WaitForMEak

Wait For MEak

Late joiners catch up with the group instead of restarting at the base camp.

When someone joins a run that's already underway, PEAK drops them at the current base camp:

sometimes dead, sometimes revived, always a long way behind everyone else. This mod holds them

as a ghost and then puts them down next to the lowest living scout, the moment that scout is

standing somewhere sane.

Only the host needs this mod. Everything is driven by the master client through the game's

own RPCs, so the people joining can be running vanilla.

If you have Reconnect Catchup installed, remove it

Reconnect Catchup did a more basic

version of this, and this mod exists because it stopped working and was never fixed. Its only

release went up in June 2025 and has not been touched since, so it no longer works on current PEAK.

Do not run both. They are both host only and both act the instant somebody joins, so they end up

fighting over the same player. Reconnect Catchup teleports them immediately, this one wants to hold

them first, and which of those you get depends on which fires soonest. Uninstall it.

None of this is built on its code. WaitForMEak was written from scratch against PEAK's own

assemblies, and it goes further than the original did in several places: it waits for the lowest

scout to be standing somewhere safe rather than teleporting on arrival, it keeps working when the

host hands off to another player, and it deals with reconnecting players, Curse, packs and the

spectate info on lowest scout.

ModConfig is optional

ModConfig is listed as a dependency, but

it is not required. The mod does exactly the same thing with or without it. What it adds is a

WAITFORMEAK tab in the in-game mod settings menu, so you can turn the Curse, the pack rules

and the rest on and off from the pause screen, mid-run, instead of alt-tabbing out to edit a text

file. Skip it if you'd rather not install anything extra: every setting is still there in

BepInEx/config/com.iatespaghetti.waitformeak.cfg, and the ones that don't fit in the menu live

only in that file anyway.

What happens

• A player joins a run that has already left the shore.
• They're held as a ghost: dead, spectating, no body in the world.
• The mod watches the lowest living scout. If that scout is climbing, dangling, sliding or

airborne, it waits.

• The first time they're standing on solid, non-vertical ground for a moment, the joiner is

revived right beside them.

There's no timeout and no second-choice target. The joiner waits on the lowest scout for as long

as it takes. Nobody gets stranded by that: if the lowest scout never reaches anywhere standable

they'll die eventually, and then someone else is the lowest scout.

If a held joiner drops out before they've been placed, the mod remembers them. Rejoin and the hold

picks up where it left off, rather than the game quietly restoring them to base camp.

When the game brings a joiner into the run by itself, the mod stays out of the way. No ghost,

no teleport, no Curse. That's mostly the base camp campfire: if it has revived the group, joiners

arrive standing with everyone else and there's nothing to fix. The mod doesn't try to predict this,

it just watches whether the joiner comes up alive. The pack rules below still apply either way.

Settings

These four are the ones on the WAITFORMEAK menu tab (and, as ever, in the config file):

| Setting | Default | What it does |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Curse as if revived | Off | Joiners arrive with the Curse a revive would have cost them (0.05, or 0.15 on Ascent 7+). See below for why you might want it on. |

| Pack for late joiners | Off | Off: nothing.

AlwaysFannypack: a fresh fanny pack every time.

OnlyIfLeftBehind: only if a backpack or fanny pack is lying on the ground somewhere in the run. That pack, and everything inside it, is handed over. Backpacks win over fanny packs. Note that it doesn't know abandoned from parked, so a pack deliberately left at a campfire is fair game. |

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