How does the Balance.lua work?

despair

if i edit my server's balance.lua file and change stuff around, will the new changes be saved and work in the server?

ScardyBob

Yes, but you'll have to exclude balance.lua from the consistency checking so clients can join. However, its best to publish all the changes to a Steam Workshop mod that you run on the server so your changes don't get overwritten when a new build comes out.

-WildCat-

ScardyBob wrote: »

Yes, but you'll have to exclude balance.lua from the consistency checking so clients can join.

I'm just guessing here but won't clients encounter prediction problems if their balance.lua differs from that of the server's?

Indeed, publishing to the Steam Workshop seems like the "correct" way to do it.

ScardyBob

-WildCat- wrote: »

I'm just guessing here but won't clients encounter prediction problems if their balance.lua differs from that of the server's?

Indeed, publishing to the Steam Workshop seems like the "correct" way to do it.

Possibly, depending on what you change. Steam Workshop is always the better alternative because it gets around this problem, but if you willing to accept some level of client prediction funkiness, you can do it this way.