Cars that feel like cars
Other players' cars don't slide around like pictures: steering, lights, indicators, horn, wheelspin and tyre smoke come across, and so does the damage, dent for dent, as the owner's game worked it out.
AMultiplayer for BeamNG.drive
Same map.
Same crash.
BeamOnline is a free launcher and server that put you and your friends on the same road in BeamNG.drive. Pick a server, click Join, and the launcher starts the game and drops you on the right map. No config files, no codes to type.
01 What it is
A launcher.
A server.
That's it.
The launcher is a small Windows app. It shows you the servers, with who's on them, where they are and how fast your connection to them is. It sets the game up for you and gets you in with one click.
The server is a small program anyone can run on a home PC or a cheap Linux VPS. It doesn't need the game or a graphics card: it passes what each player's game sends to the others, and checks all of it on the way.
Hosts who want strangers to find them switch one setting, and their server shows up in everyone's launcher, on the public list.
- Players per server
- 64
- Cars per player
- 10
- Updates
- 60/s
- To join
- 1click
Set by the host, up to 64.
Drive one, leave others parked, tow a trailer.
Each car's position, smoothed on everyone's screen. Each host picks 30, 50 or 60.
A password only if the host set one.
02 How joining works
Click.
Drive.
Everything in between is the launcher's job. Here's what it does for you, in order.
Pick a server
From the public list or your favourites: name, map, flag, players and ping at a glance.
Password?
Only if the host set one. A small box asks for it; nothing else to type.
Checks
Finds your game, installs or updates the BeamOnline mod, and checks the server is the one it says it is.
Game starts
BeamNG.drive opens straight away, without its own launcher window in between.
You're there
The game loads the server's map by itself and says hello. The others are already driving.
03 What's in it
Built for
BeamNG.
Public list
Every server whose host listed it, with a flag for where it is. Star the ones you like: they stay in My Favourites.
BChat
Press U in the game. Messages fade out when you're driving and stay readable when you're not.
CThe mod, handled
The launcher installs and updates the BeamOnline mod in your game, and leaves your other mods alone.
DLeaves when you do
Close the game and the launcher leaves the server for you.
ECareful with your details
Servers never write players' IP addresses to their logs. Each server's identity is checked for you, so you're talking to the server you picked. Passwords are never logged and are stored hashed. Everything a server sends is checked before your game sees it.
FHosts in charge
Passwords, kicks and bans, daily logs, and short commands: beamonline restart.