Chat in both directions
Public chat goes to Discord. Team chat is never relayed. Messages from Discord show up in game chat tagged with where they came from, like [Discord] Bjorn: hi.
Discord relay for Left 4 Dead 2
Two-way chat between your Left 4 Dead 2 server and Discord, with kills, joins and round state. A free SourceMod plugin, for one server with friends or many.
What gets relayed
What Tunnelcast carries for Left 4 Dead 2
Everything below goes to your Discord channel and the live Portal. Team chat stays in the game.
Kills
Kills with headshots, suicides and first blood when a real player draws it.
Joins, leaves and teams
Players joining and leaving, name changes, team switches and spectators, with Survivors and Infected named as such.
Round and campaign state
Map, game mode and round state for co-op, realism, versus, scavenge and survival. Co-op reports whether the survivors made it.
Remote admin
Kick, ban, switch map, restart the map or restart the server from Discord or the Portal. Bans are by SteamID, so you can ban a player who already left.
Live status and the Portal
One Discord message that keeps itself up to date with the server, and a live view of the server in the Tunnelcast Portal.
Setup
What your server needs
A SourceMod plugin and one config file. Tunnelcast is in closed beta, so start by requesting access.
Requirements
- SourceMod 1.12 and Metamod:Source.
- The socket extension build we pin. The plugin refuses to load without it.
- The 32-bit dedicated server (
srcds). sv_lan 0. On a LAN server players have no SteamID, and bans do nothing.- Nothing to set for hibernation: the plugin keeps an empty server awake itself, so the relay stays connected.
Install in short
- Request beta access, then link your Discord server and register the game server in the Portal.
- Put
tunnelcast.smxinaddons/sourcemod/plugins/and install the socket extension. - Set
tc_tokenincfg/sourcemod/tunnelcast.cfg. Set it there and nowhere else: that file is read afterserver.cfgand overrides it. - Restart the server. It shows as online in the Portal and chat starts flowing.
Good to know
What it doesn't do
We'd rather you hear it here than find out on your server.
- No team score in co-op, and versus and scavenge scores aren't reported yet.
- The roster doesn't mark spectators.
- Long lines from Discord are split into several chat lines.
Source Chat Relay is archived on GitHub
Its repository is a public archive on GitHub, which makes it read-only. Tunnelcast is actively maintained. The Left 4 Dead 2 plugin connects to Tunnelcast's relay, and you link your Discord server from the Portal, so there is no relay server of your own to run.
On top of chat in both directions you get kills, joins and leaves, round state and a live status message, and the server shows up live in the Portal.
Next step
Connect your Left 4 Dead 2 server
Tunnelcast is in closed beta. Request access and connect your server when your invite arrives.
Tunnelcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve. Game names are trademarks of their respective owners.