Changing Host Name with v5

In the past version of the game, Host name was taken from your steam account.
Now with this new version 5, it doesn't pull from steam.

Is there a way to change the host name to something other than "Dedicated"?

Thanks.

Does no one have any ideas?

yup there is a way. as you may see from my dedicated servers (#2 #3 and #4)
But it requires some editing thats probably not allowed :lol:

I am confused... I know how to change the server description, but the actual hostname is what i'm trying to edit.
EDIT: This on a dedicated server and not a listening server.

thats what i mean :lol:

check the host name om my servers , its not Dedicated. (yet these are dedicated servers)
the host name is located in the hostilegame.ini file, but that is hashchecked by the .exe. thats why i said it requires some editing thats not allowed

Oh my gosh, I feel ashamed.
This is almost the exact same thing unreal tournament 3 uses, I should have known to look a little deeper. Thanks for the help.

it wont work, it will crash your game when you ONLY alter the hostilegame file xD

It's ok, as long I have an answer - i'll take it. Thanks.

at least you know where to look now if Ue decides to lift the hash check on hostilegame.ini

Yes indeed. I kinda wish they would or at least give us a changed able hostname, maybe via command line.

Not that i'm against having "Dedicated" as a hostname, but I only get 23 characters for a server description and would like to have some branding.

Even though they have made it where you can run the server with out steam you can still run it with steam running.

In other words I have steam running on the server and my hostname shows up fine.

correct thats possible to, but it requires user input to restart the servers again, with the .bat files i can just add then to startup . then my not shared method works best :mrgreen:

Nope Ive got everything running via a batch file for all servers. No user input required. Auto restart if they crash .

But I too have steam running when the server is up and I still received the "Dedicated" hostname.

If you have steam running you can omit the command line from your bat file that allows the server to start with out steam. If I put that back in my command line I get dedicated server , with out it (and running steam logged in) I get the username under friends.

Dont know if it will work with TCadmin unless you use the correct login . I gave up on tcadmin a bit ago for other reasons .

Wow, I totally thought that creating a game from within mnc setup a listening servers not a dedicated one. Thanks for the help dustoff!

yea I still use the command line i just dont have the command that bypasses steam.

For others in case they're interested...

You have to have steam running. The name assigned to your steam account is the hostname for the MNC server. Like always this is what the batch needs to be:

mnc.exe Server HostileLobby?game=HostileGame.HGameInfo_PreGameLobby?bAllowJuicePurch=True?bAllowBotPurch=True?bAllowHazards=True?bAllowMascot=True?bAllowCustomClass=True?bAllowChangeClass=True?bForceRndClass=False?bCustomGame=True?NumPublicConnections=12?NumPrivateConnections=0?NumOpenPublicConnections=0?NumOpenPrivateConnections=0?bUsePeerNetwork=True?bCreateHost=True?bShouldAdvertise=True?bIsLanMatch=False?bUsesStats=True?bAllowJoinInProgress=True?bAllowInvites=False?bUsesPresence=False?bAllowJoinViaPresence=False?bAllowJoinViaPresenceFriendsOnly=False?bUsesArbitration=False?bAntiCheatProtected=False?bIsDedicated=True?OwningPlayerName=?PingInMs=0?MatchQuality=0.000000?GameState=OGS_NoSession?MapName=0?MatchDuration=2?OTDuration=2?ClassLimitAssault=6?ClassLimitTank=6?ClassLimitSupport=6?ClassLimitAssassin=6?ClassLimitGunner=6?ClassLimitSniper=6?ServerDescription="Name with Spaces" -ServerInstance=0 -log=DedicatedServer.log

This will let you choose your hostname. However, Steam will need to be running.
Thanks to dustoff and racquemis for their help!