BetterLoadingScreen
Shows clear join and host progress with a rolling three-line loading status history.
About this mod Author’s original text
BetterLoadingScreen
Improves Lethal Company's loading screen by showing a rolling three-line status history instead of a single changing line.
The three-line block stays centered on the same point as vanilla Loading..., and the text uses a continuous vertical alpha gradient from transparent at the top to fully opaque at the bottom.
Joining a server
- Getting server information...
- Requesting lobby access...
- Contacting server...
- Waiting for server reply...
- Joining server...
Hosting a server
Steam hosting can show:
- Creating lobby...
- Starting server...
- Loading game...
LAN hosting skips the Steam lobby step and starts at Starting server....
Behavior
- Writes status history directly to Lethal Company's existing loading text.
- Keeps the existing loading-text RectTransform centered on the vanilla loading-text center.
- Uses stable loading-text bounds sized for the three-line status history so the text does not resize as statuses change.
- Keeps up to three status entries visible at once.
- Starts a fresh history for each new join or host attempt.
- Uses the game's loading-screen lifecycle to start and stop BetterLoadingScreen presentation.
- Disables its hooks if the verified connection-status patches cannot be applied safely.
Requirements
- Lethal Company v81
- BepInExPack 5.4.2305
Install
Install with a -compatible mod manager, or place ZaboomafooW-BetterLoadingScreen-v1.0.2.dll in BepInEx/plugins.
Version
1.0.2
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: