switching.
• Far clip 300 → 700. Anisotropic filtering up to 16x. Gamma, brightness and contrast hooks. Desktop resolution on first boot.
• Monster name grouping ("Name xN"). Fixed monsters vanishing beyond ~7 units on modern GPUs.
• Multi-world fix (character list and creation always targeted world 1). Evocator UI fixes. Auto-registered custom icons. Null-SFX mount crash fixed.

Spoiler: 🔧 Modernization

• VS2017 → VS 2026 (v145), SDK 10.0.26100. Build scripts.
• CMake + clang-cl builds (MSBuild parity: 5,942,272 vs 5,943,296 bytes). Clang-only crashes fixed.
• miniaudio replaces DirectSound and the old MP3 decoder.
• select() polling replaces WSAAsyncSelect in the network sessions.
• Keyboard and mouse go through one input layer (CTachyonInput).
• Render layer between the engine and Direct3D 9, then a bgfx backend: a fixed-function emulation shader, render targets, screenshots. bgfx is now the default; D3D9 stays as a fallback.
• D3DX math replaced by an own header.
• MFC removed: app and main window on plain Win32, CFile/CArchive/CFileFind/exceptions rewritten in TAfx.h (CArchive format byte-identical to MFC, verified both ways). Exe -560 KB. The embedded IE web view and the two debug dialogs are gone.
• SDL3 3.4 vendored as a static library (window, events, text input). Integration in progress.
• Fixed sounds replayed right after their end being skipped.
• 357 files converted CP949 → UTF-8. Korean strings stay byte-identical in the exe.
• zlib 1.2.11 → 1.3.2 (CVE-2018-25032 fixed). zlib.dll 166 → 78 KB.
• Settings moved from the registry to config.ini. Fixed: the launcher wrote a different registry key than the client read.
• TClientCmd.tif v2 with shared image lists: 154 MB → 4.3 MB, identical over 823,839 nodes.

Spoiler: 🚀 Launcher

• C++ launcher upgraded from VS2008, broken machine-specific paths fixed, moved to config.ini.
• TLauncher.Net: C# patch + launch core that shares its protocol code with the patch server, and starts the client elevated.
• TLauncher.Wpf: skinned WPF launcher with a settings window.

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TOOLS

• Item Browser(React + Prisma)
  • Reverse-engineered the full 5-file icon chain: 7,099 of 7,706 items get the right icon.
  • DB vs client diff. Generates SQL for missing items.
• UI Editor(React)
  • Byte-identical .tif round-trip (318 frames, 74 fonts). 472 texture pages baked.
  • Drag, resize, undo/redo, save in place.
• ClassicPort
  • Decodes the scrambled 4Classic formats (TOB, TMH, TAC, TTX…).
  • 79 mounts imported; 65,148 records merged byte-identically.
• OfficialPort: 7 official costumes (29 meshes, 13 textures × 3 LODs).
• GenesisPort
  • 4Genesis: cracked the TCE1 asset encryption (FNV-1a + SplitMix64) and decrypted the full client. 444 textures, 226 meshes, 85 animations, 16 effects imported.
  • 4Revelation (x64 client): cracked 4 ciphers (CTST tables, per-type XOR packs, PNG icon pages, ETIF UI file). 48,411 records read back with 0 unexpected.
• All ported icons merged into the main icon atlas; the loose custom PNGs are gone.
• TifDedupe (v1 → v2 converter), TCMLParser (UI compiler, writes v2), Happy (rebuilt).
• GAME_FILES.md: every Game/ file mapped to its loader.

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Next

• Client: bgfx → drop MFC → SDL3 (in progress) → own CString/CRect/CTime → 64-bit → Linux.
• Map server: send batching and GC tuning.
• Login DB under burst load.
• Client frame limiter.

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[Jack85]

Great job!

 

[ByExlab]

You did a great job

 

[pipitt05000]

Just to be crystal clear, this project is not on DX9 anymore
I switched from DX9 to

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and running for the moment (but you can choose) on DX11

The game is now compilable on Linux (Vulkan, OpenGL) and will be soon on Macos (Metal), you can use any backend you want here:

Supported rendering backends:

• Direct3D 11
• Direct3D 12
• GNM (only for licensed PS4 developers, search DevNet forums for source)
• Metal
• OpenGL 4.3+
• OpenGL ES 3.0+
• Vulkan
• WebGL 2.0
• WebGPU (Dawn Native only)

Supported platforms:

• Android (4.0+) - API 14 or later
• iOS/iPadOS/tvOS (16.0+)
• Linux
• macOS (13.0+)
• PlayStation 4
• RaspberryPi
• UWP (Universal Windows, Xbox One)
• Wasm/Emscripten
• Windows (7+)

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[Wallpet]

Im not even a 4Story dev, though it seems like with AI nowadays, literally everyone thinks they are one

Five years ago theree were only 3 or 4 private servers around because it actually took skill and effort. Now it’s October, and suddenly 50 new servers pop up out of nowhere and conveniently, everyone magically knows how to add mounts and fix core bugss kekw, what a coincidence

Releases like this are precisely whats going to put the final nail in the coffin for the 4Story community, killing it even more than it already is. Right now, any monkey with your 4Dev release can spin up a basic server in 1–2 weeks, and have a full server running in a month or two. And dont even get me started on these "new devs" burning €1k on AI subscriptions just to pretend they know how to code 4Story tho

So yeah, "cool" project with 4Dev which is obviously heavily AI-carried too, otherwise I highly doubt you wouldvve ever released anything. Thanks for making sure that by November 2026 well be flooded with 50 more copypaste cash-grab servers.

Btway. I'm not saying you are not dev

 

[serbansubs]

Im not even a 4Story dev, though it seems like with AI nowadays, literally everyone thinks they are one

Five years ago theree were only 3 or 4 private servers around because it actually took skill and effort. Now it’s October, and suddenly 50 new servers pop up out of nowhere and conveniently, everyone magically knows how to add mounts and fix core bugss kekw, what a coincidence

Releases like this are precisely whats going to put the final nail in the coffin for the 4Story community, killing it even more than it already is. Right now, any monkey with your 4Dev release can spin up a basic server in 1–2 weeks, and have a full server running in a month or two. And dont even get me started on these "new devs" burning €1k on AI subscriptions just to pretend they know how to code 4Story tho

So yeah, "cool" project with 4Dev which is obviously heavily AI-carried too, otherwise I highly doubt you wouldvve ever released anything. Thanks for making sure that by November 2026 well be flooded with 50 more copypaste cash-grab servers.

Btway. I'm not saying you are not dev

Thank you for this message! This is literally what I was telling this guy. This is the final nail in the coffin for the 4Story community, and it’s coming from someone who has been releasing stuff here and on the other forum since 2014, way before AI, and who also used AI for the last pic. Tens of “devs” will show up overnight, but these “devs” can’t tell the difference between PHP and HTML. At least until now they were scared of starting from a dangerous foundation, but now they have a pretty decent base, so here we go: 35 “wannabe servers” in the next few months! HUGE L release for every single decent developer in this community.

 

[tairasan]

who cares if we get a few servers with 10 players? theyll die soon after anyway and those few players go back to the big servers. its always been like this.