hostSteamID32 reported is not accurate

[jimmydorry]

It appears to just grab the first slot in the lobby.

[MNoya]

Right now sendStage1 is doing PlayerResource:GetSteamAccountID(0), in theory this should always be the host but if the playerIDs are actually just the game lobby order (before joining and deciding who has the better PC/Connection), it will require a for loop such as:

local hostID
for playerID = 0, DOTA_MAX_PLAYERS do
    if PlayerResource:IsValidPlayerID(playerID) then
        local player = PlayerResource:GetPlayer(playerID)
        if GameRules:PlayerHasCustomGameHostPrivileges(player) then 
            hostID = playerID
            return
        end
    end
end

to determine who has the real host privileges and get their steamID that way

[jimmydorry]

Wasn't aware of that function. :+1:

[SinZ163]

It worked in the past, and did work briefly in reborn, but when valve added the feature to select host based on connection quality and hardware, player 0 wont always be host anymore, as it might have been allocated to other people

[MNoya]

Done