Lobby

= Lobby Overview = Lobbies are the staging area to Chronoclysm Arena's. Used to set settings and find others to play with.

There are two ways of Joining or Creating a lobby



Quick Search
This selection will find the closest game with the standard ruleset. If none is found then it will initiate a lobby with the standard rules from your selection of applicable maps.

Standard Rules

 * Survival
 * Free for All
 * Open Pick
 * No Draft
 * 15 points
 * 60 seconds
 * 99 rounds

Create/Search Lobbies (Combat Master)
This selection is an in depth search of the current lobbies available and your own subscribed workshop maps.

Join or create a map by selecting it and pressing either join or create

= Lobby Setup = When creating a lobby outside of quick search you will have an opportunity to set the rules for an arena battle.

Points controls how many times a team has to score before victory. While rounds determines how many rounds will elapse before that is forced. The timer sets how long each round should last from 15-90 seconds

= Joining a Lobby = When joining a lobby via quick search you will be seated automatically in the first available slot.

Outside of quick battle you will be given an opportunity to see the maps spawn points and to select whichever corresponding slot you want to take by clicking on it. Right clicking will unseat.

The color selected will be based off of the four color selections you made setting up your team.

You can also hold the camera button to get a look at what equipment and classes are available for each slot. During standard rules this will be no equipment and all classes. Custom maps will make more use of this feature

Map Subscription
If a lobby you join is hosted for a map you are not subscribed to there will be a subscription button available. Clicking this button will act just like subscribing to the map via the steam workshop.

Inviting
Clicking the invite button will open the steam overlay dialogue. From here you can select which friend you want to invite to the lobby. Will work for players who are in game but not playing a match or friends who own the game and currently need to get in.

Launching
When launching there will be a brief countdown. After a few ticks all ability to cancel the launch manually is disabled. This gives a few moments in case anyone leaves/crashes and the launch needs to be aborted.

= Chat Box =

Chat Display
The chat box is where you can communicate with other players in the lobby. Their entrances and exits, along with messages will show up in a stream. You can scroll through by clicking on the text section

Since multiple people can be on the same computer the send button has a "send as" option that can be changed by right clicking. This way it will help clarify who is speaking from your computer if necessary

Player Management
This lists all of the players currently in lobby. The number indicates which computer they are from. Sharing the same number means two people are from the same steam account.

The host can use this section to remove griefing players. Kicking one player from a shared steam account will kick everyone. Anyone else can use it to manage which players messages are muted.

Description
This tab will have a description for the current map. If there is no description available then it will be filled in with a generic explanation of the current game mode.